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You said: I replied: ... The argument should be obvious: we don't see the atoms and molechules of a coin, so there is nothing to interpret as a coin p...
March 09, 2017 at 01:06
So I said. :-} No. Hence my argument, which you seem to evade.
March 08, 2017 at 17:50
Our belief of what it is that we perceive is fallable, not perception, because belief is representational.
March 08, 2017 at 09:28
. So what would seeing its atoms and molecules be an interpretation of? :-} I don't think you see the atoms and molecules; it is not your interpretati...
March 08, 2017 at 07:30
What is interpreted? We might interpret the presence of a silver oval in our visual field as a round coin. But we don't get to interpret its presence,...
March 08, 2017 at 00:05
"If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?" is the title of a current article in NYTimes.
March 07, 2017 at 02:09
Indeed, especially scientific accounts based on arguments from illusion, according to which you'd never see a real colour, only your own hallucination...
March 07, 2017 at 01:41
Good point. :) ..but then isn't also the range of wavelengths analog and dense...i.e. between two identified wavelengths there is always a third. Henc...
March 06, 2017 at 18:42
Where is it assumed? Lay it out for me. What conclusion?
March 06, 2017 at 01:32
It would take time travel to unlearn something already learned. If they want you to learn and use their methods instead of your methods, then would yo...
March 06, 2017 at 00:53
Hearing a sound can be like seeing a photograph of the past. As such it functions as a symbol in which you can recognize things and events of which yo...
March 04, 2017 at 02:12
The impression of the depicted strawberries might be grey-blue, but the meaning of the expression "they look grey-blue" is the colour of the picture, ...
March 03, 2017 at 19:28
Heidegger confined himself to the standards of nazism, and perhaps he thought it was a duty. But I think it was bad judgement evoked in a bad society,...
March 03, 2017 at 03:34
To be conscious of something amounts to having one's attention directed towards it. How a biological organism can have its attention directed towards ...
March 03, 2017 at 01:43
What is there to prove when the assumption, that it would be possible to live in a hologram or simulation, is incoherent?
February 28, 2017 at 08:45
God is a religious concept. Why would you consider whether the word 'satan' is evil? Can a symbol of evil be evil? I don't think so. For example, we c...
February 28, 2017 at 01:31
Hologram or simulation of what? If it is a hologram or simulation of reality, then it is a hologram or simulation of the reality in which we live. It ...
February 28, 2017 at 00:34
Disregarding the many unwarranted assumptions and assertions in the OP (e.g. that nature would be an agent) I believe there is some philosophy to be d...
February 26, 2017 at 13:05
I'd say Satan is a religious concept, not philosophical. Baudelaire's "philosophical" claims have little to do with philosophy. Instead they were deli...
February 26, 2017 at 12:39
I guess it will be something like when older industries became obsolete and abandoned. When we run out of oil some industries and places will be aband...
February 26, 2017 at 02:19
Why would you leave out logic, morality etc. from a physical world? Are you thinking that a physical world would have to be some kind of a dense lump ...
February 26, 2017 at 00:43
Children might be shaped to believe that Santa Claus exists, but later they learn to think. Thought is not shaped by childhood experiences.
February 25, 2017 at 22:24
I'm a descriptive metaphysician, it should show in my attempts to describe what is actual rather than possibly better.
February 25, 2017 at 18:24
That would require magic, not omniscience. Potential is an object of thought, not perception.
February 24, 2017 at 22:15
Perception of what?
February 24, 2017 at 20:28
Investigate what it means for something to be physical, does it leave anything out?
February 22, 2017 at 04:48
Strange, because usually obscurity inspires people to imagine more, not less. Fiction thrives on it even. Can imaginations be wrong? What is an exampl...
February 22, 2017 at 04:04
Knowing that red is used in different ways in different cultures helps us understand what it's like to see red in different contexts. I think you ascr...
February 21, 2017 at 11:33
Oh really. But 'to imagine' is what I said, recall. The fact that "seeing" is a metaphor does not make its use appropriate, nor innocent, in a context...
February 21, 2017 at 03:04
There are other things to perceive than physical objects, such as socially constructed objects, which are not so physical, nor are they imagined; they...
February 21, 2017 at 02:17
What does "seeing" mean when nothing is seen?
February 21, 2017 at 00:59
But when we imagine seeing something we don't really see anything. That's why it is called 'imagination'. Are you assuming that the world would be mad...
February 21, 2017 at 00:45
I would describe the colour indirectly, by referring to its effects on people who can see it, by how they use the word 'red', describe things in which...
February 20, 2017 at 23:23
As long as the blind share our background capacities and language there is little that prevents them from understanding descriptions of colours and im...
February 20, 2017 at 21:10
Right, the harmful effects of something contagious and invisible to the naked eye was identified long before knowledge of the existence of germs and v...
February 20, 2017 at 11:26
There is a decisive answer to the question whether we're brains in a vat, recall. We're not brains in a vat, because if we were, then not only would o...
February 16, 2017 at 14:50
Looks like it contains fallacies of ambiguity, such as two different senses of 'world' used in one sense: worlds you could be in. Or different senses ...
February 15, 2017 at 02:35
I didn't say that.
February 14, 2017 at 08:07
What a dizzying idea, but an enormous number of simulations won't increase the likelihood of other things being simulations. Even in a universe replet...
February 14, 2017 at 00:34
What part of do you not understand?
February 13, 2017 at 20:24
He says that the entire universe is a simulation, in which it is assumed that there isn't anything outside the simulation. Or he is misusing the word ...
February 13, 2017 at 13:00
That's not my problem but yours. What I typed lays out how your claim fails to make sense.
February 13, 2017 at 09:30
Whence your concern for my comprehension? Post a counter argument instead, if you can.
February 13, 2017 at 07:50
Look, a simulation requires that there is something to simulate. If the entire universe would be a simulation of someone outside the universe "running...
February 13, 2017 at 04:06
The entire universe cannot be a simulation, because there must be something left, say a second universe which is real, and of which our universe could...
February 13, 2017 at 02:03
You might be interested in this book: Fear of Knowledge (2006), by Paul Boghossian, in which the idea that knowledge and reason would be fundamentally...
February 12, 2017 at 18:21
I don't think so. Reason is not a product but the capacity to make sense of words, beliefs, or perceptions, and as such it is not exclusively human. A...
February 12, 2017 at 01:28
You're right, I made a mistake, but it also got me thinking about a comparison of music and games.
February 11, 2017 at 12:40
It's full of adventure and virtuosity, inspires imagination without the need for high-end graphics, physics engines or the like.
February 11, 2017 at 06:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifxgLADF4rY
February 11, 2017 at 05:22