Isaac

One should definitely avoid actions that: 1) Contradict the lyrics of the Grateful Dead's second album 2) Risk one having to wear a tutu 3) Cannot be ...

1) Why? 2) Why? 3) Why? 4) Why?

How would a world resemble how it looks to us? I can't even make any coherent sense of such an expression. I see a green apple on the table in front o...

Friston's theory is about how we see. We're discussing what we see. I'm using aspects of his model to constrain the possibilities of the answer to tha...

So now we're believing the scientists again. Can we come to some kind of decision on this, I'm struggling to keep up.

So one should avoid all actions which have a non-zero probability of harm? Do you realise what that entails?

They seem to me to be. So I suppose they are.

Only according to the scientists. It doesn't seem that way to me, objects don't seem to me to be how the standard model describes them. So I suppose f...

As I said to @"Michael", if we're only talking about the way things seem to us to be, then there's no cause even for debate. It seems to me as if the ...

Then why does it matter what the standard model tells us about how objects reflect light?

I'm trying to understand why your line is where it is. Scientists tell you objects are made of waveforms. They don't seem to be, but you accept they a...

So we've left the science behind, and anything that seems to you to be the case actually is the case? Does it seem to you that your table is not actua...

So people, when asked, use the words 'black and blue', or 'white and gold'. They describe their personal folk psychology, meta theory of perception as...

How do you know?

No visible colour is presented in experience. It cannot happen (with what we currently know about the brain). Experience is a post hoc construction, n...

People do, yes. 'Red' is not the term we use to describe the hidden state that causes birds to see what we would call red (if we had the same ocular e...

Yes. Why wouldn't I be?

I think your neo-liberal hyper-individualism has been quite well expounded. I have no problem with the logic of your conclusion, given the premise tha...

As I said, there's nothing more I can say. If you don't understand basic probability we can't talk about probable events (such as future harms).

We're going round in circles. You've still not explained why you think this restriction exists. Why must the hidden state be either cream-coloured, or...

No I wasn't suggesting you told anyone of your intention, why would you get that impression? (Oh yes, so you can dodge the conclusion). If you intende...

I drive therefore I am. Yes, one of the more successful campaigns at getting us to buy things we don't need. I imagine a smoke-filled board room in Ma...

I agree (which I think also answers your first question). The problem with 'direct' and 'indirect', which we're seeing here, is that both require a ne...

Good to know, thanks.

So the problem is with the term 'mediator'? I'm not wedded to the term, if it's problematic.

No, but it clearly prevents us from directly perceiving the apple. The light from the apple is affected by the air before it reaches our eyes. There l...

Yes, it was, in the end, but I apologise for the misdirection. I think this is one of the oddities in considering modern war. All war is aimed at peac...

Air.

Until you actually read, like, any science ever...

Yes, exactly, but the 'if' question is as yet unanswered. We have two competing theories. Are people morally outraged and so only able to contemplate ...

I've just realised what a impression that last post gave, quoting you in the middle of my response to @"Olivier5". I meant that I didn't expect any se...

So? So does my potted cacti. What matters is the relative rates.

This is so true. I don't know what kind of timescale you had in mind, but I think this has been true for some time. I was involved with the road prote...

Matter to whom, for what? If we're talking about what those countries ought to have done, then whether they are right about their safety matters, does...

You wondered why anyone would follow or agree to the recommendations of a peace plan. The answer is obvious. To secure peace. If you personally think ...

You are now, you weren't before, you wanted to build a house too, and were involved. Begging the question. That's the argument we're having, you can u...

Then why raise the fact that we don't know? Why the builders? You incorrectly assumed you were going to help too. So why are you only considering them...

If I have a child, it is possible that child will go through life completely unharmed, yes? A new pill could be invented during pregnancy that elimina...

All knowledge is an assumption about the unknown. You don't know that a potential child will come to harm. You assume. So there's no such thing as ava...

What's them being unknown got to do with the argument about what they are. The current arrangement of sand on the dark side of the moon is unknown. It...

Go on then.

What's you knowing it got to do with causality? It's nothing to do with causing the harm itself. Parents don't cause harm to their children do they? T...

I realise this will come as a surprise to someone who think civilian casualties are just like extras in a film, but some people actually care about pe...

I can't think why it doesn't have any support. More united action on climate change, and less resource use. Win win.

So how could prospective parents possibly change their minds about having children when such a decision is already made? Condition A: world is in a st...

You might have to unpack that a little. I'm not really sure what you might mean by 'divorce'. Is mediating something not 'part of'? The mediator in a ...

Yes, we can agree there. I think the empirical observations from cognitive science also support that view (though with the caveat that I'm still not s...

That you changed your mind? Neurons fire, cause some action other than building a house. No house. Is there something about that account that puzzles ...

Turns out I prefer the copy paste. Your view on Gallagher and Feldman-Barrett's relative merits is noted. Not sure what to do with it... but noted any...

Active inference or Bayesing qualia? The former is probably the leading theory in perception, it's standard in most cognitive science departments. Ton...