You are ridiculous. You don't even understand the fundamental question. You missed the target. It wasn't whether I can agree if modelling conditions "...
I don't know, "WHAT" is this "feel like something"? You presume a non-dualism when right here is admittance. There IS a feel like something. What is T...
I don't even dispute that necessarily. My question is "what" is this "experience"? You use the word emerging like a parlor trick. You have not address...
Because I'm bored with you dodging the hard problem and de facto "copy and pasting" your past responses by regurgitating them. Again, I said thus: In ...
No, I answered you. You just fundamentally do not get the hard problem. WHAT is this "feel like something" you talk about? I already said earlier: WHA...
WHAT is this feeling in the first place? That is the hard question. You can keep pointing back to the map but all you are saying is a=a. It is analyti...
I've stated why many times. You cannot get experience from fiat. Emergence of physical phenomena from physical phenomena is part of the easy problems....
True. Is there a "what it's like aspect" to cells? Perhaps yes. However, if you are asking "Why did this trait appear?" I can easily say, a mutation o...
Well, I may find the hard problem relatively intractable at this point, but if I can explain it by answering the questions with easy problems, I will....
So there is an experience of sensory noise you at least admit. What is this experience (not what are its constituents of interactions)? Related is wha...
It sounds here that you admit there is inner sensation however vague. What we do not want is simple analytic statements of a=a. We know that experienc...
If given enough time, there is probably a ratcheting factor. Where perhaps only one step in the mutation allowed for a slightly smaller reproduction r...
So the vagueness of the newborn = the newborn has no inner sensations? There is nothing of what it is like to be a newborn in your view? Again, that s...
Although I disagree with Apokrisis, this problem you pose of why the mitochondria survived the engulfment of the cell without being destroyed or destr...
But notice I didn't disagree with you regarding the idea of learning making the distinction occur. It is you who have placed a strawman. Pay attention...
And where the hidden dualism lies- the Cartesian theater you wish to avoid. @"Rich" was right. Sleight of hand. I don't even have a stake in the game....
Yeah, that's why I said those with Philosophical Pessimism tend towards acute depression. It is hard to imagine someone not feeling the negative affir...
I think there is a subtle but significant difference between Pessimism (as a philosophy) and depression (as a mental health issue). One can live a rel...
Yes, this would be a concept akin to depressive realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism. But beyond that rather loaded term, one usu...
When I use survival as a term here, I do not mean the immediate dealing with a life or death situation (gun to head, falling off a cliff, riptides, et...
Plato wrote some stuff- some thought-providing stuff, but he is not god or a prophet, man. He is was a brilliant intellect for sure, and we can all st...
So it is clear to me you cannot see the contradictions in your own arguments, especially the ones you just made about Plato when compared to what I sa...
So it is a legitimate theory if Plato uses his own experiences and conceptual analysis, but not if I do? You just contradicted yourself. You stated th...
So where did Plato come up with the tripartate soul? The latest scientific research? Statistical data? No, his own conceptions or just the traditions ...
First, I find it ironic you are presuming an empirical approach in this particular post based on your preference for Plato who was arguably one of the...
Oh boy.. you've put your little pragmatic hat on. It's a nice change from the high-falutin Plato, aesthetic stuff I've been seeing. I'll answer these ...
But again, this doesn't reflect the underlying reality, just the intermediate causes. I already stated, and you ignored: Reasons my be secondary or te...
So, we are goal-seeking creatures. Goals come from our ability to use language to construct meaning in the world. The underlying angst of boredom mani...
Nope, this is all romanticization. It's layers upon layers of obfuscation. It obfuscates the Real. The Real is the survival and boredom. All desires a...
Again, we are born into the world and we cannot stand boredom. We survive and get bored- our two great motivations. This wells up in the form of goal-...
You mentioned Heidegger who had this idea of ready-at-hand. This may be a useful way of thinking of human relationship to technology. Arguably, the re...
You are conflating the "what it feels like" with the substrata. You said earlier: There is a "something of what it's like" to experience green. That i...
But that is my point.. Why shouldn't a modelling relation feel like something? Then you throw in the word "neuro" and "trillions" and that is supposed...
Yep because sex and marriage are never tied together. This topic was about sex, not relationships, although I agree that they really shouldn't be divo...
But you show no sign of answering the very questions I posed. Again, here it is: The quick answer is that I am talking of a neuro-semiotic process of ...
Yes I think he did, but what's funny is Dennett himself does exactly what he accuses others of. The Cartesian Theater, the way I'm using it is the exp...
Did you even read what I wrote? I was suggesting just that.. It is YOU who are not accepting your own logic to its ultimate conclusion, which is that ...
Ah, the neuro brings with it the Cartesian Theaters. Ah TRILLIONS of connections is where that elusive Cartesian Theater lies now. So it's neuro-trans...
There is a subjective inner experience of what it is like to be something. No other process- triadic or otherwise causes this quality except this one....
So you ignored this? This quote above explains what is wrong with your theory. You are in fact, running dangerously close to panpsyhcism and you don't...
Yes! But that is MY point! You lost me. The only thing I got from this is that there is a triadic process that creates experience. Why is THIS triadic...
I always wondered what tribal societies had to say on the matter. There are never good interviews with tribesman about the interesting human stuff- th...
Good for you man. You realize you are supremely self righteous and arrogant sounding right now. Your point is what? How good Agustino is? The point wa...
I'm not sure why that is not self evident. So there is this pleasure which some get more of and others less. Assuming (excepting the rare asexual) the...
Yeah it is interesting. Actually, I was more impressed by David Chalmers, David Ray Griffin, and Galen Strawson. Also, the use of John Searle in terms...
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