And I will. Do the test linked above, and find out how well you can hold a simple image in your mind for a few seconds. I cannot do it very well at al...
Richard cannot distinguish red from green.You can, we assume. I don't know what you want to say about Richard's experience or about yours. I suggest t...
No, we don't. Memory is not looking at experiences, because one can remember in the dark. I remember the last time I was in the chip shop, the smell o...
But in this case we can talk about it. We discovered a difference. Richard discovered that he couldn't see red, but he had been seeing red all his lif...
Not really. One might have such an experience in sunshine with one's eyes shut. It is the situation where it makes most sense to talk about 'an experi...
It is not a mistake. because it cannot be recognised as a thing. "I see a red apple" means I see a thing in the world that is red. There is nothing in...
The sort of question that come's up now and then is "How do i know that my experience of red is the same as your experience of red?" The answer to thi...
I find this an entirely agreeable explanation, except that I take it one step further, and say that things that make absolutely no difference should b...
And is that your subjective feeling, or do you have access to the structure of other people's experiences? Folks are so keen to explain to my mere sub...
And is this your subjective feeling about things, or is it the way things are? This is the problem: if awareness, senses, feelings, and thoughts are a...
Alas, you miss the point again. How can you say what is normal or abnormal without comparing subjectivities? You cannot have normal and abnormal priva...
Always a good argument> if you disagree with me you must be mad! I could argue that madness is an intersubjective phenomenon, as in, we have to instit...
It's a bit like saying that sausages are the fundamental structure of nutrition. Why sausages and not pizza, you fail to ask? Why the 5 platonic solid...
Imagine we agree about this. You me and Banno. How is that not intersubjective? Imagine I don't think I have my own pain, and Banno thinks he has your...
Anyone who cares to admit this for their own part, thereby participates in the intersubjective construction of private worlds. In rather the same way ...
Have to disagree with this. If you think the 2 party system results in poor government, then voting for a third option is the the way to go. It may ta...
So the problem is "rampant post modernist, neo marxist, politically correct censorship spewing forth from the humanities departments," apparently, and...
So the proposal is, that because academics are politically biased, politicians should interfere in the freedom of academia to shape it in a more polit...
I would think that an education establishment should not be a place of freedom of speech at all. It should be a place where truth is privileged. Flat ...
Yes. I would not make any argument against someone who felt that life is a burden or meaningless, however you want to put it. My argument is against t...
Dealing with naive nihilism is like playing Wack-a-mole. I predict the op will drop this thread and start another one making the same assumptions. The...
Useful and useless are judgements from a point of view. From one's own point of view, to be useless to a ruthless exploiter is a positive. The maligna...
Wonderful! :starstruck: I just watched part1, and I'm reminded of ideas about control and stability being inversely related. The more control humans h...
I might suggest, from my distant experience, that one cannot describe to the uninitiated, the effects of a hallucinogen such as LSD. Talk does not com...
It was a joke. thought better of a post and deleted it. I'm trying to decide whether this is an oxymoron or a contradiction. It seems to depend on one...
This is a very old problem, with a straightforward solution. Back in the good old days, you never knew if the merchant's weights and measures were acc...
Spoken like a true anarchist! My own position as an anarchist is that we already live in an anarchy, but the difficulty we always face is that there i...
I already critiqued the ever-"clanking machinery of emotion", and having mechanised emotion and so deprived life of all its liveliness, he declares it...
I hope you mean elicit not illicit. :grimace: Depression is an anchor too. One cannot write a book without a strong attachment to the topic.What he do...
Yes. I'm just bemused by the thread. When I try to imagine an alternative to treating everyone the same in the common sense way of justice as blind, I...
Depression is an affect, obviously. And what is expressed here is something like disgust, abhorrence, even hatred of affect itself that parallels the ...
It sounds Kantian to me. "final value" I guess means value as an end (in itself) rather than as a means. The woodman's axe has value as a means to cho...
I have just explicated in detail how I think they are very different. Wrong. A picture is a record, thus a memory: a word as I explained above is mult...
"In the beginning (of consciousness) was the word." I'm sorry, but I can't be bothered at the moment - I don't have facilities to make it easy enough....
We call it 'embodied cognition'. It connects with the notion that one can improve one's physical performance in say tennis by visualising practice. Me...
Guys, you need to watch more teen films. The air-head socialite girls all go for the football jocks and the intelligent girl, who always wears glasses...
I wouldn't call that a false dichotomy. Constructed, artificial, often arbitrary, by all means, but not false. Gays of both genders have an equivalent...
What false dichotomy is that? Nature/nurture? I certainly agree that that is a false dichotomy, which can be demonstrated by simply removing either on...
You're not supposed to answer Harry's questions, you're supposed to be impressed and devastated by them. Is your wife-beating the result of your genes...
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