Here is a bit sequence: A) 101010101010 Taken as a whole, is it meaningful to ask whether A is random or lawful "in itself"? Here is another bit seque...
A question for anyone who either a) Believes in an afterlife b) Doesn't believe in an afterlife, or c) Is undecided about an afterlife 1. What do you ...
their perceptual response to the image :) A form of irreducible knowledge subsuming both the subject and object. But of course, the fact that percepti...
agreed! If there are no contextual reasons to classify the duck-rabbit as one thing or another, and if it is also assumed that noticing any additional...
i suspect your example conflates the notion of data with the notion of evidence that is only meaningful with respect to a rule of interpretation. Assu...
To answer that question I would consider the question from a Presentist perspective. After all, the presently imagined future isn't the actual future,...
I'm not sure how evidence for a 'subtle body' could ever imply that consciousness could exist without a body. A contradiction, surely. Even if NDE rep...
the problem of course, is that p -> q as axiomatically specified in formal logic does not represent the practical application of modus ponens in pract...
i think you should give Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations a thorough read, and complement it with a study of the collapse of the analytic-sy...
We have the same position here, i meant empirical verification only in the internal sense of methodological solipsism - as opposed to epistemological ...
Let's reverse the question: Is "Lawfulness" an objectively meaningful concept in a sense that transcends human psychology, practical decision-making a...
I would say that my criteria for distinguishing reality from fantasy are only local criteria that are tailored for making specific distinctions, such ...
Sorry, im confused by the original post Does one's working definitions of Waking and Dreaming reduce to immediate empirical contents, to non-immediate...
Over the years i have noticed that my personal and pre-theoretic recognition of other minds on an emotional level is skin-deep, analogous to "if it sp...
Well, the Wittgensteinian answer would be to say that the environmental and cultural context that is normally present when asserting that "China Brain...
Since first-person experience is the basis of clarifying and verifying the meaning of all assertions relating to third person perception, to science a...
I am under the impression that realists interpret imagined counterfactual possibilities of perception as being evidence for the existence of mind inde...
[re nothing whatsoever if this was a science thread purely concerned with the language-game of biology. But i thought this was a philosophy discussion...
Unless the factual content of biology is distinguished from it's unnecessary interpretation as involving objective intra-physical representations, i p...
I'm only saying that questions about "life" and "death" and of the existence or non-existence of "other minds" are skin-deep without metaphysical sign...
In that case, if a perfectly content panpsychist imagines everything to be alive, and a perfectly content behaviourist imagines everything to be dead,...
I think the average Platonist subjectively identifies Infinity with the feeling of exhilaration they experience when imagining the beginning of a sequ...
Suppose a panpsychist argues that his pet rock is conscious and that it should be handled with great care "Human's cannot be in possession of emergent...
But if the answer is No, in virtue of consciousness being reducible to a cognitive-behavioural definition, then "consciousness" is nothing more than a...
What about the reverse question: Since a living human has a functional brain and sensory organs, is there any point in trying to devise an experiment ...
Suppose someone said "Bacteria are unconscious because in lacking a nervous system they lack the capacity for certain stimulus-response behavioural di...
lol. So you would presumably have no objection in the unlikely event that Trump said he had converted to being a diplomatic moderate who was sensitive...
Are states of "unconsciousness" hypotheses about the past, or are states of unconsciousness empirical observations concerning the present, and hence a...
If one abandons the idea of time as a mind-independent substance, then what could "continuity of the self" mean from the perspective of Presentism? Mu...
What do you imagine knowing all of the answers feels like? Why not just skip all the philosophising and enter that state directly? I used to have the ...
But if the meaning of future-contingent propositions are their use, then before the future has arrived they are reducible to the assertion or denial o...
To my understanding, pragmatism isn't generally considered to be a cohesive body of agreed upon thought that is acceptable to all of its adherents. An...
For sake of argument, let's assume there is no such thing as retro-causality, such that a person's entire behaviour is explainable as being caused by ...
Sorry, about that, I was implicitly referring to Quine's paper "Truth by convention" and Wittgenstein's analogous remarks in Philosophical Investigati...
I doubt that most Quinians or Wittgensteinians would say that it is a benign regress and would reject it, given it's similarity to the Modus-Ponen's i...
lol. So in other words, if 'perfectly healthy' miserable people continue to kill themselves and others because their psychological needs are ignored b...
Self-categorizing one's mental state doesn't sound part of a scientific act. "Imagine someone saying: "But I know how tall I am!" and laying his hand ...
Why isn't the ordinary notion of games confusing? Presumably because when we play games or talk about games we aren't attempting to build an ideal epi...
Compare philosophers' use of the terms "being", "language games", "consciousness", "rules" etc in meta-linguistic sentences, to a logicians' use of th...
it sounds as though we're pretty much agreed then :) the transcendental ego, in so far as it designates anything at all, cannot be an onlooking homonu...
I think they require an additional distinction between perceptual colour and verbally reported colour. For although a subject's verbal behaviour might...
Certainly it is true that from my perspective, my concept of a third person is of a subject of experience, or perhaps I might say, a potential subject...
Right. I assume here that in kantian terminology pierce is referring to the empirical ego of reflective consciousness, i.e how each of us privately un...
"All experience implies a subject of experience" sounds a bit like "I am able to see objects, therefore I must have eyeballs" Suppose Robinson Crusoe ...
lol. As for how to dissolve the first-person hard problem, it is presumably a simple matter of deflating "second order" talk of first-person experienc...
sorry , I perhaps should have been more specific. I was alluding to logical behaviourism, i.e that the mental predicates we assign to the third person...
How is it possible to know if the illusion indicates a distortion of visual intuition as opposed to merely a linguistic mistake? Perhaps all the illus...
mmm... a few thoughts.... Since all of our ordinary-language criteria for attributing mental states to other people are behavioural criteria, it surel...
"There is nothing after death" it first needs to be established whether there is a meaningful phenomenological or behavioural notion of absolute uncon...
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