Pantagruel

You can infer whatever you choose, it doesn't alter the fact that Jack is doing exactly what he is doing. I don't have to explain it, since he is doin...

Jack is actually doing whatever he is doing at the time he is doing it. Whatever that is. If he is driving and daydreaming, then he is driving and day...

Consciousness isn't a statement or a proposition. The law of non-contradiction applies to statements or propositions.

Ok, I think this will clarify my perspective for both you guys. I just grabbed a free Scribd account and did a quick skim through the book you recomme...

K. Your basic position is that consciousness is a "whole body experience". This is extremely close to that, extends a little further but essentially i...

Not just the thoughts "Do this. I am doing this. I did this." The whole experience, the actions, the interactions. I think the notion "holistic" works...

Again, it depends on the type of interaction and there are many that are not limited to the surface of the skin. There is an excellent essay on percep...

Better than being wrong :) JK.

But the point is, what is a surface? It is an interaction with the environment. Digestion is a surface. Respiration is a surface. The skin is a tactil...

To whatever extent he loses some operational capacity, perhaps so. The professor quoted above goes on to say, if he is asked to describe the shore, it...

This makes no sense to me at all. Why is consciousness illogical? Consciousness is neither constrained nor defined by logic, which is only a tool. Con...

So, I am fascinated by your thought processes. I provide examples and arguments parallel or directly supportive of your positions, and you seem to rep...

I have mentioned "embedded cognition" before, it didn't generate much interest. So I cut a quote from a UCLA professor of psychiatry, also arguing for...

A human who has had his heart removed is not demonstrably conscious either. The brain may be integral to the operation of the organism, the organism m...

Or a parasitic consciousness clinging to the peripheries of existence.

You know that I was arguing in support of position that a belief has a different existential status than a mere claim, right?

Without any real quantifiable criteria of "fitness" or "value" too, other than the fact that they spread. If they are significant at all I'd say it is...

Selfishness is real, but so is the tendency to cooperative endeavour. Some individuals are more selfish, some are more cooperative. There is ample evi...

But this was my point. There is a world of difference between a belief upon which you would stake your life, and one that you just cook up. The one yo...

And do you genuinely believe that? I think that ad hoc falsification or verification is the bane of true philosophy. People genuinely believe things f...

Given any set of things, no one arrangement of things is antecedently more or less likely than any other. So if the things are arranged to form, an ar...

From communications theory, information is a message transmitted on a channel. https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Classical-informa...

No 7 says the opposite of what you are saying. No 7 says information is the creation of form. Which makes sense, otherwise you end up in an endless re...

What definition are you referring to?

For me the interesting question is this: is the form preserving the information, or is the information preserving the form? Bearing in mind that the s...

Got it. I guess having eggs for breakfast would fall into the category of an atomic fact. It seems like those are highly verifiable though so not subj...

I think the case that may mirror reality is this: We are all working in a world of provisional/approximate facts. Science is constantly evolving. So w...

That is actually very useful to my own efforts. Thank you very much.

Ok, I kind of see a point there. If you are saying that consciousness exists in a kind of collective milieu, in which the most highly developed minds ...

That was my point. Ergo, a fortiori, the thing over which you exert the highest degree of control is always going to be your own thoughts, or consciou...

I think I offered a pretty robust explanation of the linear connection between control of thought and control of what is external to thought, plus the...

Right, and you pointed out that whole mechanism was the product of prodigious thought effort. Reverse the argument. If you can't control thought, you ...

I agree. In the end it is about practising what you preach. If you believe in solipsism, why are you talking to people? If you believe in the categori...

But if A controls thought and thought controls B, the extent of control exerted by A on B can only be equal to or less than the extent of control exer...

Scientists and engineers are also conscious, so the same question applies to them. If the scientist is able to create a theory that facilitates extern...

I would say I am a dedicated Pragmatist. Ever since encountering Pragmatism, I have discovered it to be the most useful methodology that works in any ...

Ok...so you mentioned control. Perhaps I just don't understand the distinction between controlling something external to consciousness, versus control...

Absolutely concur.

Egad! I've never met anyone who could control light with his or her thoughts before. You must be barrels of fun at parties!

Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, there is a well-studied cognitive phenomenon called either "embedded cognition" or "embodied cognition" which q...

Ok, I get that you are focusing on the process, but doesn't aren't the nature of the process and the nature of the contents intimately related?

Would you not consider your ability to direct your own thoughts to be indicative of a high degree of control over consciousness?

Let's see. The "truth" of anything resides in a statement or at least a cognition "about" something, right? So for there to be truth of any kind, ther...

This is true. Universals qua consciously comprehended entities is the more accurate description. I stand corrected.

"virtual objects"

Like an extension of the whole universals and particulars distinction. To the extent that universals are themselves emergent properties of a self-orga...

I'm pretty sure all emergent properties are equally real, including subjective ones.

Cryptomnesia - I just remembered how much I like it.

Definitely truth in that. The more science reveals the more the mystery deepens. Dark matter/energy is what...95% of all known stuff? Thats a lot of u...

Yes, this was the question I had in mind. I don't know this is strictly true. Perhaps the mass followers, yes, but many communist ideologues were well...