Babbeus

I agree with you that getting closer to the scientific materialistic view of the universe and of life and human beings can lead to feeling of emptynes...

Here I have seen that there are different opinions about whether you should consider actual consequences predictable consequences intended consequence...

Why do you advocate moral principles if you think that morality is "only a encumbrance to life"?

You cannot predict if after the death of the dictator some other worse dictatorship could arise.

What about random violence against random people? Do you think we should feel free to be randomly violent and brutal with random people? And if you th...

The problem you are talking about seems not specifically related to the verb "to be" but to any verb and any statement that is not formulated as uncer...

It's a mental experiment where nobody observes.

I think measurement is the really relevant thing and not conscious observation because you can do multiple sequential measurements without observing a...

Intelligence is just getting information as an input and returning some output that is "useful" for some "task". A computer engine designed to play ch...

Not at all, you have the panpsychist scenario: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/

As far as I know the role of mathematics in science is by default considered to be that of modeling a certain part of reality: the idea is that we hav...

It depends on which level you are being creative. If you can be creative with a fine technique but you can also be creative with the subject or with s...

Probably speaking of "talent" is to simplify things too much. Speaking about arts you have several important elements concurring together: 1) "Technic...

We were not discussing the golden rule, we were discussing

It's not so easy, you would need a neutral and objective judge that can establish without a doubt what is fair and what is not.

What if they want to be treated unfairly well compared with any other?

The "logical form" is a "form", a particular syntax. The "truth conditions" are facts of the world, not ways to shape a sentance. This is actually a h...

What do you consider to be the truth conditions of 'all dogs are animals'?

What is *real* then? Do there exist things that are not just arbitrarily chosen sets or instances of patterns that the mind recognize/identify? A ston...

In this case there would be an element of free will when the persone choses wheter to actually accept the device's suggestion or break the rule.

There are some big holes in Descartes' line of thoughts (that were pointed out by empiricists and contemporary thinkers) that should be considered: 1)...

What does it mean to "use the device"? How can an effective causal connection be established between the device and the action? What prevents you to b...

It is the opposite: I am reducing a moltitude of entities to a single one, just like the one electron universe does with electrons.

Yes in the specific case of the original post there is an element that weakens the moral responsibility of the "inactive" neighbour: since there is an...

How do you define "inaction"? For example would "not moving your body" qualify as inaction? If you decide to be "inactive" while your car is moving st...

What do you mean by "making a sound"? Do you mean it produces a sound "quale" or do you mean it generates a "sound" as defined in physics (i.e. pressu...

There is still a problem: I know my neighbour would be happy to receive a gift from me. The principles (both the golden rule and the corrected one) se...

Can you show a concrete example with some specific observable and unobservable variables?

1) "That confusing" is misrepresenting what I said 2) What is "usual" and "unusual" depends on contingencies and can change over time (maybe you wante...

Very few, this is why when we want deeper understanding of reality - in science, mathematics or foundational philosophy - we usually don't rely on com...

If someone whould have told me that "soul can exist only inside humans" I would have asked what is a human. The same I do when someone says that "cons...

The main problem with your question is that it can be interpreted in two ways: (1) assuming "you" is your person as we see it with distinctive behavio...

Electrostatic forces for examples are described by Coulomb's law which doesn't require any contact and predict a non-zero force for any finite distanc...

What does it mean that an event "exert forces"? We know that electromagnetic forces always exist between charges: they are not "triggered", does it me...

In my model causality is defined between two sets of states, not between two states. It wouldn't make sense to say that the state A causes the future ...

Since both perceptions (yours and that of the other person) are corretaled to the same physical world they should be also correlated with each other.

Maybe there is a world around you and there is also your perception of the world that is different from the world itself. Isn't it a reasonable view?

I would really appreciate to read an abstract before going into the details...

What is a "brain"? "Brain" is a term we use to describe a very broad class of information-processing structures build up with a network of neurons, so...

We don't feel the need to say that the water is flowing and hidden when there is no water, but we do feel the need to say that the water is always som...

Water is a substance that can move and sometimes can be inside a wash sometimes can be elsewere. Our theory about how it works doesn't include the pos...

"Requirements" don't belong to the ontology, they exist in the world of "prescriptions", requirements don't exist in any scientific-reductionist accou...

There is a problem with your comparison with "need to urinate": - need to urinate is a way of feeling of a conscious being in the same way as being ba...

What would you think it would happen to the pehonomenal experience, to the self and/or to the consciousness when there is no "awareness of consciousne...

The point here was to explain in which sense we can talk about different degrees of consciousness. One way of seeing it was to consider different "sta...

It undermines the original project by Bertrand Russell to collect a set of rules and axioms that would allow to build all mathematical reasoning in a ...

Maybe you could find this article interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicism

We are not discussing about our personal opinion, we are discussing about arguments.

But this difference is not relevant for that specific objection: "Studies like this only tell us about observable phenomena, while consciousness isn't...

I wanted to mean: maybe the robot can experience his own "robotic" quale of blue but it cannot experience our human quale of blue (assuming there is a...