Also from the Frankish paper, he says that Dennett makes an analogy of consciousness to computer graphical user interface "illusions," where he says t...
In the Frankish paper, he says, "For example, quasi-phenomenal redness is the physical property that typically triggers introspective representations ...
All it shows is that consciousness doesn't accurately report the external world 100% of the time, but no one ever claimed it did. It wouldn't suggest ...
So first, there are going to be stances that are at least functionally foundational in a given context for an individual. These are behaviors that peo...
If the conventional focus on time with respect to appointments, schedules, deadlines, etc. causes you a lot of stress, why not make it a primary focus...
Whether it's historically/etymologically rooted in that or not doesn't matter. The distinction can (and typically does) simply refer to mental versus ...
There's no "magic." Mentality is simply a subset of brain functions from the reference frame of being the brain in question. There's no "transcendence...
If someone is asserting something in a nonfiction context, and you believe they're wrong about it, then you just assert what you take to be the correc...
Miss Finland was wearing it in a comical context? (Just curious--was she in a comedy movie, a comedy skit show, something like that?) Also, it makes n...
I don't think there's anything fair about that. You can't "misuse" or "misapply" a culture, and no one has a responsibility to represent a culture in ...
I don't believe there's anything difficult to it. As I explained earlier, you have a thought that amounts to wanting to type the word "word," and so y...
No. Pause for a moment. Dusty wrote, "If we formulate existence as a property of objects." I confused you and Dusty, but I was responding to a comment...
Actually, by the way, there's a reading on which "If we formulate F as a property of objects, then we must either admit that all objects have property...
You wrote a sentence constructed like this: "If we formulate F as a property of objects, then we must either admit that all objects have property F, o...
Probably because that's more or less a foundational moral disposition for him: it's immoral to legally control what people can choose to do with their...
Just curious what the heck their argument would be for that. This sort of thinking is the exact opposite of my disposition. I dont think that only cat...
No one is obligated to "see the importance" of anything, especially since importance is subjective. Likewise no one is obligated to conform to what an...
Minds aren't technically part of the mind-independent world, but they're part of a world that mostly consists of mind-independent stuff. That's like s...
The first thing we need to tackle is that we don't have a very good analysis of what explanations are/just what makes something count or not count as ...
First off, there is no objective quality in that value sense of the term. The dish that someone feels is inferior someone else might feel is superior....
"There is a mind-independent world" is another way of saying that there are things that exist aside from our minds. It's not saying that we can't infl...
Beliefs in things like Gods develop in a very messy, haphazard way. There's no single motivation to it. Even a particular individual will have multipl...
It's normative enforcement with a dose of purism/conservatism (in the sense of "resistance to change") to it, without the realization that there are n...
Exactly, it doesn't make much sense. And whenever I've seen Dennett talk about this stuff, he tends to ramble on about various, rather mundane optical...
If one's offended when others are offended. Equating "upset" with "offended" is questionable. "Upset" is broader than "offended," as, for example, one...
Re some of the comments here, I don't agree, outside of humor discussions, that it's wrong to express vitriol, hatred, disrespect, either. That's not ...
I wouldn't say that values "emerge through" interaction. They're just influenced by interaction. But they emerge from an individual's brain. Also, wha...
You're talking about our relationship to things that aren't ourselves --the idea that we can get something outside of us wrong via our perceptual facu...
That's not what this thread is about though. The idea in this thread is that Dennett and others are saying that your experience is not real as an expe...
I don't believe that makes the idea any clearer. We're creating an experience of . . . real experience? But we're saying that you don't really have th...
But the claim talked about in the initial post is the claim that the experience of color is illusory. In other words, it's a claim that we don't reall...
The whole gist of saying that something is an illusion is that we're saying our mental phenomenon--which could be a perception--turns out to get thing...
What would be the difference between an illusion of consciousness and consciousness, or an illusion of an experience of color, etc. and just an experi...
Right. So when we use "Canada" to refer to a particular area of land, your answer is that we're simply deluded? That's what I've been trying to ask yo...
The idea is that what it is to ignore x is to not think about x at all, or to at least intentionally brush x aside or gloss over it. If one thinks abo...
Comments