It's not about the "observed." This issue goes to the logical significance of the subject. Substance dualism puts the concious subject beyond the worl...
... I didn't say they could influence each other. My point was the "conciousness" spoken about in the context of states of our experiences and their c...
I don't think he has the words or concepts to state it clearly, but insofar as this topic of consciousness as an illusion goes, yes. (I mean there's m...
Here is the reasoning Dennett is trying to criticise. There is a nasty equivocation here. Who said that consciousness was to be described in neural te...
If one actually reads Dennett, the "illusion" is actually the substance of mind, rather than conscious experiences themselves. What he's really trying...
That's reasoning is catergoy error. It treats a holistic approach as if it were a singular part of the world. It always fails because no account of a ...
Not at all. The reaction is against the very idea-- it's unthinkable, "crazy," for it defies their idea of what is logically necessary-- not merely th...
One sees this sort of reaction a lot in thought about gender, sex sexuality and identity, where the meaning or status of an individual is found or arg...
In the form of panpsychism where each state has it own subjectivity, they don't. The subjectivity of a person is another unique subject. A state which...
Ehh, I'm not sure there is much to fuss about here. The article outright points out its suggestion works through the belief of the subject: It's also ...
The problem is that argument is it doesn't, itself, respect the primacy of consciousness. Instead of treating each conscious subject as its own experi...
It sort of does. The thing about the experiencer is they don't appear in experiences of the world. Our experiences are of specific state (bowling ball...
I know, my point was about it's position. Personally, I don't agree that everything has subjectivity. Though, I do like the panpsychist argument for d...
That's a starwman. The argument isn't that the thought of square root is a bodily feeling, but that a bodily sensations cause or manifest with a disti...
Wayfarer is more or less a substance dualist. For bodily feelings and sensations to be involved means making mathematical thought part of causality. I...
I didn't. I said the beginning and end, or any other point of an object, was not the whole of an object. I never said an object wasn't whole. By it's ...
Any object has a start and end... but these can only be finite states. They are never a whole in the first place. There is a break between any object ...
Your missing the point. Under panpsychism, it's not only the entire system from which conciousness emerges. It does so from every state. Each hard dri...
Indeed, which Berkeley clearly affirms-- much stuff exists without humans perceiving or knowing it. Given this position, he then poses God. God is pro...
The problem is Berkeley already accepts that being percetible doesn't mean perception in the first instance. He accepts it's possible for stuff to be ...
It's not... you lose hair, feel the person cutting, etc. If you mean why is it that you don't feel terrible fear or pain when your experiencing hairs ...
I think the better question is whether the difference is perceived. For a difference to be perceptible doesn't necessarily mean it perceived-- people ...
The whole doesn't get divided in instances where we cut up an object. In such an instance, we are destroying a particular state of the world. When we ...
Strictly speaking, they are just as special. Experience emerges from feet just as it does the brain-- and the same is true each atom, protons and elec...
There isn't a conflict. Ideal continuity is present. Any infinite can't be divided such that it said to begin or end. We don't divide continuous thing...
I do agree Hume is not all that interesting from a personal point of view though. He more or less only tells you what you are not-- not logic, not nec...
I think your reading performs the same reasoning Hume was breaking out of: the equivocation of logic and the world. Hume doesn't really deny the conne...
Really? You going to play this game of picking on typos and ignoring the criticism made? I know very well how Peirce defines a true contiuum. The poin...
In a sense yes-- at some point I will reject I have a car-- but what is that point? Clearly, not because it's missing a part (I get a replacement part...
You actually make the mistake of being sceptical of experience here. All our experiences are "first person." One only knows "red" thorough living thei...
But that's exactly the problem. Such a "real contiuum" is meaningless. It's a set without any members-- an infinite of nothing at all. Pierce fails to...
In that sense, the motor vehicle doesn't consist of parts. One doesn't have a motor vehicle when they have a wheel or dashboard. A whole is not a sum ...
The point is contiuum is a thing. Indivisble things made up of seperate finite states. We can cut a number line anywhere because its infinite particul...
More like it's unbearable to think others will be harmed, caused to suffer or forced into an unbearable (to them) world by ethical significance. It do...
Panpsychism is somewhat curious because it reveals the incoherence of substance dualism that it's often born trying to defend. In an effort to make "m...
It's not really a question of is/ought. That's more a distinction between ethical significance (ought) and presence of states (is). What is at stake i...
Which is exactly the problem with the traditional/classical God. There is no way an infinite of attributes can belong to such a being. Such a God is s...
That's the trick-- it is found in experience and thought... but it is not the experience and thought. Consider the knowledge of you posting on this fo...
The point is the difference is meaningful, no matter how much you might pretend otherwise-- a thing's identity is not found in what it is to you (i.e....
The point is you are discounting the very thing, and only thing that, from a person's point of view, makes anything worthwhile. To be pressured or mov...
For Spinoza possibility is necessary. It never ends or ceases. At any time all possibilities are possible, even when there is a necessary truth. Unlik...
Only if you don't have anything you care about. For many, the mind craving something to care about amounts to the destruction existential emptiness. M...
God has infinite attributes. To only be one would be a contradiction with God's very nature. It would be like saying: "God only has thought" or "God o...
It's 2. Apo's philosophy is ignorance of self-definition. What he can't understand is logical definion in terms of itself-. For him, everything must b...
Yeah... I was juxtaposing constant change over a period of time against the the constant formation I'm talking about. The point being that constant ch...
Constant formation doesn't mean unceasing over some period of time. It means without beginning or end. There is no "period" of time because the infini...
That's wrong. The constant formation of new modes is not known in the modes themselves. Knowing some particular mode doesn't tell you about the infini...
No. That's not what I'm saying. Substance doesn't get modified. Activity doesn't get modified. It's always the same. It never changes. The infinite se...
You're not paying attention to the terms being used. We aren't using "activity" to describe someone acting in the world. You do this a lot. When you h...
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