I think that's a gross deflation of all the work that neuroscience has done on this. Most of the neuroscientists I've spoken to or listened to conside...
Thanks. I appreciate the exhaustive summary, it's made things clearer in terms of why there's such lot of confusion (on my part) about the various ter...
Last I checked, you and I were at least epistemic peers. If you're only here to find out where (not if) I'm confused, then this conversation's not for...
...and yet despite my being so explicit you've taken no notice of the underlined as indicated. I don't really know there's much more I can do, I'll tr...
No. Not 'nothing to do with', the actual weather is a major contributor to our beliefs about it, to which we then refer in our knowledge claims. That'...
Yeah, I see what you're saying. I agree with the analysis, but not the conclusion. When I say "the grass is green" I'm attempting to refer to the gras...
Missed this... Frankly, none at all. When I was doing research, I studied the role of social construction in beliefs, toward the latter end of my acad...
Yes, we're in agreement here. The hidden states have to form a part of the process. What's more, their properties have to be such that two people's mo...
I'm not sure I have the meaning of that term right. @"fdrake" and @"Banno" both seem willing to accept that our brain guesses, filters and modifies se...
'Knowledge' is just a word, it's not an external object with properties we discover by scientific investigation. Something 'actually' being knowledge ...
Prediction of it. I don't see how. You seem to be saying that I can't have a belief about the result of a coin flip because it hasn't happened yet but...
Where have I asserted that the actual weather is a belief? The underlined is exactly the claim I'm making. If we first 'assume the flower exists' and ...
Yeah, our beliefs can be wrong, where 'wrong' here means l (the speaker) believe that acting as if it were the case will yield surprising results. I b...
Alternatively... From a deflationary point of view, "'the grass is green', is true" is the same as "the grass is green". JTB wants to say "I know the ...
Imagine we were discussing the meaning of terms around the sorties paradox. You might say "a 'pile' is when there's more than 103 objects". I'd say "t...
I don't see why not. There are psychological states regarding 'the actual lottery' as much as there are regarding 'my dream I had last night'. I can q...
That seems like an odd position to take. It implies that science is a pointless exercise, forever subsumed by whatever it was we 'reckoned' was the ca...
Right. But vanishingly little is not none. If, in a Dog show, there's a single tiny category for 'best cat', you'd be well within the remit of being u...
Still not following I'm afraid. 'Truth' is a predictive function, it says that if I act as if A I will get the response expected if A were the case. I...
Not sure how you're getting that out of what I wrote. Even when there is no such part? Really? Are you unfamiliar with thought experiments? It's not g...
I don't follow. Certain (to me) is a state of a person, "I'm certain", not a belief. Do you mean a belief can be true even if the person whose belief ...
No, as far as I know they're not. That was the point I was trying to make. I was giving an example of an input where the external/internal boundary ma...
Right. But you don't know what they actually are about, just what you hope they're about. Sounds like a contradiction. How can it consist in 'true' be...
I understand that, I think our difference is only that I don't believe (unfortunately) that it's possible to separate them such as to prioritise the f...
Yep. If only...But philosophers must earn a living I suppose. Nearly, yes. The flower is outside of the Markov boundary for the determinates of the ac...
OK, that works well for the flower, we can draw a hypothetical Markov blanket around all it's current states and consider that to be the first exterio...
Don't have any time this evening but wanted to clarify this was a rhetorical device not something I actually think. I thought it was more obvious than...
Wasn't my point. A dangerous vaccine ingredient is the is the superspreader, and that's regardless of any variant of COVID or any other communicable d...
It's extremely difficult to respond to your post given that it's so terse and cluttered. I'll do my best 1. You seem to be claiming that I've said the...
Misleading how? The point being made was... ...(literally the only point made in the entire post). So how does the fact that everyone there is vaccina...
Most? Most seem to presume their products are manna from heaven, their every word is the gospel truth and any notion that they might be manipulating i...
So you don't know what your statements are about at the time you're making them? That's fine if that's your model. Seems perfectly consistent to me, b...
Who said (2) is inside your skull? We can just take that as a given. If you believe in such a model and I do too, there seems no need to go through th...
True, but that assumes no distal causes can intervene in the perceptual process does it not, no neuronal noise, no transmitter suppression en route? I...
There is that, yes. There's no accounting for folk... With one important caveat. We talk for reasons, so our talk is subservient to those reasons. Som...
Teaching is a collaborative, not a combative activity. How does it 'seem like...' they're telling the truth? Do their words come out with glitter on? ...
OK, I'll be more blunt. The answer is it doesn't matter one jot. Your government, their government...what does it matter? You owe your government noth...
I don't know what a response to this would look like that's not what I've been providing. You've just said that you believe the actual weather you're ...
Sorry. The second, there's an actual cat (where by 'actual' I mean here that the whole language community playing that particular language game agree ...
Interesting interview with Stefan Baral on that topic https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2020/10/why-scientists-fear-toxic-covid-19-debate Onl...
I'm confused (or surprised, whichever turns out to be the case). Are you saying that there's a $1000 dollar fine just for attending a social gathering...
So in the scenario where it turns out there's no cat, the statement was about a cat? What cat? Who is it's owner? Did it have any kittens? In that con...
Right. So in the first scenario "the cat is black" is not about the cat (there isn't one). So it's incorrect to say that the statement "the cat is bla...
OK. So how do you personally resolve the issue I've outlined in my argument above. At T1 you say "John is a bachelor" - you want to say that this stat...
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