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Democratic world government, not first past the post, publicly funded party campaigns, I'd vote for: government administered by an AI, managed reducti...

I slag you off a lot Apo but I like this bit. Not that I'm qualified to judge, merely being an armchair philosopher. :) If the human brain is really s...

I think T Clark plausibly inferred that from what you did say.

Yes, although if, say, Banno said that, he would likely just mean that he was awake. If I say that when I'm in a philosophical mood, I would mean "I a...

Ah, would that it were, would that it were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvQ3M3WaPA

Probably not. I wouldn't really expect any answer to that query. Yet one may still idly wonder what it would feel like to be a seagull, even though th...

It's nothing to do with comparison. "I wonder what it is like to be a seagull" just means "I wonder how it feels to be a seagull" "Is there something ...

Indeed. Any claim to having an experience must be false if expressed by a zombie, very much a nescio quid for the zombie. But for the human, who has n...

Person and zombie-clone don't violate the identity of indiscernibles law. They are conceptually discernable - one is conscious and the other one isn't...

If the zombie is the clone of a liar, ill educated, or mad person.

For a number of reasons, I do think that consciousness is continuous and spatially extended. I don't see how it could not be and still be affected by ...

One formulation I've come across a few times: Lily believes X iff Lily lives as if X were true. Not sure that works but I think it does capture someth...

If it rains, I'll get wet If I take an umbrella, I won't get wet If I take an umbrella, it won't rain

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As it famously says in Acts 17:28 "For in the quantum field we live, and move, and have our being"

Yes, I think the unwillingness to carry the inference further is sometimes due to anthropocentrism, but it depends on the philosopher.

The content of consciousness in a human is indeed determined by the structure and function of that human body. Just as the content of the consciousnes...

You lose identity. No consciousness (in the relevant sense of the word) is lost.

Life ending at death is less of a scientific matter and more of a semantic matter. At least initially.

I've been wanting to make a tread about inferences to other minds for ages.

I'm curious, what strikes you as preposterous about that?

I'm liking this manifesto.

Oh, I don't know. I got the impression that discussing this openly on the forum is not welcome, not totally sure why. If some nutcase was doing a sear...

It is, and it is. But that's not the primary focus of the thread.

It depends what you want in life, I guess, but for me, yes. Sometimes people who you think are nuts turn out to be right. It's healthy and productive ...

While Bartricks is right about the poor inference from correlation to identity, I do think it is probably right that the human brain is what does the ...

The very strong relationship between human brain function and what human beings experience is undeniable. However almost nothing follows from this reg...

I'm surprised no one has given the standard answer yet. If I was an emergentist, which I'm not, I would say the following: You have self-replicating m...

I think with a grid system, you can get anywhere on the grid just making left turns, as long as there are no dead ends. Could be wrong.

Cyclic relation between people in democracies and their government. Gov't doesn't educate population, population elects gov't who continues not to edu...

Should be loads on Gutenberg.

Could you go into some more detail?

Because from the outside there is a continuity of body and legal status. But when the body is 'unconscious' it doesn't have a phenomenological unity (...

I think I'm a panpsychist and a property dualist

I don't know, I think in this case I'm finding it funnier and funnier. There's layers to it now.

I'm a bit pissed off that panpsychism and idealism are leading the way. Time for me to pause and reflect.

Amen. Apollodorus is heading for a ban. Shouldn't have to say this stuff.

He was supposed to say 'consciousness' wasn't he? Anyway, I don't really see the circularity, not a vicious one anyway. Consider an analogy with DNA. ...

I don't think so. Energy is always working, no? But God spends eternity not doing anything.

Sure, but that's not what Cheshire would say. Cheshire would say "I was born as Cheshire, and Corvus was born as Corvus." What accounts for these diff...

What is the casual story that resulted in you being corvus and not Cheshire?

Only if comatose patients retain a unified identity, which arguably they don't. When, in medical terms, someone loses consciousness, how is that to be...

I like this. This is a far more satisfactory answer than "It's just silly lets not think about it." It takes the problem seriously and suggests a genu...

Oh, sure. I misunderstood, I thought you were suggesting a simple identity.

Because they're different. A mood is a background state of feeling. A neurotransmitter doing its thing is a neurotransmitter doing it's thing. The fac...

Materialism is very poorly defined. As a theory of mind, what people mostly seem to mean is nothing other than emergentism. Emergentism is more clearl...

As you know my views are somewhat similar to yours in some ways. I know you like to reserve the word 'conscious' for creatures with brains, and use so...

This is a great OP. I disagree with most of it, but I am able to disagree with it because it is so clear and transparent. I'll reply in greater length...

But not (consciousness)ing

It's possible for one's own opinion to overlap with that of others. I don't think Enrique is claiming he came up will all this completely by himself. ...