RogueAI

A person is made up of many things: arms, legs, organs, tissue, brain, etc. If I stub my toe and experience pain, where exactly in my body is that exp...

You don't believe experiences happen in the mind? If not, then where? In the world? If so, then specifically where in the world do experiences (or exp...

Experience is a subjective thing. When you unpack "1. A bat experiences the world when it uses echolocation.", you're saying there's an experiencer (t...

I think we're talking past each other. No worries.

Definitive proof of theism (of the kind of god I described) entails definitive proof of the supernatural. Supernatural inquiry would then become legit...

So you're telling me Fish, that if you knew for certain that a god exists (and here I mean some powerful supernatural being capable of creating a univ...

Name a staggering implication if theism is true? OK: God exists. I don't think you're reading this right: "Simulation theory and "god did it" are both...

I think you're conflating the difficulty of proving "god did it" with "god did it". Simulation theory and "god did it" are both very similar in that t...

Fishfry, if we discovered for sure that God did something, wouldn't it become of paramount importance to figure out the nature of this god? And then t...

Why is "God did it" useless as an explanation? Doesn't it tell you why something happened? God did it!

But how could they not have made those distinctions? Again, as soon as you posit the world is made of mindless non-conscious atoms, doesn't the object...

We just assume we're all pretty much the same.

If I can force a materialist, through argumentation, to admit brain states ARE mental states (and not wuss out like most do and say brain states cause...

This is the argument I just thought up. If a materialist/physicalist admits that experiences are real, in any sense of the word, they have to admit ex...

It's not a grammatical nitpick. You're either defining what a particular experience is or you're not talking about experience at all, you're talking a...

Are you saying that "hitting her left foot" is an experience or causes an experience?

How?

Can those two experiences be compared, yes or no?

Can those two experiences be compared?

Now, lets stipulate that there are two experiencers, A and B, and they are both experiencing the pain of stubbing a toe. Still with me?

Let's start simple. You admit there are experiences. It follows there must be experiencer(s). Agreed?

If experiences are real, then there are experiencer(s), and those experiences are subjective. There's no avoiding it- subjectiveness is contained with...

Banno, are subjective experiences real? If so, are they only real in the moment, or is a past experience "real" in any sense? What about a future expe...

You've admitted that dolphins feel pain, so there is something that it is like to be a dolphin in pain: namely, a dolphin in pain. The question then n...

That's a copout. The Banno of five minutes ago is still you. Questions about your subjective experiences are sensical: what is Banno's experience of p...

Well, let's explore this. Do you think dolphins experience pain?

Could Mary discover what it's like to see red just by studying it? Or does she need to experience it? If the latter, then something like what is it li...

Nagel's point is trivially true: there are other creatures, they have different ways of experiencing the world, and we can't know what that's like jus...

Are you denying the existence of the subjective experiences of, say, dolphins? That's implausible.

External things won't make you happy.

You should be able to articulate your points clearly, no matter what belief systems you have.

I'm confused about whatever point you're trying to make. Are you saying materialism shouldn't explain consciousness?

Required for what?

Yeah, that was a good movie. Shades of things to come.

If I think the statement "there are no possible worlds where matter causes mind" is probably true, that means I think that theories that posit the exi...

State the positive conclusion, please.

Some conscious mind *must* exist. I would prefer modal logic: there is no possible world where there's no conscious mind. I would assign a high subjec...

I think when these Alexas and Siris can start passing the Turing Test and become companions to a lot of people there will be a sea change in what cons...

Wouldn't it be odd if a consensus emerges around IIT, and it's agreed that harming/deactivating systems with X amount of information integration is a ...

Are you an IIT proponent?

I read it a long time ago to win an argument. I stumbled across this: "We examine the hypothesis that consciousness can be understood as a state of ma...

Pardon me for butting in, but I'm going to take a stab at this. At least one conscious mind must exist. Everything else conceivable *can* exist. A cau...

Tegmark is pretty out there. He thinks the universe is made of math. That's pretty idealistic.

We will continue merging with machines until we hit a technological wall or destroy ourselves.

Technological innovations are more shadows on the wall.

We're in the same epistemic situation Plato's prisoners were in the Allegory of the Cave.

You should be able to articulate your position in your own words. I'm not reading 55 pages of Wittgenstein.

Your position is a lot like property dualism.

By physical phenomena, I mean the story I teach my 6th graders: light hits the back of the eye, a signal is sent to the brain, and the brain interpret...

What thread were you posting in?