Terrapin Station

Again, what qualia are in the first place are the properties of the experience, as the experience.

It's an ontological fact. If something obtains in some way, it has some characteristics, some qualities, some ways that it is, etc.

There isn't anything that is absent properties. So yes you experience properties, and yes, your phenomenal states have properties . . . and that's all...

No, you're reading that into it. A common definition of "introspection" is "the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes...

That all seems way more complex than would be warranted by not understanding what you quoted from SEP. :razz:

So take that one part at a time. One, we could say that qualia are either accessible or not. The standard idea of supporters is that they're accessibl...

Why would you be reading the idea that way?

I'm trying to figure out a way to comment on this without simply pointing out that "future people have/do not have moral standing" can't be correct/in...

lol - you're not going to say which paper that was supposed to be?

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Did you give an example of a paper that you believe is claiming that "'What it's like' does not make sense in terms of conscious experience"?

Your reading comprehension problem here: somehow you read me as implying something about "physical" versus "nonphysical." I didn't imply anything abou...

The terms are not ideal, but the best way to make sense out of this distinction is that "natural" preferences are not about cultural artifacts. They'r...

The qualitative properties of the bat's experiences, from the bat's perspective.

It's just the qualitative properties of your experiences. You must have qualitative properties to your experiences.

That's one of the things I was looking at. Again, it's inconclusive that it has anything at all to do with genetics.

Again, I'm skeptical that this is a fact, and a brief perusal of the claims online underscore that it's not clear that it is a fact (especially one th...

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Racism involves believing (a) that there are real "races," real (at least significant) differences between them (due to genetics), and (b) that those ...

That sounds doubtful to me, but at any rate, even if it were the case, no, bone density isn't going to have any difference in athletic ability. We're ...

Yes, I think that sports/"race" correlations are cultural, which explains why there are various shifts in the demographics of different sports over th...

I prefer to just assume that one is using one of the standard definitions (a la those found in major dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.), unless one sp...

I'd own up to barely remembering a crapload of stuff, if that counts.

What would be requirements like that that have anything to do with race, though? You'd have to believe that there really are ability differences due t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAvcGcEc0k

That could be what he's essentially saying, but if so, I don't see how that makes any sense. If people are colorblind, how would racism arise? No one ...

You just typed almost 500 words in response to 10 words from me and a very short quote, where you started out your response by bickering with me.

Yeah, it was a jokey comment. Normally I joke around a lot.

But that's not funny.

. . . the latter of which isn't necessarily an analogy. (Not that I'm agreeing with the dichotomy you're specifying . . .after all, there's not even a...

Yeah, your thesis is going to be on something more specific, but the degree would be in Applied Ethics. You didn't ask him what his thesis was on, tho...

I think Kansas wrote a song about that.

It was never clear to me why existence is supposed to be a "problem" in the first place.

There are schools that have applied ethics degrees: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=applied+ethics+degree

If "Europeans" aren't/weren't seeing color, then an argument that they are or were a culturally dominant group exhibiting racism wouldn't make any sen...

? "What it's like" in this sense/context isn't supposed to refer to analogies. It's a way of saying that there's an experiential quality, or a quale, ...

Don't folks have to do English composition or rhetoric in school any longer? Do they not still teach how to write a concise paper where you state your...

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Don't know how we got onto Mary's Room or what point was being made with it, but like most arguments of that sort, it rests on a very stupid notion. P...

That's one of those extremely silly things where someone figures that everyone is going to feel, interpret, think about something in the same way. Tha...

You wouldn't even need to change it to "empathy alone is not" or "empathy is not the sole basis." A basis for x is never identical to x. Necessarily, ...

It seems to me that the "driving force" of consciousness would be mutations in earlier species that made it difficult to survive purely by unconscious...

Energy or information as ontic simples seem incoherent to me.

So the first place I'd balk at this, or at least want a lot of clarification, is that it seems like it's maybe realist about capacities as abstracts. ...

Sure, but when you think about this stuff, part of intuiting how you feel about it is doing thought experiments. That includes thinking of various per...

He doesn't explicitly, but it's what he's alluding to re "The self-referential incompleteness of physics." Right, as he should. So then why is he writ...

We're on a philosophy board, ostensibly discussing philosophy, from the perspective of that discipline. Personhood is a core concept in ontology. Ther...

On the one hand I agree with you, but I think that these two distinctions make sense: (1) Natural/artificial, or natural/made by persons, which is sel...

Yeah, I don't think that makes sense, either. What makes experiences possible, where we're talking about the first-person, phenomenal/subjective flow ...

You don't think makes sense that we construct our own intentions? (Or are you thinking that it just doesn't make sense that we intentionally construct...