We know that we have memories. My oldest brother died a couple of years ago and I could tell you a lot about him from my memories without referring to...
I think there is something profound happening behind the self. It positions us in a unique body/brain and space and time. I am a 46 year old mixed rac...
There is no reason not to include people's intentions and private mental states in a speech act. When I am talking about myself I am talking about my ...
I think what someone means to say is contextual and will derive meaning from their intentions as well. There are thousands of words which means in com...
I feel like you have to be the arbiter of what you mean because how else can you decide what to say and know what you mean and want to convey? You int...
So how does someone have the final say on what we mean by "self" or "free will" I personally think the extension of a word can be related to somebody'...
I think telling people that the self is a fiction could be harmful and this could apply to telling people they don't have free will and a range of rel...
I don't know how many individual actions are taken with a consideration of the impact of everyone doing the same or population size. I thought the gol...
The reason I defend the notion of god and now call myself an agnostic is because I don't associate the word "god" with a particular religion but with ...
I don't think you can replace self-referential talk. So I don't think it is a game, I went to the shop I had a nightmare I hallucinated I am 46 I got ...
It does not seem to me that having a No Self doctrine makes for better people or a better society. I use Japan in World War Two as an example. https:/...
Can you give examples? My idea of reification is when things like moral and social terms and norms get treated as law like or given. When they are jus...
I thought you were saying we bring something into existence (or you might say reify it) with language. I was also referring to comments like this: I m...
You seem to saying language is necessary for somethings existence. I didn't start thinking about consciousness until my twenties. And I don't remember...
And I can talk to myself via my thoughts. I don't think talking to people proves that they have minds like some kind of Turing test. But I find that m...
I think the idea of "looking" for the self (Which is what Hume did) is a mistake. Because we can't see everything. Life is not just a visual experienc...
It seems you have to address someone's self in order to get them to reassess the issue of self otherwise who is being addressed? So we seem to be talk...
I read somewhere that the idea of the illusory self was designed as a coping strategy for societies where the individual had little control. And that ...
Nothing makes sense without the self really. Who is experiencing pain? Who is hearing a tune? Who is having a memory? Even if you think the self is ju...
I studied Philosophy at degree level myself and the Linguistic turn in philosophy. To me the Linguistic turn was sycophantic to science and destructiv...
According to this: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sberker/files/phil159-2018-lec15-cart-found.pdf "We can define foundationalism as follows: founda...
I explained earlier. Make sense of a sentence where the words are distributed between several different perceivers in different bodies and time frames...
I have posited that the unity of perception is why we understand a whole sentence and see a whole object. Do you have a competing theory of how this i...
I thought you weren't a skeptic because this appears to be skepticism. Do you know what I mean when I refer to a "dog"? I certainly do. I see dogs eve...
As I have suggested if you don't believe in the validity of conscious states and language meaning you can't have a meaningful conversation. It is self...
This is a strange line of questioning. For the most of human history we didn't know about lymph nodes, neurons and the pancreas. But they didn't cease...
I linked my post you but it is just a general critique and I am referring to the general tenor of skepticism around this issue and semantic skepticism...
I think that skepticism about mental states and language meaning is self defeating. There is no way to talk about the existence of ANYTHING (I feel co...
I think that Descartes showed that by thinking one proved to oneself that one exists in some form. Now I come to think of it seems to me that Descarte...
I think Wittgenstein's apparent position was unreasonable and self defeating He is apparently saying you should not talk about things that you are not...
Take the example of music. We both hear a piece of music. I dislike it you like it. But it is the same input to both of us. So what is happening when ...
Yes I remember that part of the argument. It seems clear that we are able to remember a lot of sensations without words attached such as different tas...
What I have noticed is that there are many interpretations of what the private language argument is and that Wittgenstein does not present formal argu...
The language became private when only he understood it. People can combine words from the current languages to create new meaning. That meaning may on...
Do you think quantum physics is in principle understandable by everyone? Are there not things that are only understood by very few people? I gave the ...
But most animals if not all of them don't have language and can form bonds without out it. They certainly don't seem to have a form of communication t...
Wikipedia says: "The private language argument argues that a language understandable by only a single individual is incoherent" Well, it clearly is po...
I don't know how often blind people use colour terms. If they have never seen colour I can't think of a context they would use them in unless someone ...
That suggests we have shared concepts.I think our concepts about our internal world are less shared. I am certainly not arguing it is impossible to co...
I think we actually rule out or disbelieve a lot of what people tell us. (On a more light hearted note) I have had people tell me about speaking to Go...
Everything. I am using words to transmit ideas and concepts not to transmit my veridical experiences. As I mentioned with Blue versus Green. My green ...
That is what I am questioning here. I am suggesting we are giving a superficial unsophisticated accounts of complex mental states. I gave the example ...
Red and pain are somewhat mysterious because they are qualia. Descriptions of the nervous system and electromagnetic spectrum do not allow us to know ...
My issue is that we can't describe things that are mental. We do not have the language to accurately describe everything we experience. This doesn't m...
In my experience a lot of illnesses can be hard to describe and detect. People have died of cancer a few month after diagnosis with moderate symptoms ...
Let's take the example of colour. My blue could look exactly like your green. When I say "the sky is blue it actually looks green to me. But we can ne...
I feel that when it comes to the mind people are willing to accept less than rigorous explanations than would count in the rest of science. It is easy...
I don't think that list of symptoms proves a point. In order to know what a pulsating headache is like you have to have had one. My mum has never had ...
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