We overwhelmingly agree about the bits and pieces of the world around us. We just spend much more time discussing our disagreements than our agreement...
I take the question of how things are to be subservient to the question of what to do. We only need to know how things are so far as it helps working ...
You're welcome. Seems to me you have made your position very clear, too. For you, mind is a different substance to the other things around us. That le...
in philosophy lecture rooms, seminars and publications? Sure. You can show the philosopher the way out, but some philosophers are more comfortable in ...
Yes, they do, just not in a way that you find comfortable. What counts as fundamental, as simple, what is taken as granted, depends on the task at han...
Neat Summation. Isn't it clear by now that this is a muddled question? If you are going to talk about something's being fundamental, you have to be cl...
As things stand at present, it doesn't seem to me obvious that a neural network could not have intentionality. At least, a neural network with some ta...
Yep. Homunculus Fallacy. Talk of "meaning" is not going to get very far. There's to much baggage, too much variation in the meaning of "meaning"... Th...
Again and again and again, that is not what I think. The notion that there is an "out there" and an "in here" is the source of the confusion in the OP...
That looks about right. Especially the "but it would still be of the apple". Rather, in the main, Sense and Sensibilia, by Searle's master, Austin. Bu...
No, it does not follow. The "model" at point here is a distribution of probabilities in a neural net. That is the apple you see? No, that is your seei...
Here's the error I pointed to yesterday. The brain constructs a model of what is seen. Ok. But then the conclusion that what is seen is a model. When ...
That's rather the point. Sorry, independence rather than autocracy. poor choice of words. Zezek is pointing out that the left gains by global cooperat...
As noted previously, the difference seems to be that for you this capacity is entirely distinct from our neurones, but I suspect it is just something ...
Neat. Which brings us back to the point you made earlier, of explaining how it is that you and I seem to see the same stuff as we look out of our litt...
If I understood him aright, @"Isaac" uses the notion of homunculi for methodological purposes in working on neural nets. So (doubtless this is a poor ...
Rather, there is - and there isn't. https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-jyvxk5hzsq/images/stencil/500x659/products/7324/45285/8046L__61068.1546964866.jpg?...
But not part of seeing. There's a lot here, and I'm not sure what to address. There is a misguided picture of the mind, such that the eyes and associa...
There's a need for nuance. There's a difference between seeing an illusion and analysing it. The analysis is not part of the seeing, happening after t...
I took the "zombie" name in "all you zombies" to be that everyone except the main character is descended from the dead. Why aren't there more Heinlein...
I recall a novel in which a crack team of solipsist terrorists are fearless because each of them believes, since they are all that there is, they are ...
Then at the least there are we zombies, and you are not all that exists. Your posts only exist in response to mine. Hence your posts are not all that ...
Becoming a Teal. Might the middle class be sufficiently disgruntled with both parties that the vote for neither? What then? Not having proportional re...
Cheers. The discussion of solipsism is peripheral to the topic here. The relevance is that the decision to accord sentience cannot be the result of me...
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