If there are any, they obviously aren't near enough to have any impact on us. We have seen no sign of them, after all. But, if there are others, as we...
My views are similar in ways, and different in others. I say consciousness is an irreducible property with the ability to experience and cause. I thin...
If I tell an AI that 2 + 2 = 3, it would say that's not accurate. If I tell it candidate X said something during the debate, the AI can review the vid...
True. To add another dimension... Yes, that person would learn something right away. But they would not understand the song until they hear enough mus...
Do you have a solution to that problem with substance dualism? I have frequently said why I think what I think. Most recently, a few posts above, I ex...
I'm not being contrarian. I have a different view of things than you do. I do not think the things humans are conscious of are what consciousness is. ...
Sure, assuming we're the only ones in the universe. We certainly don't have evidence that there are others. But the same laws of physics are operating...
No doubt there is a perfectly functioning iPhone lying on a planet somewhere out there, the result of avalanches, volcanic activity, and meteorites. A...
That seems very significant to me. Mental activity has done extraordinary things than would never happen without it. And how far will it go? Will ther...
Somehow, I missed the part that the clone saw what was going on. I was thinking he didn't know, so would live thinking he was the original. And there ...
You are dead. Your clone is alive. Your clone is indistinguishable from you. Nobody, not even your colone, will ever know it is a copy. But what if! W...
Billions of human-made objects are a demonstration of things that did not come about due only to the laws of physics. The interactions of particles an...
They are unanalyzable by our physical sciences. But if enough people decide it's worth thinking about, some people might come up with some good ideas....
It might not help "science", if science can only be physical. But I would say coming to a better understanding of our nature, and possibly a better un...
It is based on the fact that there is no physicalist explanation for consciousness, nor even a guess. (If you look below the ********** below, I've co...
Is the problem that humans might have invented mathematics? If that's it, I don't see it as a problem. It seems to me physical things we've invented a...
Well, I can't much comment. I'd never heard of Popper and his Worlds until you mentioned him a couple posts ago. But I don't see why a N-teenth prime ...
M2M seems interesting. On the one hand, if I wrote 12 + 7 =, I expect quite a few people will soon have 19 in their thoughts. But it's not the physica...
I disagree with pretty much everything you said. I'm speaking from an entirely different angle. And I know nobody agrees with me, but I still think wh...
Yeah, because that's wrong. If a universe had beings that were not conscious, they would not be talking about consciousness. They concept never would ...
It's not that I've excluded. It's that I haven't gotten into what comes of this setup, because I'm trying to get the very basic idea across before mov...
I don't understand. Why would anybody/thing that was not conscious say it was? ChatGPT doesn't say it is conscious. Would anything in a universe that ...
I do. Consciousness does not have physical properties. We can detect and measure brain activity. Electrical activity; magnetic activity; blood flow; b...
I'm saying dark matter and consciousness are both thought to exist because matter is doing things that can't be explained by what we know about matter...
We know dark matter exists, because of its gravitational effect. But that's it. With all our sciences, we can't detect it at all. It doesn't absorb, r...
No, I haven't. Look all you want, and you will not find me saying that anywhere. Consciousness is causal. There's no denying that. All we have to do i...
I think maybe the problem is trying to speak objectively about experiences that can only be had subjectively, and trying to fit the study of conscious...
Does Chalmers say how this can be accomplished; what it means 'to reassess our concept of "3rd person objectivity"'? If you meant this as a way to beg...
First, I didn't say "that you are wrong." When quoting me, kindly don't misquote me. At least not intentionally. It is obvious that dispersing someone...
In my photography scenario, there is no anger until I generate it within myself. I'm not sure it's different in your cafe. He didn't declare that he w...
The person's life is lost in that nanosecond. If you disperse a person's particles, the person is dead. That does not require explanation or elaborati...
Clearly, his anger caused your anger. But I don't think that's the same as experiencing his anger. Do you think you could become angry from looking at...
Yes, The person stepping into the transporter will be 0.0 alive after the process. Their atoms were dispersed. There is no way to disperse someone's i...
Further, people from different parts of the world and cultures will agree on the details, whether or not they are "really out there". If you shoot som...
It's a difficult thing to figure out. I don't know much about it, but I assume the storage systems are still there, but access to it is very spotty, a...
Correct. There are the things, and there are the experiences of the things. I don't understand how this is controversial. Of course consciousness give...
I have never looked, but I imagine there are plenty of interviews with people with Alzheimer's, amnesia, and whatever else, as well as their families....
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