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The world isn't just what it is in the sense that it isn't a product of human beings and can't be changed. Any more than billionaires having all the m...

I was diagnosed about 7 years ago I think. The general consensus among autistic activists is that a cure is not appropriate because autism isn't a dis...

Really? I haven't explored that online grotto. I just thought incels were disgruntled angry men who can't get a shag. They really want to enslave and ...

Sounds great. I'm envious. I still haven't figured out a feasible method.

Pretty shitty. They're not interested in my personality. EDIT: My most recent partner only liked me for my broad shoulders, rugged looks, ability to c...

He's autistic like his mum and dad. He'll be OK, just needs to find his tribe, like I had to. It was just a lot easier for me because I could cope wit...

Oh, that's interesting. I got the impression that kids avoided light and air before the lockdown as well, but maybe you are right. Hmm. I can't rememb...

There's nobody at the baseball park. They're all on their goddamn phones. My son is having this trouble. He can't attend school, but there are no chil...

Isn't the truth of that dependent on context though? What if a woman has lots of support and an independent income? Bags of security, no need of that ...

If that is what they are complaining about (and I'm not sure it is always) then they have a point. The tricky thing then is what the hell do they do a...

Ha! Yeah, I probably should have said something like 'carefully get to know before shagging' instead of 'shag' but the basic point remains. I never ju...

Could there be a mechanical explanation? I've heard the following kind of explanation, I'm not sure if it makes sense or not. But I do instinctively l...

I agree. I think the brain, neuroscience, and structure and function generally, is totally relevant to the issue of what constitutes the self. But the...

@"RogueAI" just wants someone to defend/explicate mysterianism, regardless of whether you agree with it or not. That's right isn't it?

You could ask @"apokrisis" about that. He might be able to distinguish different types of cause and tell a top-down story that is consistent with the ...

Then explain it better. Why does a self have to be sentient?

No it doesn't. Sentience makes for a sentient organism. Why can't you have a modelling relation without sentience?

OK, I'm not being clear. You said the hard problem was about fundamental stuffs. It isn't necessarily, Chalmers doesn't characterise it that way. It a...

I wasn't trying to make a substantial point, merely to rebut your mischaracterisation of the hard problem in too narrow terms.

It can be framed in those terms but doesn't have to be. It's a problem for anyone who thinks that consciousness arrived late in the universe, however ...

Oh, I see what you mean.

Yes, pretty much, I think. Applying this to consciousness, you've left out eliminativism as an option, which you probably should have included. In ter...

I don't think that's right. Epiphenominalism is arguably a kind of dualism (property or substance, both fit). A non-causal invisible 'froth' somehow p...

No, the hard problem exists if we start with something (anything) that isn't consciousness, and try to explain consciousness in terms of that. Dependi...

Not sure, that's @"Wayfarer"'s department. EDIT: An abyss is a word of a general relating background that less-abyssal things stand out from. That see...

The abyss is the substance.

Sure, in humans and brainy animals. But that's not very interesting. It's totally consistent with the view that consciousness in rocks only occurs whe...

How do you get to that conclusion? It's come up lots of times on the forum before, but I don't see this strong connection.

...or a property, like redness, roundness. X is red. X is round. X is conscious.

It's a good question. I'm a very extreme form of panpsychist at the moment, and I do think there are practically an infinite number of arbitrarily def...

Yes, I'm a panpsychist. I like to think I was a panpsychist before it became trendy. And I'm not one of those sell-out panpsychists who think that onl...

It isn't lost. The self is lost. Content is altered, but not consciousness.

Blimey! Nice going.

I've yet to hear a good argument against your conclusion. Much of the linking of brains and consciousness seems to me to be assumed on the basis of al...

By function @"180 Proof" is indicating a means of existing, not so much saying that they play a role, I think. Memories exist, but not as structure, n...

Beginning Logic, E. J. Lemmon. loved it. Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy. Very good. Leibniz, Monadology. Awful. Locke, awful Berkeley's essa...

I had a quick scan of the article on him in the IEP and he seems to be more of a political philosopher, not so much concerned with consciousness parti...

Maybe. Discoveries do lead to new concepts. I'm very doubtful but I'm not against people trying.

There have been some attempts, but they fail conceptually I think. Tononi's IIT model is really interesting and ingenious, but ultimately it's just an...

So did Apo help you understand Zizek?

Yeah, thanks. I hadn't heard that one particularly, but I've come across a number of neuroscientists saying similar things over the years. I don't rea...

@"Eugen" I hope you enjoyed your encounter with apohotep

This is just wrong. Can anyone understand what this means in a way that doesn't entail a simple denial of the facts of Tononi's position?

Oh yes.

Yes and you're wrong. You are saying light isn't the same thing as switches. I, and Tononi, no doubt, would agree with you. He is declaring more than ...

Yes he is, actually. He says consciousness is integrated information. But don't let simple facts get in the way. "The integrated information theory (I...

@"Eugen", you might get more responses if your post was more than "Go and research Zizek for me so I don't have to."

But there is not more to phenomenal consciousness than phenomenal consciousness.

I can't imagine many people on this forum disagreeing with you and defending the idea that God is against homosexuality. In any case, this seems as mu...

I read your post, and I've just read it again! But I wasn't very clear in my first response. I get that you think other people are conscious and that ...