There is non in speculative metaphysics- it's like defining the noumena when phenomena is based on time/space/causality/principle of sufficient reason...
Kind of sounds like a postmodern stance- everything is just narrative. Here was something I found on Stanford Encyclopedia under postmodernism that so...
Okay, well-stated and very clear. Thank you. I actually agree with much of what you stated. I am not comfortable in the home of panpsychism/panexperie...
Okay, I'm making another attempt at actually trying to have a fruitful dialogue. I was trying to understand your position better, and have to explain ...
Explain the epistemic cut without too much jargon. Explain hierarchical constraint "inside" the organism without too much jargon. Define it first, pro...
I'm not denying hierarchical structure, I am denying that hierarchical structure means that there is a smooth transition from non-mind-like structure ...
Let's at least be constructive. What do we both agree on: 1) Minds are a process 2) Some sort of informational process is happening or interactions of...
What is the difference between triadic processing in non-minds and triadic processing in minds in terms of what it is like to be a triadic process? Yo...
This is the debate apokrisis and I are having pretty much. How can neurons interacting "be" mental states? Even if they cause them, how are they one a...
But I will repeat: Not enough words like "integration" "downward causation" or "negentropy" will make the magical fiat go away. Experience not inheren...
So in that case, a pox on both houses as where experience is slapped on at the starting point in one, it is slapped towards the end of a process in an...
Aggressive absurdity would be a world where we are staving off entropy in our species' usual habit (i.e. social learning via cultural institutions) an...
Hence panexperientialism/panpsychism. Didn't know you advocated for it ;). Again, the ability for occasions of experience to differentiate and integra...
Because integration in every other phenomena that consciousness apprehends (i.e. the physical events) is radically different in its non-qualitativenes...
But I did say how it can't explain it: Either the processes have an inner aspect, or it is all just "dead" interactions or purely-mapping (i.e.informa...
Death only adds to the absurdity in that it gives us the first step- survival. Through what means though? Linguistic brains that are socialized to lea...
As odd and disconcerting as it seems to have mind being there like "turtles all the way down", your informational theory does not work without that co...
This to me is an empty statement. How is this answering the question? A tap dance around the hard problem I am sure. I don't think disconnected. Clear...
Before I answer your questions, can you first read the quote I had earlier to T Clark about Whitehead's process philosophy. I'd like to know your take...
But this wrapped up could be the very experientialness of matter itself, perhaps. I don't see how it can be wrapped up in any other way other than bei...
I couldn't begin to answer this in a style that would do justice to Whitehead's process philosophy so I'll quote from this website https://larvalsubje...
Um, since when did correlation mean emergence? You'd have to explain that bit of straw man. We agree on something. Though you do not account for menta...
Besides not eating/maintaining your body or outright suicide, is there any other way? I think you probably do it all the time, and don't suspect it. C...
I think you are misinterpreting what I'm saying. What is it about the human experience that a new person has has to be born to experience it? A parent...
That's fine, but in the end, my pre-established criteria does not lead to another life which passes on the issue. Rather, I let dead dogs lie. The exi...
Yes, I've had a similar idea. The idea of non-being being preferable to being is only had if one is being. I agree, it seems very taboo, even in forum...
I'll be willing to say that the mental is "caused" by the physical, but the question is, what is this mental that is being caused? That is what does n...
I am not completely satisfied with the answer, but again, at least it accounts for mental occasions and does not get it from magical fiat. Thus, thoug...
Good questions. I don't know. If Whitehead was anywhere near right with his speculation, it might be something like this (from http://www.iep.utm.edu/...
I entertain the notion of panexperientialism such as Whitehead's notion as experience does not seem to come de novo from physical parts but seems in t...
I'm not sure about causal- mental events perceive the causal. I guess it could be a correlationalism. Mental events are correlated with physical. Phys...
I don't know, but I'm sure at least all the animals you mentioned have a "what it's like aspect", a subjective point of view which I guess is mind or ...
Why did the young man have a crush to begin with? Perhaps a sense of longing for something pleasurable and a companion. Why a companion? Loneliness is...
No, as I said, mental is wrapped up in physical. I can say green is a certain wavelength of light. It is measured as this, I can measure it, quantify,...
Subject is wrapped up in object so intrinsically that there is no one without the other. But this does not say anything in favor of physicalism. In fa...
I tend to agree. The horse seems to be put before the cart. Saying that downward causation is true, does not mean emergentism, it is a consequence of ...
From "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" article about Thomas Nagel's theory: Nagel begins by arguing that the conscious experience is widespread, present ...
More-or-less yes. According to Schopenhauer, Will is an undifferentiated (striving-like) principle. The flipside of this is the world of representatio...
No man, that is not the claim. I already expressed my agreement on emergence of physical-to-physical events. It is physical-to-mental that becomes the...
So how is this relating to the problem of emergence of mental events? Your thought experiment there just keeps proving my point that physical-to-physi...
I am very much in agreement here. The radical difference has to be minimized (read ignored, denied, or miscategorized) in order for the chasm to appea...
You would have to explain this in order for me to talk more definitively on this. I'll just accept the almighty Wikipedia's stance on emergence for no...
Correct, so I guess the claim is they are two radically different categories then, and that the former theory of ontological sameness is itself incorr...
This is the huge unwarranted "chasm" @"darthbarracuda" was talking about. It is incoherent for mental events to simply "be" in relation to physical ev...
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