Banno

OK - some agreement. That last bit - "no two are going to be identical"... Your "6" will be my "9"; but if that's all you mean, then there is no subst...

It's not such a bad thing to see you here, Harry. Much of what you have said plays out well. But not: You'll see the vomit soon enough. No need for th...

Yeah, not so much. The idea of models is fraught, and ultimately fails, for reasons outlined by Davidson in On the very idea of a conceptual schema. G...

Yeah - one sees a "9", the other a "6". But is they swap places...

It's such a common way of thinking, and I think it wrong. Or at least muddled. We do see the same things from different perspectives, and because we a...

That's were the un-detached rabbit liver comes in. We have no word for such a thing, but it is not out of the reach of our language. Apparently foreig...

Yep. mentioned it, too.

Kant was wrong. (There, that ought get this thread a few dozen more posts). Logic is just grammar; ways of putting symbols together. Nothing to symbol...

An unstable system will change - that's what being unstable is. If, as it wobbles around, the system finds a state in which it is stable, it will stop...

In my case, fat and hairy.

That part of the process of seeing involves the image being inverted does not imply that we see the world upside down. We see the world the right way ...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down

I doubt it. Without sensory input the brain would not develop beyond a mush of cells. Mathematics is the recognition of patterns - no patterns, no mat...

My favourite is of course the more formal debate. It combines pith and flesh. I can get lots of attention from one of those.

One line will do. Look at how words are being used, and find a way to make them coherent.

There's a difference between setting out to convince someone that your opinion is the right one, and setting out to solve a philosophical conundrum. T...

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Perhaps this is a good time to go back to the beginning... A and B can agree as to the facts, by considering what @ looks like from the other's point ...

Good. ...

Meh. I think it pivotal. It brings us back to private languages, and that there are none. You seem to think that you are alone in the world, and can't...

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as opposed to... indirectly taking the picture? I'm lost, and don't mind admitting it. Are you just talking about the physiology of sight? In which ca...

It's in the dream, sure. The fac tin the world is that this happened in a dream.

We don't just have the photo. We have our own eyes with which to check the image; and the vocalisations of others which we can match up to our own. No...

Hm. Adding the camera puts me in mind of homunculi. I am not sitting in my head looking at an image of a tree. I am looking at a tree. I am not sittin...

That's not what I had in mind, but it looks like it might work.

Oh, yeah.

What are qualia? It's what you see or perceive. I see or perceive a tree. The tree is not a quale, it's a tree. No, not that, Banno - your perception-...

Sure. That's not quite the same as a "what it's like".

One can overthink this perception stuff. Sure, you see a 6, I see a 9. We are looking at the very same thing. You understand why I see a 9, and I unde...

I am not a direct realist. I think the supposed dichotomy between realism and - whatever - is muddled.

Yeah, that's a key issue: what is it that is unsharable. What's easier to see is what is shared - our shared world gives us a basis for talking to eac...

For Terrapin, but for others, too. Einstein developed a set of transformations that allowed the laws of physics to be the same for all observers. The ...

I'm a bit lost as to what part of the thread this is about...

An interesting few comments. I hadn't thought about whether I attribute beliefs to Siri. But I don't see why I shouldn't. A belief is a proposition ta...

Yep.

YOu've lost me... How is direct realism incompatible with private content? Set it out for us.

Einstein might disagree. He went to great lengths to show that they were identical.

Sure. Just so long as we agree that what is true for A is also true for B - subject appropriate translations. I'm thinking of the Principle of Relativ...

Well... yes. "The moon is full"; a proposition. "John believes that the moon is full"; John's attitude towards that proposition.

Like a beetle in a box...?

What your post shows is that you have little to no idea of what ethics is, nor of how it works.

Entirely agree.

I was thinking more Mandelbrot set. But yes, society counts as being man-made and more complex than any individual.

Even assuming that I cannot name one man-made object that is more complex than humans, you could only achieve have not produce something more complex ...

...and lots of lemon. Maybe a few pieces of eggplant roasted on top. Sprinkled with oregano.

Lamb and pepperoni? I'd go lamb and olives; maybe with a Tzatziki \..

Also, nothing I've written here is original....

I think it is not as bad as its competition... But I ought point out that such questions are not about how the world is, as about what we can reasonab...

All good, except this bit. If there are parts of language that are invisible, then we can't talk about them. And if we can't talk about them, they can...