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But you can know what a car does based on the description of its parts. If you know what each part does then you know exactly what will happen when yo...

All of these are questions you already know the answers to. By trying to ask for more and more precise definitions all you end up doing is muddying th...

Really? Seems like you defined it pretty damn well here though. I'm sure you mean "won't help you predict that this monster would form in the process ...

But how would that lead to a general theory of consciousness? In psychology and neurology the most you can confirm is "When X happens Y follows". "Whe...

Life is a pattern. Perfect knowledge of how atoms operate will lead you to understand how "clusters" of them operate. If you could predict accurately ...

Maybe but I don't think there are. I think strong emergence is nonsense. You have to assume that the rabbit didn't pop up out of nowhere, that there w...

If pulling a bunny out of an empty hat is magic then pulling consciousness out of non conscoius blocks is also magic in exactly the same way. Mutes do...

Kind of yea. I’ll just add this: the label switching is simpler so should be favored by Occam’s razor. We already assume that some things other than u...

If this is what you think you are simply misunderstanding I’ve restated countless times that panpsychism doesn’t have any additional explanatory power...

How is that related to consciousness if at all? Every psychological bias/fallacy/theory/heuristic/etc still makes sense without consciousness.

The alternative (that at some point things stop being conscious) also doesn’t explain anything. So why are you wasting your time with THAT? You gotta ...

No one "needs" panpsychism. It's a theory among many. Panpsychism isn't really "settling". Instead of the "hard problem" which is created when you ass...

Towards what exactly?

But this is a very different kind of problem from consciousness. WIth enough time and effort we KNOW that we can explain how chemical bonds form becau...

"theory of consciousness" is different from "definition of consciousness". I am bad at defining things but if I were to define consciousness it would ...

This is the combination problem. How do these "bits of consciousness" add up to a person and how does a person split up into "bits of consciousness". ...

I was replying to the original post

This sounds to me like "Square Circle" or "Married Bachelor"

I thought I promised myself not to waste any more time on threads like these because they go nowhere but here I go again. And this is not unusual. Whe...

First you must try to define them such that they don't end up being the same thing. I have failed at doing that.

Because for the longest time we thought that by coming up with the right physics or chemistry or biology we could find the "equation for consciousness...

Doesn't really seem like something a philosophy forum can answer. Maybe ask a neurologist or a psychologist. Or maybe just enjoy it for now because it...

Your explanation of what you mean by enlightenment doesn't explain much.

But they couldn't tell us. It would be like describing color to a blind man. Maybe if they morph into something similar.

I didn't say we were referring to the same thing, I don't know if we are or not (I don't know if we are having the same experience when looking at an ...

But there is still an enormous number of shades between Scarlet and Ferrari so both of them are still describing a range of experiences. And where did...

Yes there are different shades of red. We couldn't possibly have a word for every possible shade of colors so we lumped similar ones under one word. S...

Not really. Even if we pretend to have a hotline to “true reality” then the sentence “The apple seems red” would still be true and would be identical ...

I said that when someone says “the apple is red” they really mean “the apple appears red/invokes a certain experience I call ‘red’”. I don’t think tha...

When did it appear to you that I think apples are not red when I’m on the forum? I’m just clarifying what people mean when they say “the apple is red”...

Let me define Jeff as the “Greatest God-Killer”. Therefore Jeff must exist. Therefore God is dead. I’ve always wanted to try that but I have yet to me...

Don't take quotes out of context. Replying to this by saying "you're talking about ontological commitments here" is intended to say that I meant the a...

No, you're talking about ontological commitments here. I only meant intent behind the expression So if someone asks me to describe the apple 3 minutes...

I think at that point mathematics wasn’t divorced from the real world yet. Numbers were representations of things. 5 was a representation of 5 things....

General life pro tip: If you can’t change it worrying about it is just pointless self harm

I keep commenting this every time someone asks the forum for personal help through philosophy but: It hardly works. Doing philosophy is the worst way ...

I am not claiming that when someone says "the apple is red" that they are necessarily having a certain experience. I am claiming that in general use (...

How?

What I meant was how do you confirm that the apple results in the same experience for everyone. You can't. You only know that it results in some exper...

Correct. The word "red" is associated with awareness of a certain mental state. Now if I told you "but actually, you formulate the word before you bec...

But then they'd be pretty bad automatons. Because they are not acting as humans well enough. No human doubts that they have experiences, that seems li...

But meaningful. Which is why when someone says "Qualia doesn't exist" it sounds to the people who use it like "When you say 'red' you are literally re...

That I start to form the word (or expect to see) red before I see red does not in any way show that the statement "We associate 'red' with a certain e...

https://i.imgur.com/G8gF7rV.jpg Not quite. Some we all call green, some we all call yellow. Again, my red could be your purple and no physical or chem...

So then “red” must not be an inherent property in the apple right? We can agree it reflects a certain wavelength but beyond that we have no data to in...

But how come some (colorblind) people see the apple as green? And how do you confirm that the apple is in fact red? You can’t see the apple from my pe...

Not in this paper. But supposedly that is what he is doing. I don’t know I didn’t read much of his stuff. It’s too technical for me to understand.

Sure but that still doesn't answer why we have thoughts in the first place. Knowing that "brainwave x" corresponds to "I like apples" doesn't tell us ...

Agreed. But that's still a terrible starting place. Considering that I have yet to detect another thought outside of my own head. How might we form a ...

One possible answer is that some from of consciousness is inherent in all matter. Another would be some set of conditions that produce consciousness. ...