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The explanatory gap is jumped everyday by psychological researchers. I recommended you for example, "I of the vortex" if you want to know this "myster...
June 06, 2018 at 11:50
I am agree in general. It is possible that qualias of another persons but also the our self are differentiated by actions, like when you say that you'...
June 06, 2018 at 11:43
It is in my view, the question is bad formulated. It is a scientific question the "how" the knife cuts the onion: it simply "cuts" it, separating it i...
June 06, 2018 at 11:34
I do not agree it. Mind world is part of the physical world, referred to certain abilities of individuals, and realized by brains. I am not a dualist,...
June 06, 2018 at 11:19
If you program the robot for view colors, why do you think that it has not a "qualia" such as of humans for which evolution programmed them for that? ...
June 06, 2018 at 08:53
They have qualia (except robots if they have not a "brain", even when it is not "cellular") due to the same (evolutionary) reasons that us: to perceiv...
June 06, 2018 at 08:02
The redness is a property of the some objects, which has the property of being view as red (at least for humans), so redness perception is which "exis...
June 06, 2018 at 07:30
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Reality has a "real" structure (for example, elementary waves-particles and forces) like logic has a "logical" one. You are mixing the structure of th...
June 06, 2018 at 07:02
Fish, lizards and robots all use some kind of "brain", in the sense of a material system for thinking. Mind happens without some form of brain is for ...
June 06, 2018 at 05:09
The hard problem introduce a new additional problem that in my view does not exist. When Red-Neurons are firing in X, the conscious experience of Red ...
June 05, 2018 at 16:50
I'm agree in part. But "mind" does not "create" the brain. A "model" and the phenomena modeled are two thing completely different.
June 05, 2018 at 06:15
My lemma is this matter is: "Individuals think through the brain" "Mind" is which we postulate to explain individual performance, for example: - Why J...
June 04, 2018 at 18:41
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I think that all knowledge can be: 1) Necessary a priori (axioms, A ->B = not-A v B, etc.): they do not require any more logical or empirical evidence...
June 04, 2018 at 09:44
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To sum, the knowledge can be divided at least into these four dimensions: Temporal: "A priori/posteriori" (before/after) Structural: "Analytic/synthet...
June 04, 2018 at 08:11
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In my view (which can becomes different through the discussions insofar I clear my ideas), there are several interesting ways of define the "analytic/...
June 04, 2018 at 08:03
It is not semantic in my opinion. Smoking causes cancer, but the mechanism of the cancer is other thing than to smoke.
June 04, 2018 at 05:44
Yes. But he also said that it is an identity sentence, and "synthetic a posteriori". My view is that "Hesperus is Phosphorus" is not a true "identity"...
June 04, 2018 at 05:36
In my opinion, they are concepts that explain what happens with individuals. Mind is that we postulated for modelating how individuals make which they...
June 03, 2018 at 17:29
In my view, the brain is not the cause of mind in the same way temperature is not an effect of the molecular movement but it physical mechanism (how h...
June 03, 2018 at 17:21
I think that the use of "phenomena" in the question entails its physical -despite incomplete- modeling. That is, we can experience the phenomena becau...
June 03, 2018 at 09:17
Thank for your analysis. My claim is just that. The "Hesperus is Phosphorus" sentences are only apparent "identities", but actually they are identific...
June 03, 2018 at 06:40
Thank you for your exposition of my argument. However, I think that (1a') and (1b') have not equivalent to the a=a identities of Frege. They are with ...
June 02, 2018 at 16:57
Thanks My interest is not to elude the philosophical problems but try to understand them. But in this matter I sincerely cannot see it. In my view, it...
June 02, 2018 at 16:15
In my opinion, brain is the biological mechanism (neuronal system) that permits individuals to have a mind. The relationship between them looks like i...
June 02, 2018 at 15:25
I think that 1) is not the cause of 2) but its biological mechanism. Causes of Red experience are related with seeing a red objetc, to be alucinating ...
June 02, 2018 at 15:00
The method of substitution salva veritae is valid, for example, in mathematical equations (x-5= y+2; y=3-x; => x=3-x +2+5 => x=5). In natural language...
June 02, 2018 at 07:19
The natural languages equalities with the name-object form are symmetrical preserving the linguistic function (saying/showing). For example, "'Venus' ...
June 01, 2018 at 17:26
My problem with Frege is his that he account natural languages equalities by reducting them to formal ones, so the problem of saying/showing emerges w...
June 01, 2018 at 17:03
It is a valid argument on the assumption that 'Venus' in the first equality has the same linguistic function than in the second one. We can think the ...
June 01, 2018 at 17:00
This is a mistake but I think that it does not invalidates my argument. The same analysis can be made: (1) Hesperus is Phosporus A) (name-name) Hesper...
June 01, 2018 at 15:54
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In my view, 'synthetic' means 'empirical' as opposite to 'formal' (content level) and 'a priori' means 'predictive' (formal level) as I said. Hence, '...
June 01, 2018 at 06:24
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In my opinion, "without empirical evidence" only can be understood as referred to certain formal knowledge (logic and mathematics, when the true can b...
May 31, 2018 at 18:31
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I think that "prior to experience" means "predictive" insofar it introduces an temporal dimension in the truth. In mi opinion, your example of the deg...
May 31, 2018 at 17:17
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Thank for your response @"gurugeorge" I think that the "a priori" moves from language to reality, about stating the possibility of a fact; and the "a ...
May 31, 2018 at 16:33
They are (informal) definitions, so their true is established a priori. I want to say that a "unnecessary" conclusion can be "invalid" in two ways ("p...
May 31, 2018 at 08:02
I resume my idea with other words: "A" is necessarily true iff "not-A -> (B and not-B)" "A" is possible true iff "A or not-A" is true "A" is empirical...
May 30, 2018 at 15:34
I think that a non-physical thing is that has not physical properties, so physics is not able to account it. For example, mathematical and logic syste...
May 28, 2018 at 07:48