I tend to find colours and textures more significant than lines, regardless of whether the picture is a painting or drawing..But it depends on the con...
I read that Bezos cut down Washington Post in order to survive Trump. It's not about business but staying in power. I suppose OpenAI (not so open anym...
Ok, that's an interesting example. The words in 'Vegetarian meat' distinguishes the product from meat yet characterizes it as meat because it mimics m...
And yet the softwares have names such as Paint, or Painter, and we refer to the products as digital paintings. Likewise, a cat is a mammal, but some c...
? Where do you think 'kinds' come from? If one cannot get a kind from that which does not possess it, then there could be no kinds, only particulars. ...
In principle, like a forest emerges from a set of trees, or photosynthesis from photochemical reactions. I don't mean that plants are conscious, but t...
Why would you expect that a relation between two brain events would have to be a third brain event? Trees make a forest, but we don't expect the fores...
If you see the object directly, then you don't differentiate your visual experience from the visible part of the object. Your experience is about the ...
Aboutness is a feature of mind, but the object is not. Obviously the object cannot be derived from the physical processes that give the mind its abili...
Find out when it is a painting, because almost anything can be or function as a painting when someone, for example the painter, identifies it as such....
Imagine the sense of privilege that can be evoked by the mere speculation that human cognition might have an element of something that is supernatural...
I'd say the argument misrepresents naturalism. There are varieties, and here's a quote from the Wiki page on Naturalism. Hm, doesn't seem right. How c...
Cognition enables us to successfully navigate reality, and that's why (or how) we know it's about reality. In case we'd never navigate reality, only e...
I don't think the state here would care about a gang of church-goers. Less than 10% of the population go to church regularily, and for others it's jus...
I'd say gradual changes in how the state remains in charge until it no longer needed the church. Already back in the 1500s the state cut its ties to t...
Of course. For example, in Sweden state and church separated gradually in the 1800s and 1900s, and completely in 2000. Sweden is a secular state allow...
Right, they have also butchered 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones. :cool: Their use of parody, or counter acting rythms that ruin the groove or swi...
That's not an answer to my question. Truths are independent of entrenched habits or what is most functional etc, and may therefore unsettle the curren...
But how could you know what is most functional, or what is our best bet, unless you have access to the truth of those statements? Without access anyth...
Ok, what structures? But if the truth of your words is not accessible, then why should anyone believe them? With truth explained away, you still talk ...
So are you writing those words because you are conditioned to write them (regardless of their truth), or because they are true (regardless of your con...
I think it matters whether it's real or not in order to know whether statements about it are true or false. You say many things, for example, that the...
Well, money exists because we believe it exists, or as long as we comply to the belief. But you don't find money in nature. Sentience, however, doesn'...
Hate is foolish, love is wise (B. Russell). But whenever a power struggle won't be solved in a good way (e.g. by agreement or respect for shared rules...
Let's say Bob is a pilot and Alice is a passenger who's afraid of flying. Alice's judgement that Bob is sentiment then concerns not only his ability t...
In biology adaptation may result in balanced and stable systems, but all systems are not biological. We're part of many different systems: natural, ar...
Well, the word 'experience' (or 'perceive', 'aware of' etc) has two different senses. In one sense, there's this mental event that arises in your brai...
Well, sure they respond to the presence of fruit and fly towards it, but they also respond to the presence of a human hand trying to chase them away, ...
Well, also a fruit fly acts according to what it identifies, such as the presence of obstacles, danger, fruit etc (allegedly, fruit flies love oat mea...
To be conscious is a (more or less) continuous state in which one has a readiness for identifying the presence of things or thoughts and what they ent...
Does it matter whether the things we think of are mental or physical? Well, not in an active sense. See below. Yeah, I used the verb 'see', but I supp...
Looks like your puzzle is based on a fallacy of ambiguity between the (false) assumption that your entire experience is completely different, and the ...
Ok, thoughts in that sense are, like other conscious states, biological phenomena. On a physical level they consist of processes in synapses, neural n...
I think the relation between thoughts is logical, not causal. The necessity of a conclusion that follows from a set of premises is a brute fact that d...
Can a Thought Cause Another Thought? When thinking of good food, for instance, it seems as if the mere thought could cause one to feel hunger, perhaps...
That's a misrepresentation, because no direct realist believes that one perceives one's own mental state or some element of it. The 'content' of a men...
I'd say Searle's view is that the content of a visual experience is set by conditions of satisfaction, such as the object's presence in the visual fie...
My apologies, here"s the quote to which the objection was a reply. I can't make much sense of the above, hence my objection. Your opening post, howeve...
:smile: Direct realism is a bit like idealism in the sense that experience and object are not separate entities. The visual experience that you have w...
Kant doesn't explicitly reject direct realism. His empirical realism and transcendental idealism can be interpreted as two worlds, or two perspectives...
Objections to direct realism are typically based on arguments from illusion or hallucination. For example, a straw that looks bent in a glass of water...
It is easy to imagine how constant hallucinations would impair your ability to live. Imagine, for example, the pleasant experience of filling your lun...
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