As yet, I wouldn't dismiss the science... :) However, I agree that there is something in the redness of the red. For the moment, consider the consciou...
This world is a physical world. I have introduced it as a contrast to Steve's otherworldly Conscious World... :) Also, we are talking about assumption...
It appears that your answer to the first question is no... There is no clear answer to the third question... :) As I said - there is no clear convergi...
Then the question is: Do we experience neuronal activities themselves (not the colour)? If we do, how do we experience them? If not, what is the purpo...
Red experience is a subjective experience of the neuronal activity for red. It's true that subjective experience seems like a whole different category...
Which textbook, for example? This is rather a dismissal of the request to cite a paper. We cannot chase each other with "textbook claims". Textbooks a...
In the neuronal activity, there is no before or after (causal chain). We simply have a web of simultaneous neuronal activities. Since you refer to neu...
The redness exists in the retina with cells tuned to dance to the red light. It is also passed to the rest of the brain as an abstract to which we can...
Decades ago computer enthusiasts were guessing neuronal activity along following lines: Eyes like TV cameras were sending raw images to the brain ? th...
Anthropologists tested that. People really had sensations of two shades of green only. We could not distinguish between these two shades. :) A very in...
Why? We can have a neuronal activity for redness before we perceive red. In Active Perception theory, this may happen like this: eyes of mine look the...
Colours are the cultural thing. Colour red is not perceived in some cultures. The sound is much more basic. :) Unidirectional paradigm or is causing a...
quote="creativesoul;206187"]A theory to test whether or not free will exists cannot be built upon language use that already assumes precisely what nee...
How precisely, language use determines whether or not Free Will exists? :) I'm under impression that you are trying to make a point out of thin air......
Do you know how to ride a bicycle? :) Can you describe how to ride the bicycle? :) Is then riding of the bicycle a part of our knowledge? :) Enjoy the...
In psychological terms, consciousness is consciousness of 7±2 of items of something... In philosophical terms, consciousness is psychological consciou...
The proposal is "Free Will exists" and it's not new. With enough tests, the proposal is promoted into theory. What is new are scenarios to test the ne...
The scenarios of the joke are simple enough to test it in a cafe with a friend. Since we can assume that enough people tested the scenarios from 22 Ma...
Descartes considered the universe as a gigantic "clock" - devised and put in motion by God. The tick-tock of the "clock" were causes and effects. (The...
I was under the impression we agreed that human identity is indeed more complex than yeast's. The only thing we need now - is to weed out deterministi...
I believe that sequentiality is our stumbling block. There are two kinds of expression - habitual and nonhabitual. Habitual expressions do not need th...
Maybe we could take the painter's "language" as a proto-language - in which colours and shades are "words" - that predates our verbal language... Prac...
There are other types of languages: painters' language, musicians' language, wine-tasters' language, chefs' language etc. etc... A painter's language ...
Quality is what you say before doing something - mapped with the deliverables when you finish... The difficult part is a non-ambiguous specification o...
There was a project related to NDE. In short, at places where NDE are likely - objects were placed at places not normally perceived. The goal was to a...
Time is not the only status of your room. You can restore it to (almost) all of the details - but the rest of the universe will not be restored. There...
As I said, an organism needs at least a description of its world and itself within it required to successfully navigate in its world. The description ...
Here are four links on identity of pea and one argument pro and con: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.0079...
That is why I'm talking about the kernel of identity. Essentially, every living unit needs to have at least a kernel of a description of its world and...
There are two links to yeast's altruism: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/altruism-selfishness-evolution-mathematics-princeton-bath-universi...
There are no guarantees that peer-review will yield an objective view. Even replicated experiments will never give us a 100% objective view. However, ...
The industrial revolution was also the first time in the history of the Earth. For the first time in the history of the Earth, humans burned carbon on...
I think that we agree that the kernel of identity is present at the unicellular level. It is also present in plants - although the form of identity se...
I believe that I identified the core of our disagreements - "soul"; the "ghost in the machine". You are assuming something like Descartes' dualism... ...
Tentatively agree. I would also add well-documented cases of feral children. A feral child exhibits animal-like behaviour. However, even then there is...
What about Global Warming? We have very large scientific consensus - and yet we have large non-scientific views denying that Global Warming exists... ...
I believe that you are referring to the joke. It's separated topic and you will find some of my answers there. So, please comment there... :) Social c...
Please, see my previous reply to gurugeorge with four scenarios for free will... You intuit the fourth scenario. The "back in time" was a ridiculous a...
I disagree. We are not entirely rational animals... For the rest, let's examine the scenarios needed to explain free will: Lift a hand on external cue...
Are you suggesting that our (in)actions are triggered by mysterious causes. In this case, ask your friend to tell you which hand to lift - and you wil...
Back in 2011, many scientists (and laiks) believed that we do not have free will - and arguments were hotly debated... Unfortunately, Dr Benjamin Libe...
Dear all, The Joke topic is not receiving more comments. I guess that the existence of our free will is now accepted. So, I'll close the topic. If you...
Dear all, The Tale of Two Apples is not receiving more comments. I'll assume that the topic can be closed. Please check if you would like to post your...
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