Do you mean the presence and not-presence of consciousness is determined by material conditions (a very strong claim), or that the type or content of ...
No more than anyone else. The correspondence observed between brain function in humans and what those humans experience is compatible with all positio...
Indeed, a purely medical model approach makes no reference to an environment, and therefore not to the ability to do anything. What is lacking is stat...
I half agree. The wording of it is indeed very suggestive of the medical model - it does appear to locate the issue within the person rather than the ...
Definition in this context is limiting the application of a word. You can define a block of wood, not with observation, thought and speech, but with s...
In the UK there is this definition which seems relevant: Although this looks like it has a formal diagnostic element ('impairment') and a functional e...
Yeah, I think this is reasonable (discussion of discredited/toxic beliefs to confirm their falsity or salvage defensible bits), but so is the stance T...
Did anyone get a sense that Bob was ashamed of his views? I didn't, but I didn't read a great many of his posts. He was defending claims rather than c...
Maybe, but not if we're gingerphobic. We know, because everyone knows, that gingers are a bit lacking, bless them. Unfortunate genetics. Medical model...
Might they be in a society of gingerphobes? The ginger people wouldn't be able to speak perhaps, because everyone knows gingers are incapable of learn...
I don't think that's true among, for example, the autistic community (insofar as there is such a homogenous thing). Autistic people often consider neu...
But it's hard to think of medical concept of disability that is normatively neutral. If you just define 'disability' as statistical outliers without m...
I don't think it's a euphemism exactly, although maybe some use it that way. It's supposed to be a broader category than autism, to include ADHD, dysl...
Is the 'laws of nature' bit essential to naturalism? Is naturalism committed to the idea that laws of nature are what causes the world to be as it is,...
Yes I think that methodological criterion is important. That stops ghosts and angels falling under the definition, as although these are claimed to ha...
'Naturalism' isn't a clear doctrine, so I'm not sure if I'm a naturalist or not. I'm inclined to agree with @"Relativist" in that I don't think anythi...
Yes, it's a good challenge, and an insurmountable one to substance dualists. Fortunately there aren't any. EDIT: I've been gestating a thread about ca...
Absolutely. It's a matter of picking the least problematic. Or not picking at all. I think some kind of panpsychic property dualism is the most sustai...
Yes, that certainly seems blatantly question-begging. I don't know if the context helps at all. EDIT: I haven't read the whole McFadden article, but t...
It might be repurposed as a theory of identity (or what makes a system an agent in some sense) rather than a theory of consciousness, perhaps. I had a...
This sounds like a straw man. It is a view, but not one that anyone I can think of holds. We need a lot more detail of course, but at first glance it ...
I caught the tail end of the good ol' days in the UK. I got out of University only about £3000 in debt in 1996. My parents helped a bit too. Free educ...
It didn't change my mind much, mainly because of what seemed to be his definition of the phenomenal. Some of the questions I would ask i have already ...
I am interested in this topic, including a biosemiotic approach to the emergence of consciousness. I can't elicit replies from you about it, which is ...
That's a somewhat different theory from all your previous ones. Are brains necessary for consciousness then? Is solving all these timing issues suffic...
Absolutely. I want to nail you to a wall until you answer my questions. You have similarly become frustrated with me when I have refused to answer you...
Yeah, fair enough. There are different usages. Looking at Stanford, yours might actually be the more mainstream. However as we have approached this to...
I kind of agree with this. Although substance dualism really is incoherent, but that doesn't matter because there are no substance dualists. You may w...
You never give your causal account. And now we have further confusion, is consciousness caused, realised, enacted, or what? As for panpsychism, the AI...
No. This is a philosophy forum. Show how your worldview solves philosophical questions of consciousness as philosophers define it. I am merely pointin...
I am grateful to you for using an AI to generate your answer, which I will take to represent your view. It is much easier to understand than your post...
Thank you, that's interesting. I can see that on this metaphysic, ideas interact with matter. But this isn't necessarily substance dualism, on which v...
Indeed, functionalists do tend to end up defining 'consciousness' by fiat as a function, just as they have with 'life'. But in doing so making the con...
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