RogueAI

What is your view, briefly?

I actually agree with him. I'm not prepared, with my evolved little monkey brain, to say definitively what a god can/can't do.

Sorry, forgot about this. What kinds of immoral acts are possible in realities consisting of just one mind? Who could be the victim, other than the vi...

Yes, the justification is missing. However, what if this kept happening, even by fantastic coincidence: clouds keep spelling out true statements about...

There is a type of idealism that posits one mind/cosmic mind/universal mind exists. I thought it was called monistic idealism. In any case, suppose th...

What would omnibenevolence look like in monistic idealism? How can there be morality if only one cosmic mind exists? What possible immoral act could a...

But aren't the events of the last five years a little too strange? If you went back to 2015 and tried to sell the story of what America's actually gon...

Well, is there a limit to how many computations God can do in a second?

I don't agree with a lot of that, but I appreciate the time you put into those responses!

Is God finite or infinite?

OK, so instead of a dream, let's pretend this is a simulation, and you notice a cup in the simulation. Why am I seeing a cup? you ask. Because the sim...

You experience no cup on the table because you're dreaming there's no cup on the table, and you're experiencing what you're dreaming. That's an explan...

It sounds like you think the cup still exists if no one's observing it. I was going to ask if it's conscious, but you seem to answer that: You're clai...

Is the existence of the cup dependent on mind(s) in any way?

But you have to say something about what kind of stuff physical stuff is. It has properties, I assume. Is its existence dependent on mind(s) in any wa...

What is "physical stuff"? I'm assuming some kind of mindless stuff that exists independently of and external to our minds? Do you believe that if all ...

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Say you go skydiving and your friend asks you "what was it like to go skydiving?" Now, you have said that there are no "what it is like to do/feel/be ...

So we'll state simple. You know what the experience of a toothache is, right? You know the experience of a toothache is different than the experience ...

The knowledge of mental states is not available to us?

I'm not calling you crazy, I'm saying your claim is crazy. I didn't mean any offense. Idealism is completely out there, so I know about making crazy-s...

I think it is trivially true that there IS "what is it like to see red/be in pain/lose a loved one" and denying the reality of that is crazy, but we'r...

You agree then that experience is necessary to answer "what is it like?" questions? For example, you would agree that Mary needs to experience seeing ...

I wasn't clear on what you were saying, hence my question. Can you answer it? Is Mary's Room meaningful?

Three points to make: Your claim is dualistic. You're saying that brains cause experience, which is to say that for any mental state, there's a causal...

What is the causality you're talking about? How matter causes experience?

Are you claiming Mary's Room is meaningless/devoid of meaning?

I agree with you that good looks grease the skids and make life easier, but it doesn't make a person any happier. Also, if you are beautiful and are e...

Are you being serious?

That's a good point, but simulation theory provides a foundation for modern day materialists to seriously consider some pretty improbable events. For ...

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Yeah, that made sense. Perhaps an objective math formula can bring about a state of synesthesia in a blind person so that their processing of the equa...

Yeah, I agree with a lot of that. I love Kastrup! My personal "journey" away from materialism is similar to his. I don't think he really has anything ...

Personal incredulity aside, I think this runs into a Mary's Room problem. If an experience can be expressed mathematically, then if a blind person kne...

How on Earth can mathematical patterns be consciousness? Why should someone take that as a serious possibility? Also, if that's the case, there should...

There is correlation between brain states and mental states. Causation has not been established. I think the failure to come up with a causal explanat...

"Mind exists" does not need to be proven. We know for a certainty that at least one mind exists. That is not the case with matter.

Matter existing is not a "given" when I'm talking to a materialist any more than Christ rose from the dead is a "given" when I'm talking to a Christia...

You think mysterianism is the same thing as dualism?

It depends on the materialist. Some believe that mental states are identical to physical states. Some are property dualists. Some are mysterianists (m...

A materialist cannot say about the world (with confidence) that consciousness can arise from non-conscious stuff. They can assume and believe it's tru...

That's dualism. Idealists believe only mental stuff exists.

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That would not be a good definition of pain. The salient feature of pain is not information about damage to the system. You can have pain without any ...

I would agree that people in such states are probably not doing any kind of memory creation.

I agree. I didn't know what you meant by "emotion" at first.

I tend to agree. If emotions create consciousness, wouldn't strong emotions create a strong sense of consciousness? Not necessarily, but the implicati...

But there are still people who believe mental states are identical to brain states. For them, a mental state isn't emergent, it just is a physical bra...

"A more serious objection to Mind-Brain Type Identity, one that to this day has not been satisfactorily resolved, concerns various non-intensional pro...

Well said.