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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...
January 25, 2026 at 20:16
Might you be confusing the phenomenological impression of immediacy with actual immediacy? For instance, consider an angry person. Their jaw is clench...
January 25, 2026 at 18:58
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 ...
January 25, 2026 at 17:34
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...
January 25, 2026 at 14:36
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...
January 24, 2026 at 19:30
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...
January 24, 2026 at 18:13
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...
January 24, 2026 at 17:48
The sensation is private, but the associated behaviors (furrowed brow, clutching the head, expressions of distress) are not. These behaviors, like the...
January 24, 2026 at 17:40
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...
January 20, 2026 at 06:43
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...
January 19, 2026 at 22:06
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...
January 12, 2026 at 09:40
Of course every understanding is an interpretation. But this does not obviate the distinction between the world as we perceive it, and (our understand...
January 12, 2026 at 00:50
I think I understand this distinction between causal and epistemic mediation, and I like it. At first blush, I accept all three propositions. Quickly,...
January 11, 2026 at 23:00
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...
January 11, 2026 at 20:25
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...
January 11, 2026 at 19:12
Indirect realists wouldn't generally disagree with this, except for the last sentence. Both are perceived. Indirect realism doesn't deny perception of...
January 10, 2026 at 17:06
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...
January 03, 2026 at 03:36
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...
December 31, 2025 at 22:05
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 "...
December 29, 2025 at 23:10
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. ...
December 29, 2025 at 22:33
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...
December 29, 2025 at 05:48
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...
December 28, 2025 at 19:12
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...
December 27, 2025 at 20:20
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...
December 27, 2025 at 19:19
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 ...
December 27, 2025 at 00:43
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...
December 25, 2025 at 19:50
Logical languages have basic concepts that are very well agreed upon. Ontologese would not. Everyone would have their options on what should and shoul...
December 23, 2025 at 19:01
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...
December 22, 2025 at 17:49
This is certainly a reasonable position. And yet, the fact that information can remain constant durung radical transformations of matter does seem to ...
December 20, 2025 at 22:31
As @"Wayfarer" points out, what information means is quite context dependent. For the specific meaning you have in mind, symbolic or encoded informati...
December 20, 2025 at 21:39
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...
December 19, 2025 at 05:46
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...
December 19, 2025 at 04:53
I think you are talking about meaning, not information. Meaning is interpreted information. Also, there is no necessary involvement of consciousness. ...
December 19, 2025 at 02:20
Principles: 1. Consciousness is informational 2. Consciousness is naturalistic. (No woo!) 3. Consciousness arose due to selective pressure. Why? Given...
December 19, 2025 at 00:17
I mean that consciousness is best understood in terms of information, not physics. Some phenomena should be thought of as material: rocks, gravity, li...
December 17, 2025 at 22:35
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...
December 15, 2025 at 20:47
The problem is that consciousness is informational, not physical. Explaining consciousness in physical terms runs into the same problem that explainin...
December 14, 2025 at 20:29
Strict omnipotence is not a logically coherent notion. Multiple contradictions follow. One standard one, "can God create a rock so heavy he cannot lif...
December 14, 2025 at 17:23
It depends on what we are talking about. Behavior? Physiology? Ability? Appearance? To describe. To give context to a description of someone's behavio...
December 11, 2025 at 20:34
2000 posts! And it only took me 9 years. I'm glad I got this massive personal milestone in before moving to the new site.
December 11, 2025 at 20:16
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...
December 11, 2025 at 20:13
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...
December 11, 2025 at 19:59
No, @"Outlander" is describing "normal". Normal is all about expectation. To meet expectation is to be normal . "Natural" is an entirely different con...
December 11, 2025 at 06:19
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...
December 10, 2025 at 23:27
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...
December 10, 2025 at 18:32
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 ...
December 05, 2025 at 00:03
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...
December 04, 2025 at 21:35
Viruses are a hard no. They don't even have volition, they make no decisions, they are essentially giant, extraordinarily complex, free floating molec...
December 04, 2025 at 18:49
: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...
December 04, 2025 at 17:54
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...
December 03, 2025 at 18:22