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Sure. The following feelings I would characterise as typically male. The feeling of immersion and intense interest one can have when solving mechanica...

I'm not sure what it feels like exactly for others, as one only ever really feels one's own experiences. But I think it makes sense for me, for exampl...

Are we talking about genders or gender roles? They are different.

This seems absurd to me.

These are activities, not genders.

That's not social construction. Nor are people with genuine gender disphoria, as far as I understand, in a position to freely choose what gender to id...

What does 'gender' mean then? And can you give some examples of it? I think gender roles, or gender stereotypes, are at least partly socially construc...

What follows from existence? Some or all of the following: distinguishability, perceptibility, reasonable inferrability, etc. I'm not sure where that ...

Oh, I see, sorry that was a prescription of the OP. I didn't read it properly, my bad. In that we case we do need to delve into what it means to belie...

So what if God exists? - takes the pressure off life a bit if there is some kind of afterlife (could also be seen as a negative thing) - helps with fi...

Sure. There are tensions within Harry's position.

Thanks Baden, but it's one that Harry made I think. It's odd that the WHO didn't come up with something as simple and easy to understand as the NHS de...

I do think the WHO definition, and the dictionary definition linked to, do not reflect the usage of the word in the circles I mix in. Many autistic pe...

The WHO definition of gender seems too objective to me. You could unfailingly deduce someone's gender identity from their behaviour according to that....

I know which part of my body most of my actions originate from.

Which me? The bert1 I refer to when I refer just to my consciousness, or the bert1 I refer to when I refer to the flesh-memory complex you can take a ...

But why? Is the answer 'because that's how grammar works?' Or is there more to it than that? Do you see any separation between your own subjectivity, ...

I'll hazard a theory of logic: The capacity of consciousness to relate two or more of its contents and perceive their relationship. It's a bit more ge...

A soul is a blob of invisible ectoplasm. This is bullshit, but it's nothing to do with grammar. Do you think the sentence: "Why is my soul in this bod...

Here is a pristine mind untouched by philosophy. Bitter Crank has spent years frequenting this forum and the previous one and yet retains his philosop...

Sure, but only with certain assumptions. The assumptions are that 'Bert1' or 'Bert2' is not vague and does not vary in its meaning, nor the entity tha...

No, it isn't!

No they aren't.

Dualism is normally contrasted with monism rather than materialism. Materialism is only one form of monism. The other main monisms are idealism (one s...

Crucially, that's not what I said! I said that I might not be bert1. This is exactly what is at stake, whether the words 'I' and 'bert1' have the same...

Thanks Banno, that's better. The rigid designator thing is perhaps relevant here I think. I'll reply properly later when I have more time.

No I couldn't, that would be impossible. As I am always me (construing 'me' as the objective form of 'I') and could be nothing else. However it is pos...

Indeed. Perhaps we agree after all. Rather than me try to guess what you think the grammatical muddle is, could you spell it out?

'I am I' tells me nothing about the world. 'bert1 is bert1' tells me nothing about the world. 'I am bert1,' prima facie, tells me something about the ...

Yeah, I think it is a real issue. As for an answer, I am not sure. I think it might be "Because I am most interested in being this one."

The most convincing way to me is to come up with a plausible definition of 'God' that has a referent. Definition: 'God' refers to that which is: unifi...

Sure, but what has that got to do with subjective experience? I'm not defending SteveKlinko's sketch towards a theory of consciousness, I think it is ...

We don't know that. That's a hasty generalisation.

Isn't this all solved by panpsychism?

There was a great thread on the old forum involving an attempt to disprove physicalism by attempting to show that there is some information that is no...

This is unclear Damir. It's not clear you actually understand the difficulty SteveKlinko is describing. Maybe you do understand it, and you have a goo...

Dfpolis Thanks for mentioning Stace. I had not heard of Stace before. My only brush with analyses of mystical reports is William James' Varieties of R...

I'm a full-on panpsychist as I can't really make sense of the notion of proto-consciousness. Even if there's a smidge of subjective awareness, there's...

Damir, Are you aware this is a philosophy forum? You seem innocent of the philosophical issues.

This is a floppy OP with no interesting philosophical question. It may as well be "Hey guys, some dumb people believe in spooky stuff! Are you dumb to...

Thanks for your reply. I think we are struggling to communicate.

Sure, I see that the questions we ask (Such as 'Why am I bert1, and not HuggetZukker?) seem to be theory-laden, and perhaps they are. Consider, though...

My own view is that consciousness could not be an emergent phenemenon, because it does not admit of degrees. All emergent things emerge gradually (to ...

Damir I'm interested in how you perceive the problem of consciousness pre-theory. I was struck by the sharp contrast between your statement saying how...

I read your replies but I still think your have not addressed my point. You don't have to if you don't want to of course. EDIT: you have suggested a t...

I did read it. You said it seems separate. I know you don't think it is separate, but you have not acknowledged that the person who says things are no...

Here.

The right person can make it stop. The right person can take away all decisions and responsibility. We only start to think when our will is thwarted. ...

But you separated them yourself in the previous sentence! If two things seem very different, the default assumption is that they are different, not th...

I doubt this. Can you give an example of what you mean?