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Well, if you cannot perform the task in my thought experiment then why do you expect that physical can possibly do it? Physical does not experience ti...
February 22, 2025 at 19:06
I am talking about temporal change here so time and its change matters. No, it is part of reality. Why does the physical in the state of S1 cause the ...
February 22, 2025 at 18:30
I considered people's input and I am very thankful for it. I changed the argument slightly which is more suitable for further discussion. D1) Consider...
February 22, 2025 at 18:07
First, you are confusing the creation ex nihilo with the act of creation that is due to the Mind. I illustrated that several times but you didn't pay ...
February 22, 2025 at 17:54
I should have said: The conscious mind owes most of its experiences to the subconscious mind". This is now an accurate statement. I don't know the pur...
February 22, 2025 at 13:54
The difference is that when a person is awake, his conscious mind experiences a simulation of reality that is the result of sensory inputs -- he also ...
February 22, 2025 at 10:44
Why don't you get involved in my threads and try to find flaws in my arguments? I would be happy to know your opinion and criticism. Insulting is not ...
February 22, 2025 at 10:03
I differentiate between God and the Mind.
February 22, 2025 at 09:36
There is harmony in the physical change. This means that the change must occur at a proper time. By right in here I mean proper. Physical. Physical pr...
February 22, 2025 at 09:33
You only had one valid objection which I answered using my thought experiment. The rest of your objections were about the existence of change in physi...
February 22, 2025 at 09:22
Read OP. I read them carefully. You didn't find any error in my argument. You also didn't reply to my thought experiment. I offered that thought exper...
February 21, 2025 at 20:37
It was not created from something. The Mind has the ability to cause/create physical. The creation ex nihilo however refers to God who created the uni...
February 21, 2025 at 20:33
What term is not well defined? I would be happy to elaborate. It helps you to understand how one can go from this "Therefore, the physical in the stat...
February 21, 2025 at 20:19
Where is the error? Could you please show it to me? False.
February 21, 2025 at 19:51
Yes, no human can be an expert on everything. I however don't think I have any misconceptions about the subject of this thread. I do understand physic...
February 21, 2025 at 19:35
Ok, here is the first premise: P1) Physical and awareness/experience exist and they are subject to change (these changes are because physical and awar...
February 21, 2025 at 19:24
I do have problems with non-reductive physicalism as well. I generally have a problem with physicalism which is a sort of monism whether reductive or ...
February 21, 2025 at 19:08
I am saying that physically cannot experience time. I am saying that a rock cannot experience the passage of time. Correct. Humans can experience psyc...
February 21, 2025 at 18:58
Read the OP. Sure, I am not against this at all. I am however arguing that physical cannot be the cause of its own change. This thread is in support o...
February 21, 2025 at 18:29
I do know the difference. It is unrelated but there is a scientific explanation for how this occurs (from a Google search): People wake up at a certai...
February 21, 2025 at 18:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMlFXouPk8
February 21, 2025 at 17:09
Then reductive physicalism is false since it does not realize that the emergence of awareness is strong. I am saying that non-reductive physicalism ha...
February 21, 2025 at 17:06
We assume this all the time but that is false. That is a mere change and I am not denying it at all.
February 21, 2025 at 16:26
But I was talking about the emergence of awareness which is a strong emergence. So you think it is a weak emergence?
February 21, 2025 at 16:18
The emergence of a car: Weak or strong? The emergence of awareness: Weak or strong? I don't need to rephrase my argument. All I need to accept is that...
February 21, 2025 at 16:16
You are just claiming that change exists. That is not what I am denying. I am claiming that physical cannot be the cause of its own change.
February 21, 2025 at 16:03
If so, then why did you bring up the example of a car that is a weak emergence? I am talking about the emergence of awareness which is a strong emerge...
February 21, 2025 at 16:00
I cannot prove it to you unless you understand the difference between the weak and strong emergence. Therefore, it is due to you that study emergence ...
February 21, 2025 at 15:47
To understand that Q follows form P you need to consider the following thought experiment: Suppose I lock you in a room and ask you to perform a task ...
February 21, 2025 at 15:28
I was not talking about the functionality of the brain which in fact can be explained by the laws of physics. I was talking about the awareness that a...
February 21, 2025 at 15:24
You didn't reply to me but since you attacked me and my knowledge then I challenge you! Then please provide a solution to the Hard Problem of consciou...
February 21, 2025 at 15:14
P is #2. Q is #3. Q follows from P. Please consider my thought experiment to see how Q follows from P.
February 21, 2025 at 14:43
I don't think that the conscious mind has such a causal power at all. The conscious mind owes all its experiences to the subconscious mind. It has ver...
February 21, 2025 at 14:39
I missed to reply to this. You need to read about the strong and weak emergence to see that the example of the car is a weak emergence whereas conscio...
February 21, 2025 at 14:13
Modus Ponens. Let me give you an example of another argument I developed here with the help of @"Arcane Sandwich": P1) God exists and is the creator o...
February 21, 2025 at 14:00
Then please read on the Hard Problem of consciousness. The problem to me is related to a belief that the strong emergence is possible. By this, I mean...
February 21, 2025 at 13:52
Please let's put the mind aside until we reach an agreement that experience and physical refer to two different phenomena. Within physicalism, the phy...
February 21, 2025 at 11:43
Very well said! The Hard Problem of consciousness is not the only problem that physicalism suffers from. For example, we also have the problem of Epip...
February 21, 2025 at 11:21
The conscious mind is very passive. Its function depends on the constant flow of information from the subconscious mind since it has very little memor...
February 21, 2025 at 10:52
The physical of course must know when to do cause otherwise physical motion would be incoherent. And that is an important point and it is not a mistak...
February 21, 2025 at 10:12
My argument has nothing to do with Zeno's paradox. I don't think that anything is lost in translation. English is not my first language though. If any...
February 21, 2025 at 10:05
You cannot simply say that my argument does not work. If you think my argument has a problem, let me know where. What is the thing you don't understan...
February 21, 2025 at 10:00
#3 follows from #2 only. To understand that you need to contemplate my thought experiment which you have never answered!
February 21, 2025 at 09:31
Because physical by definition refers to stuff that exists in the world, such as a chair, a cup, etc. The experience however is defined as a conscious...
February 20, 2025 at 21:20
Physicalism is false like it or not because I have several arguments against it. I already discussed what I mean by change in OP whether the change is...
February 20, 2025 at 21:00
Yes. Subjective time for sure is a substance so real. Objective time is required to allow a motion of the subjective time and it is not a substance. P...
February 20, 2025 at 20:48
I am discussing logic here. Could you have a change in a simultaneous process?
February 20, 2025 at 20:39
Therefore there is a car that is moving. Therefore, changes in physical are real.
February 20, 2025 at 20:37
I don't understand how that could be a proper response to our discussion.
February 20, 2025 at 20:35
Sure the change is real and there is no such thing as fake change. That is incoherent.
February 20, 2025 at 20:31