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I am not sure where you are seeing the necessity. Clearly the concepts come to be in the individuals thinking them. If they were necessary, they would...

Yes. My point was that there is no need to invoke the notion of being subjectively aware, as opposed to medically conscious, to explain the kind of co...

No, observations all involve action. In seeing, for example, the object is illuminated (light acting on it), scatters light (the object reacting), and...

Sure, I have a few videos on my YouTube channel on quantum theory if you care to know more. I assume that we are discussing the quantum version of the...

All observations are actions. Not all actions are observations.

I'm not talking about the count of decisions, but of possible actions. Of course I see that every individual has different life-experiences. That is n...

This is the most absurd claim I've read from someone serious in a long while. You're saying that a count of one (actual possibility) and a count of mo...

Of course we change the universe by observing it. We are part of the universe and our observations change both us and the objects we observe. The idea...

Thank you. I don't think I would say that concepts have an intrinsic necessity. They result from an subject-object interaction between say, a human an...

The brain processes most data without a hint of consciousness. Philosophers have long noted that even complex sensory processing can be automatic, abs...

We know that animals have what we might call "medical consciousness," which can be defined in terms of physiological responsiveness. We do not know th...

Thank you.

I still do not see the connection between Wittgenstein and therapy. For a while, I was involved in the philosophical counseling movement, and have an ...

Thank you for your response.

I did not mean to challenge your insight, I just do not appreciate the connection. Surely, we use language to direct attention in ways that will resul...

While I agree that our emotional state can affect what we look at our admit is real, I don't see that this has much to do with the philosophy of langu...

Could you provide an example?

I am one of those who have read some Wittgenstein and was not unduly impressed. I take responsibility for that. As a student of Aristotle, who is also...

It it is neither a thing, nor a phenomenon (an experiential appearance). Universality is a attribute of a concept, and, by extension, of words express...

Yes, but is it really necessary to study Wittgenstein to spot an equivocal use of terms? Clearly not, for Aristotle discusses different types of equiv...

No. I think failing to adequately reflect on its meaning (the reality it indicates, which I take to be a measure of change), is the source of problems...

The question, lest we lose track of it, is how linguistic analysis will resolve my difference with a determinist? It is not whether linguistic definit...

I suppose it may.

Note that I did not say we all have the same idea <strong arms>. What qualifies as strong for me may not qualify as strong for you. That is why I talk...

Well, that is close to what I said about building a consistent framework for understanding our experience of reality -- however, I see "our experience...

This is not a central issue. Of course, equivocation has been a recognized problem since the ancient Greeks. However, most open minded people are not ...

Agreed.

This is precisely the point I am disputing with Pseudonym

A decision is a commitment to a course of action based on a consideration of alternate courses of action. A determinist would say that before this pro...

OK, let's take an old saw as an example: Free Will. Of course compatibilists will say that we simply do not understand what it is to be free, but real...

I seems to me that the role of philosophy is provide a consistent framework for understanding our experience of reality. Occasionally, we misstate wha...

Of course, science must use intellect, because science is a human activity and humans understand the world by the use of intellect. Still, that does n...

Thank you for the reference. I reject the Thomistic thesis that the intellect can only know universals, which I see, not as Aristotelian, but as Neopl...

Of course not. I see the mind as composed of two subsystems: (1) a neural processing subsystem (the brain), and (2) an intentional subsystem that prov...

There are people who believe there is a "language of thought." I reject the notion because it leads to an infinite regress.

It reflects what is thought primary, words or ideas. If you think that ideas are merely words we speak internally, then you are more likely to be a no...

Nominalism says universals are only names, with no foundation in reality. Conceptualism says they are only concepts, with no foundation in reality. If...

How is this different from what I said? I suppose that you could think that the universals actually exist in individuals, but Aristotle is quite clear...

Nominalism is tough to understand because it is inadequate. We don't assign the term "strong arms" to Alfred and Tom, by fiat as nominalists seem to t...

But, in fact, you are a unity. You are neither a body/brain alone, nor consciousness alone, but a person who can act both physically and intentionally...

I have repeatedly. You refuse to accept what I tell you or offer a sound reason to reject it. I have already told you many times that this is not my p...

This is not my position. This is false on two points. (1) We observe purely intentional acts such as knowing and willing by introspection, so they are...

I presume you are not a physicalist because you, like me, see the errors of physicalism. Therefore, it is absurd to rest your case on a position we bo...

I am not a physicalist. Are you? The rest of your paragraph wanders aimlessly, not responding to my question. "How would you describe my knowing that ...

Really? How would you describe my knowing that God exists physically? Note that if you remove what my knowledge is about, you fail to specify what kno...

I take no credit for it. It is a standard Scholastic/Thomist position. No, the rock could not endure absent its matter. If you destroyed its matter, t...

Well argued.

Moving my leg is a physical act. It may or may not serve a purpose It may doe example be the result of a spasm. Bit, even if it did serve a purpose, t...

The motivation for a physical act is not the act. Some physical acts are intentionally motivated, others are not. The difference is that intentional a...

When I say that two concepts are orthogonal, I mean that they do not share notes of intelligibility. So, they are not species of a single genus. If th...