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I do believe the brain is the seat of consciousness and minds. I do not believe physical properties and physical processes can account for it. I try t...

I don't know anything about, or have any thoughts about, your soul realm. I'm probably not too interested in discussing it, but, if you can gives me a...

Do we suspect any of those physical things are conscious? I guess we're becoming less certain all the time that they are not. But if we think they are...

You are not misreading, if we think we have reached the end of all possible scientific methods. But, as Nagle says in Mind and Cosmos, "The world is a...

I didn't suggest magic. You did. And it applies as well to your position as mine. It is an unfounded assumption that the only things that exist in our...

The question is - how are these physical drives accompanied by our subjective experience of them? Even if we think the subjective experience is of no ...

I don't know that. I'm saying no explanation is given. We are told that, when Physical Processes X, Y, and Z are present, we find consciousness. But w...

Not every arrangement of matter is conscious. Do we scoff at the idea of electron shells because not every arrangement is solid?

Without an explanation (whether panpsychism or something else), the question of how matter becomes conscious is "it just does." Which is magic without...

I think the question remains. As Chalmers respeatedly asks, why is there something it is like to be anything?

I think this is a good article: Why Epiphenomenalism is Almost Certainly False

I want to make sure I'm following. I asked "From which aspect of encompassing reality are we separable?", and you said "Nature." If natural beings can...

I think proto-consciousness is a property of matter, just as things like mass and charge are. We don't know what mass and charge are, and we don't kno...

We can be separated from nature?

I don't understand. From which aspect of encompassing reality are we separable?

Is 'natural' defined as that which we have discovered with our senses and sciences?

You can explain the mechanics of walking in all the detail you want. Every muscle fiber; every muscle group; every blood vessel; every nerve. What eve...

Not sure what you're getting at. Biology, physics, and chemistry, to name a few, are not theories.

Is there any definition, or list of characteristics, of mind (I wish that button was italics instead of bold) that is agreed upon by most people here?...

I think of p-zombies as having come about without the help of anything that is thinking, sentient, conscious. Not anything that might have, even unint...

Not saying I wouldn't be happy to get an answer. :grin:

I'm not at all concerned with any universal, or objective meaning. But I'm not going to give up my own. The kind of mind humans have is, perhaps, the ...

I don't know whether or not there's anything fruitful behind the questioning. But there doesn't have to be. The questioning is enough, even if there i...

Well, I'm not sure how much flack I'm gonna get for this, but you went and reminded me of something. And it's not inappropriate for the site, even if ...

Which one of you is this?? :grin: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-characters-died-transporter/

Metabolism is involved with every aspect of a living thing, if we want to go that route. Still, we categorize things. This is cognition. This is metab...

Thank God that's settled. :lol:

Earthsea, specifically Gont, is the place I would go if I could go anywhere. I paid an artist to paint the Old Mage's house. After 40+ years, I finall...

Perhaps, although I don't know much of anything about idealism. Regardless, it's not a belief that the photon has a mind.

Is it metabolism when an organism's sensor detects poison, and, because of the signal it seems to the doet, the doer takes the organism away from the ...

I, of course, don't know the source of your definition. But none of these are nearly as cut & dried as "all things (alive or not) have a mind." And he...

Perhaps I'm not slightly familiar with nihilism. I thought it meant I am the only thing that exists. But I don't want to derail the thread.

Thanks. I'm sightly familiar with nihilism. Not enough to have ever heard of positive nihilism.

I've never read anything about existentialism, but I agree with both of these.

Correct. The idea is that there's a mental property, just as there are physical properties (mass, charge, etc.). Although some panpsychists think that...

That's a good solution

I'm a panpsychist, and I also disagree.

Never heard of it. But the first few paragraphs are already a riot!

I just corrected the last sentence of my previous post.

That's because I just made it up. Sorry. I'm not well read almost anything that's ever discussed here. There are many in which I'm not at all read. I ...

It seems to me you cannot simulate with paper and pencil, because it is not an active medium. You can write about the game of basketball in all concei...

Agreed. With no reason to suspect things are not as they seem, I won't seriously consider the possibility that I'm living in a simulation, or a simula...

I am not familiar with any arguments for how physical processes provide an account of the first-person nature of consciousness. It seems the answer fr...

Maybe not in the VR scenario. Still, maybe it's the truth of our existence.

Drat

Any number of objections might be valid. The idea that they are identical, and talking about one is the same as talking about the other, is an invalid...

My take is that, if brain states and mind states were the same thing - that is, if there was an exact, one-to-one mapping between the two - then you w...

Yeah, "the least bad analogy" is about the size of it, eh?

That all makes sense. And, although I know computers don't have the flexibility that you are describing, what about computers are The differences betw...

I don't know about the brain situation. Do different brains have different operating systems, or logic gates, or chips (I don't know what the appropri...