I'll do my best. 1. Beliefs are not propositions. Beliefs are states of mind equivalent to a tendency to act as if... As such it is a) not possible to...
That's fine, but then all you've got is the intent behind the expression, but we're talking about ontological commitments here. "Harry Potter" is used...
How would you do that when the sensory input resulting from that detail fired the relevant neurons many minutes ago? How can you 'notice' the detail a...
I'm not sure what your ability to imagine that something might be the case has to do with a discussion about whether something is in fact the case. Ho...
Because it's important that you specify. Imagine we we're arguing about the nature of 'true believers', back and forth for pages, only to find out tha...
I really don't know what to say. Your claim is that X is associated with Y, I show and example of X without Y and you say it's irrelevant. I don't kno...
By 'an experience' I assumed Yuan meant some conscious awareness of mental states, otherwise I've no idea what you mean by the term. No. I could imagi...
Why not? It's really super useful to assent to things you don't believe. It greases the wheels of social interaction, it bonds social groups, it might...
No we haven't. Activation of Brodmann's area precedes signals being sent to the working memory. You literally start forming the word 'red' in response...
None of those things would be properties of mental processes, they might at best be categories of mental processes, as in "this particular set neural ...
Just because we can see what someone means by identifying something, doesn't mean it exists. I can understand the idea of an ordinary zombie animated ...
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Neither I nor Dennett are arguing that all things are the same as all other things, so you being ...
And one last thing. Global vaccine take-up hovers around the 80% mark with well-trusted, widely distributed vaccines whose patents have either run out...
Oh, and also...we already have a way of slowing the spread of coronavirus. Test, trace, isolate, mask, hand-wash. It's nothing short of criminal that ...
I'm not saying vaccines don't work, but seriously...if this happened in any other field we'd be up in arms - oil industry, pestcides, arms sales, bank...
According to the industry with hundreds of proven (and thousands of suspected) cases of lying about the results of its trials, lying about the procedu...
I presume you're referring to I don't really agree or disagree here. I think the concept is too poorly defined. If by 'reality of conscious experience...
...and this is supposed to be good news? Has the narrative so easily been rewritten? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pfizer-flynn-pha...
No. Whilst I agree with Dennett about rejecting the purported properties of qualia, I also reject that there is such a thing as the 'redness' of a flo...
Yes, that might be better, but I would say that a word with no proper referent has no consistent meaning (use) and so it's involvement in technical fi...
Cool. I have no objection to that. I ask because the majority view from 'hard problemers' seems to be that Dennett is somehow 'not even addressing the...
How does logic tell us what sets the things we label belong to? Are you saying that Hesperus and Phosphorus are two different things, despite both bei...
Funnily enough, I spent a good 15 years of my academic career studying the differences between "tendencies to act as if..." and "propositions one woul...
Yes, I don't think your position was unclear the first time so a fourth or fifth repetition isn't helping. What I was asking was, if the separateness ...
...which is begging the question already. As I said earlier, the debate is about these assumptions, discussion is pointless if you're going to start f...
If the sort of answer which is appropriate for noses is also appropriate for consciousness, then we've made loads of progress. We've got some really g...
I've asked this on another thread, but for you, what would an answer to this question look like?. If I ask "why do we have noses" an evolutionary, or ...
This doesn't make sense. How can the mere fact that we're doubting prove we're having an experience with 'being a p-zombie' as the alternative? If the...
Just noticed this edit. Interesting. Personally, I think it fails on the third criteria - 'meaning'. I think Dennett's account here shows that the ter...
Well, you needn't use infinite regress as logic is a formal language and so self-reference can be dealt with using Tarskian meta-languages, but that's...
He's talking about the word itself. The word exists. I suppose on way to put it if you want to maintain that all words we use must, by that use, have ...
Like the belief in the truth-preserving property of logic? Right, so that at least entails a judgement, as I said earlier, that a significant number o...
There's an excellent paper on this. Obviously Hacker's https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy/article/is-there-anything-it-is-like-to-be-a...
Yes, to an extent. If we can (in theory) agree intersubjectively on the sources of sensory inputs, and on the responses to those sensory input, then w...
No, that's just the first matter to be eliminated in 8. He then goes on to eliminate matters relating to current qualia, the sipping of the coffee rig...
Not on my reading of it it isn't. Reformed epistemology is just saying that belief in God might be a basic immutable belief (like we've already agreed...
I meant that if science could modify it such as to give us the wiring in response to sonar, that the bat would have developed over it's lifetime. I'm ...
No, the intuition pumps 8-12 show that we cannot access these 'qualia'. If we could, then we'd be able to tell which pathway had bee tampered with. As...
This begs the question. Science only "can't" tell us that if you assume your conclusion that such sensations are private and intrinsic. If you don't, ...
Yes. I should have written sensory input. Sorry - I've edited back, so thanks for that. Any reaction that indicates we've had some sensory input, coul...
Yes. That's what they're theorised to be in order to distinguish us from wine-tasting machines. But theorised that way, they can't also be private, in...
Yeah, I'd be tempted to agree with you here on a pragmatic level. But this doesn't show that such experience is 'necessarily' private. As you say, the...
That's the point of the though experiments. The only thing we can say we end up with is a relation between the sources of sensation and the response, ...
In order to advocate it you must at least have judged that there exist people which do not follow this method, otherwise it's like advocating breathin...
The first section of the article does seem to cause a lot of confusion, maybe Dennett could have been clearer. What he does in intuition pumps one to ...
I never said they did. You asked about whether they provided knowledge of out puts. They do. This seems a common theme of misunderstanding, also in @"...
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