Danno

Had a read of the primary scientific source https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120 Some healthy skepticism as they were funded by the John T...

I've been through a similar line of thought about extended consciousness between entities. Partly after reading an Italian academic who'd been an AI/r...

I happen to agree about the unpleasantness of the term qualia (and I try to keep in mind Dennett's caution about it not actually being more specific t...

Oh no I was just trying to say that our phenomenality is a given for this post (as opposed to illusionism or something). I try to be monist.

One of the issues with functionalism in phil of mind, though, is that 'functions' can potentially be ascribed all over the place, not just to the prod...

The abstractions vs actual is another relevant issue. I was meaning the causal issue, like how qualia can cause physical speech about having qualia (a...

I'm sure I read in the past that while Chalmers considers various options possible, he has leaned towards dualism. I'm not sure how reliable that sour...

I was in agreement with @Patterner's point. Reading Carroll's 2021 article, he seems to base it on there being only two options. A mental (phenomenal)...

I think this must be drawing a distinction between the 'laws' and the 'stuff' a universe is made of? In order for there to be any relevant difference,...

I don't think I can answer the poll in good faith because under monism I see epiphenomenalism as a red herring but the clarification "For options thre...

I recall from looking into Spencer a few months ago in journal articles, that he'd long been promoting his own Lamarckian theory of evolution. Got the...