RogueAI

Hallucinations and reality are often indestinguisable rom each other to the person experiencing it. Idealism is the argument that reality is a halluci...

What is it made of when you dream at night? Ideas, yes.

I agree. I think it's evidence that they're obviously not physical things. Playing with an idea and playing with a physical object are two very differ...

Idealism doesn't entail you don't have a body. It entails that that body is not made of physical stuff.

Right, there wouldn't be labels for anything, but the stuff would still be there. I think we're agreed. So the physical is mind-independent. Agreed?

All right, let's pin the basics down on "physical". What would happen to the universe if all minds dissappeared? Would planets, stars, galaxies, etc. ...

But then you have the mind-body problem, which seems insolvable, at this point.

Do you think your ideas have physical attributes? Size, weight, texture, etc.?

That's not what I asked. In a universe of no minds, would there be any white triangles? Not "observations of white triangles". Just "white triangles".

Would you agree that an observer is a necessary condition for the existence of the white triangle? That is to say, in a universe where there are no mi...

Neither triangle is an actual triangle. They both require an observer to give them the label "triangle", particularly the white triangle, since it isn...

That drives the point home very well.

Reality certainly appears to have a spiritual and material aspect.

Well, this gets to the heart of my problem with materialist reductionism: it strips the world of meaning. You are claiming that this website is nothin...

PBS's Closer to Truth just released a new video that covers a lot of what's talked about in this thread: "What is the Mind-Body Problem? | Episode 205...

And I saved the best for last. A blatant appeal to authority: "A more serious objection to Mind-Brain Type Identity, one that to this day has not been...

Of course it is! Is the only thing you discover when you observe this website is that it's just computer code? Absurd. When you observe this website y...

At t1, Mary has never seen red before At t2 Mary learns all the physical facts about seeing red At t3, Mary sees red for the first time. Is Mary surpr...

Ok, I have problems with that: 1. Mary's room: You're committed to saying that Mary can know what it's like to see red without having the mental exper...

Actually, we can ditch the whole mental state/brain state thing. Do you claim that the pain of stubbing your toe is identical to some configuration/pa...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ "The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and...

Let's take the mental state: stubbing your state. Is the brain state that corresponds to "stubbing your toe" identical to the mental state "stubbing y...

Then minds are not identical to brains. How are they different?

You're claiming ancient people did NOT have knowledge of their own minds?

Could a conscious mind not be introspective...I wouldn't be able to articulate this well, but I have a feeling consciousness entails a certain amount ...

If X(consciousness) = Y(neurological state), then knowledge of X should entail knowledge of Y. For example, knowledge of the behaviors of bachelors wo...

Do you think computers will eventually become conscious (or already are)?

Why do some patterns of brain activity result in conscious awareness while others (the vast majority of what the brain does) don't?

I'm having a hard time accepting the possibility of a conscious being not being aware (or having a fake awareness) of their own consciousness. The jus...

Isn't a precondition to any of these kinds of theories an explanation for how neuron arrangements and activity sometimes give rise to conscious awaren...

No. I mean Yes. I misread the question. Brains can't produce consciousness, and I am conscious, so I know that I am not a physical brain-in-a-vat.

You're saying the following is false? "For any x, if x is conscious, x has a justified true belief that x is conscious." Is your claim that if x is th...

I agree with that and the easiest way for me to see it is in the case of simulations. The computer running a simulation is nothing but a collection of...

What are the properties of this substratum?

If all minds in the universe disappeared, what would be left?

Isn't a mind always aware of at least one thing, though? The Cartesian truth that it is a conscious mind? So if evolutionary forces can produce a brai...

Are you claiming that a Boltzmann brain would have a mind (but not be aware of anything) or would it be mindless? A P-zombie, in other words. Do you m...

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A law that doesn't change also raises questions: why doesn't the law change?

I think that would have been OK 80 years ago, or even 50 years ago, but it would seem that at this point in time, with all the advances that have been...

Atheism might not entail physicalism, but that's certainly what every atheist I've ever encountered believes, so for the materialistic/physicalistic a...

What if a dualist claimed that when you get the right kind of complexity/sufficient complexity (e.g., a working organic brain, an intricate enough com...

What do you consider the three best arguments against cosmic mind/one mind type idealism?

Wouldn't your argument preclude a Boltzmann Brain from being aware?

If you amend that to "we do indeed live in a world in which contradictions are possible", then if God is the only one that can do contradictions, reas...

Yes, but the claim was about possibility, not consequence. Is it possible God could draw a square circle in some way that is inconceivable to us? I'm ...

That's a good point.

I have to think about that. Maybe there is a mode of reality inaccessible to me where square circles are possible in some way I can't conceive of. I d...

I don't either. Where I was going with it was: could the evolutionist say that we are justified in claiming we are aware of the world (we have justifi...

Since you were talking about knowledge: Suppose there's a world where, by fantastic coincidence, erosion patterns just happen to spell out (in a langu...