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In: Emergence  — view comment
Gadflies hassle the powerful, no?
February 15, 2023 at 21:44
In: Emergence  — view comment
Gnomon is hardly the establishment though is he? But you're right, I haven't read it all.
February 15, 2023 at 21:05
In: Emergence  — view comment
Do you really think that's what you are doing? That's so weird.
February 15, 2023 at 20:29
That's a hard question to answer. I suppose it's partly because I'm a panpsychist, and I think that an experience happens when something undergoes a c...
February 13, 2023 at 23:15
I typed all those
February 13, 2023 at 20:30
Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequit...
February 13, 2023 at 20:27
Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Non sequit...
February 13, 2023 at 20:27
Non-sequitur EDIT: pointing out that emergence occurs under one set of circumstances says nothing about whether or not it occurs in some other set of ...
February 13, 2023 at 18:48
For me, a thing only perceives modifications of itself. And as the self is self-identical, there is no intermediary. If a bomb goes off two feet away ...
February 13, 2023 at 18:31
For perception to occur at all, something direct has to happen somewhere, otherwise we get an infinity of intermediaries, no? I think that's what @"NO...
February 13, 2023 at 18:28
Indeed, it needs an unintuitive reinterpretation of omnibenevolence. I've never really thought of that as one of the traditional omnis anyway. There a...
February 05, 2023 at 11:49
Sure, although adopting this horn of the dilemma does not commit us to DCT. DCT says that what God wills is Good. Period (full stop). One could, inste...
February 04, 2023 at 09:34
Very nice clear OP. It does assume that one horn of the Euthyphro dilemma is accepted, that God wills what is good, because it is good. That's an assu...
February 03, 2023 at 19:30
I think this would be a good topic for a thread. Don't have time to start one.
January 17, 2023 at 11:42
Thanks, I should get into the habit of using that. Of course I believe that you think that @"Banno" understands the problem. It's just not evident to ...
January 12, 2023 at 00:06
In the sense of asleep or under anaesthetic, yes. What's happening there is that bert1 as a coherent subject ceases to exist. It's not that bert1 rema...
January 11, 2023 at 23:50
Maybe they do. 180 seems to having asked him.
January 11, 2023 at 23:45
Yes. But this never obtains. No. It's not possible for anything to be unconscious in my view.
January 11, 2023 at 23:17
OK, thank you.
January 11, 2023 at 23:09
It's not a game. This is a thread about the hard problem. Banno and 180 think it's bollocks. But I'm not sure if they even know what it is.
January 11, 2023 at 23:09
Can you state what the hard problem is, in your own words?
January 11, 2023 at 23:00
Consciousness is the capacity to feel. What is the hard problem, in your own words?
January 11, 2023 at 21:59
What Olivier5 said.
January 11, 2023 at 21:57
I've offered synonyms. That qualifies as a definition. I have invited you to be aware of your awareness, which you haven't yet done. If you had, that ...
January 11, 2023 at 21:00
Indeed. Banno insists the Glagow coma scale is the only definition. Or at least all definitions are really aspects of one sense of consciusness, and t...
January 11, 2023 at 20:33
Sure, that';s true with things except consciousness. To put it in Cartesian terms, it is coherent to doubt the existence of pixies, God and phlogiston...
January 11, 2023 at 20:29
No particularly, I was just trying to relate the words 'consciousness' and 'experience' in a sentence such that they are linked in meaning, which I th...
January 11, 2023 at 20:26
That's a good question. Ether was proposed to solve a problem, namely a medium to carry electromagnetic radiation, or something. Humours were a way of...
January 11, 2023 at 18:43
What we have is different theories. I'm a panpsychist. You, at various times have been a functionalist, enactivist, probably one or two other things I...
January 11, 2023 at 18:18
What is my concept?
January 11, 2023 at 10:53
No. It's a perfectly simple question. If you have the same concept I have, even if you think it's incoherent or whatever, you should be able to explai...
January 11, 2023 at 10:30
Banno and 180, What do you think I mean by the word 'consciousness'?
January 11, 2023 at 10:28
I think you've just illustrated my point.
January 11, 2023 at 10:27
They can be equivalent, in this sense I'm trying to talk about.
January 11, 2023 at 10:10
Probably an unhelpful addition, it causes a lot of confusion
January 11, 2023 at 10:09
I'm saying, reluctantly, that you lack the concept of awareness. But I don't know this for sure. I think you are aware. You both seem to avoid the con...
January 11, 2023 at 10:08
Equivalently: - sentience - the capacity to feel - the capacity to know - that in X whereby there is 'something it is like' to be X These are all abig...
January 11, 2023 at 09:57
Awareness
January 11, 2023 at 09:53
I'm not sure. I don't really know why some people have the concept and some don't.
January 11, 2023 at 09:45
Yes
January 11, 2023 at 09:32
No, phenomenal consciousness. The subject of the thread.
January 10, 2023 at 23:22
Seeming to be conscious is equivalent to being conscious, no? Just as a matter of definition.
January 10, 2023 at 19:39
That's great! So what is it about the neuronal models that explain how it is that I feel like I'm having an experience, when I'm not? Why can't all th...
January 10, 2023 at 14:14
OK, so this clearly separates two concepts of consciousness. One in which experience is not part of the concept. One in which it is. One way to solve ...
January 10, 2023 at 14:12
Sure, but it's the milliseconds after that is relevant. Maybe I didn't have an experience three milliseconds ago, but I am now. I may have been a zomb...
January 10, 2023 at 14:08
That's consistent with not having an experience. Is that right?
January 10, 2023 at 14:03
This is really interesting. Could you flesh out what this 'post hoc' rationalisation is entailed by the word 'experience'? You clearly think that sayi...
January 10, 2023 at 14:00
That's not what I intend to claim. My claim is (I allege) theory-neutral. It may be that experiences just are neuronal activity, or whatever. But for ...
January 10, 2023 at 13:52
Because I'm not specifying any particular content. There nothing to be wrong about.
January 10, 2023 at 13:38
Yes, I think you may well be right about that. Broadly, yes, I agree
January 10, 2023 at 13:36