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"Memories" are functions, not "phenomena".

This 'voluntarism' seems to beg the "intuition" question. I'm with Freddy here: judge by example – how one actually lives, particularly one's manifest...

Not explicitly.

I appreciate the attempt. I'm afraid your terms are no clearer (to me) than before.

The brain itself does not have 'senses' of its own so "phenomena in the brain" – humuncular theory – does not make sense.

I don't know. My guess is that "platonic ideas" (universals) are quixotic (mis)uses of language rationalized whereby (formal and nonformal) abstractio...

Yeah, novelty usually pricks one from one's mneumonic slumber.

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... or metacognitive bias (via neo-natal bonding + mirror neurons —> developing 'theory of mind'). :chin:

:fire: re: Homo ! :up: 'Theory of Forms' (universals) via reification + circular reason fallacies. Later 'deconstructed' as the problem of the criteri...

I'm confused here by what you mean by "philosophy" and what you mean by "religion" and "science" as well. Some clarification would be helpful.

I think you're hung up on semantics. Besides, are humans merely just a gradation of – "advanced / augmented" – eukaryotes? or "advanced / augmented" f...

I don't see how we could "merge with" AGI —> ASI —> ??? and not be(come) "posthuman" – another species completely (e.g. nano sapiens). Are butterflies...

IME (as a disbeliever), there seem to be four stances with respect to 'religious belief': Maybe it's always been this way and that the secular moderni...

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Project: Black Box Re: Large language models (i.e. neural networks which are self-learning machines) which also "hallucinate". :yikes: https://youtu.b...

Perhaps ... but I'm not teaching this stuff for money, so maybe not. Yeah, I like a few of them too.

I got the virus twice in 2021, before & after the jab. I've had two boosters since. These "long haul symptoms" I've been living with for two years ain...

Lingering covid brain fog and chronic fatigue – I do what I can.

:yikes: Which part? All of it? :scream: (As much as I try to be, I ain't no @"Fooloso4" or @"apokrisis" or @"Banno") Unpacking that blurb would be a h...

I prefer Democritus-Epicurus' Void. How can promixate beings with proximate perceptual capabilities and frames of reference "experience" "ultimate" an...

I think so, and he more or less says as much ... ... and he considered himself a (great world-historical) philosopher, ergo "Spinozist". This is too p...

Agreed. I'm also not a fan of either dada-like compostmoderns or analysis-for-analysis-sake "specialists".

I may have missed it but tell us (again?) why – on what basis – you "don't believe ... encounters with uncreated light" are delusions.

:clap: Yes, it seems the sophists have won, taking over the academy (pace Plato et al). Old story though, at least since the scholastics.

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I interpret karma as 'moral habit' and less broadly, in a (vaguely) Buddhist sense, as 'the moral habit of de/attachment'. Why 'moral'? Because karma,...

The word "self" (like "god") exists and we use – "talk about" – it meaningfully and incessantly (re: Meinong's Jungle, Witty's language games, etc).

I asked an honest, epistemic question of you because, if I'm not mistaken, you are a learned student / practicioner of comparative religions and mysti...

If these findings hold up ... :yikes: :cool: https://youtu.be/iBMRGYKvuHk

Ah I see, you are convinced by mere anecdotes (i.e. appeal to popularity). That shows, sir, what assuming "supernatural experiences" amount to (i.e. i...

:ok: So you haven't a clue how a natural brain with natrural capacities adapted to nature can have "supernatural experiences" even though you believe ...

As far as we know, the universe began with a planck radius and events at the planck scale are random (i.e. a-causal), so the claim that 'the universe ...

Sure. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/799982 However, memetics ain't language any more than shapes are clouds or events are time.

@"Tom Storm" @"plaque flag" How do you suppose that natural brains consisting of natural cognitive and sensory functionalities adapted to nature are i...

I'm not persuaded that 'memetics' explains much. And Dennett's later work seems to mostly be earlier work rehashed / reformulated. I've barely skimmed...

So the 'biosemiotic story' goes ...

Well, I can think of three immediate "implications": Contact • confirms Singularity hypothesis – "'Higher intelligence' (terrestrial or not) ends / in...

Like tautologies, 'p-zombiies' are devoid of content. They are merely there (à la Chinese Rooms).

"It persists", it seems to me, because "self" might be a kind of cognitive (memory) bias related to emotion-enabled scenario-planning and judgmemt (Da...

What do I make of "wondering at a tautology" in this thread? Well, for a start, that p-zombies are tautologies and subjective beings are contradiction...

More context plesse. I suspect you agree with Freddy ... Philosophers, more than most, are 'bewitched by language', no? :cool:

Every skull wears an acquired face and calls it "self". I suspect that language – word-fetishizing – is why "the myth of self endures". https://en.m.w...

:fire: :100: I'm jazzed by the way you dance! As I discern things, there is no "hard problem" for scientists, just another hard confusion that semanti...

:ok: sparks, fire ... light rays, sun ... waves, ocean ... ten thousand things, dao ... natura naturata, natura naturans ... Tat Tvam Asi. Aham Brahma...

And this "matters ... to a subject" doesn't matter. Obviously I think it does. Consciousness =/= adaptive intelligence, especially in the context in w...

'Believing is seeing' is known as projection or confirmation bias. "How can" folks who believe that there are angels, unicorns & abducting UFOs "not e...

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It seems to me more likely than not that these "experiences" are "similar or identical" cognitive illusions.