Mental states are things such as feelings, sensations, thoughts, concepts, ideas. There is a "what-it's-likeness" to them. There is a point of view. I...
Not what I was saying. Rather if information processing is strictly a science or something else applied to science... You are getting mighty close to ...
I'm using it by way of "What I am saying sounds like this trope..." which it sort of does. But my focus was not on that particular idea, so you can mo...
Before I answer, I'm just going to point out, since the SAT isn't interested in metaphysical analysis, the superficial connection of the analogy was g...
So I'm going to push back on this "mental states 'emerging' from neurological states is the same as biology 'emerging' out of chemistry" in 3 distinct...
Yes, and very close to what I am getting at in the OP. People tend to take the mental "for granted", and thus people mistakenly hold an implicit (hidd...
I'd have some quibbles as what is "science" but it would be going on a tangent. Is social science a "science" just because it uses data? Perhaps. But ...
Definitely in disagreement. It's more that I don't understand where you are coming from because it seems incredulous to me that you don't recognize th...
You seem to be misconstruing something. Issues of correlation between mental processes and physical processes can be studied empirically and are studi...
This reminds me of Harman's "vicarious causation" and the "hiddeness/withdrawal" of objects. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_o...
I was t saying that for rhetoric. You were pretty haughty sounding there. Information processing is not necessarily scientific, though it is technical...
Oh come now, get off the pedestal. I was just pointing out problems with the move to information processing which I know is a popular approach. I thin...
One reason I hate these debates of direct and indirect realism is this notion of "mental representation" and what that really means. It's very vague a...
Well it's all what we mean by mental representation isn't it? Why does a human see certain colors and other animals do not? Are we seeing reality more...
You'd have to flesh that out...Otherwise it's words coherently put together that don't mean much for me. I come at it from an evolutionary standpoint....
Isn't that the point? It is supposed to fail in recreating it. That is to say, the homunculus in this case is all appearance only (to us who do have c...
It's how you define mental versus process. You can't just say mental is a process. That is the point. That is what is to be explained. 1) My thought o...
Yes I understand the move to describe it as information processing, but does that really solve anything different for the hard problem? Searle's Chine...
It's like one is made apparent and the other is assumed (but not acknowledged). It's interesting. Like we know mental has to come out of the equation ...
Right, it rejects dualism, but that is precisely why these category errors can trip them up if they are not careful. If you switch (even inadvertently...
Yes, this is indeed the proto-panexperientialist view. The map isn't the territory. But that doesn't say much either towards a solution, it just resta...
Direct realism assumes the human animal has a god-like view of the universe. As if we are seeing it for "what it is in reality". There is no mediating...
Yep. Hence the hidden dualism problem that does exactly this. But we are back at square one. Some processes are not mental. Why? Or if they are, how d...
That thoughts can't be identified with brain processes. It is at least correlated with that physical phenomenon, so it's not like you can completely d...
They're both biological processes, for one. I'm not sure what you would like me to get from that. Do you see a distinction between something that is m...
I'd agree with everything except the last part. That is yet to be proven. It is certainly correlated (to some degree), if not "identified with" (I tak...
But it’s more about how it’s being used more than any particular philosophy. Any stance on philosophy of mind can make these category errors, though i...
Yes I gathered what you were saying and hence why I was saying that human condition comes first, then investigation and post-facto explanation. There ...
That does seem to be true. We give reasons for why we do something. What is that, but a story or narrative? We are the creature that has reasons not j...
I think this is a bit besides the point. The debate was if there are evolutionarily created modules in the brain/human psychology for specific human b...
You won't find it under a microscope. You can infer it from what people's motives are perhaps. I had a thread on evolutionary psychology where it is d...
The human condition is our self-awareness. We must deal with our Zapffean programming. Science is a pursuit. The human condition is our very being. Th...
So lots of things here. First off, cool post as you do explicate other genetic mechanisms for species' change besides natural selection and it's good ...
Phenomenal experience isn't necessarily "all in your mind" though. I explained earlier, if it is epistemological idealism, it is the mind's affect/eff...
No, that's not what mind-dependent means. Mind-dependent simply means that mind is comprehending/shaping/experiencing the reality in order for it to a...
What do you mean "then it is comprehending itself"? That doesn't seem like you are characterizing it correctly. It's comprehending all the things that...
Your response indicates to me you might not get the idealist arguments then. The “mind-dependent object” is everything the mind is comprehending. No o...
I think you overshot their arguments and went right to incredulity. Implicitly direct realism presumes animals like humans have a god-like (near) perf...
Idealism doesn't necessitate the belief that the world is wholly "in one's mind". For example Kastrup (and to a degree Schopenhauer's) ontological ide...
Also, it could just be how individuals process various social activities. This processing isn't itself inherent, but how the person interacts with a s...
Look at some of most notorious EP tropes. Many times it goes like "Men do this but women do that". How do we know that it isn't all just culture? For ...
As per the EP thread, the process for reproduction is largely learned, not innate. What is innate is simply the pleasure aspect. The fact that it's di...
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