Terrapin Station

Sure, say that you're experiencing the walls melting. Well, that's both what you appear to be experiencing and what you're really experiencing, since ...

There's not a difference in my opinion. There can be a difference in what's really going on that is causing whatever experience they're having, but th...

Right, so then we couldn't say that the intentional stance is the same thing as what exhibits behaviorally.

I would say that the clock actually IS time, just as all processes (all change/motion) are.

Umm . . .

That ontologically, concepts, qualia, abstractions etc. are identical to brain states. That's an ontological fact. As such it doesn't matter whether w...

But then first person experience is an object, since it exists in the world, and like everything else, it is the properties of particular matter, in p...

Even if that were so, it would be about making claims as such. But that has no impact on what's the case ontologically. I'm saying that they're identi...

Yes. So I can date all of those women, visit all of those places, listen to (and write) all of that music, read (and write) all of those books, see al...

When I say it's not any specific processes, I'm saying that it's not just some subset of specific processes, while not being other processes. For exam...

What sorts of religious experiences did you have?

Yeah, in a way, but that doesn't mean that it's not actual. It's process in general, not any specific process (like say just a clock ticking). Or in o...

You're asking as if there's a correct answer to be discovered. There isn't. Whether one values honesty, what honesty one values and to what extent, et...

Well, individual persons are the arbiters of that, because "best" is necessarily subjective.

Man is the "measure" of some things. That includes individual persons as well as persons collectively. There are objective things, too, though.

I don't understand the apparent distinction you're making. There are only actual processes. "Process itself" is actual processes. "Process itself" mak...

How would you define "object"/"object of experience" here?

You continually claim that materialists philosophers must come to such and such conclusion, where that flies in the face of the fact that I'm a materi...

Surely he thinks that they can exhibit behaviorally, or that they're just the sorts of things that sometimes do exhibit behaviorally, no? Although if ...

Which isn't a problem. I'm not denying abstractions. I'm saying that they're particular brain states (namely, the brain states that amount to concepts...

First, that it's identical isn't a statement of logic or anything like that. It's an ontological fact. Re logic relying on abstraction, sure--I'd agre...

I don't buy innate ideas OR ideas that purely obtain in response to experience, either. It seems to me that all ideas would be due to a combination of...

Using archaeological studies to guess what early hominid language would have been like semantically seems particularly ridiculous to me.

Wait: what is "basic language" supposed to be practically? Is it just a hypothetical construction, an "imagine if we had this" or "imagine if we limit...

Re changing the topic and the video you posted: (a) I don't buy that there is anything that isn't a particular. I'm a nominalist. (a1) Obviously, nomi...

What does any of that have to do with whether "what we take to be qualia, what appears to us as first-person experience, really is the snap, crackle a...

Processes (you don't need the word "dynamic"--processes are necessarily dynamic) have a speed relative to other processes. That includes time, because...

Andrew was saying that what you describe there is just materialism. It's not eliminativist. For example, I'm a physicalist/"materialist," but not an e...

What you take to be sufficient to believe or not believe a claim can't be anything other than a personal opinion.

"Studies like this"--where we're talking about someone in a vegetative state. Usually we're not talking about someone in a vegetative state. If you do...

The difference is that in the one case we're talking about people who are conscious and who can give us reports of their first-person experience. (Whi...

I answered this in the post you're responding to. (I'll just assume that you answer posts as you read them rather than reading the whole thing first, ...

The quale, qualia being a term conventionally limited to mental contexts, is produced by the phenomena of electromagnetic radation being reflected off...

First off, you're apparently using "solipsism" to refer to a belief that one can't know that anyone else has a mind. There's a problem with that. We c...

What do you see as the relevance of the Feynman quote--that your brilliance is being too easily dismissed?

Then I suppose I have to suggest insanity.

But studies like this: "In the 2006 study, Owen and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate if a 23-year-old w...

You're joking, right?

Why would you believe that people are conscious while in a coma? Anyway, I would agree that there's a difference between consciousness, when present, ...

LOL

What would you say the difference is? Are you referring to reasoning with "high level consciousness" maybe?

Thanks for at least attempting an answer here. First, it's better to link to the actual paper, rather than a news article about the paper. The actual ...

Consider my surprise, after you associated genius with having to adapt to abuse, bullying, etc., that you note that you were bullied. Haha--really I'm...

Here's what you claimed: "The most recent evidence in physics is that the brain maximizes entropy" I'm saying that's b.s.. There's an easy way to show...

Not in my life. Nothing sacred, no sacred cows.

I'm calling bs on you, wuliheron. Let's see a reference to one of the studies you're talking about.

So it's not part of computability theory, which is a branch of mathematical logic?

What would that even mean? (And physics research on brains?) Maybe if you'd link to the research you have in mind, it would make more sense than your ...

It seems like you just didn't read my response that closely. I said, "I certainly buy that there are unconscious brain processes." So yeah, the person...

Yeah, jokey strawmen is a good way to have a conversation when challenged. Anyway, re what words refer to, that's determined by what an individual has...