RogueAI

Except the zombie is supposed to be identical to me except for being conscious. I don't talk about my mental states due to any programming; when I tal...

I'm wondering how P-zombies could have a history that involves the development of words that refer to conscious experiences they don't have.

Would Chalmer's P-zombie twin also have the same evolutionary history as Chalmers?

:100: This just anecdotal, but I see a lot more articles and videos on consciousness than I used to. I think materialism/physicalism is waning.

A physical description of photons would suffice if physical stuff actually exists. If idealism is true, however, describing photons as physical things...

Pain hurts. Do you agree? If you want to say pain is painful, I'm fine with that. When you unpack that, you're going to get something like: pain feels...

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I'm saying that a purely physical description of pain is incomplete. The mental aspect of pain (that it hurts) is far more relevant to people than the...

It's an argument against the kind of physicalism that claims that everything is physical. If everything is physical, then a complete physical descript...

That would seem to be a problem for physicalists. How on Earth can you convey to someone the experiential nature of pain and anger with just a physica...

Sure, but a complete definition of pain has to include it feels bad, wouldn't you agree? Isn't that the salient fact about pain? That it hurts?

If you were blind from birth, and you studied all the changes happening in the brain when someone is seeing something, do you think you would learn wh...

Knowing all the physical facts about the brain states of people having experience x (e.g., seeing red) won't lead to knowing what experience x is like...

The argument doesn't require "complete knowledge" to illustrate the problem with physicalism. If Mary learns 90% of the physical facts involved in see...

If you were trying to explain what anger is to an alien, would you consider that a complete description? I think it fails because it doesn't capture t...

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We should consider Mary's room without making any ontological assumptions.

You're assuming physicalism is true. If dualism is true, then Mary could know everything about the physical aspects of sight and still not know what t...

I would do a bad job. I don't really understand it much. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/#NoPropKnow1AbilHypo

The lack of explanation for why brains are conscious but hearts aren't is a problem.

I think if she learns something new, physicalism is in trouble. I think she learns something new. I would like to see someone defend the ability argum...

A pragmatist would say that a fertilized egg is not a person. And also what James Riley said.

Why are brains conscious but hearts aren't?

Could you learn to ride a bike just by reading about it? No. Experience is required. Same for seeing (in general and regarding specific colors). Peopl...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/1-in-500-covid-deaths/

Maybe, but for something that's not intelligent, they sure do wipe the floor with our best players. Soon, we'll have non-conscious computers that can ...

Can a non-conscious computer play an intelligent game of chess/go?

What about locking down the entire hospital in an effort to contain the virus? I think you would agree with that too. What about locking down the loca...

Suppose a patient walks into a hospital complaining of abdominal pains. Doctors discover he has a virus that he is immune to but which is highly commu...

If all life in the universe died, would there still be a universe with stars, planets, galaxies, etc.?

I'm an idealist. I think there is only mind and thought. That makes more sense than assuming there is only physical stuff. You can be wrong about phys...

So, how does that work? How does configuring matter a certain way give rise to the subjective experience of being angry? Is electricity necessary?

Anger is a configuration of physical stuff? That makes sense??? So how does that work? You take matter and arrange it in just the right way, run some ...

I don't think you need to overthink this. I don't think blind people have lesser minds than sighted.

you are not less of a mind when you're not smelling anything or seeing anything. Are you disputing this? Isn't the answer obvious?

If you're lying in bed asleep, where are you? Aren't you in bed? If you're lying in bed dreaming, aren't you in bed? If you're lying in bed dreaming y...

You can't answer my question?

Are you less of a mind if you're not smelling or seeing anything? That seems easy to answer: no. Do you think the answer is yes?

This seems indisputable.

If you're lying in bed dreaming of crossing the street, where are you?

Anti-Vaxxers, Creationists, 9/11 Truthers, Climate Deniers, Flat-Earthers...Materialists

What? That you can be wrong your brain exists? That's trivially easy to demonstrate. Do you think you can doubt whether your mind exists? That require...

The brain appears to exist outside the mind. Injuries to the brain appear to affect thinking.

The mind needs no defense. You can't be wrong about whether it exists or not. You can be wrong about whether your brain exists.

The experience of seeing is impossible to describe to someone who's never been able to see.

Fair enough.

Suppose a hundred years from now, science still hasn't explained how brains produce consciousness. Would you still be convinced that brain states caus...

I know it doesn't. At this point in time, it should. The lack of explanation should give one pause about being certain about the primacy of brain stat...

If you're going to argue that brain states are primary, you should have a coherent causal explanation for how brain states produce mental states.

Before we can determine whether thinking takes place in the brain, we have to first establish the brain exists outside the mind.