Well it's all hearsay isn't it? I have no direct evidence that I have a brain and not a spaghetti monster in my head. But then it is only hearsay that...
Are you talking about unconscious thought, or more bodily processes? Usually, as you seem to suggest, people talk about self-consciousness in terms of...
Yes, I think this is the point of disagreement. I say I am conscious of the thought world, and I am conscious of the physical world, you say you are t...
I have to confess I am struggling to relate this to my experience at all. The first sentence makes perfect sense to me, the second seems bizarre. Elem...
Ah, yes. Blaming the Germans has got to be the right way to go. But the Americans must have something to do with it too, not speaking properly and not...
I've been reading your recommendations, and getting confused as usual. And I have a question: why do neo-marxist postmodern traitors so universally su...
Well we all like to start with agreeable premises, don't we. My agreeable premise enables me to explain why other people's agreeable premises, such as...
I think history is quite a big influence. I mentioned elsewhere that my mother had to give up her job at the bank when she married. It was normal poli...
Then I would be anxious to hear your account. Well there is potential for it to be more than complete hand-waving; we understand how solidity and liqu...
Well so far, I cannot eliminate the possibility of a full-blown spirit/matter dualism, but it seems like an unfruitful model in which the spiritual is...
The mandate of the masses is always for bread and circuses, and degeneration. The intelligence of a mass is the average intelligence of the individual...
Arthur was already king when he was given Excalibur. It was the sword in the stone, and the inscription on the stone that legitimised his authority. F...
I was considering drawing a diagram, but decided to manage without. I locate consciousness in the present; it is presence, it is the now. I can descri...
In the meantime, I still think that responsiveness is a component at least of anything I want to dignify with the term 'conscious'. This is one of tho...
Well it's possible we are talking about different things, or that it is somehow the same thing seen from the other side. You haven't really said what ...
Obviously not, because to check is already to be responding; so I never need to check. The nearest I can get to that is that I occasionally suffer fro...
When I did my first aid course, more or less the first thing you are taught to do is to establish whether the casualty is conscious or unconscious. Fi...
Well that's what I am saying anyway, because what I want to mean by 'consciousness', whatever else I want to say about it, is that it is something tha...
Oh absolutely. The architect draws a non-existent house and then the builders build it. I suspect you are some dude typing, and your post is an honest...
Time for a quick recap. I started with an analogy of brain to mirror, and mind to reflected virtual image, thereby suggesting that looking for mind in...
And outside the forest as well, you just said that. I can only hope then for your sake, that you live in a world of your own. Otherwise you are nowher...
Well the reason for that is probably an aversion to dualism, and the attendant spiritual woo. I more or less dismiss panpsychism, not on the grounds o...
Ah right. Ok, I suppose that's about right. I think of it more as exploring. Looking at the various ways philosophers think, and trying to find a way ...
Google images can help you out with that. They are quite varied, but the ones 'I had in mind', are the tall fast growing ones of narrow habit with upw...
Moving on... When I see a tree, I see it over there, where the tree is, and if there is any doubt, I can go over there and bang my head on it until I ...
It's not meant to explain anything; it's intended to make a conceptual space in the mind (ha ha) for 'the virtual' which is not where it seems to be, ...
Consciousness, by analogy, is the reflected image that has an apparent location 'in one's head'. The idea I'm wanting to convey is that it can be the ...
Well imagine that it was a serious discussion, and you wanted to respond to each of my points, and maybe make a couple of points to some. If you also ...
Yes. I was trying to illustrate that though nothing can be taken for granted in every conversation, still in every conversation some things must be ta...
I have never considered it. That depends on your ethical theory, and also on the context. It may be a good response in a particular case, and a bad on...
No, it isn't really anywhere. It's a virtual image, not a real image. But to be honest, I don't want to discuss optics, but consciousness. If you do n...
But that is what I am saying, that thought is a real action - the act of modelling, or reflecting, that happens in the real world. But we have passed ...
Well that is a common way of understanding things, that I am questioning. I am saying that there is no inner world, no mind in which images appear. 'S...
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