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For Christ's sake, stop answering everything by telling me what you didn't mean, it's not a fucking guessing game. If you didn't mean the thing I inte...
October 22, 2019 at 18:10
Yes.
October 21, 2019 at 16:06
Yes, obviously. As I've just cited, whole papers have been written by eminent philosophers, cognitive scientists and psychologists entirely on the sub...
October 21, 2019 at 13:04
It's not though. Not in Jackson, not in Chalmers, not in Lewis, Byrne, Janzen. In all of these uses, and the use it is put to here, it constitutes mor...
October 21, 2019 at 12:46
OK, then yeah, I think sometimes 'what it's like' language is trying to capture experience. But part of the problem is that it acts as a technical ref...
October 21, 2019 at 12:21
A preference is 'natural' if it is one displayed by the species acting in a typical manner. All your other definitions are some form of 'necessary' wh...
October 21, 2019 at 11:16
That is exactly how it is supposed to work, which is why I disagree with it so strongly. It is the basis for a whole load of mystical woo around consc...
October 21, 2019 at 10:47
No. To say order is strongly associated with a designer is begging the question. That is the very matter the argument is trying to resolve. Does the o...
October 21, 2019 at 10:20
3 does not follow from 1 unless there is some reason to think that the universe is otherwise in the same category as watches. Consider... 1. A watch h...
October 21, 2019 at 08:10
So the sticking point is still an epistemological one because you're still suggesting that something about the experience can be learnt by having the ...
October 21, 2019 at 08:04
Yeah, that'd be great, thanks.
October 21, 2019 at 07:40
Yeah. As usual with @"Bartricks"'s types of argument, they're based on one massive flaw, and this is it. The Problem of Evil is a question of why God ...
October 21, 2019 at 07:21
No, the point is there is no such thing as the experience of seeing red. There is only an experience which may from time to time, involve seeing red. ...
October 21, 2019 at 07:15
Yes, but you're not talking about man-made objects. The footprint I just made in the sand is a man-made object, the eddies I just made in the water as...
October 21, 2019 at 07:06
I don't read what Wittgenstein was saying that way, maybe taking it out of the context of the piece wasn't helpful of me. He's saying that the express...
October 20, 2019 at 20:15
I don't understand. Do you mean you want me to stop arguing as in... ...in which case you'd need to point me in the direction of the part of my commen...
October 20, 2019 at 18:33
No, because the act of recognition can occur in different people based in different patterns. I might recognise my phone number, to you it's random di...
October 20, 2019 at 17:23
Attitudinal reports are analogous also, just not directly so. I felt happy, only works as an analogy to the times the person you're speaking to experi...
October 20, 2019 at 15:37
Not at all. I know in what context it was mentioned, what it was trying to say. I certainly wouldn't say I fully understood what one is. I'm fairly su...
October 20, 2019 at 15:26
Yes, but the point is that it doesn't really say anything at all without either analogy or attitudinal report, as every other question beginning "what...
October 20, 2019 at 13:10
Well then it can't be an argument from analogy as there is no other object to which to compare it.
October 20, 2019 at 12:19
That's pretty much how I see it too. Interestingly, since we were talking about Ramachandran earlier, he has my personal favourite solution to the Mar...
October 20, 2019 at 06:52
Yes, I don't know why people keep bringing up these tangential remarks in a thread about Frank Jackson's Thought experiment! Seriously, I'm only conti...
October 20, 2019 at 06:40
True, but in the meantime I can at least relax in my favourite armchair (or God, as I call it). The armchair than which no greater armchair can exist.
October 20, 2019 at 06:15
Absolutely. Definitions can't be treated as if they were some technical matter enabling the true meat of a discussion, definitions are what a discussi...
October 20, 2019 at 06:07
No, you're not taking on board what I'm saying. That is not how the brain works. You might like it to, but the evidence contradicts it. Colour-blind s...
October 19, 2019 at 20:13
Yes, but Mary knows everything about the colour Red. Literally everything there is to know about it, every connection anyone ever made with it, every ...
October 19, 2019 at 17:40
At the moment I'm keen on the expanding connectivity theory. The work's currently being done at Sussex (one of my old haunts). If you stimulate an unc...
October 19, 2019 at 17:32
How do you know this? Surely it's not a given. In fact experiments with psychotic hallucination seems to at least vaguely point in the direction of th...
October 19, 2019 at 17:25
Robustness of a theory is subjective. It's robust enough for me. No (apart from the good-looking bit, which is true). We don't do science that way. An...
October 19, 2019 at 17:06
Yeah, I'm quite happy to agree with that. The Colourblind Scientist experiment though is supposed to demonstrate Mary could not, even in theory, know ...
October 19, 2019 at 17:00
You see, this is the bit I just don't get the support for. It's just like the Colourblind Scientist. If she really did learn all there was to know abo...
October 19, 2019 at 16:18
Yeah, but only in that being merely related to involves some other component, whereas being reducible to means one thing entirely consists of the othe...
October 19, 2019 at 15:53
No, it's a fairly robust theory. Virtually no one reports experience when in an unconscious state. Levels of reported experience even correlate with l...
October 19, 2019 at 13:27
But that just goes back to the first person accounts neuroscience uses to correlate its mechanically detected data with. How is that not 'experience'?...
October 19, 2019 at 13:11
What would be "beyond" the function of consciousness?
October 19, 2019 at 12:57
No, I'm saying I merely specified the order that would interest me, then threw the dice. Not that I threw the dice with the intention of making 1,2,3,...
October 19, 2019 at 12:56
Have a look back at @"fdrake"'s earlier posts here. Science already does include the concept of first person experience, the whole of cognitive scienc...
October 19, 2019 at 09:12
Right, this really bugs me (sorry to pick on you Frank, it could have been anyone). Is it just a failure of my imagination, but I can't think what an ...
October 19, 2019 at 08:54
Yeah. Again, off topic, but some interesting work has been done on possibly connecting the parts of the brain responsible for distinguishing self from...
October 19, 2019 at 08:44
I'm not sure if this is what you were getting at, so either to expand, or to contrast your approach.. Something like The Will is not only unable to ef...
October 19, 2019 at 08:25
No. I mean framework which we share, prior to the conclusions you or I draw. That's the only way discussion can proceed. You say "to try and explain w...
October 19, 2019 at 07:49
Yeah, good. If only I wasn't kept so busy being forced to write obloquial retorts to all the mystics, fakirs, and hyper-rationalist wisenheimer that s...
October 19, 2019 at 07:20
At the risk of veering wildly off topic, I think there's a lot of threads to this which are not necessarily to do with reductionism. The one which is ...
October 19, 2019 at 06:58
Absolutely. I agree but I think it's far more of a problem invented by philosophers because it 'could be' the case than an actual problem in science t...
October 19, 2019 at 06:35
It's not about the uniqueness of the criteria, it's about the criteria itself. You say elevation to the 'sole' criteria, but what you really mean is d...
October 19, 2019 at 06:18
Exactly. You've prejudiced your own investigation. You've dismissed the possibility that it's not "something real, but something very difficult to rea...
October 19, 2019 at 05:58
I see what you're saying here, but I think you miss an important role of what is commonly considered under the umbrella of 'reductionism', and that is...
October 19, 2019 at 05:50
Not at all, I could previously specify that the 'order' I'm looking for is 1,2,3,4,5,6, then it is a 'specified sequence'. I then throw the die six ti...
October 19, 2019 at 05:41
Absolutely, well said. As if the taxonomy of the thing was the most important issue!
October 18, 2019 at 20:12