Apustimelogist

What had "normalizing austerity" have to do with liberalism or democracy or socialism? Neither do I think there is necessarily some period of history ...

Thats exactly what he was!

Don't think anyone has said that. The point is about personal autonomy.

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But this is not necessarily anything to do with subjectivity or consciousness. Views of quantum theory that do are fringe. The observer-dependence in ...

Then I don't understand whatbyou are complaining about. Let physics do physics. Let phenomenology do phenomenology. Lets not conflate them. Well its l...

There is a time and place for phenomenology. If you are interested in the chemical composition of the atmosphere on a distant planet many many light y...

Well maybe you can elaborate on what this blind spot is about and what implications it has. You can't articulate to me what redness is. This is not a ...

But I don't think this is an issue for physicalism; this is an issue for any kind of possible explanation. No theoretical framework can account for wh...

But I don't think metaphysics can bother with qualia either. There is no way of articulating about redness and no possible explanation or description ...

But there's nothing stopping someone from modelling why thinking may or may not be like that in terms of computational models that may model brain arc...

For me, nothing can fill that gap. No one will he able to give a characterization of the intrinsic stuff talked about in the Chalmers' quote of my pre...

In my brand of physicalism, I will agree with my own claim that I am experiencing something, just that to say that I am experiencing something doesn't...

Well, no because you can use any level of explanation you find convenient for the task or the part of reality you are interested in. And this is just ...

The issue is that nothing tells you about or can articulate an "intrinsic" nature of things. Its not a specific issue of physics. Neither is it a spec...

No, I think most physicalists can acknowledge the conceptual separability between mind and brain, as well as a whole bunch of other conceptual distinc...

You have to realize that Wayfarer's brand of anti-physicalism is very different from yours. You are positing that there is something like a mental stu...

No idea what you're on about

Which argument? Physics only predicts how things behave. Physics doesn't tell you about an "intrinsic" nature of things, and I dont think this is nece...

All I care about is whether the following is true: "but the brain is physical, these ideas are 'instantiated' in the physical brain - therefore ideas ...

There is one universe where all events and things we see occur in physical space-time. We can have descriptions, explanations of structure at various ...

Using abstract objects of math, just like how describing what neurons do uses abstract formal language of math that cannot be idenitified as objects f...

Yes, and this point is not really powerful because when you try to make separate them out cleanly... you simply can't. Physics is meaningless without ...

The point is that you can't separate them. Neuroscientists conceptualize and model brains in terms of statistical learning and inference. What you are...

This distinction doesn't make sense because people use formal models of reasoning to understand what the brain does and then map aspects of that to ph...

:up: :up: Maybe not but probably not that relevant to the disagreement.

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Vague, oversimplistic, poorly motivated ideologies that claim to solve all our problems like this are distractions from actual problems and actual sol...

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I understand this, but it seems like this question is nothing above the hard problem of consciousness - why do we have experiences, "period". Personal...

I was going to say the same thing. I first heard this phrase "psychophysical harmony" on his podcast (which was good but seems to have stopped running...

Well, no imo because its a description of what the maths says. Its directly analogous to variational principles of least action in physics which don't...

I don't think this matters if you treat it in the proper sense as a conceptualizing framework. If you can have testable theories at a lower level, the...

No more than any other scientific theory. I mean, the reason why predictive coding (as a specific machine learning architecture) became popular is bec...

I clearly didn't read the quote properly because re-reading it I think its not that far from my view, broadly. Maybe not identical, but not really fun...

Well, you won't know just by looking at our technology. We don't know what technology will happen or can happen. Its speculation. But I said if we had...

I mean the quote doesn't seem distinctly enactivist to me, but more focused on the inability to explain qualia. At the same time, I can clarify that I...

Broadly, yes. When I came into this thread I was talking about the hard problem of consciousness and the plausibility that physical mechanisms can pro...

I don't think there is any fundamental difference here between what I think about what humans and animals do, I think the disagreement is about releva...

Well this is then just a speculation about technological capability, which I referred to conditionally.

I don't understand this sentiment. It's not a refutation of the possibilities of what can be created, neither is it a realistic sentiment about how th...

I mean, informational entropy is a central part of Friston's theory. I'm just correcting your assertion that organisms need to know how to calculate p...

Like informational entropy and physical entropy ... ?? No, the point is that if complex systems exist for extended periods of time, they must appear a...

Pre-programmed, in contrast to self-organization. Its not some technical concept. For instance, you could say pain or hunger is in some sense hard-cod...

It seems to me you are going on about differences between living organisms and our current machines. But there is no refutation here that in principle...

There is absolutely nothing of any substance in Josh's post that refutes the idea that one could build a self-organizing machine.

I really don't understand what you are going on about. A brain is a physical object. In principal, you can build a brain that does all the things brai...

How would you interpret the fact that our brain (or at least the component that seems involved in processing information and long distance message-pas...

I don't see the grounds for such a statement. A brain is just a certain kind of machine, and it thinks. If brains exist, then in principle you can bui...

I mean, none of this has any relevance to any points I am making. Obviously, to artificially recreate a human brain to acceptable approximation, you n...