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I tend to avoid the term as it can very quickly tend to irresolvable dualisms or obscurantism as you suggest. It might be salvaged as a concept by ide...

Could you teach me how to read minds?

I think there is probably a lot to this. But if you are correct, doesn't this mean that everyone is religious in some way, even the atheist, who also ...

Is this intended to be an argument? Is (4) an assumption? Granting (4), doesn't this apply to other religions as well? Are you as happy for this line ...

Can you explain his sarcasm?

'yes' doesn't work either.

In a fit of your famous clarity, I think you may have meant 'can't'. And 'no' cannot be an answer to the question you asked: See? It doesn't work.

It's obviously totally possible.

Has to be satire, no?

Indeed. The argument seems to be some kind of Pascal's wager. But if I were God I would likely look more favourably on atheists who made some effort t...

That's two different questions. Which do you want answered?

Indeed. I think power is important. I'm less concerned about who is evil and who isn't (like orcs vs elves) and more about who has power and what are ...

Responsibility sticks to power. I rather suspect anti-Israel sentiment, and the relative downplaying of Hamas's nastiness (at least in this thread - i...

I think that may be the most difficult and important issue in philosophy - can we change the orientation of our will, at will?

I'm just an idiot who knows nothing about maths, but I'm just wondering what dividing by 0 might mean in terms of pizzas. If you divide a pizza by inf...

"A long way down" by Nick Hornby. Funny. I lol'd.

Proofreading is checking for grammar and spelling usually, not really content. It sounds like you are looking for feedback on your ideas. If so this f...

Well duh! The issue should not be whether animals have consciousness, but do we give a toss? But this is better than nothing i guess. Hasn't the scien...

Because a capacity is a function? Or feeling is a verb, which means something has to be doing something, which is a function?

The capacity to feel.

Not by virtue of their structure and function, no. But they are conscious. Consciousness is not structure and function. But a person has both structur...

I think I probably agree with you. I think consciousness might be one of these - it gets defined by synonyms which suggests it may be unanalysable. Do...

Poor ol' Germans seem doomed to be on the wrong side of history again. https://youtu.be/2D3K_cbmTM8

The self is what is referenced in such various views as Hume's bundle, Metzinger's Ego Tunnel, Tononi and Koch's system of integrated information, sys...

Yes I think that's right, the two seems very similar in terms of the functional story. But their claims about consciousness seem very different (but I...

I went for the first option. However I think the (correct) intuition of unity is derived from consciousness, not from the self. I think there is a per...

By way of unhelpful digression, I like to use this principle in reference to arguments by analogy for other minds - we are similar to frogs, trees, vi...

I think you are quoting 180 rather than me. :)

A and D are the only ones charitably characterised.

strawman

What a rotten lot of choices! B is closest to the truth I reckon, but we can know other minds by inference, and identities change constantly.

I think Metzinger's views are very plausible. Indeed his views on the self as a transparent ego tunnel at once enabling and limiting our exposure to r...

Yes, that's my view. Experience is consciousness of something, whether that something is simple and uninteresting, or complex and interesting. In eith...

Just that they have experiences. Just not of very much. Consciousness + very little content. There doesn't seem to be any intermediate stage between h...

We may have a conceptual disagreement, I'm not sure. I think you are suggesting some kind of phenomenality/proto-consciousness as a precursor to consc...

I take 'quale' to be another (somewhat unhelpful) word for an experience. An experience has two defining ingredients, consciousness and content. The c...

Indeed. And the problems with trying to explain how it comes about leads to the idea that maybe it didn't come about at all, but was always there in t...

Consciousness

Here's a link to the paper if anyone's interested: https://www.academia.edu/40392630/Pansentient_Monism_Formulating_Panpsychism_as_a_Genuine_Psycho_Ph...

It's always valid (if not true), and that's called modus tollens. You're right about that, but wrong about modus ponens. EDIT: Sorry I seem to have mi...

What the Count said.

Do you want only Corvus to reply?

You say 'outre' but panpsychism is pretty fashionable now as far as I can tell. Back in the nineties it was very out there.

We do know what it is. It is the capacity to experience.

When you think it is capable of experience. Yes. 'Life' is a example of redefining a concept so it becomes amenable to your preferred method of invest...

Smallism I think is probably false for this reason, and others.

"All new things come from prophecy." Not exactly the same idea but similar.

I'm getting larger by the week.

We create our own values, therefore we are gods, although small.

If consciousness was a brain process, then I would agree with you, the brain knowing itself would be riddled with opportunities for mistakes, illusion...