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You say that as if it could be some other way that unfortunately just didn’t turn out to be the case. You say “freedom”, but you describe a multiple p...
March 09, 2020 at 23:30
Sorry, I thought I was talking to Pfhorrest.
March 09, 2020 at 19:37
Yes, interaction goes both ways, but the mind is secondary in many respects. For example, some people get brain seizure while driving or playing an in...
March 09, 2020 at 19:32
Bell theorem / hidden variable - is a mix of misinterpretations about the theory, what experiments are measuring, and how to read and interpret result...
March 09, 2020 at 19:17
That is true, in a way, but is just a play with words, substituting one phrase with another having equally no any grounding. By “grounding” I mean emp...
March 09, 2020 at 17:38
There is a guy who was sceptic about near death experience and decided to debunk it. However, while investigating he became less sceptic and eventuall...
March 09, 2020 at 16:58
You can not argue with “indefinite”. It means you are unable to say anything specific about it, and using ignorance to claim knowledge is the funniest...
March 09, 2020 at 14:42
You can not resolve the issue by not addressing the issue, so until you start talking about continuity in terms of infinite divisibility there is no d...
March 09, 2020 at 14:32
True, which means "infinitely divisible", hence the paradox.
March 09, 2020 at 14:24
Can you translate that into English? What is "real law", how is it different than "not-real law", and how is it different from conteporary understandi...
March 09, 2020 at 14:21
Explain that to Aletheist. That's where his confusion is, and anything else you two are talking about is beside that essential point.
March 09, 2020 at 14:15
We agree about Zeno and divisibility in that sense. The problem was you then started talk about divisibility in terms of past, present, and future - w...
March 09, 2020 at 14:10
Experience is a synthetic virtual representation of the physical state of the body. This simulation processing takes time, so it is only natural that ...
March 09, 2020 at 10:44
I see, a tree is conscious even if all of its parts are already conscious on their own. So I am conscious and my brain is conscious, but so is my elbo...
March 09, 2020 at 10:28
There is nothing reasonable in what you are saying, so I'm asking you for the fifth time to explicitly name it. Leaf, branch, tree, forest.. what is c...
March 09, 2020 at 03:06
Can those words produce some examples? Leaf, branch, tree, forest... each grain of sand or the whole beach - what is conscious?
March 09, 2020 at 00:52
What is it you expected to find, what exactly do you claim is missing?
March 08, 2020 at 22:46
That, and everything else. Panpsychism fails to make any empirically useful statement, it’s no less pointless than to claim god did it. It means nothi...
March 08, 2020 at 20:32
Yeah. There is “self” as a system that is having mental states and there is “me” as a content of mental states. “Self” is a physical entity, “me” is a...
March 08, 2020 at 17:22
It’s not a matter of opinion, but of speaking the same language as the rest of the world. The defining and most relevant aspect of continuity when tal...
March 08, 2020 at 15:47
DNA is a set of instructions and it is perfectly valid to call them symbols, as we do in genetics. Besides, there are no signs in the computer either,...
March 08, 2020 at 11:43
No? Who is interpreting the signs in your DNA? And what do you call a process constrained by a set of instructions, such as processes in your body, yo...
March 08, 2020 at 03:56
It is supported by every single data, some of which I already explained. Programs are intentions.
March 08, 2020 at 02:14
Can "something that acts" be made of nothing, or it must be made of something?
March 08, 2020 at 01:06
I said "it’s most accurate and pragmatic to call it “virtual reality”, a sort of simulation". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality
March 08, 2020 at 01:03
What's the problem?
March 08, 2020 at 00:59
Panpsychism must be true in some way because it’s maximally vague and ambiguous. Consider emergentism, the opposite of panpsychism, and yet if true, p...
March 08, 2020 at 00:11
Intentions, and other mental states, feelings and qualities, are not immaterial, they are virtual. To exist is to be (made of) something rather than n...
March 07, 2020 at 23:37
What differentiates one consciousness from another - leaf, branch, tree, forest... each grain of sand or the whole beach - what is conscious? Also, wh...
March 07, 2020 at 23:01
What’s the purpose of the brain and sensory organs then? Leaf, branch, tree, forest… what is conscious there, and what makes the boundary between my c...
March 07, 2020 at 21:44
Free will is only 100% free if it is 100% determined. That is 100% determined by the “self” and 0% determined by anything else. Therefore ‘free will’ ...
March 07, 2020 at 16:47
That's what I said. But you have Aletheist here who thinks continuity is the solution to the paradox, whatever then is the paradox supposed to be. Whe...
March 07, 2020 at 15:49
It's a logical conclusion implicit in continuous time, regardless of subjective experience. Present time is interval of time between past and future t...
March 07, 2020 at 08:33
Signals, just like words, pictures, and other kinds of representations are meaningless information by itself. Meaning comes from the grounding inheren...
March 06, 2020 at 18:27
No, because consciousness implies “mental content”, an infrastructure that can internally model or represent itself vs. everything else. There needs t...
March 06, 2020 at 17:45
It’s most accurate and pragmatic to call it “virtual reality”, a sort of simulation, but to keep in mind that does not necessarily imply digital compu...
March 06, 2020 at 16:39
Just to make one thing clear. There is no such thing as “immaterial” or “non-physical”, it’s a self-contradiction. Instead, it can be undetectable, ei...
March 06, 2020 at 15:39
Velocity, p=mv. But we don't need momentum and mass. Velocity = distance / time is sufficient. In either case I think the point is that there is no po...
March 06, 2020 at 15:15
That’s right. Even if the universe is not deterministic there is no denying all this existed at least as a potential reality. Even if the universe eme...
March 05, 2020 at 22:06
That a single image can hold multiple scenes using transparency does not contradict the claim we are only ever visually aware of a single image. It’s ...
March 05, 2020 at 16:02
Then you should care how real is virtual time, because discrete simulated time explains Zeno and Planck scale limits, while continuous time only makes...
March 05, 2020 at 04:34
You are reinterpreting the situation so to obfuscate the problem and then conclude there is no problem. I think that view is too naive to even be cons...
March 05, 2020 at 04:15
That it is not assumption, that is the conclusion, you already agreed with, by the way.
March 05, 2020 at 03:54
Zeno said “by the time Achilles reaches the tortoise it would have crawled to a new place, again and again”, where do you see an assumption? And how i...
March 05, 2020 at 03:28
You are still not explaining how any of that has anything to do with infinite divisibility or Zeno's paradox.
March 05, 2020 at 02:32
The part where you forgot to explain your point. True continuity!? It's really confusing why would you fabricate nonsense out of thin air, and how you...
March 05, 2020 at 02:22
There is a line from point A to point B representing either segment in space or time interval. And this line is then either continuous or discrete, i....
March 05, 2020 at 01:56
Yes, that is what "infinitely divisible" means. And you say one second of time is infinitely divisible. That is all we need, everything else follows. ...
March 05, 2020 at 01:45
It's not assumption as if used to conclude something else, it's the subject of the paradox, hypothesis being tested. You agree it’s false, produces pa...
March 05, 2020 at 00:52