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No - why would I need to convince you otherwise? If I thought your views might cause harm to me or others, then maybe I'd have a crack at convincing y...
November 03, 2019 at 22:52
Yeah, as Sushi says, with conventional definitions I can't see how the question makes sense. 'Unconscious' is a label given to those mental phenomena ...
November 03, 2019 at 17:45
It obviously depends on what you're going to class as 'mind', 'concious' and 'phenomena'. Define the terms in a standard way and there's definitely un...
November 03, 2019 at 17:10
Our sense of fairness/justice consists of anything we want it to consist of. It's not a term that pre-exists humans making it up. I'm pretty sure none...
November 03, 2019 at 16:51
Yes, that is what I'm asking you about. If my null hypothesis were that attributes such as a sense of fairness were not unique to humans, what kind of...
November 02, 2019 at 21:39
Ah, I see what you mean now. You mean "the artist must....in order to produce art" . I read it as "the artist must..." in the same sense as the non-ar...
November 02, 2019 at 09:39
You said "I found it rather odd that they chose some experiments/games which are not even capable of showing in humans what they are wanting the same ...
November 02, 2019 at 08:37
The experiments were done with appearing and disappearing dots of ambiguous contrast with cameras facing the eyes that track movement. Subjects were f...
November 02, 2019 at 08:32
What experiment would you set up to show that humans had this feature?
November 02, 2019 at 07:57
No, it's not just an alternative, it's the model which minimises variance. You're making the same unwarranted presumption Terrapin made about artists....
November 02, 2019 at 07:56
Yeah, I agree. We can actually see a lot of this happening in the brain. When you imagine a tree, the visual cortex is engaged in a very similar way t...
November 02, 2019 at 07:45
Yeah, fair enough. I see where you're coming from, but there's more than just the very basic emotions hardwired into the brain from birth. The somatos...
November 02, 2019 at 07:25
The trouble with that approach is it seems to set an unreasonably high bar not consistent with other objects. No one has any objection to me talking a...
November 01, 2019 at 18:48
But can't you, for example, imagine how you'd feel if you won the lottery? Surely there you'd be imagining a feeling, not an image? Even visualising y...
November 01, 2019 at 18:26
I'm not so sure personification is unwarranted. We immediately personify humans we meet and it would have been grossly incongruous, for example, for m...
November 01, 2019 at 17:52
Yeah, I think we're on the same page as far as the fact that models relate, but that doesn't in itself, lead to external world properties somehow havi...
November 01, 2019 at 17:43
'Minimise variance' is quite specific to variance within modelled statistical distributions, not just any and all variance. One semi-closed system (sa...
November 01, 2019 at 17:34
Minimising variance is a well-supported principle of self-organising systems. A large proportion of neuroscience, and significant sectors of biology a...
October 31, 2019 at 17:26
Well yeah, constructivism is pretty much where I'm coming from,im afraid. I mean, there's varieties of constructivist, but in the sense of model-depen...
October 31, 2019 at 16:57
I think you're not understanding the meaning of the word arbitrary. It just means on a whim, without a system or reason. Not without a system or reaso...
October 31, 2019 at 14:27
Corrected the quote, doubt it helps though from the sound of it.
October 31, 2019 at 14:23
I'm not so much asking about the correct categorisation as just talking about what I see as the implications. You can call it what you like. The fact ...
October 31, 2019 at 13:48
Yes absolutely. I fear we might be talking past one another here. I'm not in any sense arguing that there are not external states, nor that our intern...
October 31, 2019 at 13:40
Yes, pretty much. I think it's possible to understand what things do, how we can interact with them etc without language, but 'a box' is a distinct(is...
October 31, 2019 at 10:01
Yes, maybe, but we're talking to each other here. It's not true to say anyone can experience a box without sharing a common worded representation of b...
October 31, 2019 at 09:05
OK, but consider you're walking along the floor in some weird house, your feature detection system is telling you the floor is not level, you check wi...
October 31, 2019 at 08:08
Can you imagine a really load noise? Can you imagine the set of all sets? Can you imagine if you forgot where your home was?...
October 31, 2019 at 07:47
Unfortunately not, but I do have an ear infection which is making me more than usually cranky (which is very cranky). I'm a little fed up in general, ...
October 31, 2019 at 07:44
Yes, but it obviously seems that way to me otherwise I wouldn't have wrote what I wrote. It's not really much a contribution just to say "you got that...
October 31, 2019 at 07:32
-> -> If you don't like my answers then fine, but it's pointless keep asking for them as I haven't given you any, we're just going tend up going round...
October 31, 2019 at 07:29
We don't need to know anything about what's 'really' there, we seem, just as a species, to be fundamentally interested in variance minimising. There a...
October 30, 2019 at 17:03
I'm not 100% sure I get what you're saying here, so I may go off on entirely the wrong tangent, but... What I was trying to say to Sushi in the commen...
October 30, 2019 at 16:54
Ha. You're simply 'explaining' what is the case, as opposed to what I think is the case. As I said... But you see a square. People can be genuinely fo...
October 30, 2019 at 15:28
Yet... ...and this isn't an abstraction? I'm struggling to see any more depth to your argument than "things are not the way you think they are, they'r...
October 30, 2019 at 15:14
T1 is an infinitesimally small point, so I don't see how it can coherently have any data attached to it. Even so, properties of some object at some pa...
October 30, 2019 at 14:43
A few things perhaps unrelated to each other... 1. Obviously we'd be talking about a situation where we're comparing two participants both in A's plac...
October 30, 2019 at 14:09
We determine anything by reference to deeper models, things like consistency and non-contradiction. We know (by reference to these) that observations ...
October 30, 2019 at 13:05
No, I presume I'm observing reality, but observing is a model-mediated process. I don't 'observe' without modelling. I see what I expect to see to a c...
October 30, 2019 at 12:44
Everything I think is some model or other of the reality I'm thinking about, so there is no question that I can answer outside of some model or other....
October 30, 2019 at 12:37
You'd have to reference the exact question for me to give you a comprehensive answer, but as to the topic in general, it's obviously one about the nat...
October 30, 2019 at 12:03
As I just tried to explain. One model for one type of behaviour - philosophising - no objects. Another model for another type of behaviour - relating ...
October 30, 2019 at 11:09
I'm asking about the placeholders in my model, the same model I presume you have since were both human beings and I think such basics as object perman...
October 30, 2019 at 11:00
Ahh, that makes more sense. But look at Ramachandran's self-awareness experiments. Does the table have sensory receptors which link to our brains? Typ...
October 30, 2019 at 10:51
Well not just creations, I never said anything like that. I'm personally quite convinced there's some external reality, but if we're just talking abou...
October 30, 2019 at 10:41
Exactly, so where's my role in this phenomenal investigation? You say "let's just investigate what it is we actually experience, let's use that as our...
October 30, 2019 at 10:14
I'm questioning both the accuracy (in terms of language use) and the usefulness (for our investigation) of that connection. I don't think "can you ima...
October 30, 2019 at 10:11
This is all just another tired old variation on the same lame arguments we had against the "what it's like" objection. "it's obvious...", "you really ...
October 30, 2019 at 09:34
Whether I can imagine a box with no sides or volume depends on what I decide a 'box' is. Since I'm encountering new concepts all the time, I'm quite u...
October 30, 2019 at 09:06
Depends on the definition of box.
October 30, 2019 at 08:56
So, talk me through it, if you will. We're asking... First question, what would constitute a measure of correctness for any answer?
October 30, 2019 at 08:48