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Doesn't MWI violate the old axiom: Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity? Isn't the following pretty awkward? "In the Everett version of th...

It was all so simple before QM.

This is pretty straightforward, but even this will get bogged down quickly when someone asks, "What, exactly, is a particle?" The materialist/physical...

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I don't think so. I think we'll see science continue to flounder, and it will reach a crisis when the Ai's start operating at human levels, which won'...

That's not the only viable problem. How does consciousness arise from matter? Why is consciousness present at all? Why are only certain arrangements o...

The alternatives gain more credibility as the mainstream theories fail to explain observations. We see this already with Modified Newtonian dynamics g...

OK, so all the neuroscience that's been done is consistent with an idealistic reality. Why should I then believe that the prima facie neural causation...

I can't prove it's all a dream. I'm simply asking you if all the science that's been done would necessarily be any different if all this was a dream. ...

Would any of that be different if this were all a dream?

That's a copout. We cite books and philosophers in discussions here constantly. It's not a fallacy in informal discussions if the authority is a valid...

The U.S. has been through much worse times than this. Trumpism will pass.

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It figures you would like that kook.

This!

Not if one has the belief that mental states are the same as brain states. However, it seems obvious to me that a description of a conscious system (e...

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I wrote a paper on that once, many years ago, although the case I was looking at was Trolley Car vs abducting a person to harvest their organs and sav...

What if there was no consciousness at T1, but consciousness later emerged at T2? Wouldn't the full description at T2, when there is consciousness, be ...

It's going to have to say something about Trolley Car.

Would travelling back in time (assume it's possible) to kill baby Hitler be the moral thing to do? What about using data the Nazi's collected experime...

What does your proposal have to say about the probability of Last Thursdayism?

So, what does science say we should do about the Trolley Car problem?

And yet, when your car doesn't work you don't take it to a cardiologist and when you have chest pains, you don't go to a mechanic.

Forgive me for butting in, or if it's been covered, but if one knows all the properties of certain particles, can't one predict which phenomena will e...

I'm sorry, am I questioning the orthodoxy too much? You were the one who linked the article. Don't you want to talk about it?

An octopus is as smart as a three-year old. Don't you think they're conscious?

That's an interesting article. This stood out: "then consciousness evolved gradually over the past half billion years and is present in a range of ver...

What is the evolutionary benefit of consciousness?

It seems that if sensory input isn't coming in to the brain, the brain will create it's own hallucinatory input to compensate. People in sensory depri...

What about phantom limb pain?

If Biden goes down, an old white guy President gets replaced by a black woman. Good.

Suppose we're in the Library of Babel and a curator says, "You want an explanation for consciousness? Yes, I have the book right here." Would we be ab...

So many of Trump's hires turn against him. What's that about?

You don't need to know all the physical facts of an engine to figure out what it is and what it does. The same should be true of brains, but it's not....

It seems obvious to me that the alien/machine intelligence could know every physical fact there is to know about brains, and still not know the most s...

OK, the alien/machine intelligence takes apart the engine after it stops running. Then it takes apart the working brain. Is the engine going to be mys...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bill-barr-trumps-indictment-very-damning-even-half-true ""He was totally wrong that he had the right to have those do...

OK, suppose you have a working brain hooked up to life support and a running engine. Would the engine be mysterious in any way? Would the alien/machin...

Fair enough. Let's assume an alien (or better yet, machine intelligence) was examining, for the first time, an engine and a brain. I don't think the e...

Do you mean just the fundamental particles? What if you knew the fundamental particles and all their interconnections/arrangements? Wouldn't you be ab...

It's not meaningless, you just don't agree with it. Do you think consciousness is an illusion? Chalmers demarcates soft illusionism and hard illusioni...

That's a position you still see a lot these days, but I think it's on the decline.

I was reading a paper by Chalmers last night in response to your reply. You might be interested in it. https://consc.net/papers/debunking.pdf

That's who I had in mind. Consciousness explained indeed.

The claim that consciousness is an illusion of any sort, in any sense of the word "illusion", is absurd.

That cuts both ways. I know atheists who are so invested in their atheism and the idea they are simply biological machines, they embrace strange notio...

The sun also seems to move across the sky, the Earth seems flat, and it seems like we're not moving 10,000+ mph through space. We should be careful ab...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/trumps-indictment-is-worse-than-you-think-it-is/