I just joined this conversation on the fly so I apologize if I don't understand everything right away. Eventually what I want to do here is explain wh...
I think a limiting aspect of this debate is the automatic, almost innate assumption that the laws of physics are always invariant under time-reversal....
Acceleration does not explicitly appear in the formalism. The time derivative of momentum (equivalent to the force) is set equal to the partial deriva...
Also I don't know what Tom means when saying that the acceleration is "captured" by the Hamiltonian. The canonical coordinates of the Hamiltonian form...
Some technical points for Tom and Metaphysics Now to consider: Equilibrium thermodynamics does not model how entropy changes in time because entropy i...
Maybe because he wants to learn more about the physical structure and interactions of the brain. He's a neuroscientist. Seth would say that the fact t...
Seth is not suggesting that consciousness is caused exclusively by neurons. He would say that consciousness emerges from the dynamical interactions be...
I'm not defending his understanding of the hard problem. But I do think people need to engage more with this issue beyond just considering the metaphy...
Have you read Karl Friston? He touches on similar themes to what you are describing. The free energy principle: a unified brain theory? This push to c...
George, I wanted to bring to your attention the following Youtube video by the British neuroscientist Anil Seth: The Neuroscience of Consciousness It'...
You really need to look up property dualism. That's pretty much what you're describing, and as I and a few others have noted, your position here is ve...
It is quite manifestly obvious by now, after a century of empirical research, that consciousness is absolutely a physical product of material entities...
"Something and above" is philosopher's talk that means nothing. I have told you that superconductivity is an emergent physical state, and that emergen...
Aaron, Your interpretation of superconductivity as an identical feature of some quantity of oxides is total nonsense that no physicist would endorse. ...
Exactly right. George saying "different and distinct" means nothing in the context of this debate, because we all acknowledge conscious mental states ...
You basically sound like a property dualist, which is not inconsistent with materialism. It's inconsistent with reductive physicalism. There's nothing...
The thing I admire the most about you George is that you are perfectly happy to live with glaring and untenable contradictions. You are not a material...
I am definitely not going to start a definitional war over physicalism, materialism, and naturalism. It's a war with no end. I will take this as some ...
To say that something non-physical emerges from something physical is either a contradiction or an equivocation on the meaning of the word "emergence,...
Bingo. This is the central problem with all philosophical doctrines that reject materialism. They posit one set of causal principles that exist and wo...
What does 'identical' mean to you? Because even I may not agree that the mind and the nervous system are "identical." 2,400 years of Platonist propaga...
The article reviews his experimental results. Did you not read it? Or more accurately, were you not impressed because it happens to contradict some pr...
On the current status of the issue, refer to the following sources. 1) The book Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience (2003) by Jeffrey Cummings...
One of the greatest neuroscientists of our time, Antonio Damasio, holds the view that consciousness is an emergent state. The following article from M...
Every single one of your examples happened within the context of naturalism, and in many ways helped produce the intellectual dominance of naturalism ...
I'm not quite sure what point you're making here. That because we don't have a model for something physical, then it's not physical? Then take high-te...
I am one of the proud and irrational materialists that George is attacking. All I need to refute his pathetic attempt at evangelization is his own sta...
Falsifying the laughable claim that "we eat animals because we genetically need meat to survive" does not require fancy studies. It literally just req...
Value is a complicated concept that would merit its own discussion. But under any sensible understanding of it, labor would surely play an important r...
How do you overcome the transformation problem? How do you convert labor value into numerical prices and wages? Furthermore, what physical factors sho...
'Marxism' is a catch-all word for many different concepts and theories bundled together, not all of which need the labor theory of value. For example,...
The claim that Marx was wrong on "everything" (your unfiltered and unqualified word) is objectively ridiculous. The only comical thing here is you tro...
Ok but why exactly are you regurgitating this to me like a broken record? I have already said the labor theory of value is "fictitious." What is the p...
Sanders: To claim that Marx was wrong on everything that he predicted ignores his ideas on the global expansion of capital in search of cheap labor, h...
I would say influence, creativity, and accuracy are some of the most important standards that should apply in judging the greatness of any intellectua...
No one is questioning the "norms of rationality," although that could be its own debate. The issue is to what extent does God's existence justify itse...
According to you it doesn't mean anything. And yet you can't actually justify why, or at least you haven't so far. My verbal formula is no more or les...
I have acknowledged your previous comments on the merits of veganism and stated that I supported them. I am also very much on board with this: And thi...
Take the unethical complaint up with the others. I have no opinion on the ethical nature of your life. You're just some random person on the Internet....
The fair comparison is normal meat-based diets with normal vegan or vegetarian diets. That's what these people call scientists actually look at. The r...
Oh ok, so you're really asking: which one compares some random standard I decided to come up with versus this thing called reality? The comical nature...
Enough with the deer in Scotland or some other random corner of Europe. Enough with one study here or there. I have just posted some of the most autho...
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