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This can be framed in terms of prediction, inference, model construction. It is called active inference, a corollary of the free energy. https://en.wi...

Well, we don't necessarily need representation in that kind of way. All that we do is predict what happens next. All that we have to be able to do is ...

Sure, but do I have to be a mentalist to be a phenomenologist?

Pictures taken by the camera. Yes, but so what. If I want to know more about the object, I take more pictures, I use other tools to investigate. Well ...

I acknowledge that I can only see what I can experience. This is not interesting though.

Thats like taking a picture of something and calling it a "camera-dependent object". I don't know why you keep phrasing it as if the object is depende...

Hmm, is mathematics a meta-language for relational structure?

Exactly one point in time is a low probability event!

If it was a high probability event then you wouldn't be here!

My condolences, very sad to hear. May you rest in peace.

So to be clear, the first two paragraphs are you and the rest is chatgpt's commentary?

Chatgpt did all the work

But the point is that the scientific study of brains doesn't care about fundamental metaphysics. We just study and describe patterns of what we observ...

So are you suggesting that what science understands about brains could never be true under idealism? How would you explain what we observe about brain...

But even in a panpsychist universe, the brain would have exactly the same role and would completely explain intelligibility in either a materialist or...

The materialist would say that an understanding of how brainsw work fills this gap.

All very good, thoughtful posts :up:

I don't really see any merit in what you're saying. At the end of the day, we have clocks. At the end of the day, things happen when you no one is loo...

I would argue that these reflrct how a system might be sensitive to different information, like how some animals see at greater resolution and detail ...

In what way? I am nit sure what the thought experiment conveys. But this is trivial, no one expects that information about something has to be the sam...

No, I offered that if we can produce concepts that don't seem to subjectively vary (e.g. the ticking of a clock), then is that not mind-independent? D...

I don't think there is anything more to capture. My view is that mappings or couplings between us and reality are sufficient to pick out "stuff" or on...

The irony is that I would consider myself closer to these post-positivists than positivists, and many post-positivists would probably also disagree wi...

I would say I allow realism but in a thinner, looser, more deflationary sense of a consistent mapping or coupling to the outside world without requiri...

Well, this seems a given unless you have a more nuanced definition of what you mean by external, independent reality (or the converse). I definitely s...

Well I think any non-positivists, physicalists, naturalism-ists can say that too. I just wanted more clarity on the meaning of space and time as about...

Someone doesn't have to be a positivist to disagree with your ideas.

Well it is not. No, its just what the body of scientific knowledge looks like, and thereis no evidence to the contrary. Its about not including things...

I think this is more or less an acceptable interpretation. Hmm, I think it is compatible with realism and anti-realism, because I am just appealing to...

Woops, premature post.

Fair enough. We will just have to agree to disagree. My use of the word physicalism is maybe misleading, but I like using the word because it captures...

Then how are you supposed to convince me of what you say with such confidence if it has no demonstrable consequence for anything. If there is no demon...

Again, with the example of quantum observer-dependence, you can point to actual theoretical, empirical consequences. That is what I want to see. I don...

Given that you would agree that the universe had a history before any organism observed it, this is just meaningless. Absolutely no need to conflate o...

I'm talking specifically about your Kantian space and time stuff: e.g.

Yes, some.

Honestly, I find this time and space stuff meaningless. I don't understand what you actually mean by it or what implication has for anything at all in...

This is just going in loops I can't follow A physicalist would say that you can describe how a brain does what it does in understanding the world virt...

I don't understand what you mean by the idea that structure of the world needs explaining. Its like asking why there is anything at all, which is a qu...

I suspect that I don't understand what you mean. Sure, but I don't think that is any novel step from what I just said. To understand that behavior is ...

Alright, sure. I just think those things come from a brain that has evolved able to infer abstract structure in the information it gets from the envir...

Aha, no that was a mistaken phrase; I did not mean to imply essentialism for myself!

I am not sure what this means: the interpretative structure of following a ball and catching it? What kind of answer you want? I don't understand why ...

Yes, I think for me this is the kind of view of language that should go there. Itsthe kind of view that speaks to my inclinations and provides importa...

This is the same as what the bit you quoted was describing.

You could say that but then again, many of our concepts are about physical things, many of our abstract concepts are about things that "supervene" on ...

Sure, but if you can't articulate what you mean, then you are just effectively circularly re-asserting how you use words and behaving in response to s...

Yes, my point is just that if we don't know that then we are just re-asserting the way we use words in response to what we see without any deeper expl...

Sure, and I think part of my point is that this kind of thing is already inside the kind of perspectivr related to word-use. So invoking forms doesn't...

But anyone using the word 'round' is using it because they are engaging with the world around them and they see 'round' things. Imo, if we want to exp...