No, the change is the shadow falling over a part of the red ball, making that part look dark red. That's what there is to see. The "percept" (or menta...
:roll: According to Searle, colours are systematic hallucinations, and what characterizes hallucinations is that you're having experiences without exp...
No, its utility may become available when it's built, but just being available does not cause anything, unless it already has the property, which can ...
True, but I'm not saying they're components of themselves. They're components of the architecture. Their own components result in practical, beautiful...
All ideas are expressed with words, and words come into play by the principle of compositionality. Meaningful expressions are built up from other mean...
So in the case of architecture, there are parts, features, and configurations from which three general properties emerge: utility, beauty, and sustain...
The components have properties, and when they interact with each other, other properties emerge. I think the utility, beauty, and sustainability of a ...
Architecture consists of its components, but there are causal relations between them and the composition. As in cooking. A cook selects specific ingre...
Belief in scientific facts is not so subjective... What is an example of an objective or subjective way of seeing reality? Perhaps a Sunday painter mi...
From 'belief can lead to mistakes', it doesn't follow a tendency to have a distorted view of reality, nor frequently wrong beliefs. The sentence 'it r...
Why not? You can separate your belief from the fact that it rains by ignoring the fact, or by doubting or dismissing the splashing sounds of rain as "...
The SEP article on Belief is fairly clear, I think. An attitude is a mental state, e.g. hope, doubt, confidence, certainty etc. A belief is an attitud...
One doesn't have to be a scientist, nor to study the neurons in my brain, to be able to say what will produce this specific intensity of this emotion ...
No, science is not epistemically subjective. Opinions are, for example, my opinion that 'classic jazz is better than hip-hop' is epistemically subject...
What would philosophy be without dubious sentences? A more charitable interpretation of that sentence is that it is based on the dubious assumption th...
Are they mediated? There are geometric forms that allow durability, utility, and beauty to coalesce, as in arches or catenary curves. Just being prese...
It seems fairly clear that the brain constructs conscious awareness, which in turn, can be about ideas, regardless of whether they're constructed, dis...
It takes a mind to think about ideas, but the ideas are not necessarily mind-dependent. Some ideas are constructed naturally or socially, others are d...
Yeah, those three (or closely related varieties of each) are the essential components of all successful structural designs. Also known as the Vitruvia...
Yes, in the sense that architecture causally emerges from the building's practical, aesthetical, and sustainable qualities. The use of an aesthetic th...
That's right. For millennia, humans have understood that buildings should be practical, beautiful, and sustainable, because if any of these qualities ...
True, but your initial thought is expressed with words such as 'experience' which can be used in two different senses. That's why some of us talk past...
The wedge between sciences and humanities was socially constructed after the industrial revolution and rapid development of natural sciences evoked an...
The blind can't see the red pen, and if brain-stimulation is insufficient for making the blind see it, then I don't know of a good reason to believe t...
Well think about it. A blind person doesn't have visual experiences. Without a working light-sensitive organ that stimulates the brain to develop the ...
No, those are experiences evoked by stimulation of the neural connections that your brain developed when you were awake and did see colours. When you ...
No-one says that the word 'red' has the properties of the distal colour that it refers to. Evidently, you don't understand intentionality. The intenti...
You're not discussing what the rest of us are discussing: perception, under General philosophy. But you claim the topic is not philosophical, hence yo...
The individual is a member (or outcast) given obligations and rights. The individual can both be obliged to maintain collective happiness and have the...
You know there's more at stake. Philosophy of perception is philosophy of mind, a tangle of philosophies of language, science, and some metaphysics. S...
No, are you trolling? Why, would you prefer extraordinary conditions? For example, why would you select the colour for painting the exteriors of a hou...
Why difficult, and where does that idea come from that there could be a 'correct' mode of seeing? Color-vision is a biological phenomenon, like photos...
Nope. Other science-buffs believe that physics shows that only particles in fields of force exist, and everything else, including neuroscience and per...
Everyone denies it. Dreams may use memories and imaginations of colour that evoke a feeling that you incorrectly pass for color-vision. Children who d...
You confuse them. I sense a headache by having it, but having a brain-event is insufficient for having the systematic colour experiences that we have ...
It does, and it's open to view. The prosthesis is at best a functional replacement, not a duplication of colour vision. We see what is open to view, b...
It means that the colour ain't in the head. That's why you need to add a prothesis, so that the brain can begin to develop neural connections correspo...
If that was true, then you could make the blind see by merely stimulating parts of their brains. But since their brains have never recieved the right ...
An imaginary community run by philosopher-kings? Joy, because it is not necessary to have or risk pain in order to feel joy. There's no such connectio...
Some thoughts on the neurology... Consider the fact that neural connections are constantly formed and changed as you experience things. Thus you acqui...
Colours are not subjective, but when you see a colour the seeing is ontologically subjective, and your opinions about the colour, e.g. that it's prett...
Sure, some people have "photographic" memory, others remember what it feels like to see particular colours. With practice you can get better at it. Co...
Tetrachromacy is suspected to exist in a small percentage of the population. They might be able to distinguish between colours that to the rest of us ...
Depends on what kind of medium we use. A group of blind speakers can use the word 'red' and speak successfully about the colour, its conventional or s...
In the OP @"Mp202020" asks: "Does the color “red” exist outside of the subjective mind..." I replied it's outside, but might add that it's outside bec...
Yet it is more plausible to believe that it is the addition of a substance that causes the variation. There is no good reason to believe that the vari...
It's neither. The ordinary everyday conception is described in dictionaries, and dictionaries don't say much about the nature of colour, nor the scien...
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