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Correct me if I am wrong about your view : Apples aren't red, because redness is in the brain. ============================================ But why do...

:up: This is the dualism I've been mentioning. The given is the image of the hidden. But I say it's all on the same inferential plane, has to be to ma...

The world is much more than language, yes, but I have to use language to reason about it --- and language discloses / articulates / shapes the world i...

No prob! I meant to include the link to begin with.

Haraway sounds reasonable in the quote, but my focus in more narrow. I am trying to articulate the relatively stable 'given' of philosophy. What does ...

Nice quote ! I haven't seriously looked into Deleuze yet, but it sounds like what I'm also trying to get at. All entities are linked (are meaningful!)...

"A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing" https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Texts/A%20Social%20Route%20from%20Reasoning%20to%20Representin

I relate to the sense I think we all have of being behind our eyes. I also think awareness requires a functioning brain. But the redness of that dista...

Because you don't understand social norms governing inferences, I'm going to write a poem now about Frosty the Snowman (with help from Google's Bard.)...

Even if that redness is causally connected to the brain, I don't see why you need to put it in the brain.

What is an illusion ? And why isn't it real ? Why does the redness that sure seems to stick on the apple not 'really' there ?

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour; in reality atoms and void. By convention al...

Why is conscious experience not real ? If it's (as you say ) made of strings/atoms, etc. ?

There's something iffy here. What is this illusion of conscious experience ? Are we back to dualism ?

I would still say that the apple is red. The point of 'nothing is hidden' (for me) is a rejection that everyday reality is a kind of appearance or pai...

In case anyone finds this helpful ( obviously I think this dude is brilliant). https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Texts%20Mark%201%20p.html One of cardi...

I don't see a problem with reference, but the reference is not the meaning. The concept is not some conventional tag on a physical or psychological en...

I radically disagree. Social norms govern inferences in the first place. The situation is liquid enough, however, that an individual philosopher can g...

I view philosophers as imposing themselves on their community's rational norms --necessarily in terms of those norms. Following Brandom, I focus on wh...

Yes. The key thing is that concepts of internal entities are still public norms. If Suzy claims to have synesthesia, then, all other things being equa...

1 The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things. 1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by their be...

I think we can include an entity like synesthesia, but its meaning will be the role it plays in claims in inferences.

I don't accept that inference.

How does a heretic decide that God is love or tolerates incest ? We can postulate causes, and we'll need premises and inferences to do so.

I very much disagree. I don't think one can found meaning on private experience. Clearly bots can learn the structure of our language.

I think Wittgenstein has already made a good case against that kind of representationism. Chatbots are the nail in the coffin.

:up: Yes ! So it's no single inference that gives 'disgusting' its meaning. It's all possible inferences involving claims involving 'disgusting.'

I claim that meaning is public. Claims don't represent claimant's meaning-as-hidden-stuff. 'Content' sounds representational again. The point is to lo...

To make a claim is to assume a responsibility. Ethics is first philosophy.

In my view, concepts are not semantic atoms. They get their meanings from the claims that include them. Which inferences are allowed ? To me that's ce...

Fair point. Hopefully addressed above.

I agree that everyday language is very squishy. I probably shouldn't emphasize the anti-dualism too much, because I can assimilate a folk-psychology o...

A flat-earther would be committed to the implications of their view. So one could ask them what happens if one keeps going West forever. We can look a...

Here's an alternative view of meaning. The master-idea of semantic inferentialism is to look instead to inference, rather than representation, as the ...

In case it helps, I don't think of words like 'sweet' getting their meaning from this or that quale. Instead concepts are norms, even if in some sense...

I think what you say makes sense --- within your framework which I don't share. To me red is a concept that's applied according to certain norms. Sayi...

Our conventions continually evolve, precisely because they continually fail us in some ways. I think it's important to call them norms to emphasize th...

It's a weird situation. We see the same world from different places. I can see you seeing the world from across the room, but I can't see the world as...

Speaking of the software metaphor and timebinding spirit, I think it's worth adding that it's not just quantity of cultural memory that matters. It's ...

Consciousness looks like reification of the world existing for an organism. The world is seen with the help of ('through') particular pair of eyes. Bu...

The world is whatever we as philosophers are talking about. 'Deeper' than this or that contingent metaphysical thesis is the necessary or 'primordial'...

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Something is fishy here. According to you, I'm guessing your last post was strings, but I shouldn't be able to see such tiny things. You are basically...

And really it can only be reports of having seen red, I'd think, which is the application of a concept requiring language.

You are willing to project strings on all of reality but not color. Yet both are just the brain being tickled.

Presumably the concept of a string occurs when the brain is tickled just right.

I see Geist as nature doing a particular kind of dance with part of itself. So maybe our views aren't so far off.

Is the idea of strings also strings ?