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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
Yeah, it's the difference between consciousness as a subject of investigation and consciousness as an adjunct to investigation. So an illusion is some...
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 "...
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 ...
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 ...
The place it purportedly plays in the process of perception. Mostly hidden state>qualia>introspective perception (of qualia). The colours and shapes a...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
No-one mentioned understanding the subject. In fact I specifically explained the exact opposite (the difference between understanding a practise and u...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Why? One prevents either nociception or working memory function (depending on type), the other prevent muscle function. I'm not seeing how this relate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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