That's a big challenge, specifying which organisms we're talking about exactly. I agree that human logic is extremely linguistic, also substantially a...
This seems like a topic the phenomenologists might have addressed. Anyone got any insights from perhaps Husserl or Merleau-Ponty to humor my lazybones...
Though I'm not sure how it relates to your book, an idea I've been thinking about is that the majority of Western citizens in the 20th century actuall...
The perceptual manifold is basically all qualia constitutive of qualitative experience. I was curious how you would explicitly fit the concept of corr...
How do you causally relate the plurality of correlation to the perceptual manifold? I have my own ideas but I'm trying to see if I can validate or imp...
So I gather that you mean a cognitive process of making correlations is interposed between perception and language, with varying degrees of generality...
Think I agree with the way you partitioned the concepts. A distinction certainly exists between perception/belief as somehow etched in cognition, lang...
I'd be interested to get a description of your concept "metacognition". What is the relationship between cognitive structure and linguistic structure ...
Centrality of linguistic evolution to the hominin and human mind might explain why we spend so much time insulting each other with symbolic meaning. M...
A hypothetical scenario for how human language evolved, tell me whether or not you think its plausible. Hominins and humans started to use objects mor...
It will be interesting to see how researchers progressively construct theoretical models and accompanying definitions from the empirical results going...
By worldview I just mean the collection of beliefs, opinions, valuated facts as an individual's general outlook on reality. I was wanting to explore h...
Been thinking about this issue a lot lately, and have reached some studied insights that might be of interest to you. A few of my blog posts at WordPr...
I think information is a term for the factual meanings contained in and produced by symbols such as those of a written language. The concept has been ...
The problem was the explanatory gap, not the distinction between traditional explanations. Subjective substance collapsed with objective substance res...
An easy solution to the problem of how objective brain states produce subjective mental states: The vast variety of different kinds of neurons and gli...
Whether or not a squirrel licking nuts means affection or in the case of a human for that matter is probably a judgement call, but I think we can agre...
This is slightly longer than your typical post, but I think you guys will find it interesting. Proposed solution to the hard problem! Scientists have ...
If you observe animal behavior outside a laboratory setup, its obvious they experience affection, recognize purpose, understand the world logically an...
I doubt human rationality evolves primarily as either ecological or social function, but more from an individual mind, language modules etc., selectin...
From what I read, dozens of theories exist as to how human language developed, and it seems to me that all of them contain a kernel of the truth. We m...
I did some reading as you suggested, and gather that the origin of human language is one of the most speculative topics in science and philosophy, so ...
I'll play the role of Don Quixote for the hell of it. This is my basic theory, tell me if you think its a valid starting point or totally bogus. To be...
My instant reaction is to think we should be seeking a comprehension of how life exists in the universe to improve stuff, not assuming that the very e...
Who says life can't adopt as many different forms as existent universes? Maybe life can exist in many possible universes. The "laws" of physics are ba...
Water and carbon are some of the most common substances in the universe. Quantum superposition of phase states in elementary particles such as atoms h...
How about a psychological viewpoint! We can with no trouble imagine an interminable future, but it is impossible to comprehend what an eternal past wo...
Perhaps some dynamic of neural or otherwise substantiated structuring exists that is common to all the most cognitive species, responsible for groupin...
Biologists constructing a taxonomy, ancient philosophers an account of nature's essence, prehistoric humans a spear, animals a nest, are these all ana...
Not an easily summarized topic, but this should give you a general idea. There were two main facets of early modernity's empiricism: a proposal of hyp...
My point of view is that objectivity is invented as a kind of collective subjectivity based on science and technology. Maybe that seems unorthodox, bu...
Relativism refers to the phenomenon that reality's appearance depends on a multiplicity of perspectives manifesting within an interpreting perceiver's...
Theories of mind indicate both voluntary functions and involuntary functions. The determinist claims that even voluntary functions are composed of inv...
Saying no one should lie because the categorical imperative implies so might be missing the point. But if pressed for a simple example, I think Kantia...
Kant claims pure practical reasoning about causal circumstance is involved with moral decision-making. He is arguing that these rational conclusions c...
You are quite the contrarian lol The issues you raise are not a flaw in the theory, but a topic to be studied, and I'm as curious as you! I provide so...
The idea is that qualia are a basic property of matter, like mass, energy, shape, and size, emergent from dynamics of entanglement that have been mode...
I've already talked about this at length in the "qualia and quantum mechanics" threads. If my theory is experimentally verified, it resolves the mind/...
If you can't find any support for my thesis anywhere, it must be either a really good or a really bad idea lol I wouldn't advocate panpsychism, my pre...
We could probably debate whether true chance even exists at the most basic level, but was the emergence of human life from inorganic chemistry relativ...
This view seems to be completely absent from scientific theorizing, but many intuit it and strongly agree anyway. Is there some intellectual formulati...
Reasoning is definition of thought in terms of a practical function, its role in formulating perceptions as mechanistic cause and effect for the techn...
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