Science will not replace religon because it has a hard time answering one very big question: "who am I?" Most religions say you are one soul in a worl...
I agree that the sensations that we experience are nervous system-dependent. But the question is how. Are you elimitative and believe the actual sense...
Then the self is not the experiences but the capacity to have experiences and persists longer than the experiences themselves and the experiences are ...
A good definition is self-determination. That is you have a personality, a character, desires that are part of who you are and are not completly deter...
You are describing indirect realism. There is a complex chain of events leading to colors being created in the brain. I accept this. But this last ste...
I am also a panpsychist but to say that everything has mentality is to say nothing. Where do you draw the line? A rock is an arbitrary collection of a...
I do think that awareness and the material world we are aware of are two seperate things. it is common sense to think we are not looking at ourselves ...
It would make sense that the brain evolved to make us believe we are directly interacting with the world even if it is really a virtual world. We feel...
Neuro-science today cannot explain how consciousness is created - the hard problem is not just one problem but can be broken into three. 1- how are qu...
yes .. sense data is the foundation of all theory. Matter and mind are such theory. But somewhere in your theory there must also be a place for sense-...
you have proven nothing. some people think that even individual living cells may have some form of sentience in which case a nervous system is not eve...
Are you saying that matter and mind are merely useful fictions and dont really exist? I would agree that sensations are epistemologically primary - al...
you are stating current dogma, but in both cases mine and yours there are no currently known laws through which the sensation red or pain springs into...
Nagel pointed out that the view from within is always from somewhere, from the here and now. Somehow this is a fact, a piece of direct observation, bu...
The problem is how the brain, a public object creates a private mental world - the conscious Subject. That private mental world is only observable to ...
Perhaps matter has a mental aspect that enables it to tune on information. Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics saw the guiding wave as informatio...
It comes down to a theory of "other minds". Experiments have shown that even some animals may have such theories. We know we are conscious and live in...
In a left-libertarian type scheme once you have paid society for extraction or use of a natural resource then the added value of mixing in your labor ...
ownership is certainly a legal principle that gives limited control over specific objects to specific individuals. But this does not necessarily mean ...
I would say you don't really own your actions but you own your body and can therefore do whatever action you want with it as long as you don't impede ...
What i am saying is roughly the same as Michael Lockwood's disclosure view in which Awareness can be thought of as "a kind of a searchlight, sweeping ...
I think there is not just one "hard problem" but four. 1. the one Chalmers concentrates on..how does physical activity generate sensations or qualia. ...
It is easy to see how an expanded physics or psychophysics can in theory correlate vibrations or patterns of energy with particular qualia such as col...
It is easy to see how the brain creates a virtual reality generating the qualia that we experience in consciousness. It is not so easy to see how an o...
Terrapin I am not sure what you mean by IDENTICAL. Is there some way in which the phenomenal qualities of colors, sounds, feelings and the private sub...
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