I agree about the agreement. I hope that doesn't happen too often. There's no fun in that! But thankfully you've raised several interesting points. I ...
I agree with that ... even coherent theories can be wrong, but only empirically based ones. Mathematical and logical theorems are, by definition, cohe...
I would prefer to say that it is not possible to know what-it-is-like-to-be a different bit of reality because we only know what-it-is-like-to-be the ...
I'm afraid this "separate ontological being" makes no sense to me. If you do believe in such a realm, surely you are back to something like a Cartesia...
Re your version of : Can processes per se account for anything? I agree with Hume that causation is essentially epistemic. We can have a useful accoun...
Then surely they are not physicalists. They are people like us who think that physical representations are extremely effective with much of life, but ...
Indeed, all conceptual representations may be flawed ... but some are more flawed than others. Physical concepts (from folk physics to quantum fields)...
I think it's fair enough to distinguish differences between human, animal and AI sensing, but they do share the common function of detecting the prese...
Yes, maybe I was a bit careless there. The trouble here is that we are paddling around at the bottom of the epistemic well. There are no sub-concepts ...
I agree with Corvus. I think 'reducing' should be confined to when one is accounting for a thing by referring to that thing's subparts. Eg an atom is ...
Yes, that's a good point. Meta-representation ... an essential iteration for selfhood. And of course what philosophy is actually about: meta-theorisat...
Thanks for that. The baboon research is particularly interesting and I will have to abandon my proposition that analogical thinking is uniquely human....
I do sympathise with that sentiment and obviously human cognition has evolved from the same conditions as all other species which intramentally repres...
Yes, that's a good point. Although I doubt that question (what a quantum field really is?) makes any sense. I was trying to say that there comes a poi...
Thanks for that. I wonder if the cat's would be as grateful! But does their reaction show analogical thinking ... or merely an inherent or learned rea...
Is there any meaning to asking 'what the "what it is like" really is'? Is it not like asking what a quantum field really is? Doesn't there necessarily...
That is a very big claim. It obviously can't be proved, but what aspects of animal behaviour make you think that is plausible? I believe that analogic...
If we accept a Representationalist paradigm (which I believe is the only coherent metaphysical stance) then how is it possible to know "what trees in ...
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