simeonz

I don't know really. But according to Wikipedia: This seems to me to suggest that John Searle wanted to reject machines sentience in general. For me p...

I understand. I cannot imagine how eliminative materialists would deny the phenomenology of senses, considering that senses are central to logical emp...

I am a vegetarian as well and I have made a similar arbitrary commitment. What I mean is, that at least logically, I cannot deny that plants may have ...

Just to explicate something to which you may have alluded here with the vegetarianism remark. If the hypothesis that bivalves can feel pain is true (,...

It shows you how philosophically illiterate I am. At least the Wikipedia article doesn't say - "first proposed by ancient Chinese philosophers". :) In...

I know the question wasn't posed to me. But albeit not focusing on AI, I actually am a software engineer by trade, so I thought I could interject. :) ...

I am not proficient with the pantheist theories enough to speak of them. But I cannot imagine that any mature philosophy would ascribe the property of...

In light of my posts above, I want to make an overall remark. I am not trying to support eliminative materialism. I am just defending possible lines o...

My whole response just went and gone somewhere. Second attempt. :) Let me restate my question. Do you think that a properly functioning brain, in all ...

I confess this is my omission, but I thought that my general idea was suggested in the spirit of my question. Let me restate it. Do you think that a p...

Would I be accurate in saying then, that eliminative materialists don't deny personal experience, but just deny private aspects of personal experience...

To say that the mind is distinct from the brain, to me at least, infers that the brain can manifest without a mind, or that the mind can exist separat...

I think I probably understand your general sentiment, as a practical matter, but I am unclear about some of the details. Do you mean that the mind is ...

You are saying that the mind is common sense, I suppose. This would be fine if the definition of the term "mind" was technical - as in a collection of...

Thanks. You have provided me with quite a few pointers. I first have to check them out before I can get back with a meaningful reply. To be honest tho...

This is what I fail to fully understand. I mean, not just the argument, but the very statement. Is this similar to relationalistic pantheistic positio...