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Ah. Ok. I am but an egg. I believe it follows because macro-characteristics come about due to the specific micro-properties. The micro combine, and th...

If I understand you, I disagree with your premise. I believe you are insisting consciousness be explained by the physical. I believe it can't be, so I...

I don't think rocks have consciousness. I think they may have proto-consciousness.

The reasoning is this... Physical properties do not explain how a clump of matter can have things like subjective experience and self-awareness. We ca...

Of course, the specific object is not important. I have not heard any panpsychist say any inanimate object has a minds. Although I guess the exact def...

I have never heard of anyone why thinks a stone can have a mind. Here are a few quotes that give a more accurate idea of panpaychism. In this article,...

Primarily because it’s a half-baked idea that I haven’t figured out how to put into words. :D I don’t know if I can separate my responses to you two. ...

I don’t know what combination of the two has been suggested, but yes, I am thinking of a combination. I don’t think IIT explains consciousness by itse...

I suspect not. I do not suspect a vft is conscious. But I suspect it is filled with proto-consciousness.

I don't know how you mean this. I am not usually "aware" that I'm alive. I am when I think about it, as I am now. And if anyone ever asked, I'd sudden...

I would also prefer he use "Consciousness" the way you describe. He says, "This thesis is sometimes called panexperientialism, to distinguish it from ...

In this Ted Talk, Chalmers says: Edit: This is his third paragraph:

I don't know that anyone believes an atom has awareness of it's environment, and I don't think Chalmers is implying it. I think of it as every particl...

Not as far as I'm concerned. Go for it.

A valid approach, imo. We can assume anything, just to have a starting point. Then see where it leads.

Dreams naturally end. they do not last throughout the entire time. We are asleep. So far, every time I have slept, I have awoken. It’s just how things...

You certainly can assume that your experiences are inaccurate without reason or evidence. By all means, have at it. But I will advise caution. While d...

I don't need reason or evidence to disprove something for which there is no reason or evidence to suspect is the case. If there is no reason or eviden...

But is there any reason or evidence to suspect either is the case? Any reason not to accept that things are as they seem? Sure, many things turned out...

Indeed. That is my point. If you know they are different things, why ask how you can know which you are experiencing? Which category does your experie...

That seems reasonable to me. But you ask: "How do I know that I am perceiving a physical thing in a real world and not just dreaming or hallucinating....

Is there a difference between reality, dreams, and hallucinations?

No. Yes, yes, of course We can come up with many different scenarios that are not the topic under discussion. I believe the topic is physical things i...

Of course things we aren’t perceiving exist. The alternative is nonsense. The function of our sense organs is to perceive things that exist. How could...

I am often surprised by how others feel about things. A woman once asked me how I was able to react the way I had, because she would have been angry, ...

Are you saying intelligence is always conscious?

Since it is the very point of your thread, the word "existence" even being in the title, I would think it's fairly necessary for you to explain what t...

It's not my premise, and it is unfounded.

That thought's gonna keep me up at night...

If nothing exists behind me, how does my turning my head bring things into existence?

I don't see this as anything but me. The moment the consciousness changes mediums, from biological to electronic, it is no longer the same consciousne...

How is "better"defined here? How is it they do not understand what is going on if there is nothing else going on aside from the mere calculations they...

What I mean is, maybe anywhere it lands can be 0,0. I'm just goofing around. Ignore me. Although it's impossible for us to list all the variables, fig...

Couldn't any spot on such a board be 0,0? How would any specific spot be more legitimately the center than any other?

I agree that decisions are not determined, by the past or anything else. But the past strongly influences them. I doubt any decision is made without i...

We don't make decisions with no memory of the past. And, remembering the past, we don't ignore it when we make decisions. When you make lunch before g...

MU, I can't say I understand your position. But I believe I understand the Count's. I believe he's saying that, if things in my past aren't causing my...

I entirely agree with you. If it's not the result of influences, then it's random. My answer to the question of "What is free will free from?" is "The...

What we know does determine our actions. At least it plays a big role. I'm saying that the accuracy of what we know plays no role in our freedom to ma...

I don't think I agree. If an easily recognizable person is known to beat to death any child he sees, and I see him approaching my child, I can choose ...

Indeed. I worded that badly. I didn't mean to imply the information, alone, caused the action, or that the Count suggested such.

We often base our actions on the information we have, regardless of the accuracy of the information. But does that mean the information caused our act...

I see what you mean. I wonder what differences in brain activity brain scans would reveal in various situations. No, I cannot flip my awareness in you...

Thank you for echoing my confusion, and for figuring out what was going on. I was lost. How did painter know the path shoveler would take?

Can you elaborate on this? I would think two very different things are happening when you're thinking of, say, the structure of language and when you'...

I suspect everything studied by physics other than individual primary particles, their properties (things like mass, charge, and spin), and the forces...

Fair enough. Good posts. Do you think there is a "core" brain state for an apple? (See what I did there?) Perhaps a certain number of neurons are in t...

I think that's the problem. If any given thought can be the result of many different arrangements of matter, then how can it be that the arrangement I...

Although many people believe this, and have been trying to prove it, they have not succeeded. Christof Koch, a more than fair neuroscientist, paid off...

I just meant it sounded like you'd found a type of awareness that is more impressive than the human kind.