You are certainly correct. However, if I'm putting thought into this puzzle, I'm not going to focus it in a direction that doesn't make sense. I don't...
I think if someone was going to strip away your qualia, you would object. Probably strenuously. You are going to the paint store for some specific col...
I guess I'm wondering about the timeline. Were the brain's ability to do the work so that the conscious subset could interpret the signals and the con...
I want to understand consciousness. Science has allowed us to come to know our reality to a degree that allows us to measure both the fantastically hu...
The reason is more that it doesn't make sense to think that consciousness can emerge, or arise, or be caused by something physical, so we need another...
IYou specifically said "...an illusion of language and introspection" and "What is spoken of as "the sensation of red" is not a thing at all, so much ...
Not sure how you mean this. If people did not experience colors, why would they begin referring to the colors of things in order to distinguish betwee...
If it was not private, if it was quantifiable and able to be studied, the way the molecules and noses are, we would know whether or not your experienc...
The aroma is the qualia, whether it's the smell of coffee, the color red, the taste of feta cheese, the feeling of pain, or whatever. Yes, there is a ...
Molecules of the liquid floating through the air is not a private thing. My subjective experience of it is, and it might be very different from yours....
No, this isn't what I mean. I think consciousness and mental are not at all the same thing. Not even related. Thinking is just physical. I quote this ...
What I mean is, why is the form it's in not the form that it can most easily process and act upon? I've never asked this question of my own view, but ...
I claim consciousness is an objective fact. But it's not something that has physical properties, so cannot be discovered or studied with our physical ...
The alternative would seem to be that, because of the laws of physics, the physical events progress from one arrangement to the next - potassium ions ...
I'm not sure I understand. It seems like you're saying the brain understands the information well enough to convert it to a different format? If it un...
And that is what needs explanation. It doesn't even matter whether or not what it is like for me to see red is the same as what it is like for you to ...
this is the closest I've come here. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15877/property-dualism/p1 But it's kind of sloppy in ways. Working on ge...
Right. and, even though I suspect consciousness is something very different than what you think it is, it needs to be explained either way. It can't j...
Of course it's the brain. Nobody's questioning that. But that's where, not how. We know that wings make an airplane fly. When we ask how, simply repea...
That's Such an amazingly important thing. No analogy works. Of course, no one is perfect, and people always point out the problems with an analogy. Th...
We don't have a hint of understanding how the brain makes subjective experiences. Which means we don't know that it does. You cannot claim to know tha...
I am glad you admit that, because I do not deny the ability to detect anything non-physical. Consciousness is non-physical, yet we detect it. As I sai...
Just to understand the terminology, shape and color are not Qualities? Blue and red are different qualities of color, and square in circle are differe...
Well, twice, anyway. and I haven't answered it because I've been trying to make you understand what I actually said. But first I'll answer, and then I...
Noting correlation is not the same as explaining how one causes the other. There is nothing about the physical events that suggests subjective experie...
I don't know how alone I am in this, but I think they do apply to thoughts. I think thinking is a physical process. But consciousness is things like t...
Still, we can measure them. Flying is a process. How far did the plane fly? In which direction? How much fuel did it user? How long did it take? DNA r...
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying we can detect the physical. Can you tell me what the physical properties of consciousness are? Are they like the p...
I might respond, "No. The TV is on." I've said that kind of thing at times. Right. I think we should not. Where does it end? I believe I have ten fing...
You don't know what has been worth staying alive for? A few weeks ago, you came up with an idea for an approach that, while not specific, you hope wil...
I don't know what you mean. Or maybe I didn't say it clearly. I'm saying we can detect the physical. That's what our sciences are all about. But if th...
You said I couldn't find our subjective experience of heat in physical events because I glossed over many of them, and made assumptions about them. Do...
How, indeed. Although maybe "add" isn't the right word. Maybe it's two things at once, one of which is a belief. The other is... What? The possession,...
I might often use those interchangeably, but they certainly can be different things. Perhaps every assertion is a belief, but not every belief is an a...
How does not understanding what the physical events are doing grant the knowledge that they are doing this thing that is unexplainable by what we do k...
Right. I'm not stating, or even thinking of, it as a belief. But is that what it is? Even if it amounts to the same thing, is it actually the same thi...
it's a fascinating topic. I find it mind blowing that DNA doesn't determine every detail, but allows for as much variability in response to circumstan...
"Which of them" doesn't necessarily mean "which one of them", and the thought that just one neuron event is our subjective experience of heat is prepo...
I think I'm not sure about the word belief in this context. I don't think I believe there's a television in my living room. It's a fact that there's a...
I don't know about this. When you play with little kittens who have never seen a mouse, have never hunted for anything, and never been threatened beca...
I don't think 6-year olds have been tested in ways that we are currently talking about. Mainly, because technology has only recently made such testing...
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