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Why would someone construct a representation if he wasn’t to perceive it? It seems to me if we accept the assumption that biology performs such a task...

I’m with you on that. I think the use of “distal” to describe objects in the world is used to get around the inherent question begging of the position...

I think we’re all aware of the arguments from illusion and the argument from science. Searle addresses these in his so-called "Bad Argument". Both fal...

Computers are one thing, organisms are quite another. It is true that organisms perceive. It is untrue that brains do. It isn’t even conceivable that ...

Brains are required to keep bodies alive and functioning, as well. In either case, bodies and brains grew together as one organism, one object, all of...

The only thing a disembodied brain can do is rot. So brains do not think or experience or perceive. Only bodies do. And the body is, conveniently, the...

When we put a brain on a table it’s impossible to say the brain feels pain or experiences, therefor it is just untrue to say brains feel pain and expe...

I don’t doubt the brain is involved, but clearly the toe is as well. I’m just wondering the biology of “experience”, for instance how far from the bra...

Then wouldn't experience be limited to the prefrontal cortex, or does it extend to the toe?

If I stub my toe, injure my toe, and feel the pain in my toe, is it your position that I am feeling it in my prefrontal cortex?

https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resized/files/ef/fuzlynzf9zpks1pc.jpg Missing from your image is the organism's body, which I assu...

The alleged felony crime is falsifying business records, repeated 34 times, all of which happened after the election. Now we are left to wonder how su...

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Trump breaks another record: the first former president to face a criminal trial. The supposed federal crime is that Trump never reported payments to ...

This is too weird, even for me.

Those are your words.

I never said what you claim I did. I kindly withdraw.

You’re imaging things, friend.

None of that is contrary to what I said.

You said the evidence to the contrary was obvious. What evidence to the contrary?

“That narrative”.

What evidence to the contrary?

Write the word “self” on a label and stick it to any one of the options you’ve provided. The entity upon which that label finally sits is the self, an...

Clever? It’s authoritarian. He used the insurrection lie as a pretext to weaponize the DOJ against his political opponent, jail those who protested hi...

In any case, it’s unfalsifiable and cannot be proven, except when it comes to the science of perception.

I’m not sure there is any good reason for the indirect realist to believe in any of them, since any evidence regarding anything about the external wor...

I don’t think so because Berkley’s objection to indirect realism still stands, and the direct realist can raise it without himself believing in ideali...

The how do you infer that experience is caused by the environment, for example?

We infer on the basis of evidence and reasoning, but since we only have direct knowledge of experience, we cannot be aware of the evidence of anything...

How does one know that experience is the causal consequence of his body interacting with the environment if he only has direct knowledge of his own ex...

I get all that, I just don’t understand how someone can see something without eyes. If sight involves eyes, and those eyes are missing or closed, then...

Yeah, you need to learn the difference between horns and antlers.

Moose hat? No, he was the guy claiming it was an insurrection. In fact, I think he might be the first guy to use the term, and everyone else just foll...

That’s what I don’t understand. In layman’s terms viewing, seeing, looking etc. involves the eyes. How does one see a representation? It ought not to ...

But that’s exactly what they did. The J6 protest was Biden Inc’s Reichstag fire. Remember that Nazis claimed the fire was a plot to topple the governm...

True and false are two different ways of speaking about the same thing. Predicates can be true or false, for instance. So dismissing grammar is a mist...

It’s nonsensical to me too. I’m just describing the images evoked by the arguments.

All perception is direct—we all agree there is an immediate object of perception, and that X perceives Y. The only difference between the two position...

I do deny it. The ability to criticize is a precious right. Criticism does not constitute a threat, plain and simple, but that’s how they and you are ...

The theory is complete nonsense. Trump making people aware of someone's name through criticism or otherwise does not cause threats. The worst it could...

I hold a similar view. I imagine concepts derived from the fact of one’s embodied state are quite primitive and foundational. Concepts such as “inside...

I suppose you're right. The problem for me, as mentioned, is first-person experience of what is actually occurring behind the eyes is wholly limited. ...

By direct I mean only not indirect. There is no mediating factor prohibiting me from sensing the world. I can only speak for myself. The eyes aren't j...

It's a leap to call a court-imposed restriction on what someone can say at the penalty of fine or jail censorship? The Supreme Court has deemed gag or...

The fallacy of ambiguity always factors high in these discussions. I wager the activity described as "information given to rational thought" is someth...

The only reason why experience wouldn’t extend beyond the body is because experience is bodily, of the body, and in fact identical with it. So it’s li...

Anti-Trumpism is a propaganda-driven moral panic. In order to stop the authoritarianism, racism, and fascism that never seems to arrive, anti-Trumpism...

The defendant has the constitutional right to a fair trial, but in this case he was gagged using prior restraint. So in this case the idea that gag-or...

Reading through, the play for indirect realism seems to be to pick two supposedly distinct aspects of a perceiver and to have one mediate perception f...

If they didn’t abuse their power they wouldn’t get threats. It’s as simple as that. What I applaud is retributive justice. If there is no punishment f...