RogueAI

No, the problem comes from asserting minds are brains. If minds are brains, then when I imagine a red sunset (or see a green afterimage), there's noth...

I agree with your claim about metaphysical status, but I think mind and consciousness are in a different epistemological category than anything else. ...

The thing is, physics doesn't make any metaphysical claims about what matter ultimately is. "Particle" could refer to some mind-independent stuff or s...

That's a good point. When I mediate and still my mind, I don't become unconscious so thinking and consciousness are not the same thing.

I don't think we're justified in making that inference. Two things are going on. One, we assume that we're all biological beings that are pretty much ...

There's the rub. Will we ever be able to verify whether A.I. is actually thinking/is conscious? No. Even if someone's entire brain was replaced with a...

"Do you think it's possible you're not conscious when you're replying to people?" is a "leading question"? Lol.

My thesis couldn't be simpler: it's silly, nonsensical, and counterproductive to doubt one's own consciousness. Do you think you might not be consciou...

I can see you're having trouble with a very simple question. You are a conscious being. Doubting that you're conscious is silly and nonsensical and ju...

Why are you having trouble answering a very simple question? Either you're sure you're conscious when you're typing replies to people or you're not. I...

Do you think it's possible you're not conscious when you're typing your reply to me?

I'm not questioning your mockery, I'm wondering if you doubt whether you're conscious or not. Do you?

Because you said this In response to this: It sounded like you were mocking Prishon's surety about being conscious.

Do you have doubts about whether you're conscious or not? Do you think it's possible you might not be conscious?

There's no maybe about it- they don't.

It depends on the gun. Civilians should be allowed to own and carry shotguns, bolt action rifles and revolvers. Anything else, only the military and p...

I wouldn't have a problem with anti-vaxxers if they were anti-hospitalers as well.

I was wondering this too. Also the converse: how much worse would it be right now if we had no vaccines at all? All the evidence points to: a lot wors...

Are simulations observer dependent? That is to say, is it possible for a simulation to exist in a universe with no minds?

I'm not being mean. I'm just floored that someone can think the question "what is it like to be me?" doesn't make sense. I suspect there's no argument...

Are you seriously claiming you don't know what it's like to be you? You can't see the absurdity of that?

You don't know what it's like to be you? You can't grok that?

There is something that it is like to be you (you), and there is something that it is like to be me (me). You would agree? It sounds like you're only ...

I get this, but I think even if you're emerging from a deep sleep and extremely drowsy, that drowsiness is just as much a conscious state (quantatativ...

I agree that conscious experiences are different, but I don't think you can quantify consciousness. You're either conscious or you're not. I don't thi...

If consciousness were correlated with intelligence, then the times when I'm wasted, my consciousness should be "less" than when I'm not on drugs. That...

Isaac, are you claiming "what is it like to go sky-diving?" is something that needs to be eliminated? Or is nonsensical? Surely you've been asked "wha...

The unexamined life is worth living?

Lame.

But you didn't answer my question: have you ever had a song stuck in your head?

I'm talking about a song playing in my head. It has nothing to do with air vibrations, and of course you know that because in your life I'm sure peopl...

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head?

These are questions that need answers, but they're not indicative of a category error, which is what you were claiming before. In idealism, there's on...

There is no issue with what you're talking about. This is what I was responding to: No, it's not implausible to actually have a song playing in your h...

Because, with abiogenesis, we already have a framework for an explanation: life started when chemicals xyz, did abc in environment efg. We're just try...

No, because the idealist says that the cause of your experiences is a mind(s). Everything you experience is a projection of either a coordinated set o...

Pretty much. But things change. The paradigm is shifting. Consciousness has become a big problem in academia. It's not OK to just sweep it under the r...

No, I'm saying you're wrong: it's not implausible to have a song in your head. It happens all the time.

No it doesn't. You've never had a song stuck in your head? Sure you have. People talk about songs playing in their heads all the time. That's one of t...

I know. My position is out there. I think 5% of professional philosophers are idealists (that's from a survey done awhile back). I think idealism is b...

We're a curious species. We're usually not content with "that's just how things are". We always want to know why. In my case, I think the idea that me...

I think we got pretty far defining the physical. Any further posts would be along the lines of "why is it that brains are conscious and kidneys aren't...

OK, so we have some attributes for the physical: It is sometimes mind-independent (e.g., the sun) and sometimes not (e.g., ideas). Would you agree tha...

I agree. Idealism is counter-intuitive, but it doesn't suffer from a similar problem as the mind-body problem because it supposes that something we al...

So your claim then is that there is some physical stuff that is mind-independent (e.g., the sun) and some physical stuff that isn't mind-independent. ...

So, the sun is mind-independent? You didn't agree with this before, and here you are literally saying the sun is not dependent on any mind. So, the su...

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I'm sure you will grant me the existence of people who cannot tell their hallucinations from reality, and this causes them tremendous trouble in life....

Did you mean to say the bolded? Aren't you talking labels here? Is your position then that the sun's existence is dependent on whether minds exist??? ...