Every atom occupies a different location in space from every other, so that alone doesn't provide any grounds, not to mention the fact that 3d space s...
Yes, that's what I thought you meant. Which is why my answer was "it depends what you mean by 'wrong'". If you mean objectively 'wrong' in a normative...
Only if both A and B agree on what defines @. @ is not 'seen' at all, it does not 'look like' anything from any perspective without a model which defi...
This is nonsense. You're redefining the term 'identity' to mean something it never meant in this context. I completely agree with you that sex is a so...
Right, but you said... No 'mode' in the ordinary language sense (approach used) can 'give aboutness' in the same ordinary language sense because 'abou...
Depends what you mean by 'wrong'. As a model, it's a brilliant one - useful, elegant, highly accurate predictions. But as some objective measure of th...
There isn't no pattern matching. I'm not saying that nothing exists and that things don't happen. Pattern matching is happening in some part of realit...
There is no pattern matching, there's just the flux of thing. The only way we can talk about pattern matching going on is by agreeing to a model in wh...
Quibble away. Give me a reason to think that the boundary between 'I' and 'not I' is one which would continue to exist (differently to the boundary be...
So close, it's hardly worth quibbling, but I don't think other people exist either. I think the real world, all that is the case, exists. Any division...
Replacing one idiosyncratic technical term with another is hardly an explanation. A system which can only be explained in terms of its own technical l...
This doesn't follow. A belief that the distinction of another mind is just a model is not the same as saying that only I exist. I'm quite convinced th...
What would "someone else's pain" mean here? I don't have you're chair either but it doesn't prevent me from both understanding what a chair is and tal...
Yes. I think that's a pretty good summary of where the current evidence is at, in terms of what we can be fairly sure of and what there remains some c...
I have no clue how this relates to what I said. As to the rest of your post... Yeah, I'm aware of the fact that you have a different opinion, so simpl...
I didn't say that no phenomena weren't directly accessible though. I just said that all phenomena 'of the world' were accessed (in terms of us knowing...
No, but the mental phenomenon is a disposition towards some behaviour, so it is accessible in exactly the same way all other phenomena of the world ar...
Right, and I'm obviously not disputing that fact. I'm disputing the implication drawn earlier in the argument that this means we should accept 'experi...
And telling you at some later time isn't a behaviour? Or, if you want to say "well we didn't know at time X", then surely that applies equally to all ...
I'm sure @"fdrake" has this covered but you're so frustratingly close I couldn't help but intervene. Yes. Yes (broadly) Yes No. You've just conceded t...
Again, how would we know? Without any external signs, how do the judges, jurors, doctors etc know that there is some feeling in the subject which they...
What reason have you got to think this? But how would you know that? The sensation which allows you to continue without displaying any signs cannot be...
@"Marchesk" Also, you haven't tried to answer my questions. How would you know that what you're experiencing is called 'pain'? How do you know you're ...
OK, that makes sense. In my terminology, that would be the active variance reduction seeking if the system relating to the model currently in focus. O...
It's a fact I dispute, a fact I'm asking for your support of, your empirical evidence for. To say something is 'just a fact' is quite a strong asserti...
It doesn't matter one jot what terminology you want to use. Call it 'it'. 'It' cannot be used in a conversation with another person unless that other ...
I've certainly never encountered such a situation. You're suggesting that a patient might come to a doctor, telling them that they're in pain, but sho...
I'd have to just track down the paper, I'll have a look for a non-paywall version.I don't think this format is an appropriate write out the details of...
No, that's not how mirror neurons work, they only indicate intentions related to behaviours, they can't magically distinguish different intentions fro...
It's existence makes no difference, 'unicorns' don't exist, the idea of 5 dimensional space doesn't exist... None of this makes them immune from the f...
Yes, but why does it have to be a subjective experience for this to be the case? 'Pain' we all learn, is the word we use to indicate whatever it is th...
No, we don't, otherwise the word wouldn't mean anything. If any subjective experience counted as pain without any objective measures, then how would w...
We've been through this, I don't see any reason to presume that the 'object' comes first. What I can and can't imagine comes first, then I divide that...
Simple. Take a sensation, call it 'red'. Job done. 'Red' isn't out there waiting for us to find it, we experience things and give some of them names, ...
By that token no talk can be an experiential investigation. Talk requires referring terms which requires agreement as to the referrent, which, by defi...
Yet all you've given thus far is... I'd agree with all of those (with the same caveats as you). But you've not demonstrated any of them are necessaril...
I never said it was noteworthy. Useful, not noteworthy. As you have many times before, you're confusing a model of my construction with a model over w...
Yes, that's right. Luckily most of my models are shared with my interlocutors with sufficient congruity for us to dispense with the declarations to th...
Yes, I understood that, and the answer was, no, that's not the full assumption I'm holding because it does not contain the assumption that I need to c...
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