They're fundamentally different under the assumption that consciousness is non-material, which implies dualism, i.e. that we split the world in two, w...
It should be clear by now, that it depends on whether we use those words in their ontological sense or their epistemic sense. The mind is special in t...
Recall I asked you to explain to me why we can't use those words, but you didn't. The assumption that consciousness is material leads to empirical or ...
Our empathic ability. It's the ability to mentally construct, visualize, and actually feel things that we are not directly exposed to. So if you know ...
Ok, let's see: But what does it show? That we can't investigate the nature of the observer and experience without using the words 'observer' and 'expe...
Right, conscious states are different from unconscious states, but are they fundamentally different? A series of biochemical reactions release the ene...
Right, anything goes when we attempt to solve a hard problem that doesn't exist. :cool: Vitalism used to be a solution to a "hard problem" based on th...
The world is objective in the sense that it is independent of us, and available for all of us. Also maps of the world have this objective mode of exis...
What or where could anything be but in the world? If you assume, for example, that the feeling of hunger is non-physical, then it's paradoxical to thi...
Perhaps the most basic sense of 'home' refers to what gives us shelter against sunlight, extreme temperatures, wind, rain, predators etc. A hermit cra...
Humans used to be, and many still are, nomadic hunters and gatherers, and in modern societies there are couch surfers, or business people or musicians...
:lol: :up: Is there philosophy proper? Of course, just like there is pseudo-philosophy. Wherever phenomena, or the relation between an effect and its ...
Those are two different senses of innocence. In the context of law, innocence means that the suspect is considered not guilty until proven guilty. I s...
When each iteration presents a new picture, and parts or features in the previous picture that one would like to keep are lost, no amount of iteration...
What's improved? AI is stuck on simulating intelligence, and simulation is not duplication. Neither a machine nor a human becomes intelligent by merel...
Then why is it taking so long? :roll: The sentence 'walking on the moon' refers to an experience that only a few astronauts share. It doesn't suddenly...
Ok! Let's see: https://kopare.se/testing/Test01.jpg https://kopare.se/testing/Test02.jpg https://kopare.se/testing/Test03.jpg So it did change the bot...
The results I got are mostly absurd a la Monty Python. That's interesting. When I typed '3' the number of storeys increased to 8 :lol: Perhaps I shoul...
There is no general agreement on how to shape a pile of clay for it to be a sculpture. Especially in a culture characterised by artistic individualism...
Ok, but my point is not that 'house' can have many definitions, but that the form of a house is insignificant for its definition. A homeowner and a co...
Interesting :up: I've recently built a house for myself too. The ground is remade, but the house is made from scratch. In the design and construction ...
Some pile of building materials is possibly a house somewhere. An unfinished house can be a house. Lots of things that were not designed to be houses ...
No, I didn't do that either. The biggest problem for indirect realists (that's the title of your OP) is their own assumption that we never experience ...
I'll quote the part of the OP again to which my first post is a response For many indirect realists, arguments from illusion, dreams etc. are "grounds...
I agree we can't get outside phenomena. The question follows from concluding (from illusions etc) that we see external objects by way of seeing someth...
Examples of illusions, dreams, hallucinations etc. tend to make some thinkers conclude that the object of experience is not the external object but a ...
No, we use ordinary or poetic languages for expressing emotions. Often in combination with other ways of expression, e.g. gestures, sounds, and pictur...
Versions of direct perceptual realism (e.g. McDowell's disjunctivism, or Searle's non-disjunctivism). Compare it with indirect perceptual realism, whi...
Have you read any of the above mentioned philosophers on perception? Try this. They're better, because they're better at satisfying what you already a...
Like Aristotle? Putnam? Searle? McDowell? To ascribe child-like ignorance to those who defend naive realism is not so educated. In the philosophy of p...
a) is false. You don't see red. One colour, or a bundle of colours, can look like another colour. For example, at dusk, dawn, under coloured lights, i...
The arguments from illusion continue to pile up, as if the hight of the pile would make them more convincing. :roll: Did anyone mention RGB? The scree...
Our lives and communication with each other would become unnecessarily difficult or impossible if we'd focus on negatives only. In fact, it is irratio...
After you become aware of having a thought, you still have the capability to veto the thought, e.g. ignore it or think of something else. You don't ge...
It lost its appealing support for workers' rights, for instance, because many workers have become consumers, stock owners, home owners etc. It seems t...
Well, philosophy used to be the name for science, recall. The off-shoots from this old sense of science are the special sciences and philosophy in the...
Right, art became an off-shoot from crafts, like philosophy became an off-shoot from science. Some contemporary art is craft-like, and some contempora...
Right, so perhaps a stoic finds meaning in the understanding of works of art, whereas a hedonist finds meaning in being attracted, surprised, provoked...
One does not even have to speak. They have already diagnosed whatever one says as a function of identity, sexual phobias, privileges, self interest, i...
Makes me think of the many revelatory ideologies (freudian, marxist, individualist, religious etc), categorically assuming underlying biases, power re...
I'm not talking about stars, torches, nor lightbulbs. but pigments. Pigmented surfaces exposed to light emit light, unlike glossy surfaces that reflec...
The rejection of naive realism is like obscurantism: a habit among intellectuals to expect a phenomena or its explanation to be sufficiently complicat...
Right, in white light that has the energy of daylight the pigments emit photons of about 700 nm. In shade (ambient light) they emit photons with less ...
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