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Wow. Such a presence. I'm sure even more in person than here. My condolences to her family and friends.

More seriously, the answer is No. It's a question I remember asking as a child. I assume most people wondered at some point. But no. It's outright imp...

I guess there fact that there are billions of people in the world who were born of different parents and none of them are the Queen doesn't prove it c...

Thank you.

I have a very different idea of consciousness, which I won't bother going into in this thread, not wanting to derail. But, consciousness aside, would ...

Could you explain what "ownership" means? I'm also wondering about "meant". That sounds like it was the plan, which I don't assume you meant?

I'm not suggesting there is no such thing as hallucination. I'm saying the thought that reality is of a certain nature, but we hallucinate it is of a ...

While I disagree with much of your thinking, I agree with your thought about epiphenomenalism being wrong Here's an article I like along those lines.

That position doesn't make sense to me. If what we see is an hallucination or other phantasm, then our eyes must be, also. Hallucinatory eyes hallucin...

Surely, most writing is done to communicate with the living. Mailing letters to people. Leaving notes for people. Emailing people. People often write ...

I've only made a few posts, always saying the letters represent the sounds of words, and the written words represent spoken words. Not sure how I've m...

I agree with everything except this:Wikipedia says: An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken langua...

I think you edited just before I posted. The accomplishment is that we can communicate without audible speech. We often want or need to be able to do ...

Could we manage if we didn't agree on both?

I'm thinking mutual agreement.

It seemed to me they just couldn't get on the same page. I don't mean agree on their views. I'm mean just talking about the same thing. She's trying t...

Ah. I gotcha. I thought you meant there are writings about physicals who believe consciousness is fundamental. It seems to me she's having a hard time...

I don't remember hearing it suggested that physicalism and consciousness being fundamental are compatible. Can you expand?

Yes, thought provoking, even fascinating at times. But is like to hear a hypothesis. Of course, she's only been working toward thinking consciousness ...

I finished Lights On. Thanks again! Very much enjoyed it. Eagleman is my favorite part. This Ted Talk of his is a great extension. Can't say I underst...

Well, the former is certainly the more powerful and important of the two. But I wouldn't have had the experience, and subsequent memory, of the imagin...

Well done.

I would guess part of the answer is detail. Memories are of experiences that come with much more detail than imaginings come with. Looking at my cell ...

This kind of thing is very interesting. How do you know you werent't there? Has it been proven to you beyond doubt?

What if you fall while walking alone. You hit your head and lose consciousness. What if you regain consciousness, it is snowing, and see that you are ...

It doesn't. When you wake up from any of those scenarios, your body has undergone changes due to the passage of time. Not subjectively experiencing, o...

Could we say "will" describes a situation where there are conflicting/competing wants, and only one can be satisfied? Of course, the want for what you...

That's the kind of thing I was wondering about when asking three difference between will and want. Is willing to do, or not do, something different th...

Right. But they wouldn't refuse it, or be conflicted about accepting it. An addict might do either. And if the addict happily gives in after a time wi...

Yeah, that's true. But they don't not want better health. They just don't want to be tortured by wanting this important, objectively good thing that t...

That makes sense. Well what else am I here for?!? :grin:

I guess I'm just not sure of how you're using the word "will". If you don't use the word, does it change the meaning? "You want to not want something....

You said "you can want something, but also will not to want it". It's competing wants, and one overrides the other. I wonder in what cases any want is...

Pretty much what I'm saying. One want overpowering another want. I wasn't sure how you meant it.

It seems to me that's not willing not to want the addiction. It seems like choosing one or more wants (to be healthy; to be strong; to not have your l...

I gotcha. But does 2nd hand count? If 60 GLY influences a galaxy that's right between us, and 30 GLY influences us...?

Why must any of them buy a cake?

Not sure I'll say this right... I thought a galaxy could be treated as one body when calculating it's gravitational influence. That one body being the...

Doesn't the gravity of each affect the other?

While what you say is true. Language is expressed in physical ways, so we perceive it the way we perceive everything else. Everything is party of the ...

I think it is demonstrated by the fact that we can study things like the pain receptors in our mouths, and the TRPV1 gene, and explain why we have dif...

I think the point is that, even if we can't understand or express what the taste of mint is, we know we taste it. We know we have various, and various...

If they are invented, not objective, then wouldn't 2+2=5 be an equally valid invention?

Can you just assume there is such a model that you don't know about? If so, and you don't care what you know, then your quest is over. :grin: I really...

How so? I can't know that the other person describing the same thing I saw and the thing I saw are not both products of my imagination. I say it does ...

Fair enough. Again, i really don't know what you mean. In what way is any world you don't see explaining what you do see? If two minds that don't know...

I'm with you. :rofl: Still, I'll respond to this:I don't think they spring from nothing, for no reason.

I don't know what to make of this. I can talk about the fork I used at dinner without meaning it's the only, or the preferred, fork. If it was my turn...

I never realty understand these conversations. Before anything on the planet, possibly in the universe, existed that had even the vaguest hint of unde...

I've only read the OP so far. Apologies if I'm repeating what's been said. I'm not sure how you mean all of this. Elecktra's first appearance was in D...