I'm a physicalist, so I wouldn't say mental and physical, but mental and non-mental, or alternately, a subset of brain function (which is what "mental...
The first song and first painting would be no different. You're taking materials at hand and arranging them into something different. Again, this is n...
Could you clarify first what "stored information" versus "stored energy" would even be? I'm not sure what sort of thing(s) you're thinking of. What wo...
Hopefully this link will work for you. I've posted variations on this many times, because it's a crucial issue that never gets addressed (not just her...
Since you're not just using "homunculus"/"homunculi" in a "decorative literary" manner--at least it doesn't seem like you are since you then go on to ...
To do something with it, there has to be an it. Most of the world is the it. The division is between our brains functioning in a mental way and the it...
It's not meant as a value judgment, or as something with value connotations, although it is meant to "demystify" or "demythologize" the process to an ...
What I mean by "rearranging" is that with the car, for example, you're taking some metal and plastic and rubber and electronics, etc. that already exi...
You could make it, "Is it possible to develop a heuristic that can predict widespread consensuses about what's interesting, at least within a limited ...
Re subject/predicate form, it's simply a matter of (a) what we're referring to/what we're pointing at, and (b) what we want to say about what we're po...
Thinking about the world, including observed, already-extant language use, structures language. (Re "substance," the idea of "substance" sans properti...
The parts are things like pitches, durations (rhythms), timbres, etc. Or colors, shapes, textures. Or characters (with parts like personality traits, ...
As someone who does creative work for a living, working with lots of other creative folks, and who has done that for decades, I don't really think it ...
The probability of the answer being "No" is 1. "Interesting" is a judgment that an individual makes. Sometimes it seems to me that there are people wh...
If "'objective' is 'whatever one is willing to accept'" then how does that do any of the work that people usually want to do with the notion of object...
Physicalism is NOT subservience in any regard to the science of physics. By the way, re saying "Again this shows your physicalist prejudice," I'm a ph...
You can claim they're logically and semantically identical, of course. Now can you explain how they are, explain how that works, etc.? We'll go over t...
Yes, but first we need to go over what the "rules" for explanations are going to be. Can you do that with me? Also, are you going to get to your alter...
"Not identical" does not amount to "completely different" (in the sense of "completely dissimilar"). Because I'm not saying anything contradictory. Th...
You're misunderstanding. This isn't about proving anything. I'm stating an ontological account of how logical and semantic spaces can be physical. In ...
They can be physical a la an ontological analysis of what they actually are as existents, which is a set of brain states in persons. So the difference...
Logical or semantic space can be physical, though. So what would be the ontological difference between physical logical or semantic space and nonphysi...
"This exists someplace that isn't physical" is what's absurd. The idea of that is completely incoherent. There isn't anything that's nonphysical. It's...
Weird. On my screen, those words are there, under his name, in the first post, and the way I put "Evolution means . . . the absence of morality" in my...
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