Pantagruel

Do you think that there could be such a thing as "transformative knowledge?" They talk about the "Copernican Revolution" which marks the paradigm shif...

Well, in some sense objective contents are "digested" and assimilated/accommodated to contribute to the subjective makeup, so both things occur. I gue...

You used a pretty great example, the distinction between using science and inventing science. I am just digesting that...

Like a kind of generalized methodology,. I agree with the idea that knowledge is meant to be enacted. It fits with my focus on genuine beliefs (which ...

So then you would place a much higher value on the subjective aspect of experience, relative to the meaning of the objective aspect? A Shakespeare pla...

Ok, granted. Much of what it means to be human is to interact with the humans around you. In fact, I argue that all of it does. If you are Paul Dirac,...

When I was studying artificial neural networks in the 90s it seemed evident to me that the way that the so-called "hidden layers" worked pointed to a ...

The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt

Well, logic is a function of human reason. Aspects of quantum theory are definitely counter-intuitive, you could interpret them as being also illogica...

Meaning you can't disprove one metaphysical position with another one. Of course, the scientific method itself is fundamentally a methodology which do...

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The Psychology of Intelligence by Jean Piaget

Is being an asshole natural? Or is having the disposition to be an asshole natural? I think almost everything is learned behaviour.

I tend to agree with Aristotle's approach (Metaphysics, Book One): the wise man is he who can comprehend difficult things, such as are not easy for hu...

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Cognitive biases are a well-established fact. The vast majority of people reason fallaciously in a wide variety of circumstances. Intuition has formed...

Yes, ,much of everyday human reasoning is fraught with technical difficulties (viz. cognitive biases). So there is some faculty which counterbalances ...

Right, so I guess it highlights the problem with the p-zombie hypothesis: is it plausible that a p-zombie could accurately report on phenomenal experi...

Maybe the P-zombie is just really stoical.....

This case may be being "aware of the phenomenological experience" without having the experience though....

Yes, the example I give happened in our world. That was what I was thinking. Chalmers calls them logical, metaphysical and natural possibility.

Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology by Andrew Gluck Now for the other side of the coin....

P-zombies it could be argued are logically possible, but not metaphysically possible, it is an example that tends to ring hollow for a lot of people. ...

:cool: TPF - the place where theories of everything come to be born. Definitely going on the short list.

Common-sense would suggest yes......

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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Gadamer's writings deal extensively with symbolicity, aesthetics, and hermeneutics, which seems related to your interests. Truth and Method is an exce...

I was just watching Leonard Cohen and his friends sing a spontaneous round of "Do Lord" in some home movies from a documentary, and the feeling was mo...

I would extend that even further. Chalmers leans towards defining consciousness as a fundamental property of reality. He says "It would be odd for a f...

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio Purchased a few more books along with this to take me well into 2022... Dama...

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Godel's theorems apply to systems that fulfil specific criteria of translatability into facts about natural numbers, as I understand. Without specifyi...

Excellent, I will. I've been wanting to read this for some time and I just started my last new book, so it's buying time again. edit: Have you read Da...

Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke

In which case the claims would be 'caused' by something familiar with the experience presumably....

Yes, this isn't in scope for Chalmers' theses, but is metaphysical speculation, as I said. I don't know that he disagrees specifically though - it is ...

In keeping with Chalmers approach, I'll offer some metaphysical speculations at this point. Chalmers eventually examines how information can plausibly...

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I'm more of the opinion that consciousness in this scenario constitutes a nescio quid, such that for a zombie to make a true qualia-claim it would be ...

Yes, as I mentioned earliler, I think this is the sense in which Chalmers suggests that consciousness determines the intension of its own concept.....

I think philosophy breaks down at the point where it becomes an "appeal to authority." So if a philosopher is an expert, it should be the kind of expe...

I guess if you use the term philosophy in its most generic sense, as in "He has a certain philosophy of life", then anyone who self-consciously constr...

The embedded cognition solution is very consistent with a systems-theoretical approach to reality - i.e. recasting our understanding of the nature rea...

:up: Actually Chalmers touches on this because, if his zombie-twin has an "inverted spectrum" of any conscious experience, for example, (sees blue whe...

But if he assumes it then that is the case he is examining. A conscious zombie would contradict his example.

Does this mean you equate the 'experience of consciousness' as that of 'having a ghost'? That is interesting.....

Chalmers does discuss this. One position he explores and admires involves ascribing phenomenal (or proto-phenomenal) states to physical entities. And ...

Well, axiomatically, if the zombie thinks it is not a zombie it is wrong, if a conscious being thinks it is not a zombie it is correct.

But anyone who takes this view will likely be an eliminativist (or a reductive functionalist) about consciousness from the start. If one accepts that ...