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I thought you believed that such memory logging is consciousness.

Or anti-binary-ism. The implication being, usually, that everything is relative. E.g. meaning "well obviously, but how selfish?". Edit: Although, by "...

Everything's closer.

You mean a thing? You mean a thing?

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Choose: or

A proper semantics, such as the Chinese Room lacks, is a game of pretend: the pretending of appropriate connections, between words and things, and bet...

Properties and relations are where correspondence gets too grand for me. They are too much like verbs and adjectives to be plausible as contenders for...

Like the "self-information" or "information content" (surprise value of an individual message) is relative to the overarching "information entropy" (a...

Without it our sentences wouldn't face the tribunal of experience as a corpus but only individually. Reason binds them together. Not on any grand scal...

Are there institutional facts about immaterial or imaginary things? Or is that what would make them fictions?

Oh. Are they hallucinations? How aren't they fiction? Weren't you stressing their lack of correspondence with actual states of affairs?

So, they are the facts that aren't fiction?

Ah. Ok. Are there brute facts that exist only inside such a framework?

That passage addresses only institutional facts?

So, no? Ok. Are there brute facts outside of such a framework?

Does it hold outside of such a framework? Are there institutional facts outside of such a framework? I disagree. Tanks rolling over a national border ...

Browsing TPF?

Er, semi-conscious?

For example?

Do you say that any things are non-physical?

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Hi there, aka @"TheMadFool". Your suggestion is described by this fourth graph, /uploads/resized/files/kw/3w3i9odi3iwq04qq.jpg from here, https://thep...

It is? Then one wants to ask, is the location of the consequently fine line between least best heaven and least worst hell anywhere special? Or is it ...

Sure. A physicalist has no objection to that. Metaphysics as the philosophy of physics. But your example was Which appears to argue for the non-physic...

I don't think he meant to posit the existence of non-physical stuff. Do you?

But do you think positing non-physical stuff will help?

The dot dot dot meant "please read on for clarification". Well yes, that was my starting point.

Sure, in two ways: internally and externally... But rape is something that moral language has made an obvious example of "not good". So no, the langua...

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To praise dualism while pretending to bury it. Why does emergentism want to put consciousness in self-organising systems?

I hear that's correct.

Or... Dorothy's wrong turn? :clap:

Statement, or state of affairs? The prose is purple, the weather black.

Which you glossed as a state of affairs, I got that. I don't know what the title of this thread means exactly, hence my first question. I know what I ...

So if I gloss my question as, ... you will say, a state of affairs, and yes?

That's fair enough. It's the end of the road, and doesn't itself refer to anything and isn't about anything?

Ok, and does it have content? If so, back to my first question.

Ok then, what is it? (Genuinely curious.) And is it sentential?

What is the content of a proposition? And is it propositional?

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Hey Plato, nice beard!

Aren't they dreaming?

Chomsky's not very hidden agenda: innate ideas. The innate part is no trouble to his philosophical conscience, but the ideas part does seem to have be...

If only... but the ancient thinking is our thinking. It says pictures in the head, echoing like words. And sentences in the head, representing like pi...

Are you saying that consciousness is not an illusion, the concept that you need a non-physical entity to have consciousness is?

Are you saying that if we were all merely the fabled philosophical zombies, then this discussion would be an illusion?

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