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If you care to read about consciousness, you will notice that it is a vast subject. There are range of different views on the topic from the hard mate...

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You can study consciousness by science. But the problem is, you will not see or observe actual consciousness itself, no matter what you dissect and lo...

I disagree with that. Matter cannot give birth to consciousness. Could you give some examples of consciousness emerged from matter?

You cannot understand the problem of consciousness without understanding what consciousness means and implies. My point was consciousness is function ...

Revisiting your point here, I don't believe that consciousness is something which can be defined clearly. Does it cover only being awake with the know...

I wasn't saying you were. I was just reiterating the point that philosophy doesn't deal with atoms and particles in physical or biological science. On...

Sure. But if you think where the meaning of consciousness comes from, it is just a word describing awareness of biological being. It has little to do ...

I appreciate what you mean. But it is not a result of evolution. Could it be the effect of bad diet, no exercise and too much television watching?

You need to define what intelligent life is. You also need to clarify the origin and nature of the divine being who pushed intelligent life into being...

Consciousness means that you are awake, and able to see things around you, and respond to others in rational linguistic manner in interpersonal commun...

If you care to look closely into ancient Greek art objects such as sculptures drawings of humans, you will notice there is no changes in the human phy...

So, what is the nature and origin of some sort of divine who pushed to get things started i.e. where does the divine itself come from, and how did he ...

You need to define what divine push is, and list the range of actions he/she can/does perform.

Belief in something means that the believer will respond in the way that the belief is leading the believer to act, make statements or decide ... etc....

What is number system, counting and math? They are just conceptual language to describe objects, movements, changes and events in the external world. ...

AI can do many intelligent stuff, answering your questions on the technical problems etc. However, they lack emotional side of sentience. Machines can...

Reasonable beliefs require reasonable reasons / grounds for believing. Without them, it becomes false and blind beliefs which lead to confusion and il...

Intelligibility is not just knowing things, but also understanding and solving the problems in practicality of life. There is limit of human knowledge...

The only way you could demonstrate your access (be it direct or indirect) to a person's song playing in his/her mind would be, if you could tell what ...

What do you mean by this? Could you elaborate with philosophical language? The only way you can have access to person's music playing in their mind is...

The problem is we don't know if the firing of neurons are the playing of the songs in the mind. If they are, still we don't know which neurons and wha...

Replayed songs are physical - the speed of the motor regulates it. Unless you change the speed of the record player or digital sampling speed (in case...

Not possible thing to do. The premise is false. Not accepted. No.

Time dilation is possible within mental level. You can even travel to the past in your mental world using your own memory and imagination. But it is i...

The statement All swans are white is based on the past observations, hence it doesn't say anything about now or future observations. If it does, then ...

The critical words you seem to miss here is "up to now". Don't forget the statement was made based on the past event, not now or future.

No joking. Common sense.

Just means that all swans seen up to now are white. If you spotted a black swan tomorrow, that doesn't negate the statement all swans are white. The b...

Could you give some example cases? Because it seems depends on what the statements were.

OK, That's cool mate, as long as you are not a blind internet info worshiper, or a clueless apostle of guys with the white gown (doctors & medical fol...

But how do you know if it is unfalsifiable first place?

Isn't tautology always true in logic? Tautology is not flawed.

Statements have explicit meanings, and in most cases it carries truth or falsity value too. Actions don't have these characters I am afraid. All you c...

Whether they say their minds or not, a statement has clear meanings. Behaviors can have many different interpretations. And even if you interpreted wi...

If you were in the bathroom where John and Jane were feeling the temperature of the water in the tub, yes their behavior could be part of the interpre...

Behavior is random and would be too subjective for interpretation. But when Jane says cold, and John says hot, Jane can infer that John's bodily sensa...

A statement like "I feel hot." is about one's own bodily state and the content of sensation. It has nothing to do with the world outside one's own bod...

If the cat came to you, and you patted him, then he is real. But if you saw the cat, and it either vanished into nowhere, or became a dragon, then it ...

Not so sure if it would be a correct meaning of AI sentience. Some might, but many don't.

Could you prove AI is sentient? Some people say AI sentience is just programmed reflex.

We were talking about the body which is dead. Calling the dead body biological is real stupid. Anyway you don't even know what the point of talking wa...

Biological means living and life. Adding it to body, and describing a dead body as biological body is incorrect, confused and unintelligible.

which is all in the realm of inference. There is no conclusive objective details of proof or demonstration how physical brain relates to the mind yet.

Philosophy is largely about semantics and logic. It doesn't deal with the cells, neurons and brain chemistry how it works with the entered images into...

Once the image you saw enters into your mind, shouldn't you then consult neurology or brain science in order to find out what is happening with the pe...

Saying, you see a ship directly or indirectly sounds like, if there are any obstacles in the middle of the path of the seeing, rather than seeing the ...

Isn't it the case that anyone can see a ship directly or indirectly depending on the circumstances or the way they see a ship? A folk see a ship with ...

Yes, they can add these words in their sentences, but it seems making the meaning of the sentence more confusing. It is ambiguous on telling why they ...

It sounds really confusing when you say that you see a ship directly or indirectly, when you can say you see a ship. Why add those words, and make the...