OK, so each frame is active, it is doing something, it is creating the next frame. Right, you have described continuous change. What makes you want to...
Now you're not making sense because you have no provision for change. How could change occur in this model unless the frames are not really still fram...
Yeah, so that's the point, we seem to say "I am conscious of X", using "conscious of" in a number of completely distinct ways. And that difference is ...
There are numerous different theories which model reality as waves. Objects are described as disturbances, and interference patterns. They are incompl...
I think of my "self" as every part of me, my mind and body, not just mind. So if I say "I have a body", I mean that my body is part of me. But by sayi...
Well, I wouldn't say "I am the thought world", I would say "consciousness is the thought world". So I would agree with you that I am conscious of both...
Well, isn't this the point? You are talking about consciousness. What is consciousness other than "the thought world"? You dismiss my description of c...
The problem is that physics never does drill down to the bedrock of existence. Metaphysics and ontological speculation, propose some principles of exi...
That's definitely a possibility, but I think it makes things unnecessarily complex, producing unresolvable difficulties in deeper analysis. To begin w...
As we were saying, part of consciousness is responsive and part is creative. If we try to model reality, then the model must precisely "reflect" reali...
What Smolin argues is that while some represent the laws of physics as "global", they really are not. Check out the chapter he calls "Doing Physics in...
If you would read physicist Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn", you might come to understand that these so-called fundamental laws are actually extremely limi...
OK, so conscious activity is a combination of these two elements, reaction, and creation. Therefore I conclude that you are describing consciousness i...
If the frame has duration, then it cannot be a still frame. I already discussed this problem with boundless. The human mind is inclined to give the so...
Take the example you gave, telling us to imagine a poplar tree by the lake. I would classify this action of yours as initiative rather than responsive...
Yes, I think it's very near to the exact opposite of responsiveness, meditation. I have to free myself from all interferences, which might demand resp...
I will sometimes yell at myself, or pinch myself to stay awake when I'm driving. But I think this is an indication of the inversion which is created b...
Why would you have to check yourself for responsiveness? Would you yell at yourself? Would you pinch your own ear? Don't you determine your own respon...
Not in the sense that I know "person". And this is a big problem which theologians have run into in modern times, a rejection of the idea that God is ...
I'm not convinced that God is a person with no body, and from what I've heard about angels, each angel has providence over a physical body. Anyway thi...
Do you notice a difference between what you "see" as consciousness within your self, and what you "see" as consciousness within others? How would you ...
I don't believe that you can separate a person's body from a person's will and intellect, in this way. It doesn't make sense to say that a person is a...
So you assume that 12 and 6 exist. You don't think that this presupposes an ontology? If you can't say what you mean by "6 exists", then how are you u...
If it is a description, it relies on an ontology, because the description must claim to describe something. Maybe you're just trying to deny that your...
You'll find a two dimensional time in Itzhak Bars "Two-Time Physics". But mostly the idea is developed by presentist philosophers who see the need for...
It's quite simple. Ontology puts forward the fundamental principles by which we understand reality, it determines how we distinguish true from false. ...
Doing away with ontology might appear to you as a solution, but we, as good philosophers are interested in determining the truth, and that means the t...
You wanted to put the image outside the mirror, and thus place consciousness outside the human head. But there cannot be an outside without an inside....
I think that this is the only reasonable way to take Moore's proposition, as a demonstration. Then it is a type of justification, demonstrating, this ...
The light interacts with the substance of the mirror to make the image, just like it interacts with any substance that you see, allowing you to see th...
My point is that consciousness is really inside the human body, just like the image is really in the mirror. You've made a faulty representation of th...
Yes, if someone controls you to make you do a nefarious deed (the devil made you do it), the act is still yours. The rock breaks the window despite th...
Actually the reflective surface is on the back of the glass, so the reflection is really known to be "in the mirror", to begin with. This becomes evid...
The point being that we choose a static unchanging thing to act as the temporal reference. So for example the day, or the year is a relatively unchang...
This is where I disagree with process philosophy. Process assumes no static states. But the biological systems create static states by which we percei...
This is a difference of opinion then. You dismiss these inherent contradictions as "dead ends", "not worth talking about". I consider them as having i...
The idea of a two dimensional present is becoming more common amongst speculative physicists. I think it provides a basis for explaining our experienc...
I think it's clear that the skeptic doubts the rules. And if this is the case then it makes no sense to say that there are rules to the game of doubt,...
No, you said: "Lawyers and doctors need to have their salaries taxed at 90% above certain levels, which can still be quite high - say $150K in US." Cl...
This is not "the science of formal systems", this is philosophy. In philosophy we are concerned with understanding reality as a whole, so we cannot di...
Yes this is what Socrates is famous for demonstrating, many people know how to do things without really knowing exactly what they are doing. This migh...
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