Those are not so ordinary, and although they are experiences, they are unlike ordinary experiences evoked by the brain's empathic ability to memorize ...
We don't ordinarily use neurology when we want to change or add a new colour to the kitchen wall etc. Ordinarily we use paint that reflects the desire...
Sure, some are red while others are not red yet look red or turn red temporarily. Being red is different from looking red. Being red is possession of ...
He conflates (1) an "apparent distribution of colors" and (2) a "distribution of colors" that appears in various ways when he moves, or when other peo...
Russell conflates the colour (seen under ordinary conditions) and what that colour may look like (seen under other conditions). Hilary Putnam writes a...
Sometimes words refer to things and states of affairs. Unlike talk of "mental percepts" or "frequencies", talk of "dispositions" seems compatible with...
Organism and environment coevolve. So what increases the organism's fitness the most is arguably the ability to sense things as they are, not only the...
The relevant philosophical issue is whether percepts exist, and if there are more plausible explanations of colour. Hence my explanation, yet you show...
Did for example JJ Gibson's research get rid of the metaphysical, epistemological and semantic issues? It seems fairly clear, I think, that these issu...
That's plainly false. Red paint really reflects wavelengths of 700 nm, and to experience it as red is to have a veridical experience of it (unlike exp...
I didn't say that. I said that the pigment and the light have the disposition to systematically cause the experience of colour. This means that the co...
It makes sense: a colour is the disposition of a pigment or light to systematically cause the experience of the colour. The experience exists in the m...
Sorry for late reply, I'm travelling. At dawn or dusk, a red coin may appear unsaturated, perhaps blended with other colours from the sky etc. That's ...
By seeing it or knowing its conditions of satisfaction. No, it demonstrates colour vision under selective conditions of observation. Not the same unde...
I'm referring to the biological evolution of colour vision. Huh? Why would you want to get rid of the colours? Objects and materials reflect, scatter,...
Colour vision and the use of colours evolved millions of years before dogs, humans, and socially biased conventions. Colours are used as natural signs...
Our ability to remember and imagine and dream is astonishing. It's fairly easy to imagine what a red pen might look like, or a floroucent pen that glo...
Any experience is subjective in the sense that it exists only for the one who is having it. But there is ambiguity in talk of 'subjective' and 'experi...
That supposedly private object of a colour perception doesn't exist (disregarding hallucinations and manipulation of the perceptual apparatus). Pigmen...
You remove the perceiver yet ask how does he know that his perception exists? :roll: Or do you mean that you remove all perceivers so that the biologi...
Colours are biological phenomena that arise when we and many other organisms interact with our visible environment. When you ask whether a red colour ...
Men are alike as men, but different by nature. Through practice men become far apart in some respects, but also alike as we have shared interests, coo...
Realism is the assumption that some things exist independent of us. For example, molecules exist regardless of our discoveries or ways of organizing t...
Partly, because the real world includes varying life conditions. We discover what's fair and what isn't, and respond accordingly, e.g. suffer, enjoy, ...
I agree. Constituent parts and functions, such as biochemical events, a nerve system etc. are necessary for conscious experience. The tardigrade goes ...
Entail. I recall seeing a documentary where biologist dehydrates all the cells of a tardigrade, including its metabolic organ, nerve system etc.. Sinc...
It's reasonable to believe that her report is sincere. Most reports of NDEs probably are. Nevertheless, there is ambiguity in how perceptual verbs suc...
How can I know that the experience that I'm having (or remember having) is a near death experience? Is it derived after the experience, e.g. from a do...
I agree, but some animals such as the octopus die soon after it has become a parent so that its offspring can eat the remains of its body and thus inc...
Well, the most important difference is that the hallucinatory experience is not caused by the things that you experience (e.g. snakes). Instead, the e...
Ideas and abstract objects lack "primary" qualities a la Locke, but can nevertheless be interesting. Many "secondary" qualities are interesting too, e...
There's scientific knowledge about the subjective domain as well. For example, pains, itches, stress, feelings and thoughts are real phenomena whose m...
Only Chuck Norris can do that. :cool: For example, make a fire out of ice, or make wood by rubbing two fires against each other. What then is an unint...
A molecule is a compound of atoms bound by physical fields of force. The relations and structures that these words refer to exist regardless of the wo...
Some objects are socially constructed and exist only by conventions, other objects are physical and exist regardless of conventions. Talk of a gutter ...
No, when you see a tree or hallucinate a tree, some of the same brain processes are employed. Hence their possible indistinguishability as perceptions...
Hm, I must disagree here. Among the good looking people, some skate by on their looks while others get bullied for having good looks. For example, in ...
Noone observes solipsism, there's no available sensory data of solipsism to encounter, because a solipsist doesn't publish. The assumption that we nev...
For example, by paying our taxes, voting, building and maintaining institutions for public health care and education. Which resources? Many resources ...
Suffering is evidently reduced by medicine or psychology, inequality by distribution, injustice by justice, and death is reduced by healthy, peaceful ...
What's a dead-end, I think, is the belief that an artificial replication of human thought is or could become an actual instance of thought just by bei...
The first creation story was probably expressed when languages emerged, say, 350 000 years ago, when it became practically possible to talk about caus...
Yeah, more babies survive. But when the standard of living increases, women have fewer children. So initially the population will grow, but then stabi...
You claim it's identical merely by appeal to a perceived similarity to private legal use. But being similar is neither sufficient nor necessary for an...
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