The ability to self-move I think. Just as our own behaviour is determined by our values, thoughts and feelings, so is the behaviour of fundamental par...
I don't understand 'expressive ego'. OK, I think I might know what you mean. Consciousness is necessary for expression or behaviour, but expression/be...
That's a perfectly good question, and one we could discuss if you want. I've gone over it many times on this forum and the old one, and I can do it ag...
To offer an answer to the OP (apologies for not doing so before), from my panspychist perspective, we are conscious beings because consciousness is a ...
Is it? You could always try asking me rather than assuming what I think. I can, of course, decipher many important differences between you and a rock....
No I can't. The differences in your behaviour from that of a rock do not allow me to make any general conclusions about consciousness, as far as I can...
OK, so what is the relevant difference between the behaviour of humans and the behaviour of rocks, such that you attribute consciousness to the former...
It does, but what follows from that? That's perfectly consistent with the idea that alteration in the functioning of a plant, or a rock, or a cell, or...
Logic is the capacity of consciousness to relate two or more ideas at once, it seems to me. We get our percepts from the world, and then we order them...
This reminds me of the great mystic Al Ghazali: "Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential b...
Because religious claims are metaphysical, and you can't disprove metaphysics with anthropology. It would be analogous to a genetic fallacy "An idiot ...
I don't know. This is less ignorance on my part, and more a reflection of that fact that reasons vary depending on who you ask. That's one reason, and...
I'm in favour of progressive taxation because not everyone enjoys making money, but everyone should have enough money to participate in most areas of ...
3-ish for me. This one's very sexist: 7. Was your mother or stepmother: Often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her? or Sometimes o...
It implies some kind of rational process amenable to enquiry on a philosophy forum. Do you really see no disconnect between the evidence and the concl...
The premises do not mention consciousness, yet consciousness appears in the conclusion. The conclusion is a general statement about consciousness, but...
What you have is: A subjective experience of one of the 42 concepts is reliably correlated with brain event A Brain injury affects subjective experien...
Not necessarily certainty, a tentative hypothesis would be fine. It's the obvious question to ask someone who thinks that we can infer consciousness i...
Of course no one would deny these well established facts about the relationship between human brain function and human experience. What I'm struggling...
The only place we discover consciousness is in ourselves. Or more strictly, the only consciousness I can discover is my own. The consciousness we 'dis...
Thanks, that's interesting research. I'd be interested to know what the 42 different elements of human thought are. I'm not sure what general conclusi...
I think that typically, the line is drawn somewhere between B and C (or perhaps C and D for some) not because of what the systems are made of but beca...
I don't have time to think of a rhyme, bur for all the Painted Jaguars on the forum: Premises and conclusions are true or false Inferences are valid o...
I think that's probably right. However it applies to everybody. Men have difficulty perceiving their own privilege, where it occurs. But so do women, ...
This is hard to comment on without knowing the characters involved. I'd be interested in reading more about how you apply feminist philosophy to this ...
Yeah, I've always thought of Sam as the main hero. 'The Choices of Master Samwise' is the most pivotal and interesting of the chapters for me. The oth...
This seems highly plausible to me. It never felt quite right that we should be descended solely from apes. We're far too pink. When we want to insult ...
World government, administered online. Get everyone a cheap phone so they can vote. Public Co-option of google infrastructure to do it, perhaps. To so...
That's an odd thing for them to ask you for. I don't think there is a clear agreed upon answer. I suppose there are a few approaches. Of the top of my...
I don't know the exact date the rotten tree leaning over my house will fall. But that doesn't mean I should ignore it. I don't understand this weird s...
The object of a definition is a word. We define words, not things. The word 'God' definitely exists. And it is trivial to make a definition, (e.g. let...
In this thread are you trying to address this then? I think that one conception of god has a real physical instantiation. But you won't let me talk ab...
No I don't think so. World government is not something we have tried before. A system is a saviour for a time. A world-size problem needs a world-size...
I think a world government run by an AI with democratic human oversight is our best chance. Tell it what we want, it works out how to do it, and we ju...
OK, so Berkeleyan idealism is that an object is nothing other than its perceived qualities, if I remember correctly. So, applying this to God, if that...
Baden is not the kind of thing that can be 'right'. Baden can be good or bad. Directions can be right or left. Inferences can be true or false. Statem...
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