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But I wouldn't want to be rewritten. Trinity, Neo, Morpheus, and all the rest were themselves whether in the Matrix or out.

I'm not sure I know how you mean it, or in how many ways. But I think living in the Matrix would be just as real as living in the real world. You are ...

My understanding of those lines is that, the moment you try to speak of or name the Tao, you have automatically failed. Because words are limited, and...

I can't say if I disagree, or don't really understand. Descartes' followers may have been expressing their belief in Cartesian dualism in a very stric...

I would be hard pressed to express any of the thoughts in this post, to say nothing of the thoughts expressed in the 39 pages of the thread, as well a...

Do you not think there are things languages can express that behaviours that do not involve language cannot express?

I don't know what anyone has in mind. The first thing that zones to mind for new is that it's a different type of behavior. For example, day someone p...

If we don't know what it could possibly consist of, how do we know it exists? If we know it exists, doesn't whatever is proof of its existence give us...

There couldn't be any such reason. It's how you feel about it. Subjective. Nobody can convince me to prefer Mozart over Bach. Or strawberry ice cream ...

I wonder. i'm thinking some degree of intelligence is necessary for both of these things. But I wonder if the two things come with different degrees o...

Yes, I'm in a good place lately. :grin:

Not all of us. :grin: I just posted much of this in one thread or other in the last couple weeks. Information is sometimes naturally-occurring. Like D...

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I agree that the mind is what the entire brain does. Thinking and feeling are actions. Like other actions, you can't freeze it. If we had a room with ...

My opinion is that people will find a way to justify doing what they want to do. The differences between humans and any other species don't suggest it...

I didn't know people denied this. Certainly not here at TPF. Most here take it further, and say there is no difference between us and the other specie...

I have often posted that I am entirely lacking in knowledge of most things discussed here. So I don't know when someone is saying things that are easy...

That's true. But I don't always learn any amount of any type of understanding underlying anything each time I learn a new fact. I know what metal is. ...

That's how I see it, also. I don't think it makes sense to say we understand single facts. I can know many facts, but not understand how they are rela...

Not necessarily. I might learn a brand of shirts, X, is manufactured in country 1. Next day I learn brand Y is manufactured in country 2. Next day I l...

What an excellent name!!!

Sadly, they were. There are still many people like that. Slavery and genocide are still with us.

So your experience of hitting your thumb with a hammer is the same as my experience of seeing you hit your thumb with a hammer?

But I don't know that this mannequin is not you. When seeing it, I believe it's you. It doesn't matter, though. The question at the end of the road is...

What about my hypothetical mannequin of you. Is my experience of seeing it like what you are like?

Let's use you as an example. If I see you, would you say my experience of you is like what you are like? They could make a mannequin to look exactly l...

Photons bounce off of something > hit a photon detecting device > the device responds by sending a signal to an information processing and storage uni...

Correct. And that "whatever" is DNA. DNA is an information system. It has meaning. It is about something that it is not. DNA is two complimentary stra...

I haven't researched it. But I have heard of one exception. in his introduction to his translation of The Bhagavad Gita, Eknath Easwaran speaks of Ruy...

I think consciousness is sufficiently different from physical things that we cannot know that it has this same "limitation." Consciousness may be the ...

You are talking about not being able to think two things simultaneously? But you can see an object, and clearly think about the idea that you are look...

In Scientific, Evelina Fedorenko, a neuroscientist who studies language at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of...

What happens when you try? Is it a flickering back and forth between looking at it, and thinking about having looked at it? Or are you unable to think...

Indeed, we disagree, and neither is likely to switch sides. Heck, we even disagree on which of us is more focused on 'what we want' and 'what is most ...

Behavior isn't consciousness. Behavior can take place without consciousness. It does so in things we have made, and in simple forms of life that nobod...

Interesting. That makes sense. But I've barely read anything on the topic, and don't seem to have an intuitive understanding of it all. My first thoug...

I suspect you are making a point that I haven't yet caught on to. I don't know why you say this. I just looked at my blue shirt. As I was looking at i...

Fair enough. Wrong choices of words on my part. You said:I am aware of seeing something red as I am seeing it. That subjective experience seems someho...

What do you mean by 'split the world in two'? My thought on dualism is that maybe all matter/energy has physical and mental properties. Just as you ca...

Sheesh. I've had a couple recurring dreams. Rather bland, but kind of nice to visit on occasion. Not sure I've ever had what would qualify as an actua...

I also cannot read in my dreams. I assume I'm simply lacking in imagination, cognitive ability, or a combination of the two. In my life, I've had doze...

I am conscious as I type this. In a couple hours, I will be unconscious. The states are fundamentally different. Aside from differences in brain activ...

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Would matter warp space if space was merely the absence of matter? The differences in materials come over time.. Without time, nothing would change. R...

Thanks for this! I've seen several of his videos, but hadn't seen this one before. I can't watch it now. Pushing midnight. So I don't know exactly wha...

That hard problem was solved. The HPoC has not been. And the fact that it turned out inorganic and organic compounds are not fundamentally different i...

I have. Biosemiotics, beginning with that page in particular, was one of the first things I learned after coming to TPF.

Not information created and interpreted by humans. And I know that's what you're talking about. But what about other kinds of information? For many ti...

I don't know if it is. It seems very difficulty to separate human thought from human language. However, animals have thoughts that don't seem connecte...

The HPoC is why the unconscious responses are accompanied by the conscious awareness, rather than going on "in the dark." They can go on in the dark, ...