OK. Thanks. Due to the plasticity of language, I'll agree that the terms' extension is debatable. Just to further this: Then, if it is granted that an...
:cool: First, "aware" is an adjective, not a verb. As such, it's a state of being; not a doing. Secondly - and this is harder to address impersonally ...
Are you intending to infer a homonculus to first-person awareness? I'd strongly disagree with that. We don't infer that we are aware so as to conclude...
Hmm. Can't one be aware while devoid of thoughts? As one example, while zoning-out? But this gets into the murky issue of what one interprets by the a...
Yea, but I'm not addressing this from that vantage of language realism, or some such. Right, but - again - how do we conclude that thought is taking p...
Yup. As the cogito is most commonly understood - to regard thought but not awareness per se - it doesn't validate the thinker of the thought; it only ...
Realized after my post that I’m not a contributing member of the reading group, so I’ll back off the thread. Just wanted to clarify: I wouldn’t agree ...
If my memory serves me right, you used to talk of top-down process working in conjunction with bottom-up processes. In your post you address, more or ...
I’m familiar with both notions of solipsism, its just that I find a non-metaphysical, epistemological solipsism to be a logically incoherent concept -...
OK. Take your time. Don't forget about this other question when you reply: Also, as I'm kind'a laughing my ass off about it: This sentence has two gra...
Well, this is the bit that to me is nothing else be nonsensical equivocation. If there is uncertainty about other selves, then there is uncertainty in...
Thank you for your reply. I do have difficulty with the notion of a non-metaphysical, epistemological solipsism. Your leading disagreement was with th...
Especially when one goes about picking which parts of ordinary language to rely on in ad hoc manners. In ordinary language, intentions are not illusor...
I’m only interested in a discussion if you don’t go about waiving off logical conclusions when they don’t suit your fancy, as was previously done here...
Hmm. And so ontology gets thrown out the window. I'd say fine, but then epistemology would have no ontological grounding. At any rate, I fully get tha...
:smile: Personally, I think we each like the stability of our core being - a type of metaphysical self-preservation of the identity we each hold ourse...
:up: ... Although, from my way of thinking, its funny (else mesmerizing) how lesser animals are cognizant, (self-)aware, of their own being as one age...
Sigh, solipsism, what a show. For all the solipsists out there, lyrics to a song that touches upon the issue: Lyrics from the song "Right Where It Bel...
I’m pretty sure he’s coming from the vantage that, as with a dream of sleep, everything he experiences during awakened states is a waking dream produc...
:rofl: Quite. But how do you compare the fun factor to other what-ifs? I'm sure better one's can be found, but here's an example: What if extraterrest...
I'm off to work for now, but wanted to make the comment: So too will some argue that Earth is flat irrespective of what you and I say. Why take what t...
You haven’t answered the question I posed. Expressed somewhat differently: Can you both intend X and not intend X at the same time and in the same res...
You're making this feel like kindergarten. I asked you: to which you replied: to which I in essence replied: to which you answer: ... after I asked th...
If your asking me to define quality, dictionaries can do this far better than I. Two definitions stand out: 1) level of excellence and 2) a property o...
Can you both intend X and intend not-X at the same time and in the same respect? I take it that you have on occasion had your intentions obstructed by...
Well, of course. One will start arguing about both of them being illusory intuition pumpin' machines; the other starts arguing that the quality to it ...
Right, because sexual partners have prior to recent philosophy readings never asked each other, "what was it like for you?" It takes a modern philosop...
The way in which you frame your argument misses the mark. For example: A property, any property, is bound to the property specified. And so it cannot ...
Putting another philosophical spin on things, infinity does, or at least can, translate into “without limit” or “without boundary”. This creates a mis...
A comedy of misunderstandings. I assumed you thought this to be my stance. As to Wayfarer, I greatly doubt this, seeing how he is greatly inclined tow...
I'll elaborate a bit on the stance I favor for the sake of clarity: But first off, stop it with the "conscious is entity" strawman. I won't reply if y...
Are you by this claiming that we do not know whether consciousness - via which we discover things such as matter and energy - is real? If not, please ...
We're in accord here. Though I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it, so to speak, do you see how all this meshes with the notion of panpsychism?. ...
I’ll try to reframe what is at issue in the hard problem of consciousness. I’m thinking maybe it might be of help. (Then again, it might not.) A brain...
How to measure what remains of the hard problem. Maybe by using the upper left side of a measuring stick that is fit for the task but has yet to be di...
Think I've read this before. It does not address the question posed, but gives one specific hypothetical where, it would so seem, being a merciless an...
OK. So how do you find that everyone’s increased selfishness will lead to improved conditions for selves? FYI, survival of the most selfishly powerful...
Or one could sacrifice one's ego for the benefit of a whole of which one's ego is but one constituent of. Some soldiers have been known to do this. So...
I get the feeling you're conflating esteem and heightened well-being with selfishness. How then do you account for altruism (such as in cases where lo...
Thank you for the honest reply. So, the more one loves, the more egoistic one becomes? You are a different person, a different "I", with each miliisec...
This is diametrically opposite to that which I'm referring to. Language can be a funny thing. Cats can be termed dogs and dogs cats if there is common...
You here deny the reality of love. I think I can see why. Love as a pure ideal is an unadulterated selflessness of being, is being sans ego; and, in p...
Odd. My experiences are different. I'm more apt at painting (not claiming to be good at either). I start with a general idea or intent of what I want ...
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