Heiko

But how do you _know_ it not just a matter of words? You see light and dark. If we had called those radiation then radiation would be experienced?

If you are a piece of cloth with a shadow cast onto it one cannot say the light or absence thereof was not experienced even if the idea of a shadow-ca...

Exactly. The "meaning" here would be the "thing" that you try to put in first place.

But that is the same as saying when looking on a piece of paper (form) with a text written on it (content), the content was not experienced. It doesn'...

Okay, another try: You take the synthesis of form and content and say the content was not experienced, as if we were talking cause-and-effect. But tha...

You were - in consequence - saying that, when I play guitar, that I am not hearing my play. That is what I deemed objectionable. The form of hearing w...

I am thinking about the experience as form of recognition. As with all forms it cannot really be separated from it's content. Therefor I think it is t...

But one point of quantum mechanics is that nature does not seem to be that continuous. Perfect space is still an idea.

Dunno - if the experience is thought as some kind of "detector", does that notion make sense? Given: the vocabulary is obviously different.

Well, 1/3 is rational and has an infinite decimal expansion. Thinking about it, it is questionable if the idea of the number line is even justified: A...

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That reminds me on "Neuromancer" "Are you sentient?" "Well, if you ask me, then: yeah, I am! But I guess that is one of those philosophical problems."...

PS: I guess a promising approach would be: We cannot create intelligent robot-slaves while maintaining a good picture of ourselves if we would take th...

Before asking for a criterion one would have to justify the distinction. How do you prove that there is a difference at all?

"Free will" is will in relations of repression. The individual finds freedom in the execution of it's duty. It is the fate.

If it was that simple - "Pain feels like firing of the C fiber." Now what? To me such problems seem to be made up. It doesn't matter which viewpoint o...

If you are, then you are. It surely is not the fault of some neuroscientist, that most of philosophy were unable to reach a synthesis on ontological d...

We do not postulate anything. If you can see and touch a thing you have to be far off to even think about the possibility that it might not "exist". T...

History has ended obviously despite efforts to puke up itself. An alternate timeline of history has - of course - begun; though it seems to be merely ...

Why do you think so? Prove to me that it cannot be understood, _then_ I may believe you. Nonetheless I'll make a try: Mind is the form of ideas.

Language is expressive, so ultimately the knowledge lies in knowing what was meant with the expression.

I am quite puzzled about the nature of negation in general. A sentence like "The cup is not red" seems to make a statement which requires some kind of...

Yes - someone pays to to paint something, and that is what you do. That is a necessary condition but ability is no reason to do anything. Well, as a c...

I fear the systems I was talking about are those, where there is neither a sufficient reason for X nor ~X. _Paraconsistency_ (allowing contradiction) ...

Okay, nice to meet you :) In fact, every now and then I have to deal with such "problems". ( Warning: possibly boring stuff ahead ) When evaluating a ...

It provides a guarantee of understandability for other beings. I guess you could get an agreement of any realist when showing the fundamental set oper...

Yes - read the linked document. That is, what we are talking about.

There is a subtle difference in some systems of logics between a statement, that is "just made" and a statement which is "proveably true".

If that is so clear, why do you say "the truth of the premises" and not just "the premises"?

This made me think a little. If for example, the grass is wet, it has to have become wet somehow. If we were in a world where this can only happen by ...

In my mathematical understanding soundness merely means coherence, that is, freedom of contradictions. Logic can determine that a set of premises /can...

This is a really good question. As philosophy has so many shades, this list surely is to be continued: - The preoccupation with the world without know...

I do not see how books full of contradictions could be subject of a logical analysis.The result of reciprocity simply has to be that the assumption it...

Reality is what puts limits upon the possible imageinations of the world. If a rational being cannot make itself believe that "x is true", "x is not t...

If an "unwanted (by both) child" exists this would indicate either lack of proper health-care or constitutional rape in the form laws. Both I am not c...

I would like to put something into consideration: If ashes really are ashes, it must have burnt. This is pure, infallible deduction from the conecpt. ...

I kind of have to disagree with this. The intent of a deed is never found in the world. The deed in itself is a means to achieve the intent but never ...

In logic, the sentence "x exists" is ill-formed as the existential quantifier is missing qualification. x is defined by predication. If there is a ter...

I would rather say he points out the necessity of the idea "thing in itself". This has nothing to do with reality. It is a model of dialectics. Hegel ...

To give another example: Whenever you do something on the internet you leave digital traces. It does not require anyone to actually view the logs for ...

But understanding is something different than the actual happening. If archeologists or geologists tell what must once have happened the conclusion is...

Dying is no sufficient criterion for living, however. Plants are really special as they most often lack perceptible response to their environment. How...

I am just thinking about your undead universe and which insights applying that seemingly unusual predication may yield. If life is living, mind is dea...

And metaphysically? Being dead has a notion of pure passivity. This seems fitting for an "observer". As for most of the universe.

How could it be insignificant to someone if "alive"or "dead" applies to him? How could it be insignificant if he /is/ alive or dead?

Alright, then. Philosophy obviously did not succeed in developing a concept able to grasp "being". There is the unproven assumption the OP is "aware" ...

You seem quite obsessed with the life/death and metamorphosis theme. What makes you speak of life and death in the first place?

That is a little too idealistic, I guess. You are talking about the means of ppl to reproduce themselves. Material conditions. It could be said, the o...

How can you even speak of them as the same person then? Either the unconscious peron is the same as the conscious person, or it is not.

But what could such a "solid base of violence" be?