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Wolfgang

['Member']Joined: September 07, 2022 at 07:30Last active: November 13, 2025 at 11:3813 discussions83 comments
Location: Bad Iburg, Germany

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Studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy
Promotion to Dr.phil. with a topic on educational theory from a philosophical and developmental psychology perspective.

Discussions (13)

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In: Do we really have free will?  — view comment
Here is a reconstructivist approach to free will: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17057739
November 13, 2025 at 11:47
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
I am no longer willing to tolerate your arrogance and condescension. Your comments have crossed the line between discussion and self-display, and they...
October 09, 2025 at 20:13
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
You are right that a formal framework can serve as a useful tool. Mathematics itself is not falsifiable — but it does not make empirical claims. The F...
October 09, 2025 at 17:23
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
You raise several important points, but I think we are still talking at different levels of description. When I say that such theories are not verifia...
October 09, 2025 at 16:06
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
The so-called “hard problem” of consciousness must first be characterized properly, because it contains two fundamental category errors. The first is ...
October 09, 2025 at 12:26
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
> Okay, I think I agree with you 90%... That already means a lot in this field — and I think our 10% disagreement is not about facts, but about the ve...
October 09, 2025 at 12:18
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
Neither Christof Koch (Integrated Information Theory) nor Karl Friston (Predictive Coding) has any formal philosophical training — yet both make sweep...
October 09, 2025 at 10:09
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
You are describing exactly what I consider the core confusion. The problem is not the wish to connect physics and meaning — it is the belief that this...
October 09, 2025 at 09:52
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
1. Evidence for anticipation ? evidence for a global principle of “uncertainty minimization. Elite batting or return tasks show anticipatory control b...
October 09, 2025 at 05:54
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
Thank you for the clarification — I see your point. However, I think we are talking about two different kinds of unverifiability. You are right that m...
October 09, 2025 at 05:42
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
Let me put it again in simple terms: Theories of consciousness usually start with an unproven assumption and then build a theory around it. This assum...
October 08, 2025 at 12:51
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
You're disqualifying yourself here and you don't realize it, sad.
October 06, 2025 at 20:53
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
I won't discuss this further. You write, "The Bayesian algorithm describes how an organism in fact maintains a dynamical balance in this regard." That...
October 06, 2025 at 20:26
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
1. what does this have to do with prediction, 2. what do you want to do with such a general statement
October 06, 2025 at 20:01
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
Each theory interprets optical illusions differently, since all are underdetermined, i.e. they have no empirical explanatory power.
October 06, 2025 at 19:57
In: Models and the test of consciousness  — view comment
Perhaps you'll read my post again, more carefully; you might then notice that I never mention a substance. I consider Karl Friston's uncertainty minim...
October 06, 2025 at 19:44
In: Consciousness and events  — view comment
A lot of the confusion comes from us applying our everyday concepts like 'particle' or 'wave' and giving them an absolute, real meaning. A good (thoug...
September 03, 2025 at 09:23
In: The Relationship between Body and Mind  — view comment
I cannot give the whole philosophy here. Of course, evolution is a material process. We collect fossils, etc. What seems immaterial to you are theorie...
March 04, 2025 at 18:33
In: The Relationship between Body and Mind  — view comment
Do you know anything other than matter? Why are we always looking for something we have never seen before? Maybe because we want to solve problems tha...
March 04, 2025 at 18:22
In: The Relationship between Body and Mind  — view comment
No, there is no mind stuff, at least none has ever been proven. Everything is matter, we don't know anything else. Mind and body are n o t two forms o...
March 04, 2025 at 18:05
In: The Relationship between Body and Mind  — view comment
It links a mental state (e.g. pain) to a physiological state (specific electrochemical state). A physiological state would be meaningless without refe...
March 04, 2025 at 15:43
In: The Relationship between Body and Mind  — view comment
If there were an ontological relationship, body and mind would have to be ontologies. That would mean that we are dealing with two substances or entit...
March 04, 2025 at 13:59
In: The Geometry of Thought  — view comment
Descartes' rules largely belong to the second dimension, his doubts, his cogito ergo sum and his self-reflection belong to the third dimension. He has...
February 04, 2025 at 07:26
In: Why The Simulation Argument is Wrong  — view comment
I have written two posts on this, one in which I reject simulation because it contains the false idea that consciousness can be introduced into any en...
November 15, 2024 at 08:26
In: Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note  — view comment
Everyone can interpret the world as they wish. I am presenting a point of view here that you can share or not. If you see it differently, that's OK. I...
November 09, 2024 at 14:40
In: Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note  — view comment
As I have already said, we make an ontology out of the phenomenology of the world. Some people then believe that this is identical with an objective t...
November 09, 2024 at 09:30
In: Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note  — view comment
Whether it is an ontological emergence depends on us, because it is we who epistemically construct the world. But regardless of that, it seems that th...
November 03, 2024 at 21:23
In: A model of everything  — view comment
I'm out...
October 21, 2024 at 13:25
In: A model of everything  — view comment
I don't know what you're getting at (I haven't read everything). Of course, consciousness is our window to the world and therefore the most important ...
October 21, 2024 at 10:45
In: A model of everything  — view comment
A theory of consciousness should include as many aspects, levels and perspectives as possible, including the 1st and 3rd person. If we do not take the...
October 18, 2024 at 15:18
In: The 'hard problem of consciousness'  — view comment
Think logically: if they were stimulus-response machines, who would monitor the sensors? A homunculus, perhaps? The whole thing is self-organized. The...
October 16, 2024 at 15:07
In: The 'hard problem of consciousness'  — view comment
Suppose you know nothing about consciousness, but you examine a human organism and find that there are sensors and nerves. Do you then ask yourself wh...
October 16, 2024 at 14:19
In: Limitations of the human mind  — view comment
Imagine a fluid or graphene intelligence, how would they conceptualize the world? And who would be right, them or us? This inevitably leads to an epis...
October 01, 2024 at 10:22
In: The Liar Paradox - Is it even a valid statement?  — view comment
I think you have to differentiate between pure logic and linguistic logic. The liar paradox is a linguistic construct - nothing more.
August 31, 2024 at 12:05
In: Do we live in a dictatorship of values?  — view comment
Western thinking - of course it exists - has so clogged up people's brains that it takes an immense epistemological effort to rise from the frog's per...
March 18, 2024 at 14:35
In: Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note  — view comment
Maybe read my post here (https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14959/epistemology-anthropic-relativism) then you will understand my epistemologica...
February 17, 2024 at 09:19
In: Quantum Physics and Classical Physics — A Short Note  — view comment
The transfer of the quantum world to the mesoworld meant philosophy, not technology, example structural realism. Please read carefully!
February 08, 2024 at 12:17
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
If you just label my arguments but don't address them further, further discussion makes no sense.
February 02, 2024 at 12:18
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
I argue purely logically by saying that we are neuronally established in this world and act here exclusively in this modality. That means we sit in th...
February 02, 2024 at 10:44
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
I base myself on the fact that we are transforming the world and therefore there cannot be another (for us). For me, metaphysics is that other world 1...
February 01, 2024 at 12:21
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
I provide an explanation for the fact that metaphysics does not exist
February 01, 2024 at 10:37
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
Not at all, while others say that one can know the world or not, I provide a justification, and that is: Every existent is instantiated in the world w...
February 01, 2024 at 08:59
In: Epistemology – Anthropic Relativism  — view comment
I only used the photon example to illustrate how relative our existence is. Panpsychism is completely far from my mind. You have probably understood t...
January 31, 2024 at 23:00
In: Is the philosophy of mind dead?  — view comment
"...whatever exists must accommodate both minds and brains..." No, that is exactly the dualism that we cannot get out of our thinking. The brain and t...
January 18, 2024 at 22:20
In: Is the philosophy of mind dead?  — view comment
You can investigate anything scientifically. But you cannot scientifically answer questions that are asked incorrectly. Many believe that one can comb...
January 18, 2024 at 21:32
In: Is the philosophy of mind dead?  — view comment
Read my article here: https://medium.com/neo-cybernetics/cars-and-technology-or-the-mind-body-problem-7ec2b50748c2 Maybe then you'll understand better...
January 18, 2024 at 21:25
In: Artificial intelligence  — view comment
https://medium.com/neo-cybernetics/artificial-consciousness-f3118927248d
November 07, 2023 at 08:07
In: Metabiology of the mind  — view comment
I would explain it like this: in a universe full of matter, which is described using physics, a special form has emerged. To describe this requires a ...
September 23, 2023 at 13:07
In: Metabiology of the mind  — view comment
For Laszlo the system exists; he does not distinguish between living and inanimate nature. For me, this is a difference that unfortunately is not made...
September 23, 2023 at 12:39
In: Metabiology of the mind  — view comment
Just as life is a special case of matter, metabiology is a special case of metaphysics.
September 22, 2023 at 18:00
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