How would that determination be possible, if the very thing asked about requires the use of it? The bane of epistemological metaphysics since Day One,...
We’re......I’m......talking about a system, a cognitive system, a determined speculative methodology. It behooves understanding the system from withou...
We’ve been exposed to simple arithmetic since Day One, practically, so we don’t notice the fundamentals anymore. That 2+2=4 is a given, but it is mere...
Necessity relates to possibility. Something is necessary if its negation is impossible, an a priori axiomatic logical truth, which needs no account of...
I think the proper metaphysician grants the assumption. I certainly do, myself. Everything human happens because of the brain. Neither discipline know...
It must be obvious I consider metaphysics a purely first-person architecture. As such, I don’t want data contributing to my metaphysical system for wh...
Not an outside view, but an inside view at a different time. Guy goes about his business. Guy makes a mistake; guy does a good thing; guy does this; g...
Which could be considered as just another iteration of what I’m talking about. If it is information responsible for causation and we still need to que...
Me: The cause of my thought can only be a thought. You: What makes you think this? Me: Simple: I don’t know the cause of my thought. I know I start wi...
Ahhh....another closet Kantian. YEA!!!!! C’mon, admit it. Release yourself to the Force, padawan!!! “...For the manifold representations (recall, memo...
That’s not at all what I’m saying. I have no wish to be attacked by a bus, anymore than my ancestors wished to be attacked by a grizzly. Considering t...
EXCEPT by using the system itself. Also, as you must be aware, examining the system, reporting on it, post hoc, is not the use of the system for its i...
Still all good, but having to do with anthropology and sociology and such. Just because I’m trapped in some relative influences of them, doesn’t manda...
I’m good with that version. But still, there are other uses for thinking than survival alone, aren’t there, at least nowadays, when survival isn’t as ...
Not from this armchair. Information is what the thought is about, not the cause of it. Information, if anything, is the affect on the brain from perce...
Simple: I don’t know the cause of my thought. That which cannot be known, can still be thought, hence, the cause of my thought can only be a thought, ...
That I must use thinking, in order to think to that which causes my thinking, is the epitome of infinite regress. The cause of my thought can only be ...
Cognitive prejudice. Given a set of theoretical conditions, assessing the degree of satisfaction with them. Now, one might be inclined to say, yeah ri...
I am aware of the facility of quotation marks. If I didn’t use them, I didn’t quote anybody. Descartes/Kant 101 merely indicates a synopsis relevant t...
Admittedly, yours gives a much more useful picture than the mathematics which grounds the elementary physical mechanisms. Between speculative cognitiv...
I mentioned it doesn’t matter what the entailment is, that determines why one system would be thrown away before the other. From that, it can be deduc...
Agreed, in principle, but I don’t think pattern recognition is enough; we still have to do something with the patterns over and above recognizing them...
Absolutely, but it remains.....crucial for what? It’s quite irrelevant what the math entails, just as it is equally irrelevant what a moldy tome on me...
Oh no, you don’t!!! I know you. No need to over-analyze such a simple mental exercise. Peruse this, peruse that, judge degree of explanatory content r...
Well...there ya go. Wasn’t that complicated after all, was it. As a legitimate survey participant, you’ve concluded the first is a model for the absol...
Cool. Configuration of neurons are brain states, but changes in neuron configurations are mental states? Why isn’t the configuration a mental state? A...
I believe this thing is on my right side. I then have a reason to believe that same thing is on my left side. It is not true that I must now doubt the...
“...quantum coherence lives as long as 300 femtoseconds at biologically relevant temperatures...” Support for Penrose/Hameroff, “Orch-OR”, 1998, rejec...
Technically, we can’t, because they aren’t there. Reason constructs them for us, probably just so we don’t waste time trying to figure out what the pi...
Cool. If you’d said “non-physicalism doesn’t make sense as a concept” to begin with, I would’ve agreed and had nothing else to talk about. So....thank...
......but rather, makes sense as that which..... ....exemplified by.... How can it be said something doesn’t interact with the physical, if that somet...
You’ve used “different aspects of the same thing” several times, but without exposition of what the same thing would be. Is it spatial/temporal relati...
Maybe. But even science acknowledges that the energy input to the sense organs is not the same kind of energy output. From that it follows that upstre...
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