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Yes, it palpably isn't. So, solution one to the 'problem of consciousness' = some material things are conscious. Solution two - every material is cons...

That, true, would be a theory about consciousness. But it is incoherent, isn't it? My cup has a function. So, a function is a purpose something serves...

No it isn't. Like I said, it's a theory about what consciousness tracks. it's the idea that is supervenes on function.

Why not restrict that to ham rather than extend it to molecules?

Functionalism is not a theory about how conscious states can arise from matter. It is, rather, a theory about when this happens. If we have two functi...

No it doesn't. You've just stipulated that everything is conscious. That doesn't explain how consciousness can arise from material substances. Again, ...

I am not sure about that, as I literally do not know what 'energy' means. If it is a curious stuff that is not empirically detectable, then yes, it to...

What an entirely predictable exchange this has been (although I thought you might go with something original, like Buttrips or Dumbprick). I am disapp...

It's not my fault you can't focus on what the OP is about and need instead to find a way of regurgitating barely understood technical bilge from SEP. ...

Again, read the OP. I am assuming substance dualism. And then I am addressing a certain criticism that it has been exposed to and explaining why it is...

It is clear from the OP that I am referring to substance dualism.

I don't know what energy is. If it is not a stuff, then I do not know what is being spoken of by it. But my point remains that the transfer of energy ...

I am not sure I follow. It sounds as if you're reifying 'potential energy'. B is a mental event. Any transfer of energy between A and C would have bee...

Well, in my view and experience Christians are often among the ablest philosophers and some of the very best philosophers have been Christians. And th...

no. Whatever explanation the atheist gives, the Christian can give too if they wish. If there is no need to suppose that God created this place, then ...

I am arguing that they are mistaken. I keep saying: I am not asking for an account of why Christians typically believe what they believe. I am asking ...

I asked because you quoted Genesis. And yet in the OP I explained why nothing in Genesis commits the Christian to the view that the account is an acco...

Re: how the world got here. Why is any explanation owed?

Have you read the OP?

Nothing you have said is correct.

That's false. Christians have always believed that reason will confirm God's existence.

None of you seem capable of focusing on the issue. It's like trying to have a discussion with little children. There's an OP. To challenge what I argu...

Er, it isn't. So, I present you with an argument that demonstrates your view to be false (and the example I employed is based on one by Kant so, you k...

I don't think you do. Again: what on earth do you mean by saying consciousness is a 'function'. It literally makes no sense.

Why would you not put it so dismissively? That really is the only argument I have ever been given for thinking that the mind is the brain (or anything...

Yes, but you just think that and I refuted the idea. So this is tedious. I can just keep refuting it if you want, and then you can just keep insisting...

But you think atoms are conscious, yes? What are you then? What else has consciouness aside from atoms? How would it depend on the definition? Do atom...

It's a state. Conscious state. Consciousness is a state of mind. You have said it is a 'function'. That makes no sense. Explain what you mean. My mug ...

Yeah, okaaay. You know as well as I do that you meant by imply, imply - that is, suggest. And that's what everyone else means when they say 'correlati...

And that's most likely a mistake. Among those who are so good at thinking clearly about moral matters that they make a living doing it - so, among pro...

By 'wrong' I mean it is 'not to be done'. That is, there is a norm of reason enjoining us not to do it. The judgement that an act is wrong is, then, a...

No, you really don't understand at all. You have a thesis that is false, but you're so convinced it is true no argument will sway you, as any argument...

That's better: some manners.

That wasn't polite at all and so now you deserve to be spoken to with outright contempt - do you see that? You also do not know what an ad hominem att...

Is torturing a child for fun wrong? Yes, obviously. So, some things are wrong. That is, it is manifest to reason that some ways of behaving are wrong....

If Mr X denies premise 1, then how the bloody hell is he a proponent of the problem of evil? Do you know what a proponent of the problem of evil is? D...

I am entailing that you don't know what words mean. Tell me, Neomac, when someone says "correlation does not imply causation" what do you think they m...

What are you entailing? Are you entailing that invizzy was wrong or that I was wrong? Which one - which one are you entailing?

Be honest, you're a panpsychist because you like the word and want to belong to a gang. So, to be clear, you think your consciousness is the state of ...

There is no mind body problem. Consciousness is a state. It's not a thing. It's a state of a thing. It's a state minds - and minds alone - can be in. ...

Like I say, you seem to have problems focussing. For example, you've just asked if I am a Christian. Now, I said I wasn't, didn't I? So that means the...

Look, this isn't hard. Ought an omnipotent, omniscient person do X? if the answer is 'no'. then that means that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevol...

No, you stumbled right at the first hurdle. Why do you think I asked about an omnipotent and omniscient person and left off omnibenevolent? Do you thi...

I have found logic for dummies. It's written by @god must be atheist and it's utterly incoherent. It says if tree, teapot, wizzzzz, then Sally peanuts...

No, I think most people - including you and including this cat person - mean by 'imply' 'suggests'. Imply does not mean entail. It means suggests. Whe...

A logic for dummies? What are you entailing?

So, tell me,when someone says 'imply' do you think they mean 'entail'? Have you ever said "what are you entailing?" When someone says something that i...

Now, shall we get back to the topic? Correlation DOES imply causation. It does not entail it. But it does imply it. If, when you say "correlation does...

Er, no. Just to be clear - you're someone who thinks this - 1. God is not evil. 2. God did not create evility. 3. Humans have free will and they creat...

So you use imply and entail as synonyms do you? What do you say when you want to express the idea that something is suggested, but not entailed? What ...