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I don't think so. The idea of sensation being filtered through Bayesian models is expounded in great detail in the various papers on the subject. Not ...
December 05, 2020 at 16:59
What evidence do you have that that's what you did? You learnt to use 'red' at, what, two, three? Are you suggesting you have a clear memory of the me...
December 05, 2020 at 16:46
'Experience' is no less slippery a term unless pinned down. Equivocation is the weapon of choice for most woo-merchants.
December 05, 2020 at 14:23
There's a post mortem which will still try to establish the cause of death. If the person in the car died from their injuries at the scene and one exc...
December 05, 2020 at 14:17
Yeah...presuming we have any more confidence that we know what 'our conscious process' distinguishes than we do what 'our mental processes' does.
December 05, 2020 at 14:02
I appreciate the explanation, but I'm still not seeing the 'study'. If one performs this 'bracketing' then one has list of experiences which one just ...
December 05, 2020 at 13:28
If I was, the process would be unproblematic. Then how can we have a 'red' quale? Red is not the end result of any stimuli at all. If qualia are now b...
December 05, 2020 at 13:24
Because otherwise you have an experience 'which is red' (Cartesian theatre gone mad), or an experience 'which you called red' (non-private, you can mi...
December 05, 2020 at 13:13
So. What's the difference between a 'study' and a 'report'? One would expect a 'study' of baking a cake to have some kind of hypothesis in mind, data,...
December 05, 2020 at 09:53
Yeah, it's the difference between consciousness as a subject of investigation and consciousness as an adjunct to investigation. So an illusion is some...
December 05, 2020 at 09:42
Yes of course, that's the answer! ...It's a marvel you were ever taught anything. When your physics tutor explained atomic theory to you did you say "...
December 05, 2020 at 08:33
If their recovery was in any way hampered by Covid-19 (even having had it) then it would form part of the chain of events leading to death (the other ...
December 05, 2020 at 08:30
Yes, but the mere existence of an end product of some sort is not what's in question. It's properties are. 'Qualia' does not simply mean 'some mental ...
December 05, 2020 at 07:52
The place it purportedly plays in the process of perception. Mostly hidden state>qualia>introspective perception (of qualia). The colours and shapes a...
December 05, 2020 at 07:49
Consciousness is not private. It's exact components might be pragmatically so, but there's no reason at all why some highly specific limits to the gra...
December 05, 2020 at 07:36
Yes, but again with caveats I'm afraid. I presume you're talking about mutually exclusive variables to an extent (again with ceretis paribus). In norm...
December 05, 2020 at 07:13
So would what constitutes a 'perceptual system' have parameters other than the edge of their Markov blanket? I mean such that we're not simply making ...
December 04, 2020 at 18:27
Yeah, I think you'd have to. We can't escape this and look at it from a position where I'm outside of my modelling, but I don't see that as a problem ...
December 04, 2020 at 18:23
Yes, definitely, but the extent will depend on the novelty of the environment and the developmental stage of the brain. It's one of the reasons babies...
December 04, 2020 at 18:08
Yes, several. My favourite is Karl Friston's model. Here's an introduction. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Active%20Inference%20A%20Process%20The...
December 04, 2020 at 18:01
The hidden state of some part of the external world.
December 04, 2020 at 17:49
You'd struggle to find so much as a handful of neuroscience papers which even mention p-zombies in anything more than a disinterested passing phrase, ...
December 04, 2020 at 17:44
Yep, you've called my bluff, I've just been winging it so far using Google.
December 04, 2020 at 17:28
Yes. That the brain creates models to predict the outcome of the body's interaction with hidden states of the exterior environment. That these models ...
December 04, 2020 at 17:24
Ah, so you're another one for whom 'why?' apparently means something completely different with regards to consciousness than it does in every other fi...
December 04, 2020 at 17:21
Then I think you've either had little experience of the scientific community in my field or you've misunderstood my position. It's quite the most comm...
December 04, 2020 at 17:06
I've cited several papers which you've declined to read.
December 04, 2020 at 14:15
What part of the path between the signals sent by nerve endings and signals sent to the voicebox to produce "it feels like a stabbing pain" is it that...
December 04, 2020 at 14:13
Right. And your position is that qualia exist (are a coherent ontological commitment), so saying their existence is 'obvious' is exactly the same as s...
December 04, 2020 at 14:00
http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel.html
December 04, 2020 at 08:35
Ha! That's a perfect microcosm of what's going on here. I'll quote one bit. Apparently it's perfectly reasonable to believe that sentience comes from ...
December 04, 2020 at 08:33
Simply claiming your position to be 'obvious' is a lame argument. Do you really expect anyone to take that seriously?
December 04, 2020 at 08:21
I don't see why. If someone asked me what it's like to be a rape victim, I'd more likely reach for considerably less technical terminology. But if som...
December 04, 2020 at 07:24
No-one mentioned understanding the subject. In fact I specifically explained the exact opposite (the difference between understanding a practise and u...
December 04, 2020 at 07:14
Why would we rely on the spoken word as the sole response? We could measure prostaglandin for example, or activity in the thalamus.
December 03, 2020 at 14:01
More or less, yes. I don't see the need for a speculative 'middle man' with no empirical support for it's existence. Stimuli cause responses. We can e...
December 03, 2020 at 13:54
For me it's... ... and a dozen others. The constant refrain of the idealist. "X is not amenable to empirical evidence from the material world of the p...
December 03, 2020 at 13:25
I thought I'd answered that. There's one-to-one relationship with the neurons in the post central gyrus where the location of pain signals is interpre...
December 03, 2020 at 13:09
From where are you getting this empirical data about 'common', 'colloquial' use of the expression 'to understand the meaning of a word'? I wasn't talk...
December 03, 2020 at 13:09
Yes, that's right. Public models. By which I mean ones which, although in individual minds, are kept similar by repeated use to accomplish similar tas...
December 03, 2020 at 13:09
Why would it mean that? Because we have no signals from either of those wavelengths to model. I'm not clear on what you're getting at here at all.
December 03, 2020 at 08:10
Charity as much as anything else. But also, meaning is related to use, so any (intentionally) successful use has to have an element of understanding m...
December 03, 2020 at 08:07
I think Hilton's is more about the overlapping of sensorimotor and surrounding tissue nerve ending, the superhighway idea is a consequence of it, but ...
December 03, 2020 at 07:46
Why? One prevents either nociception or working memory function (depending on type), the other prevent muscle function. I'm not seeing how this relate...
December 02, 2020 at 13:43
Yep. Nope. That's not what the quoted text says. It may be my poor communication. Let me try again from scratch. We'll do it with object perception be...
December 02, 2020 at 11:54
Say someone had such a list. They'd be indistinguishable from your someone who'd never seen anything red. So I have a reason for my answer, I don't kn...
December 02, 2020 at 11:40
So the colour-blind can't know that they're colour-blind? Ask a colour-blind person what it is that they don't see, they will answer "colours". Are th...
December 02, 2020 at 10:40
No-one said anything about it having "nothing to do with" eating and drinking, only that it is not the result of it. By associating the concept with i...
December 02, 2020 at 10:02
No. Here's a really good paper on the subject - https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/1/1/2823712. I'm not sure what bearing you're expecting the f...
December 02, 2020 at 08:42
Yes! Perfect.
December 02, 2020 at 08:20