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The "identity" of what is "lost"? And if this is the case, then what function does "consciousness" serve? What does it do (or what do we do with it)? ...

:100: :fire: Excellent post. :clap:

So you have never been unconscious? I know I have and that you do not have any grounds to doubt my subjective account of having been unconscious.

So while unconscious one "lacks the capacity to feel"? Btw, is it even possible for a panpsychist to be unconscious? My charitable reading of Chalmer'...

It's more helpful if you just state your point clearly and not obscure it even more behind rhetorical questions. Thanks.

I'll wait for you to state clearly your "concept" which you claim I and @"Banno" lack and then I may further elaborate on what I've already written he...

:ok: So "the hard problem .." is not a scientific problem like I've stated.

Tell me then in what way "the hard problem ..." is a scientific problem particularly in neuroscience.

I'm not a mind reader. Spell it out, sir.

If that's what you mean, bert, I admitted that I don't. in the preface to that old post where I disuss my understanding of awareness. So what I or @"B...

Elaborate on that.

You're misrtaken, bert. I don't avoid the concept when it's relevant to clarifying or examining another concept. Unlike you, bert, folk psychological ...

Aristotle uses the term akrasia instead. I think foolery is more apt.

:up: Socratics (e.g. Plato et al) called these persuaders "sophists". Today, I suppose, we call them "lawyers, politicians, preachers, propagandists, ...

I don't see the point you're making or how your post addresses my post from which you've quoted an excerpt (out of context).

That damn "blindspot" (abductive reasoning) must be why they also don't see "unicorns" or "pixies". :smirk:

... which is only a "problem" for philosophers and not for neuroscientists.

I even quoted from it. Have you read mine?

So you believe DINO is the best we – humanity – can do? :chin:

All he's got is his usual appeal to incredulity in the form of "my personal philosophical thesis". Critical, informed, engagement is not forthcoming b...

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"Questioning is the piety of thought." ~Martin Heidegger I think, instead, it is the most important part. Just as science is, overall, reasoning to be...

:up: :up: @"Bartricks" – gfy, D-K troll! :victory:

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:up: (i.e. metacognitive confabulists!)

Some of us "don't have the concept" of what? Some of us "don't have the concept" of what? :fire: :up:

... just the same old superstition.

So what do you make of David Deutsch's arguments in favor of the MWI? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAR74SWOho (previously post here)

:sweat: I'm no Kantian but an "anomaly" revealed by our model represents a limit or an inconsistency of our model rather than an "anomaly in itself" (...

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:up: All religions canonize the same superstition.

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These old posts below (I know you don't care much for links to other posts but ...) suggest how I begin to clarify my thinking (à la Peirce, Dewey, Ru...

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Many religions, same superstition. :pray:

If you haven't already, check out my series of recent posts on a current thread about the prospects / hazards of "one world government" where I specul...

It's only a speculation, not a mission statement or article of faith. Discussion, not convincing / conversion is my goal. I'll only add this diagram t...

:up: Yes, we agree on this, more or less; to wit: :nerd:

“When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam’s lobotomy.” ~I.J. Good Primates, ceta...

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Yes.

As a philodophical naturalist myself, I'm sure you're wrong about thst, sir Non sequitur. Physicalism is a paradigm for generating conjectures or mode...

Philosophical naturalism is the study of the window. :cool:

Thanks for the David Loy reconmendation. :up:

:fire: Ephemeral self-continuity, n o t static self-"identity" (i.e. Neurath's Boat contra Descartes Cogito). "Self does not exist" as a material / ph...

:lol: If you get the physics so wrong, G-mon, then your "Meta-physics" is bound to be ... not even wrong. fyi: Order (i.e. dissipative structures / pr...