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The existence of binding is not a problem, it's a good thing. Accounting for it, explaining how it happens is the problem. There are a number of sligh...

Yep. That's always how he seemed to me.

Every theory of consciousness, even including substance dualism, is consistent with the data. The science just doesn't rule much out.

Is this similar to Goodman's new riddle of induction?

@"Garrett Travers" Thank you very much for responding to my questions. I'd also like you to comment on this: But you cited the IIT as one of your resp...

OK, so this identifies some relationships between consciousness and some brain activity. The relationships is one of 'maintenance', 'integration', and...

Garrett, just to make sure we are not talking a cross purposes, what is the concept of consciousness that is operative in your OP? Do you have a defin...

Sure, fair enough.

Indeed. That is definition by synonym (more or less).

I think on a philosophy forum, on this issue particularly, it should be socially acceptable to deny another's experience. In a way that would less acc...

It's true that the ostensive definition is private. But that's ok, because the way we go on to talk then indicates if we have both performed the same ...

There is another way you can define it, but that is not very satisfactory. And that is by synonym, and that definition you can find in a dictionary. U...

This is informative. It shows you haven't grasped the concept. RogueAI was not saying that the capacity to point indicates consciousness. You haven't ...

Yes, I agree. Do you understand what RogueAI means? Has this definition worked for you the way it worked for me, as far as you can tell?

Garrett, I'm sympathetic. It is indeed weird that we have the power, collectively, to fix everything, and to order the world in a sensible way. There ...

Ok. I do.

That. From this I know exactly what RogueAI is talking about, so for me it's a successful definition. It accurately picks it the bit of the world we w...

I rather like Garrett. Unfortunately I'm vaguely hoping we accidentally wipe ourselves out in some way that I can survive and father the next inbred h...

Garrett, philosophers rarely dispute science. That's the whole point. Philosophy tackles questions science leaves open.

He did define it

There is no philosophy in this post. Nor any indication of any awareness of the philosophical issues involved.

Thanks, that's interesting. A bit too abstract for me though. Not sure I understand you.

Yes, something happening. The only causes we know about are psychological, I suggest. |We know we do things because of how we feel. Laws of nature, if...

Sure, anything happening at all

Panpsychism is verifiable

I'm still trying to work out what @"180 Proof" is actually saying. I gave hunger as an example of an explanation for behaviour. 180 said that hunger w...

In the first instance the event happens 'because' of the signal, or at least the signal plays a role, in the absence of which the event would (likely)...

This^ contradicts this: In the first quote, the signals do play a significant role in the story of how the brake gets pushed; or in the eating example...

Thanks 180 that's helpful. From what you say it seems to me that these signals are part of the 'how', not just post-hoc rationalisations, teleologoica...

Thank you. Can this be analysed as follows: In the case of traffic lights, the traffic lights going red are a necessary condition for stepping on the ...

Do you think that feelings never play a causal role in human behaviour?

@"180 Proof" Apply that to the example

We are not talking past each other. These different kinds of explanations compete.

It explains why I eat. I eat because I'm hungry.

No, it's a an explanation. Physical explanations are derivative on descriptions, ultimately ending in 'that's just what happens'.

Obviously. So what?

I eat because I feel hungry.

Your account is metaphorical, my spunky young friend. What screen is the apple projected onto?

Does a brain 'produce' sight? A brain (in a body) might see. Isn't that more accurate? Does a brain 'produce' smell? Only if you extract it and give i...

The brain is not the same thing as its products, then? What's the empirical difference between my temporarily ceasing to be conscious, and my mind tem...

In what sense does it 'produce' consciousness? Like a snail produces slime? Like a producer produces a film? Like a magician produces a rabbit? Like a...

I like it! I really do. I know it's funny as well, but panpsychists are going to have to start talking like this at some point. I eagerly await when S...

What Tobias said. Diversity improves the quality of the decisions.

I'm certainly very sympathetic to your emphasis on the continuity between the basic properties that determine the behavior of matter and whatever it i...

That's interesting. I'm a panpsychist, and whenever someone asks me what it feels like to be a particle or a thermostat or whatever, I reply I don't k...

This sounds like an inverted quora question. :) I have no idea of the answer

Strong or weak?

I thought you thought that thinking, feeling, consciousnessing, etc, were things that brains do? Just like digesting is what guts do and walking is wh...

As it pertains to philosophy of mind, materialism is, I think, most accurately construed as synonymous with emergentism. That is, consciousness, just ...

It's tragic how you are so clear in your writing, yet are so often misread. I'm glad I am not so misunderstood, it must be a burden for you.