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But wait, I thought: Have you reverted back to p-zombiehood? How exactly does your conscious mind (if it is) receive information about the world, if i...

Who exactly is arguing from its felicitous use as a word? Only you, for me. I think it is just fine. It is a biological explanation for a change (loss...

The hard problem is not about consciousness in the abstract, it specifically asks how the biological reality of nervous systems relates to the first p...

If this were true there would be as many hard problems as there are nominalizations.

Right, and that is a far cry from saying "science needn't bother answering this".

There is absolutely a need for one to explain the other, if there was no need there would be no hard problem.

For once I agree with @"Isaac". For Chalmers there is an explanatory gap, for Isaac there is no gap, since consciousness is somehow a purely human con...

Understanding of the world, not word. Experiences are events, whether or not they are somehow illusory. As such they require an explanation. The bound...

But don't stop there, you've left us hanging.

Gibberish.

Every event must have a cause. If consciousness isn't supernatural, and the physical state of the brain remains constant, then the inversion would be ...

Assuming you reject dualism then I don't see how that is conceivable.

Gods and pixie dust don't exist, so no account is necessary. But you agree that we have experiences, and therefore some scientific accounting for them...

Who said we know nothing of their properties? Their properties just do not match their physical counterparts. In fact, we know everything of their pro...

We are aware of an imaginary yellow and blue disks, which is just an awkward way of saying we are imagining them. Why should imaginary and real things...

I don't agree with this one, I always thought he was a high quality poster. I guess I missed the dickish stuff?

I don't doubt this at all, nor any of the neurodiversity you point out. I just don't think it is the norm. From what I have read of people who cannot ...

To have a first-person experience of it. By report, or by measuring at the neural correlates.

Who is claiming you "really" seeing in your mind? Brain activity will be similar whether you are seeing or imagining. But this doesn't mean the logic ...

Yes, my experience is the same as yours. I read other posts from people with aphantasia and they make the same mistake. They think we are walking arou...

Your suspicion is understandable but wrong, though the subject has not received nearly the attention it deserves. Here is one blog post by a guy with ...

You are misusing the word "aware". A camera receives light, but it is not aware of it. A camera taking a picture is not an instance of "awareness".

Computationally.

This is an excellent point. Not only is it different, but everyone presumes that their own cognitive makeup is universal. Which leads to some incredib...

Your brain classifies all sorts of things. But you are only aware of a few. That is proof that awareness involves something more, or other, than just ...

I'm not saying that mechanisms can't bring about consciousness. I'm saying that the mere classification of signals is, obviously, not consciousness.

It's not just the question of meaning, nor just how it works. It's the question of how these two domains could ever be bridged. "How does it work, so ...

This is revolutionary! Machine consciousness has long been a holy grail of AI research. Nobody realized how simple it has been all along! All you have...

My understanding: The audio and video of a movie is encoded as a set of 0s and 1s, which is one enormous base-2 number. This binary number is encoded ...

What trips people up is conflating an understanding of consciousness with understanding the NCCs (neural correlates of consciousness). You can imagine...

Just because you aren't a dualist about consciousness doesn't mean the question just disappears. Consider a DVD. Is the movie "on" the DVD something i...

:100: :clap: But this then becomes "good for". The point of "intrinsic" was that the pro-Sally sentiment expressed by "Sally is good" is about Sally, ...

Of course consciousness is a state. At any time you may be either conscious or unconscious. The point of general anesthesia is to change your state of...

The charm of this story lies with the multiple seemingly inexplicable callbacks to the donkeys. It creates a unique, humorous effect. I'm confused, wa...

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It baffles me that you think any of these questions are unaskable, that they "just are". What a strange, pre-scientific mindset, like answering a ques...

Good is not mere approval, as I point out: Can a speaker assert they approve of x, due to an innate quality of x , while at the same time assert that ...

Thanks! I knew at least one fellow weirdo would appreciate it.

I volunteered to run the next one of these "activities",, it is something to consider if there is interest.

Can you link a paper or article? Are you really suggesting that "why not? What's stopping them?" is an adequate answer to any of these?

Consciousness is not information. But consciousness is informational. It is a phenomenon arising from flows of information. That is why the hard probl...

Going beyond your judgement is out of bounds? I see. You argued that values are arational, and so the question does not apply. I say that values can i...

Any number of factors, depending on context. Maybe she is moral and kind. Maybe she is a competent guitarist. Whatever it is, it is something innate a...

You were the one arguing that perceptions were effable. So you would eff whatever their perceptions are like to them. Cite one you think is satisfacto...

The latter. Otherwise, "prefer" or "like" would be used, not "good".

When a speaker declares x is good, they are marking their approval of x. Moreover, they are asserting that this approval springs from something intrin...

In my mind, the first three words, "I found him", suggested that there was a special connection between the protagonist and victim, that the victim ha...

I've had the same dream, many times. Usually there is a class that I somehow forgot about and never went to, and now there is an important test. Thank...

This is debatable. To take a common example, many value money over happiness. This might be irrational, as money might be valued as instrumental towar...

I frankly don't have the musical knowledge to make this kind of association. The title was just a filing in of the cliched template: x in key I just w...