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Yes, I agree, they aren't yet. You said "Regarding models, we don't have any for physical processes" You didn't specify if you meant specifically the ...

I read the poem and figure out what it means. It's not the poem that gives certainty.

That's what a model is. Or rather, you need a model to be able to do that

I didn't say magic. "Soul realm" isn't ridicule, it's just my word for the category of ideas that say the mind isn't the result of physical processes....

No worries bert1. What do you think about pansychism?

No, that was addressed to people saying that the mind exists somewhere else or somehow else other than in this physical world, as a result of our phys...

Personally, I feel like it's better to think of the cogito as a poem, rather than a complete thought. I think the ego-less interpretation fits within ...

I've expressed earlier in the thread that I have a lot of sympathy for the view that "I think therefore I am" maybe should be reworded in such a way t...

Another way of putting it: it's possible minds are not the result of physical things. I don't think it's probable, but I can't deny it's possible. BUT...

We are told the physical processes in a computer are doing x, y, z. Yet we are told they are also doing this other thing - beating us at chess. Things...

But you agree with the fundamental premise of it, which is that one must exist in order to think.

So physical brains, to you, are "just interactions of physical things" (and thus presumably not the seat of consciousness and minds), but you don't ha...

I also think it can't be taken lightly that the closest we've gotten to artificial intelligence is by making a (very simplified) simulation of how our...

We suspect human brains are conscious. Physicalism is the most popular position among philosophers, scientists, and specifically cognitive scientists....

I suspect that the internal workings of a computer are physical events, but they're not JUST physical events, they're physical events that do abstract...

Sure, it's just very common for people to go from "science hasn't figured it out" to "science can't figure it out", and then from there to souls. The ...

I also don't understand why people jump from "science doesn't have a complete picture of how the brain produces consciousness" to "science can't ever ...

I can't tell if anybody actually believes subjective experience has no effect on human behavior at all, or if that's just a big straw man that nobody ...

Panpsychism need not talk about consciousness or mind as a "force" at all - conscious experience can be rephrased as "what it's like to be something",...

Are you proposing the idea that consciousness doesn't *do* anything, but is nevertheless the consequence of physical brains? I think it's hard to argu...

Have some angel cake tonight, you'll be alright. As for me, I don't mind. My favourite picnic food is deviled eggs.

I hope so too brother.

Ok. Well I hope you can find out if you are.

He never wrote anything about that, so I have no idea how he feels about that idea. I think the "I" in "I think therefore I am" is a lot more amorphou...

the conclusion of the cogito is "Therefore I am." I'm just saying, if he's an evil demon, that conclusion is still left true. I'm not sure how much de...

if he's an evil demon, then he IS Also, I didn't mean to type the word silly above. Typo. I've changed it to "clearly".

He was applying skepticism as deeply as he could, to strip his beliefs down to the last undeniable belief. "I know the world exist" - do you really? H...

This isn't an uncommon criticism, and I definitely have time for it. If you allow the "I" to take a more amorphous form, "I think therefore I am" coul...

I can definitely see why a non-native speaker reading "A therefore B" would initially think that must mean "A causes B" - but that non-native speaker ...

Yeah, I think it's safe to say that anybody who cares to *try* to figure out what cogito ergo sum is saying would eventually come to understand that i...

yeah of course, I misunderstood your previous post. Yeah, which would make it VERY puzzling why philosophers as a group like the cogito very much. Obv...

Do a lot of other philosophers think that? What do they think "therefore" means?

If by 'bioengineering' you mean making a thing that's identical to a human *down to the last molecule*, then it is relevant, but I wouldn't call that ...

I see. Last time I asked him if he thinks that one needs to exist in order to think, he said "I don't know". Given that, I'm not sure I would interpre...

He agreed with A1?

A robot is distinguishable from a human. Maybe on the outside they look similar, but you cut one open and there's wires instead of guts. Chalmers mean...

No, I think your odd reasoning is correct. If Physicalism is true, then minds are a consequence of certain physical things in particular physical stru...

Notice that he has just complimented Corvus on his stubbornness, but not actually agreed with his reasoning about denying the Antecedent. Sticking to ...

Some people, when they find out they've been behaving in a way that other people see as narcissistic, might choose to change their behaviour. They mig...

You have been distorting facts the whole time you goof. Remember when you said your Denying the Antecedent was in any logic textbook? Remember when yo...

Then I guess you'll be considering my points just as much as you were before I was on your ignore list. The only way to keep your beliefs in tact.

Keep publicly smelling your own farts. So far it's gotten you literally 0 people who agree with your reasoning, and you haven't begun to question why.

Your advice is not good, it's hypocritical. You shouldn't be saying it, you shouldn't even be saying it if you were right. It's so disgustingly self r...

This line you keep repeating reall could use a good inspection. If you're right about whatever you think you're right about, then this maybe gives off...

And what does it say if you do the exact same experiment, but ask it to support indirect realism instead of direct? Or... maybe I'm misreading it. Is ...

right, so then saying "we don't have culpability because of determinism" doesn't really seem to make sense - if randomness doesn't add culpability, th...

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In short, people make conclusions about the past using information they have in the present all the time. There's nothing unusual about a scenario whe...

"if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" - this is a hidden syllogism where the conclusion happened before the premise. If he committed the murder,...

if you know that you only eat when you're hungry, you can absolutely say this is a valid argument. I only eat after I become hungry. I ate Therefore I...