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...and how could you decide if that memory was correct? There's nothing to compare it to, except itself. This is not quite the private language argume...

A variation on Wittgenstein - yes. I'm questioning what it is that makes S a "distinct sensation". How could one know that the second sensation is a r...

For sure. The meaning of a name need not be given by a description. SO you have a sensation, and name it "S". Later, you have a sensation and say to y...

So what do you most want? And that will tell us about you. So yes, what you choose is of the utmost import, since it will decide who you are.

Does it? Why? Next time you have the sensation, can you say "ah, that's 'S'"?

Not people - you. You decide what to do next. You can't make that decision for someone else. What makes your version of how you want things to be bett...

I'm a bit surprised to see you agree here, Joshs. Given that it makes no nevermind, why not just say that there isn't a how-the-colour-red-looks-to-Lu...

Worn out argument, perhaps. That racism is objectionable is not like that I prefer vanilla. My preference has no impact on how I think you might act -...

Well, yes. I was unable to follow @"simeonz"'s account. For instance: The syntactical or neurological processing of what? An action on someone's part ...

Cheers. Not quite the direction I thought you had in mind, but that will make it more interesting. I will do some reading.

I don't understand how your mind works, Harry. THis seems to me to be a non sequitur.

Hm. Think I will take that as your agreeing with my argument.

This looks like you have a syllogism in mind: therefore, Can this be made to work? Well, let's start by removing the weasel word "true". We get "Nothi...

For the most part I agree; but then this: Let's suppose that you are right here; that there is a 'character or quality of how red looks to each of us'...

Yep, that's pretty much it. Meaning is not a thing found in the world, but imparted to the world by us. It's what we choose to do. Those who talk of o...

"...denying the existence of quailia"...? The issue is more about how useful the notion is (Oliver's criticism, as usual, misses the point). Perhaps "...

So let's take "this distinct sensation from my finger tips" and call it "S". You might now say: "I have sensation S". What is it that has been left ou...

so if it doesn’t suit your purpose, don’t use it.

I have a similar story to move kids past things that are obsessing them - an ill parent, an incident of bullying. I tell them that they will carry the...

You do seem to have been attributing to me a whole lot of stuff that I didn't say.

:rofl:

Weird. It's what you said. You can I presume show documentation for ownership of your car. Can you show documentation for ownership of your sensations...

I disagree. Each concept has a place in a language game. But then, for most of you post I agree with . @"TheMadFool", incidentally, Fool's question wa...

And that's special pleading.

We can.

I don't see the relevance...

A better way to approach it is to forget about meaning and look to use. Knowing what a number is consists in being able to count, to add, to subtract,...

Certainly not a conversation.

Ah, so is it a deed or title that establishes ownership of your sensations?

There would be no nervous input within the brain?

I'm asking you to show what this has to do with my

Well, ignoring causation is rather silly, too. If a belief leads folk not to wear masks, and as a result people die... See Australia, Israel, Singapor...

Don't explain why. All good.

Point is, your OP is a combination of archaic philosophy and bad physics. Someone comes along here to present much the same sort of "original" theory ...

Another half-question. Yes?

You look to be making stuff up. The difficulty is that you may then expect others to conform to your myth. Take a look around, instead. There are peop...

Did you notice that counting dashes or fingers is an act? It's not stating a definition as such, but rather showing how numbers are used. The meaning ...

Yep. Perhaps. There is also what Zizek calls "ideology"; the unspoken actions that are just expected of the populace.

A half-million dead. It doesn't seem to be working all that well.

Check that. pain and pleasure are nervous input.

I was unable to follow what you claimed regarding privacy. YOu seem to be thinking of privacy in terms of ownership - cars - which is far off track. "...

can you question that you are in pain?

You cut your finger. You experience the pain. Can you doubt the pain? Then what cannot be doubted can be experienced.

Tomorrow.

Meh. Bob Dylan got one fo them Nobel things, for writing "How many times?" And Obama got one for being elected. Now I don't hold with that Platonic Fo...

We come up with a way of describing the world and Eugene Wigner complains that describing the world seems unreasonable... It just seems a bit churlish...

At best God made stuff for us to count. The counting is our own doing.

Well, yes: it means it is no longer a fact. It's a fact that it is afternoon here. Soon it will be evening. It will no longer be a fact that it is aft...

Quite right; god is a figment of human ingenuity, just like numbers.