To be clear, you would not argue that there is no ontological intermediary between the emotion and the observer? Plainly, the voice and body of the an...
Might you be confusing the phenomenological impression of immediacy with actual immediacy? For instance, consider an angry person. Their jaw is clench...
Is there an example you can give of this kind of "mode of presentation"? A TV is a "mode of presentation" of something else. Yet it also fulfills all ...
I'm not sure why this is the question. Suppose we conclude that phenomenal experience is a mode of access. What is changed? I look at a stone. I am aw...
It is available to me directly, and to you, indirectly. To me, it is immediate, to you, it is accessed through discourse and behavior and your own pri...
And yet, I can talk about my headaches just fine (which is not talk of behaviors, norms, etc). Whereas, ChatGpt simply cannot. ChatGpt can perfectly r...
But in this sense, ChatGPT understands "headache" just as well as we do, at least in the purely verbal domain. But this cannot be the relevant sense i...
The sensation is private, but the associated behaviors (furrowed brow, clutching the head, expressions of distress) are not. These behaviors, like the...
Yeah, during the civil war and WW2. Is that what the Trumpies are saying these days? The Treasonous Tard is creating his own civil and world wars that...
How do you distinguish the case of someone who knows the behaviors and rules surrounding the use of the word "headache", who can use the term competen...
Let me push back a little. Compare this with words. "Dog" represents dogs. Yet, the word "dog" in itself, is not correct or incorrect. It simply is wh...
Of course every understanding is an interpretation. But this does not obviate the distinction between the world as we perceive it, and (our understand...
I think I understand this distinction between causal and epistemic mediation, and I like it. At first blush, I accept all three propositions. Quickly,...
When you look at a photograph, you really are looking at its subject. And you are looking at the photograph. You are looking at the subject, by way of...
Causal chains are not the real claim. As you, @"Hanover" and others point out, there are innumerable causal steps between an observer and any act of p...
Indirect realists wouldn't generally disagree with this, except for the last sentence. Both are perceived. Indirect realism doesn't deny perception of...
The bred and rue concept is in one sense perfectly aligned with the world. They drew a line, a feature of the world. The concepts of bred and rue cons...
Sider wants to nail down the core concepts once and for all. My main argument here is that forming concepts is as much art as it is science. "Existenc...
I mean, in truth, it was. There was once a time when consciousness didn't exist. Time passed. At some point, reality started experiencing itself. If "...
But, does he admit to a mere plurality of ways? If so, then he can still, in principle if not realistically, enumerate them in his hypothetical book. ...
I would define hate as directed, persistent anger, contempt, and Ill will. I'm with you, traits, especially emotions, must serve a purpose. I hate Tru...
You are right, I overstated. Still, it is important to keep the nature of these distortions in mind. They are not a Disney's Fantasia illusory animati...
I think it is not one or the other, it is both. Consciousness does emerge from structural relations of non conscious entities, and consciousness is th...
You are missing something important here. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned LSD, but now that I did, the Hollywood trope that LSD induces hallucinati...
I don't think so. These are observer dependent, and limitless, while I would take "first order ontology" to be observer independent and finite. It is ...
Not having read Sider, I have a different question. Why is 'ontology' even the concern? This seems kind of naive, as if words really just picked out s...
Logical languages have basic concepts that are very well agreed upon. Ontologese would not. Everyone would have their options on what should and shoul...
Nice OP. I like the thinking here, I think it captures why much philosophical discourse is insubstantive. My concern is what is advocating for is a ma...
This is certainly a reasonable position. And yet, the fact that information can remain constant durung radical transformations of matter does seem to ...
As @"Wayfarer" points out, what information means is quite context dependent. For the specific meaning you have in mind, symbolic or encoded informati...
Interesting, it certainly seems to mean something. Definitely in everyday conversation it does. And so does it in the sense we are discussing, as some...
Nifty OP. I had pretty much the exact same revelation, though not so artfully told. It led me to a kind of dualist perspective, where the universe con...
I think you are talking about meaning, not information. Meaning is interpreted information. Also, there is no necessary involvement of consciousness. ...
Principles: 1. Consciousness is informational 2. Consciousness is naturalistic. (No woo!) 3. Consciousness arose due to selective pressure. Why? Given...
I mean that consciousness is best understood in terms of information, not physics. Some phenomena should be thought of as material: rocks, gravity, li...
Good follow-up questions, that forced me to clearly think through what I'm trying to say. I would answer 'Yes' to both. Lets just take DNA for now. Wh...
The problem is that consciousness is informational, not physical. Explaining consciousness in physical terms runs into the same problem that explainin...
Strict omnipotence is not a logically coherent notion. Multiple contradictions follow. One standard one, "can God create a rock so heavy he cannot lif...
It depends on what we are talking about. Behavior? Physiology? Ability? Appearance? To describe. To give context to a description of someone's behavio...
Of course. That is how the word works. The speaker may have an idea of what "normal" is, the listener may share it, or may not. They talk past each ot...
This definition covers a large chunk of usage, but not all of it. "Let events follow their natural course". What is "natural" here is not nature's law...
No, @"Outlander" is describing "normal". Normal is all about expectation. To meet expectation is to be normal . "Natural" is an entirely different con...
Yet, I only paraphrased what you quoted: If anyone is "baiting", it is you. Your OP is about the nature of our internal language. Yet now you are dema...
Mentalese is supposed to be pre-linguistic and universal. When you think in your head, that is supposedly a translation from mentalese. And so mentale...
Only if modern analytic discourse on consciousness is a narrow band in its entirety. Only grammatically. I don't see the nounification of "objects of ...
What you are describing is not conceptual ambiguity, but rather epistemic ambiguity. We pick and choose our concepts, and I think mine cleanly maps to...
Viruses are a hard no. They don't even have volition, they make no decisions, they are essentially giant, extraordinarily complex, free floating molec...
:lol: I didn't necessarily think I was blowing anyone's doors down! But I don't think I said nothing either. Just look at all the ways consciousness h...
There is something going on here, and I'm not at all sure it is cultural. It is not just in films, I noticed growing up that this attitude was very wi...
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