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Water just is the stuff made out of H?O. The two terms "pick out" the very same stuff. There's nothing ontologically or epistemologically puzzling in ...

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More on the conflation of necessity and analyticity: but this is wrong. It should be:

A field of study is not a mathematical or physical field, yes. Nor is it a field of wheat. In so far as would pretend to a physical field, not an area...

So this is a long argument setting out w "the only hope of sustaining quantified modal". The page referred to just before your quote... Quine's view o...

A hard-earned thirst? Seems to me you are looking for a veneer of scientific credibility, which is odd. But in the end it's the bit where folk want, i...

That's not an analogy. Not a metaphor.

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"Morphogenetic fields" cause me some amusement because it suffers much the same issues as "Subjective field". Morphogenetic fields could not specify a...

I'm please. I chose it also in order to draw comparisons to PI§42 regarding simples. What is the simple here? What are the individuals? We treated the...

:rofl: Sound advice. Cheers.

You are welcome to produce an alternative definition of "field" that does not invovle a value at every point in a space. But if you do, you will not b...

I find it odd that you are insisting on the silly scientism of explaining subjectivity in terms of fields. An almost complete backflip.

...becasue a field has a value at every point...

Balls. Here's were you invited my comment: To which I replied:

Not a field.

Well, I've presented a counter case to your notion of "field" for several pages now. If you have not followed that, there's not much more to be done. ...

Your question is a nonsense. You want a shared subjectivity that is also private.

... You cannot know what the subjective "patterns of excitation" in someone else are, let alone they are the same as your own.

This bit: is exactly wrong. We differ in "experienced memories, perspectives and narratives of self"... so what is left that is shared? What are those...

Let's do it again. A field has a value at every point in the space it describes. That is what a field is. Subjectivity does not have a value at every ...

No I. and not to "physical" but to "quantity". That's the definition of "field" in science and mathematics.

Much the same move is seen in Kripke's Identity and Necessity, where this lectern is necessarily made of wood. It's not that a lectern could not have ...

So far as explanations go, saying that something is an example of a field exactly becasue it does not meet the criteria for being a field is... odd.

So your description of the "field of consciousness" is apt becasue it does not match the definition of "field"... Others seem to think that this works...

Part Four. Quine reiterates his argument, further extending it to attributes. To be extensional, one ought be able to substitute equivalent terms with...

No. Why call it a field? What is the use of such language, if there are no values attached to points in space? Seems to be no more than a veneer of th...

Well, you asked...

You do see here that the points of the field each have an associated value, don't you? So the question is, what are the values in the supposed field o...

The electromagnetic field has vector values at every point in space. Photons are ripples in the field - the photon can be described by a frequency and...

It seems worth pointing out that PNC will apply throughout all possible worlds. Yes. But if a metaphysical position, understood formally, entails a co...

The other philosophers here are quite entitled to differ with Klima on several points. Most obviously, they may question whether his notion of metaphy...

I'll go over the argument once again for you. You suggested that a possible world semantics for modal logic was counterintuitive. I'm asking you what ...

You are not the person to be giving out physics lessons.

In case this was missed... Things really are bad. It's different from last time. The damage being done here is permanent for a few reasons.

:razz: Not helping.

The question is not apt because the notion of a field of subjective experience fails to match with what is meant by "field" in physics. It has no valu...

Then it doesn't help. Those "excitations of fields" have a value. What is the value of the subjective field three centimetres in front of of you nose?...

There's a difference between recognising a question and accepting an answer. Sure there's a question here - a profound one. But you jump to a conclusi...

The bit where you think you have the answer, but don't.

Which is not physics. That's becasue in physics a field is a space with a value at every point. If he does not present a way to understand what that v...

And what values does Kastrup set for each point in the subjective field? Becasue that is what is required of a field in order to be a field. IF he doe...

I don't know how to explain this, since your asking the question seems to show a misunderstanding of what a field is in physics. A field is a mathemat...

:wink: But did your corgi learn it's limitations? Did it learn that it cannot do high school algebra? That would be pretty cool.

Ah, the "the whole of existence is reducible to the patterns of excitation of the one universal field of subjectivity" thing.

There are those who agree with you, it seems - but whether they understand you, that's a different issue. There remains the enigma mooted by Kastrup, ...

That's what I thought. "One simple space" - so the step-wise structure disappears? That would presumably be the case if we implemented S5 in this way....

Avoiding Cyclones by cancelling our travel plans, as it turns out. As a result I find i have time on my hands. Thanks - I didn't really expect many to...

:smile: For you, probably. Funny how folk who point out problems with your posts mostly haven't understood you.

Dreadful stuff, seeing as you asked for my opinion. The phrases "unitary and universal" and "bottom level of reality" and "prior to spatiotemporal ext...