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We either experience qualia or we don’t. What do you say?
January 22, 2020 at 06:03
Referring to internal/external distinction as "dualism" makes potential point of confusion with substance/property dualism. It’s unclear if you yourse...
January 22, 2020 at 00:17
How do you arrive to that conclusion?
January 21, 2020 at 23:55
1. chance that A just so happens to exist and has property B 2. chance that X just so happens to exist and has property Y which is to create A that ha...
January 21, 2020 at 18:02
Then it must have tuned itself while it was beyond space and time. Of course it’s possible, you should know, it’s simply a special kind of universe. W...
January 21, 2020 at 17:52
It’s fascinating that you apply logic reasonably well, except to your own statements The universe must be very special fine-tuner to tune itself, to b...
January 21, 2020 at 16:43
God is fine tuned for life, so there must be a god-tuner.
January 21, 2020 at 16:04
What are you talking about, what is your point, and how does that have anything to do with the title of this thread?
January 21, 2020 at 04:08
Nice.
January 21, 2020 at 00:59
If you look at equations of motion it is obvious there were never any particles. I find it dubious to talk about 13 types of “meta-fields” when they a...
January 20, 2020 at 23:53
The mystery you are talking about is best captured by the concept of "self", supposed to explain what is it exactly that defines spatial boundaries an...
January 20, 2020 at 17:42
Terrible. This whole discussion, just like the opening question, is without any significant point, awfully vague and undirected, it is impossible to s...
January 20, 2020 at 15:52
Dumb is wasting everyones time to share your purposeles opinion. Go away, shooo!
January 19, 2020 at 03:23
Yes qualia, how things appear. The question is where does the brain shop for colors to paint our mental picture. To be clear I consider objects of the...
January 19, 2020 at 03:20
Yes, we are talking about colors as objects of cognition. The question is whether a). we actually see colors (colors exist), or b). we only think we s...
January 19, 2020 at 02:32
Let me rephrase. Electromagnetic waves are not colors. These waves are converted to electrical impulses in the eye before going into the brain. But el...
January 19, 2020 at 02:25
Are you not able to explain your assertion and describe your position?
January 19, 2020 at 02:10
Is there any other picture of the brain where sensory visual input is not first encored into serial electric signal in the eye before it even reaches ...
January 19, 2020 at 01:42
Ugghhh. Let me try. Imagine a metaphor with a computer, it is running a program that paints the whole screen yellow. We turn off the monitor and ask d...
January 19, 2020 at 00:16
Meta-time has existed as long as meta-universe. Meta-time goes both forward and backward at the same time, so it doesn’t go anywhere and thus it is al...
January 14, 2020 at 22:58
Monkey and anti-monkey cancel each other in chaotic arrangement before they can manage to materialize. Something materializes only through windows of ...
January 10, 2020 at 18:58
His nothing are laws of quantum physics and quantum vacuum. That is not nothing, it’s lame attempt at explanation that does not explain. I guess you c...
January 10, 2020 at 15:39
Every addition and subtraction equation directly maps to the real physical world. If you look at it from that perspective it would be really strange e...
January 09, 2020 at 17:52
Yes, potential, which is abstract concept, it is not really a.thing, so it is no-thing. I'm not talking about quantum vacuum, virtual particles, or an...
January 08, 2020 at 15:56
I mean in its literal or physical sense. There is an aspect of testable reality there. Namely, the reason why things are mostly neutrally charged. Als...
January 08, 2020 at 14:54
And now to mathematically prove how something comes out of nothing! 0 = -x + x This means two things, and it is actually not quite “something comes ou...
January 08, 2020 at 11:07
Your logic circuit is malfunctioning. I repeat what I said, try to read it again.
January 08, 2020 at 11:06
Truth is logical, semantical and mathematical, while empirical observations only have statistical certainty. Just because we have not seen it doesn’t ...
January 08, 2020 at 09:52
Why is god fine-tuned to produce fine-tuned universe?
January 07, 2020 at 23:30
We were talking about the beginning, your statement is about ending. And in the meantime dumb mechanical systems tend to aggregate into things like th...
January 07, 2020 at 23:27
So you lack understanding of basic physics. I don’t have patience for that kind of ignorance. May mighty Khorons have mercy on your soul.
January 07, 2020 at 16:53
Because there is no-one to do the fine tuning? Hmm. Take that logic and apply it directly to the universe. I did not ask about any environment, but go...
January 07, 2020 at 16:40
You are misinterpreting. I did not say the universe always existed, I said time always existed and universes get created from time to time.
January 07, 2020 at 16:29
No, with god you are just making extra step and renaming mystery to "why is god fine-tuned". Why is god fine-tuned? You are not addressing the point. ...
January 07, 2020 at 16:06
I think we can all agree that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. So, here...
January 07, 2020 at 03:51
Yes, but only in the case qualia is indeed physical phenomena. Alternative being virtual phenomena.
January 07, 2020 at 03:39
Yes, but the choice of “brute fact” is still just an assumption. So you have a choice to postulate magical fine-tuned universe, just like we observe, ...
January 06, 2020 at 22:29
Perhaps, but not in English language, at least. It is not because I refuse to think “out of the box”, it is because the time concept is one of the fun...
January 06, 2020 at 20:13
I agree, keep that logic in mind... To exist out of substance is to consist of nothing. -- meaning: it does not exist To exist out of time is to exist...
January 06, 2020 at 18:56
By the way, if god exist out of time and space, practically existing nowhere and never, so is it then actually made of something or it follows it is r...
January 06, 2020 at 18:23
Intelligent about what? How can it know anything if there is nothing to know? So instead of asking where did the universe come from, the question beco...
January 06, 2020 at 18:21
There is no but, simulation can not produce actual physical phenomena, i.e. you were wrong as I already explained. That's all.
January 06, 2020 at 09:42
Yes, physical, it means it can not be simulated, just like you can not produce magnetic attraction by simulating bar magnet, just like you can not pro...
January 06, 2020 at 04:39
It confirms what I said - you can not claim to be panpsychist without postulating there is sentience present within universe existing as additional fu...
January 06, 2020 at 03:45
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson Strawson has argued that what he calls "realistic physicalism" entails panpsychism. He writes that "as ...
January 06, 2020 at 02:45
That sounds like emergentism. In any case you can not claim to be panpsychist without postulating there is sentience present within universe existing ...
January 05, 2020 at 21:57
I would think by definition there can not possibly exist anything more inexplicable and unexplained than god itself. Every property of god is maximall...
January 05, 2020 at 21:31
In every your argument I can substitute the word “god” with “universe”, and vice versa. And neither god nor universe as the first axiom explain anythi...
January 05, 2020 at 20:12
Universe is uncaused cause, it existed before time. And although there are reasons to call the universe intelligent and equate it with god, to take th...
January 05, 2020 at 19:42
No, panpsychism claims everything is conscious because it is a fundamental physical property, additional to electromagnetism and gravity, Panpsychist ...
January 05, 2020 at 12:03