My understanding of choice under determinism is that though the choice is determined in advance, it still has to be made. And to make the choice invol...
As it happens, I think you underestimate the subtly of what a stick user can detect, and the vibration of stick on book, stick on concrete, and stick ...
I think, I hope, i don't have to be claiming that the blind man's world is made of stick vibrations. Merely that the world he detects is the world, an...
This whole thread does that. And a deal of it happens in question form - "where is experience?" and so on. But I don't want to go all through it again...
Yes it is very common. One talks of seeing 'with the minds eye', and you can feel free to talk like that, but do try to remember that the mind does no...
No. bite my bullet first. Dreams do not happen anywhere; they are not real. If I dream of a tree I have not seen or experienced a tree; there is no tr...
Yes. That would be a category error. You don't have to explain that to me. And that question is another category error. It's a dream; it doesn't take ...
I have never, ever to my knowledge dreamed of a tree in my head, or any other object in my head. As I never experience anything being in my head, it d...
If the object of perception is in my head, how do I see it? simple question How do I see what is in my head? If you don't mean that what do you mean t...
Then I think I'll give up trying to explain. I think I've made it as clear as I can, over many posts. I'll just say that a person does not see an imag...
It's not just a one word problem. It's not intended to explain anything except the category of the term. Thus one talks of people having experiences o...
This is such a mashup of confusion I don't know where to begin to try and disentangle it. What is a conscious awareness aspect of experience? What is ...
In case anyone is having difficulty understanding what a category error is, here is a an example. I am sitting on a chair. The chair is made of 4 legs...
I don't say it. Any of it. So my not addressing the question takes another form. You may think so, I disagree. I said this: Respond to what I say, or ...
No. Category error. Experiences are things happening to people. They are not 'the result of neural activity'. No one is experiencing neural activity o...
I'd really like people to see how untrue this is. I am not in my brain, looking at neural activity. I do not see as a result of a process leading to n...
I hear you. But I don't believe you. Present me with these perceptions you have that there are perceptions. Personally, i don't have perceptions, I se...
People like me. I typically buy a pack of four apples that all look similar. And the one I have on Monday, also tastes similar to the one I have on Tu...
Ok. What work is 'direct' doing here? We agree that there is causal connection roughly as crudely indicated above whereby information is transformed a...
We've discussed this before, so I may not be saying anything new I assume you mean something along these lines: ambient light - object - reflected lig...
Well you are responding to me, so I tend to assume that you haven't (in the context of my talking about how victory and defeat are not resolutions,) a...
In this context, it occurs to me to remind y'all, and myself ,of the tradition of advocatus diaboli, whereby one adopts in discussion the view one opp...
Yes. It means something very different to me. So I would never assume within the limits of ambiguity, that you said whatever is most agreeable to me, ...
I seem to be very good at upsetting people with my proposals in this thread, including myself. This is not surprising to me. I wrote: And when you rep...
We might not agree about what is and isn't important. I'm not clear what the distinction is for another. _____________________________________________...
Elsewhere, I have claimed that community is made by communication, and communication is a movement of truth. But I'm not sure if I am understanding yo...
It didn't work that way with the original example. A bad call on one illness undermined other advice on another illness. I'm not calling out the hyper...
So on the basis of a long long history of officially sanctioned invented mental illnesses, (hysteria, Drapetomania, homosexuality, etc etc, along with...
Yes indeed. One of my very early suggestions was that to resolve a conflict we have to establish the conflict. And again, later on. This is why I talk...
Today I had the covid rash. Well last night I started feeling itchy around the waist, and didn't sleep too well. Today I had a patch about 20cm diamet...
I have had discussions that have changed the way I think less than I would like, but more than once, and more than once someone has told me that a dis...
Yes, I realise that. I'm sorry it offends, and I wish it did not. I don't suppose you want to hear anything much from me, but I wonder if you think th...
Sorry, I didn't realise we had a conflict going; I thought we were discussing. I'll lay it out in a bit more detail. There is a deal of literature one...
I wrote a long convoluted answer to you, and then realised that what you say is simply not true. Anyone can be self-critical, and most people are to s...
Forgive the naivety, but if my mask is contaminated, and there is a danger of it contaminating me, doesn't that mean it's working? 1. As long as there...
Well you treat me as an equal by quoting what I say, and asking me for expansion, justification an so on. I treat you as an equal, hopefully, by takin...
More rhetorical questions. And very silly questions too. Of course in a discussion one brings in terms that were not in the op. Terms like "logic" for...
You get to disagree. But you actually have not disagreed. If you want to disagree, say something different. A question and a random insult is not disa...
Fucking hell Harry! Your logic is a fucking joke. You are totally irrational. You make shit up left and right and you cannot follow the simplest argum...
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