Isaac

Yes, that's right to an extent. If we look at, say, the ecosystem, then that will have it's own Markov boundary and all the organisms within it (and t...

Are you suggesting that people no longer suffer from cognitive biases?

So presumably has happened with a great many theories already? Providing an example shouldn't be too much trouble then.

You two have a very distorted view of the degree to which the general public read psychology papers! I'd venture the general public are aware of less ...

This is bare assertion. You've established they create an injustice. You've provided no argument at all that it is a 'great' injustice. You've not giv...

Uh huh. So is $500 grand valueless? No. If you were comparing the scheme you outline to one in which $400 grand remained would it be a better or worse...

This is the best paper on the maths. This one puts it all into context. Put simply, a Markov boundary is the set of states which separate any system w...

As ever, I have no idea what you're talking about. Why is there even a reason for the behaviour of neurons? They just fire according to physical laws,...

Yep. That'll probably be why I said... So tell us. How bad is that injustice? If I don't get my fair share cake at the village fete, that's an injusti...

Yes. That's what I'm saying. We have (and have had) all sorts of narratives by which we explain the world, some of them have been shown to be worse th...

Indeed. But it would create a person whose existence would bring enormous benefits to the other humans already in their community. It takes a particul...

...or a pointless distraction, depending on one's outlook... I thought Frankish was sympathetic to Dennent's arguments, I haven't followed his work mu...

So? You've still not demonstrated anything about the degree of this injustice. Some injustices are only minorly bad, some injustices are monstrous. Si...

Well, they'd have to be either qualia or some brain activity which no one, despite decades of research, has ever seen... Hence, qualia. We know with q...

Ah, we've reached that point have we? Shall we go through https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Quining-Qualia-Dennett/b00cba53a3744402b5c52accea35bff...

No. There's a hidden red state, which he's less effectively taking a policy of treating as blue.

We've been through this. If I mistakenly call the person in the doorway Jack when his name's really Jim, I'm still referring to the person in the door...

If this was the case we'd have no explanation for why exposure to coloured non-objects (colour swatches) triggers activity in the inferior middle temp...

That's not a trivial sense. It's the sense in which 99.9999% of the population see. I can't understand how you could justify calling that a trivial se...

No, they're not. That's not how blindsight works. people with blindsight have non-striate stimulation from neighbouring cortices within the occipital ...

This isn't true. There are numerous differences in the neurological process of dreaming or imagining other than the source of the causal trigger, but ...

Can you see the red dress in your photos with your eyes shut? Or are you imagining the red dress when you have your eyes shut and seeing it when you h...

But... ...in response to.... ...is advocating a policy (Ukrainians beating Russians in a war). If you want to just register outrage, then just post "i...

I don't see how. 'Seeing' involves light entering the retina. The response can't be 'seeing' it can only be part of 'seeing'.

No. I'm saying that second use is incorrect. Seeing a hidden state does not cause seeing a blue dress. We do not 'see' mental representations, we resp...

This is talking about how neural network models might represent neurons, not how the physical instantiation of those models represent the external wor...

Seeing is a process. Like riding a bike. Two people can ride a bike differently. They're not necessarily riding different bikes. They're riding the sa...

Not at all. See above. Seeing is the process of updating predictions about external states. Two people can have different predictions about the same s...

An analogy, perhaps. You and I are both trying to guess what next week's lottery numbers are. You guess 2,4,5,6, I guess 7,8,6,5. We have different gu...

In that instance (where we're saying that person A is right), person B is 'seeing' the hidden state X, but the policy they're seeing it with is not th...

Agreed. But the question is what we ought do about it, not what we ought call it.

No. That's not what enactivist accounts of cognition are saying. Note, the Bayesian beliefs are about external states. The subject is an external stat...

Hopefully made clear by the paper I cited above.

Uh huh. Here's Friston on enactivist interpretations of active inference. You'll note the clear use of Markov boundary models. Enactivist cognitive th...

Why would I do that? That's not the way we use the word 'pain'. We use the word 'pain' to describe our subjective feeling. We use the word 'ovoid' to ...

Ovoid is a property of some hidden state which causes your 'ovoid-as-seen' and 'ovoid-as-felt'. There. What's not clear about that?

This is just begging the question. External things are ovoid. They are just other shapes as well. Like the stars of Orion, the fact that they form a m...

All true. So you think it's OK that other people die to uphold your personal moral code about not negotiating with terrorists?

What oddly sociopathic hopes you two have. Wouldn't it be better if fewer people died? For Ukraine to win, many, many more people will have to die. Uk...

This is indeed all valid and sound. It soundly proves that there is a negative aspect to procreation, that it creates a situation in which there will ...

No, they are not built to represent a thing. It's simply not what they do. They produce responses which minimise the surprise function of a prior pred...

So I'm finding. And yet that's where these discussions tend to go (it seems safe ground from the anti-realist). I don't like squash either, but if it'...

I'm not here to entertain you. I'm here to point out the flaws in your argument If you don't want public critique of your arguments then I suggest you...

Do you think people would still feel that pleasure on a planet empty of all human life bar them? Would they look around a fell good that they're causi...

Variance in what. There has to be medium for the variance to be a variance of. Change in what? This is the assertion I take issue with. I see no groun...

Indeed. One of the perils, I think, of creating such a complex system as language is that it has the facility to create such grotesque castles in the ...

An intrinsic property. So I'd say "the postbox is red". You'd say " the wave particles you imagine are a postbox scatter light at a wavelength of 650n...

Almost every human in the world agrees that the postbox in the village is the same colour as the bus. We need an explanation for this extraordinary co...

The conclusion just doesn't follow. A hidden state might have the property of causing one response in person A but a different response in person B. T...

Why?