Why "rather"? Sound events and illumination events are clearly external and public. Shivered into classes and orders, more like. E.g. pitches and hues...
Thought you'd never ask. What you are doing is shivering your brain to make it ready to choose among color symbols and pain symbols, thereby ordering ...
"Conscious" is what we call certain kinds of thinking, which are real brain shivers. Those kinds of thinking cause us to indulge fictions about an int...
We'll always have Paris. Are you sure you don't want to call it "the illusion that proves it's not an illusion"? Oh, hang on... Likewise, Thereby gett...
Such a thing as what? That calling consciousness an illusion brings to the table only the temptation of beliefs as fanciful as unicorns? I haven't yet...
Fine, this gels with what I just said. Even if your semantics reduces plausibly to syntax and is thus made automatable, you will doubtless impose a we...
Obviously not. Haha yes, potentially. When implemented as automation. Then the reference of each symbol token becomes a matter of mechanical fact. As ...
There's a clear enough (ethical, even) distinction between a self-driving car able through mere syntax to complain of bodily trauma and an as yet fict...
Or we could say "whatever is actually happening in our conscious process, we'll call that 'mind' and work out what properties it has" etc. Oh, hang on...
A trap-door in the floor of the Chinese Room will eject the philosopher into a sea of woo below, immediately upon their confusing the semiotics of int...
Day 12, 07.05: Good. 13.15: Good. 16.15: Semitone sharp. 18.00: Good. 22.05: More than a semitone flat. Day 13, 10.55: Most of a semitone flat. 15.15:...
Day 11, 11.15: Noticeably flat. 15.35: Typical uncertainty after possibly completely spurious adjustments within a semitone. Let's see... Phew! Not ne...
Day 10, 10.00: Half a semitone sharp. 12.40: Whole semitone sharp. Resolution: no more reprospective accounts. 16.05: First image very vivid, so test....
Day 9, 09.50: Was worried it might be too hurried, but hoping the play-feel-move-play cycle is speeding up. True or lucky. 15.20: Took more trouble......
No, indeed. Fair cop. I am resistant to allowing semantic notions into the analysis of automatic processes - even complex, biological ones. It seems f...
Day 8, 10.35: Difficult - to get intimations of too-low and -high - but got there, and pretty dead on. 15.45: Nearly a semitone too sharp. 17.20: Cool...
Not stalking you @"apokrisis", just interested in semiotics. (But normally purchase non-bio!) I doubt that a carburettor will function as a referring ...
Why ever not? We're talking about the power of social conventions here. Please explain the difficulty? But of course, it could be said that some codes...
Hopefully exactly like that :smile: Day 7, 08.50: Nice one. Was tempted to test whether the vividness of a current earworm, whose proper location I ha...
Both, as in, I think I see how "sensations" (like also images and experiences and representations) is seen as a euphemism for "qualia". Don't get me s...
Yes, which looks like a semantic correlation. My point (inadequately specified) was that the correlation reduces to a syntactic one, as we would tend ...
Sure. And accessible to the interested reader via the quotation link. As with quotations within a thread. If you wish not to be quoted across threads,...
Speaking for myself, no: Same with, And Every time a neuroscientist says "neural representation" without clarifying it as readiness to play a social g...
Haha, too right :up: Day 6, 11.05: Most of a semitone sharp. 14.50: Ouch, semitone down. Quick one, too confident. 17.20: Just noticeably sharp. 18.30...
Not necessarily. Surely, anyone with sufficient flair for metaphor who had experienced shivering, e.g. with cold, could apply the term appropriately t...
:smile: Test and report :up: Day 5, 08.30: Just noticeably flat. 12.50: Dang, at least a semitone sharp. Sad to relate, I was allowing myself to think...
No, "the subjective experience of thinking" is a poetical description of the thoughts, I say. You won't be able to clarify it in concrete terms, sayin...
Day 4, 16.05: Phew! Lot of struggling, not sure I wasn't blind-guessing the intimations of up or down. But made several relatively fine adjustments, a...
Including that crowning achievement of animal life, thinking in symbols: neuro-muscular activity which is preparing to select among symbols to identif...
In my defence, I settled on "shiver" in preference to "spasm". For the prosecution, I should have said "neural activity". To switch sides again, I wan...
Sure, if you mean, the neural activity we might figuratively call "mental imaging from memory" is of largely the same character as the neural activity...
Day 3, 08.50: Two semitones too high :yikes: 11.05: Mind alighting onto image, let's test straightaway for the hell of it. Most of a semitone too high...
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