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No. But are you suggesting that we will find such a case? Since they've been proposed the laws of conservation have worked flawlessly. Nowhere have th...

I mentioned it in my first comment on this thread (though not by name). But it's weird. It doesn't seem to be what idealist (or anyone) wants. It's no...

Well as far as I can tell, we have never found cases of a neurological event that wasn't entirely explained by the previous neurological event. So it ...

That's not what I'm asking you for though. I'm not asking you to reduce intentionality to a single physical process. I get you can't do that. What I'm...

I'm asking you what this would look like under a microscope. Let's again think about the example where you drink water because you're thirsty. There i...

So then where is the idealism in your idealism? I didn't say that. A substance is a bearer of properties. That's all that's needed for my question to ...

That does not answer why one can't be reduced to the other. Physics and chemistry belong to different orders of explanation, yet one can be reduced to...

And why is that? What exactly woud it mean for the laws of physics to "account for" something. If you mean that by looking at the laws of physics we c...

You can’t tell after a seemingly random decision has been made whether or not it was truly random or if there were some hidden variables. Generally. A...

Doubtful. I'm just tyring to understand idealists. But to me you just seem to be failing to commit to anything. And your problem is that you think any...

In the first place I fail to understand how not being able to find a pattern for prime numbers is a challenge for materialism. Right so there is no ha...

Numbers that are only divisible by themselves and one. You can easily look them up. They're simply differential equations. https://www.ego4u.com/ http...

Yes. If you think there is another difference please point me to it. It seems clear to me that if you change the way the letters are arranged, and the...

For anyone still on here. Take this on your way out of the troll's cave: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thephilosophyforum-ignore/makbinojc...

I'm reading this as: Material objects are actually just ideas in the mind of an observer. Regardless though, this doesn't answer my question. What are...

What's the difference between saying this and just sticking with material bodies being real in their own right. On the one hand you have objects as id...

Which are no more than a pattern of of letters. Which are no more than than a pattern of lights on your screen lighting up. Etc. Let's use cars, maybe...

Yes. I'm talking about the website itself. Is the website more than the code? No. Can we still talk about it without knowing the code? Such as saying ...

No because the meaning of "know" in both instances is different. When we tell someone "You don't know X emotion" or X color we mean "You haven't had X...

This is not the same sentence as "the mind is identical to the brain" which you falsely attributed to me. Mental states are brain states. Now you woul...

Minds are patterns of brains. They are not a separate sort of thing. No one said that minds are identical to brains, not even physicalists. Otherwise ...

What's up with people here and taking quotes blatantly out of context. No I'm claiming that people can have knowledge of their minds but not their bra...

This again displays a bias in asking the question. Again, certain patterns of brain activities are consciousness. This would be like asking "Why is th...

Nothing. And they’re very useful. No, I claimed we will never know we if have access to it. False. Maybe I just suck at communicating. I’m saying that...

Yes this is precisely the non sequitor. First off, it’s clear that you don’t know what correlation coefficients are. Just because the 2 variables don’...

Right. Sorry for assuming that we're talking about humans. Once we meet aliens or once we evolve to the point where we classify as a different species...

Non sequitor. First off, I think consciousness is a neurological state. It's not an independent existence that "has neurological correlates", no it's ...

If you don't believe that then brain not off. Brain always on.

I would be having trouble packing meaning into a carton yes, because you can't pack patterns into cartons. Now, we can agree you can't pack meaning in...

Do you actually think there is no brain activity while you sleep? If so I can't very much help you.

Ok, what sort of thing is meaning? Is that better? Not material, not a structure of a material, and also not anything else. So what's left? I would sa...

The brain is very much on. Or you'd be dead. That's the point......

No I'm saying that your brain doesn't shut down when you're sleeping. Idk how you got that from what I said. This is to imply that your idea about "mi...

So it's not a structure of a thing. Nor any kind of thing. So what the heck is it? Because I think that exhausts your options. "Irregular" =/= "Not a ...

Right and I'm asking what "meaning" is for you. Is it a pattern of physical things, or a new sort of thing entirely? Do you have a bunch of ink and th...

Sigh. Can't you just read to the end and respond? Do you agree? Because I think our disagreement may be more about which words we use rather than what...

As I said to fool: TLDR: I don't particularly care whether or not you want to call the meaning physical, for me if someone is a pattern of physical th...

.......Sorry, are you serious? What's the difference between someone who is dead and someone who is sleeping do you think? When the brain shuts down w...

So? But there is a bridge between neurology and the laws of logic no?

Guess physicalists can't explain sleep either :roll:

Uh...huh... Anyways we already did this on my thread and got nowhere. Maybe try again in like a week or something but not 2 days later. Cheers! But I ...

No disagreement there. "Interpretation" is a purely neurological process after all!

You need to separate your variables. In this case there was a visual input and supposedly some perceived conflict. If you want to claim that the metab...

Some untangling is due here. If I have a sorted series of red and blue boxes, RRRBBRBRRB for example, is the series physical? As in is the pattern its...

In this particular case, there is no direction towards the answer. Rather, every direction is as good as any other. And this is true of everyone. It's...

Sure agreed. :up: I mean, we can't see UV waves for one but we're still affected by them. I think it's obvious our sensory system is not complete even...

Agreed. It was Wayfarer that was trying to conceive of an “order out there”, so I pointed it out that it’s useless to talk about such a thing because ...

Only a fool would want to know something they know they can’t know.

You have to be careful of the word "exist". Let's take the moon for example. Would the moon exist if no one was around? Well, the the big rock would e...

Because I have no access to it (or more accurately, I can't tell if I do or not). You claim you have access to it? Your argument for that was: Which i...