Metaphysician Undercover

Sometimes I wonder if there is even any actual visual images in a dream. I'll wake up from a dream and think that the thing in the dream which was my ...

Yes, I find this question of how the brain operates, relative to the conscious understanding of self, and how the sense of "I" as an agent, is related...

So this would constitute a big difference between "seeing" in your sleep, and "seeing" when you are awake. How do you think that the house is caused t...

You don't think that there is input from the retina in dreams? What do you think the so-called rapid eye movement is all about? I don't think I agree ...

I was not giving a physics lesson, only pointing out your equivocation with the word "field". Photons are the excitations of the electromagnetic field...

So the point is that the ability to recognize a piece of music as at a speed other than the norm, is not an innate ability. It requires the criteria o...

You are comparing it to the norm. The general capacity to compare something to a norm. You don't seem to be paying attention to my post.

The narcs like to put a cash value on the drug busts. It's the high cash value which is really impressive. They like to show that they can take all th...

This is the point then. If keeping one's eyes open is "generally" a matter of conscious volition, why would we conclude that the sense perception of s...

No, I do not agree with this. If the music is sped up or slowed down only a miniscule amount, I cannot tell the difference without comparison to a des...

You ought to consider that if an author's arguments appear nonsensical to you, you in fact, do not understand the author. This is because to understan...

The question is, if visual sensing is really part of the unconscious mind, rather than the conscious, why do we need to close our eyes to go to sleep?...

Of course we're going to notice the difference, it changes the pitch. It's like Alvin and The Chipmunks. They take a recording and speed it up. It's n...

A person listening to an artist playing an instrument rapidly (decreased time between particular notes), will hear something completely different from...

https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/dsp-book/dsp_book_Ch10.pdf

Time and frequency are directly related, the basis of the Fourier transform. Increasing or decreasing the speed actually changes the pitch, ask Alvin ...

If the activity of the eye is part of the unconscious, why, in your opinion, do we need to close our eyes when we sleep?

But your example is not a speculation, it's an arbitrary designation: 'this photo represents an instant'. If you said that a real instant in time migh...

Yes, that's what I mean, there would be a range which would qualify for any given pitch. But remember we are talking about a machine using software to...

That looks like an arbitrary distinction. Faint/clear? Perception is not accurate, that's the point. We create accuracy with conception, and that is w...

I believe Trump sees himself and Putin, united, as capable of creating one superpower of world dominance. However, they both know, that ultimately the...

What I see on that page is the following: "In 2023, just over 50 percent of Americans had an annual household income that was less than 75,000 U.S. do...

I noticed in your reply to Banno, that you accept the idea that the wave would have to hold that frequency for a period of time to be recognizable as ...

The page you referred does not show what you claim here at all. That's just more misinformation.

I wish you all the best in your attempts to help Banno to resist the bad habit of equivocation, but I'm afraid it will be fruitless. The issue, is tha...

The new status symbol, stacks of toilet paper on display, neatly replaces the gold plated toilet seat, as a true value show of class. Who's going to g...

Now you're contradicting yourself. You said: "The average American struggles to make ends meet. They worry about how they're going to afford to retire...

This is indicative of the problem I am talking about. Hume does not acknowledge the difference between sensing (simple observation as time passes), an...

Hey! What's all that junk on the back of the toilet? That's a big faux pas, the cat will jump up there and throw it all in.

Even if that is representative of "the average American", how is it anything other than having to work for a living? I do not believe that is represen...

As I said, there is only a series of tones in conception, and when that conception is applied. That's what the software program does, applies the conc...

Actually, we do not hear a series of tones, we here a slide, which is a sound of changing pitch, consisting of no distinct tones. That's the point of ...

The point though, is that there is no such thing as "the moment when it happened". Movement requires time, duration, temporal extension, whereas "the ...

Does "struggles" mean that they have to go to work five days a week? Worrying is self-inflicted anxiety.

This article https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-reveals-universal-pattern-brain-wave-frequencies-0118 describes how scientists have determined distinct l...

The point though, is that Hume represents sense perception as a succession of distinct perceptions. But in reality sense perception consists of contin...

Looks like equivocation to me. Again , equivocation. Consider the difference in the meaning of "colour" in the follow two phrases. "The colour of the ...

I think that this is the point. The mind spatializes the thing which we sense as a temporal continuity, and it is the spatialization which creates dis...

If what appears as a continuity is really a succession of distinct locations, then the senses are deceiving us. Then it appears like you would say tha...

Thanks for your input Mijin. "Brainwave states" provides a different perspective. Maybe there is some real science here, instead of the stuff that Chr...

The issue is whether continuous movement is even possible at all. Since we understand and conceptualize movement as as a succession of instants in tim...

The point though, is that sense perception is as a continuous movement. So, when Hume represents it as a succession of still frames, he already applie...

This demonstrates that it is a very complex issue. Essentially we choose, and are genetically inclined, to empathize with some and not with others. Th...

Don't you think so? I think I was arguing the opposite. What I was saying is that despite talking about memories as if they are fixed objects, stored ...

Hume has a mistaken premise, that sense perception consists of a "succession" of distinct perceptions. This is not consistent with experience, which d...

Is that what empathy is? I don't know about that.

Things are being learned and memorized at every moment in time. Memorizing is not a one time thing. Each time a person recollects, and memorizes, one ...

I don't think that's accurate. Memory is attributed to synapse regulation, which works through synapse plasticity. So memory is a feature of this plas...

That's really only the case when you are talking about south of Canada.

But if memories are simply neural activity, then they are not "held" anywhere. They are something which happens, and it happens only when the memory i...