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How does the brain cause mental states? Why is consciousness only associated with some parts of the brain? Would something that's functionally equival...

But are mental states identical to brain states? It sounds like you're saying mental states are caused by brain states.

Do you think mental states are identical to brain states? Or mental states are caused by physical states?

The current thinking is that the values could have been other than what they are. They are not derivable, at present.

Going back to the sharpshooter analogy, you seem to agree that it's reasonable to conclude the shooters missed you by design. The execution was "rigge...

I don't think so, and a great way of showcasing this is the following analogy: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Nave-html/Faithpathh/Leslie.html I...

I agree. It's hard to see how morality exists in a personless universe.

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How does the relation "X is west of Y" exist in a universe with no minds? What's the ontological status of that relation?

I think so too. There is no information in a mindless universe. There's no math either.

But how do relations exist in the universe if they're mind-dependent? Can X be West of Y in a universe with no minds?

It seems like the relations are mind-dependent. Doesn't it require a mind to determine whether something is West of something else?

Didn't Ukraine gave up it's nukes for security assurances?

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All right, all right. What is your favorite book on philo of mind?

Which sufficiently complex CNS-brains have minds? Do octopi have minds? Lobsters? What about functional equivalents to sufficiently complex CNS-brains...

If you agree that the mind is not noise, what is it equal to? The brain?

Do you think mind=noise???

It's all noise until a mind comes along and attaches meaning to a bit of noise and calls it a signal. If a simulation of a tornado is running on a com...

Of course you do, you rugged individualist.

I love this quote: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childi...

Because there is a tension between your bodily/property rights and society's right to govern itself. You belong to a society, and you presumably (are ...

Your body and house are private only in so far as you obey the laws of whatever society you're in. If you violate those laws, or if you simply give th...

Do we have any ethical obligations to our future selves?

Are fields rational? Are fields meaningful? Does the sunset I'm imagining exist in a field in my skull? When I think of my favorite song, is there mus...

I think it's easier to ditch all the talk of fields and assume mind is primary. That seems to require less assumptions.

You'll be a lot happier if you give your marbles to someone else. I'm someone else.

1. What about the qualia of a sunset? What information message is being sent viz-a-viz being awed by a beautiful sunset or painting? 2. What biologica...

What about qualia associated with hallucinations? In the case of phantom limb pain, what information message is there? Is it a mistaken information me...

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So what else in the physical world is conscious besides brains? Rivers? Electric currents?

That sounds very panpsychist.

Therein lies the rub. Not only do we not have a precise definition, we have no scientific definition. We have to go by folk definitions. Science is al...

What things, besides us, are conscious?

This sounds like functionalism. Do you think mind is the program that the brain is running?

If minds are brains, then minds are nouns.

If mind is a verb, why do we use it as a noun so often (e.g., my mind is made up)?

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Thanks, I just bought his book: Philosophy of Mind, a Beginner's Guide.

I like that quote of Ed Feser a lot.

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What else besides brains are conscious/can become conscious?

https://behavioralscientist.org/rethinking-consciousness-a-qa-with-michael-graziano/ Sounds a lot like computationalism. If computers can be conscious...

If the mind IS a physical thing (i.e., mind=brain), then when you imagine a blue elephant in your mind, shouldn't there be a blue elephant inside your...

The only thing we know that exists for sure is our own mind. If minds come from brains, how do brains produce minds?

I think you did a great job presenting the stories and setting everything up. There were good stories and insightful commentary. I was very impressed ...

Very atmospheric. This part, however, threw me off: "I almost bear her until the end, almost."

Good points. Also, if mind is what the brain does, why is it just the brain that does mind? Why doesn't the heart do mind as well? Why do only specifi...

Why would red to you look different than red to me? Maybe small changes in neural structure and brain chemistry. Who knows? My point is simply that lo...

But the reverse isn't true. You couldn't reverse engineer a mental state by observing brain states. Even if you were looking at the brain states of so...