Isaac

So you're not in control of your own decisions, you just 'find out' what they are when you get there? The suffering from the lack of a house. Some, ye...

Great. Let's take the first issue. We tell people there's global warming, they say it's a hoax. What's your preferred approach there. Seems like peopl...

Can't say fairer than that. What is unpersuasive is unpersuasive.

LSD disrupts neurotransmitters which allows for an abnormal data exchange (among other things). What you see is whatever triggers the image (often an ...

It's whatever inputs you used (probes, computers, whatever). The brain has modeled them as a cat. It's not a very good model. When it tries to interac...

I don't think what I'm asking requires an explanation of your theory of truth. Merely that when one says "X is Y" one is making a truth claim about X....

So nothing then. Got it.

The co authors on those papers are cognitive scientists or psychologists. Again I'm not questioning the contribution, I'm questioning the origin. What...

So before you changed your mind, when you were planning to help build the house, you were unavailable? How so? Why would those two criteria determine ...

I don't understand. Answering your second proposition there would seem to entail a truth claim. True. I don't think any of us are disagreeing about th...

So you don't see removal of barriers as part of the solution? What distinguishes the two for you?

I was talking about both being true. As I've mentioned before, it is true that the stars in Orion are in the shape of a man with a bow. It is also tru...

Right. That's very similar to where I was headed. What's the point in rehashing the solutions whilst you know full well the barriers to achieving them...

And you know this how? Because he once made a speech in which he talked about them being 'one people'. So did Nelson Mandela. Which are? Compared to w...

And yet you've still failed to even present an argument as to why it cannot be both.

In the scenario I described, whose physical actions caused the change in conditions from the state where a house could be built to the state where one...

Yes. If people hear all about climate change and what they ought to do about but their response is "it's a hoax" then telling them again isn't going t...

One of a suite of reasons why beliefs in cognitive science are often treated as 'propensities to act as if...' Your dreaming self has no propensity to...

The former. There seems to be chain of causality - events -> (various perception processes) -> (various executive process) -> writing words to convey ...

Well, that's nice to hear. Good summary.

Why?

These are absolutely spot on. It's how the problem is solved in active inference, it's the active part. Inference (perception in this case) is an acti...

I don't find anything to disagree with in the above. Do you think it opposes something I've said, or are you just providing your own (welcome) way of ...

Yep. With absolutely no measure of how bad each is, and so no measure of how bad the total harm is. Just the number of them doesn't inform us how bad ...

I didn't deny those academics made contributions to cognitive science. I've found some of their contributions to be insightful and useful (though I'm ...

Denial is not the same as not knowing. Has it? If I turn on the TV and flick to some current affairs, or chat show, or even a soap opera do you honest...

You made a further claim about what does inform our intellectual considerations. You did not merely claim that the external object does not inform our...

I don't disagree about the indirectness of perception. You said... If it is not distal causes which informs our intellectual consideration on the grou...

Shaun Gallagher is a professor of philosophy at University of Memphis. Michel Bitbol is a researcher in philosophy of science. Dan Zahavi is a philoso...

So we're back to scientific discoveries having an impact on metaphysical theories again. Perhaps now you could explain why the discoveries of cognitiv...

Different thread, same issue. What are the steps that the visual and auditory imagery take to inform our intellectual considerations? Do they do so di...

So what does? How can you and I discuss what is moral if you think you can just make up what the word means on a whim? So do the rules of chess. So wh...

Really? I did caveat the claim with 'in the Western world'. Do I move in such restricted circles. I can't think of a single person I meet who would lo...

Right. So we tell the machine how to distinguish an apple, and it does so. How does that prove that aliens would also distinguish apples? The machine ...

Why you consider the conclusion of cognitive science to place no constraints on what one can believe metaphysically about the mind, but the conclusion...

I definitely have favorite interpretations of subjects I'm not qualified in, can't seem to help it. But I certainly attempt to approach discussion of ...

You mean take 15 points of concession to the table? As opposed to only 3 of those points which were requested by the Russians back in December as a so...

By far the best solution. The matter of how we see is being confused with the matter of what we see. Folk seem confused by the idea of active inferenc...

So does the double slit experiment constrain metaphysics or not? Here's a couple if examples of what I mean about the way you use the double-slit expe...

I asked about neither of those occasions. I asked about the occasion of you changing your mind. No they don't. No one thinks reasonable behaviour is a...

What about before you change your mind and decide not to help (having previously planned to)? Then why are you disputing what is reasonable? I'm just ...

I don't recall making any mention of it being 'already decided', but regardless, you admit that, in deciding, you create the conditions for harm. Then...

Well then problem solved. Good job... Cup of tea? True. So remove the propaganda? But that seems obvious too, I'm sure activists have already thought ...

Good example. I agree. ...but we were talking about apples. I'm not seeing the logical link between the Higgs Boson being identified by purely mathema...

You either decide you're available to help with the housebuilding or that you're not. It's not someone else's judgement. If I ask you to help build my...

Well I thought probably not, but here you are popping up at random to remind people what we knew by page 10. That Russia are invading Ukraine, that th...

Yet you've raised the apparent consequences of the double slit experiment in this very thread. Are you suggesting that wasn't an empirical observation...

Absolutely. But can you seriously claim that nothing you've learnt about the world empirically has informed any of your metaphysical positions? Would ...

Yet you're judging philosophers by a much less stringent standard than scientists. Scientists are marked down for actually having unexamined preconcep...

Are you seriously suggesting that it's a mysterious concept to you that newspapers can give a biased impression of events without actually lying? I ca...