Yes? What connects the acceptance that there are motivations to fight back with somehow having to pretend those motivations are more politically impor...
No 'Experience' is a word it's felicitous use in conversation is not empirical evidence, Scientists perfectly cogently used to use the word 'ether' to...
Well, I'm glad I haven't taken on your whole family! Yes, although, as I said, the entire welfare check could be picked up by a minor tax increase on ...
Examples of court cases? No, I think that's the one all this has pretty much coalesced into. but I'm talking about the wider debate, the attempt to de...
I don't see how. Chalmers famously labelled it the 'hard problem', didn't he? I'm suggesting it isn't a problem at all. I can't think of any way we co...
Forgot to answer this. Yes. I think that social constructions are 'selected' to make sense of biological interocepted data. That biological data is li...
Yes, I think that's definitely true (the changes being needed). I have strong doubts this is what Mermaids are actually doing though, based on their o...
How does doubt logically imply a sentient, self-conscious entity holding it? What logical steps form that implication? Perhaps you could render it in ...
Why would I do that? Pointing out that the definition is an arbitrary cultural artifact is not the same as saying I want it replaced with another one....
Yes. I think there's two separate questions here. The first is whether neuroscience explains this 'phenomenological' use of the term consciousness. I ...
The OP... If the OP wanted a within-paradigm discussion, then drawing in biology, chemistry, electricity, and quantum mechanics mightn't be the best w...
No. That's exactly the notion I'm disagreeing with. Us being able to use a word in conversation is not an indicator that that word picks out some empi...
Still don't. There's no such thing as a Ukrainian identity. Ukrainians identify in all sorts of different, occasionally completely incompatible ways. ...
Let them in. Is America going to run out of space? No. Is America going to run out of money? Jeff Bezos alone could afford their welfare cheques. Just...
So your idea of a discussion forum is that someone posts a claim and everyone who disagrees with it should refrain from posting in that thread. That e...
"Share the same world", It's a colloquial expression - thought it was more universal, but apparently not. It means to be involved in the same activiti...
So, using your definitions from above, would it be an unfair paraphrasing to say that you see the difference between sex-changes and skin-whitening as...
But gravity was a word for the effect of empirical observations. We'd expect it to have an empirical explanation. Objects we measure seem to be drawn ...
4,000. Less than the normal amount by which the population of Denver grows every year. Did you notice the 'overwhelming' number of additional people l...
Which renders the 'hard problem' meaningless. Why would empirical objects like neurons match some use of a word embedded in a certain culture? If we'r...
This only works if you define consciousness circularly as 'that without which its impossible to do things like doubt'. The thing is, consciousness, in...
Yeah, which we can, of course. Hence my invoking the Glasgow coma scale earlier. We can (and do) use the term sometimes in a perfectly 'physical funct...
Do we know there's something by virtue of which we have experiences? Can't we just have them, does some additional factor need to 'allow' it? I wouldn...
How on earth would you know that? Weren't you earlier berating @"Manuel" for... How are you not doing exactly the same here. Maybe some are staunch na...
Exactly. The reason why so many in this discussion cannot seem to get their heads around viewing this in any other grouping than by nationality. As if...
Unlike your definition of gender dysphoria, this definition still seems too vague to work with. It's seems no more than saying people who are trans, a...
Yes, and also, we mustn't forget that people who die in wars die more than people who die from starvation, or air pollution, or lack of medical invest...
Here, let me help. Socialists recently at Spandau... https://www.wsws.org/asset/b1590724-a523-4703-a505-fdbc40205709?rendition=image1280 National Soci...
Abso-fucking-lutely! Here, for example, are some people enjoying some of the freedom and democracy brought by US bombing campaigns in Yemen ... https:...
The US 'befriending' Libya... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.vULHWYZPAq6WlNQVNtebXgHaEQ%...
We've done caring about Africa, did you not see Band Aid? Africa should be all sorted now. It's Ukraine's turn. I shouldn't wonder a lot of flag-waivi...
If so, then in what sense is the concept necessarily so? You seem quite adamant that the concept is there, but some are 'missing' it, yet you don't se...
Disclosed to whom, from where? This terminology is obtuse. If we are making up the properties, then in what way can they possibly be 'disclosed'. They...
You said... That's a claim about how things must be (or this this case, must not be). It uses the term 'can't'. If all you're interested in is how thi...
Just because our language is a certain way, doesn't provide cause to believe the world must conform to it. The fact that we use words like "I" and "we...
Of course Ukraine does not have its own history, language and culture. It's an arbitrary line on a map, it's absurd to think it somehow contains a nat...
I'm not sure I immediately see the problem, but I'm aware that I don't have as exhaustive a knowledge of the field as you do. The first thing I'd want...
Then it's unclear what 'aware of' could possibly mean here. We know nothing of their properties, but are 'aware of' them? Can we? Then why did you say...
Same definition - maximum score on the Glasgow coma scale. The scale already takes blindness into account. If you tested pupillary response in a fully...
You asked about consciousness (my definition of), not self-awareness. The pupillary reaction score is just left off in blind people, and those with po...
I think the correct term for... ...is Anomalous Monism. @"Banno" taught me the term, so will kindly correct me if I'm wrong. 'Experience' is a word we...
Because some of the neuronal stuff is you thinking you're having an experience. 'Having an experience' is the term we use to describe that particular ...
Ok, so if 'experience' is the word we're using to describe the post hoc storytelling, then neuroscience has a few quite good models for that. There do...
So, take the concept of a P-zombie. It's identified as being indistinguishable externally from a person with 'experiences', right? Now, when you refle...
I think it can be. It could be that I receive data, respond to it, then later rationalise that whole event chain as 'an experience' which could be not...
Your claim (as I understand it) is that something is going on in (or around) you, called 'an experience' which is not just neural activity. Something ...
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