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It seems to indicate that a person will not have visual imagery in their dreams if they have not had sufficiently recent visual perceptions (edit: I g...
November 03, 2020 at 17:55
You can have coloured features in dreams without the same flavour and intensity of sensorimotor feedbacks we have when conscious, that's not quite the...
November 03, 2020 at 17:21
The thing with colour etc being characterised as extrinsic relational properties means they don't collapse down to either being subjective or objectiv...
November 03, 2020 at 16:23
Fascism - to a decent approximation paligenetic ultranationalism, an ideology of restoration/rebirth (palingenetic) of a superior mythologised nation/...
November 03, 2020 at 06:06
With sufficient pedantry, what demarcates the steps of the "iterations" of perceptions would also vary too, no? There's no guarantee that update steps...
November 01, 2020 at 19:42
Aye. I imagine that the kind of accounts philosophically split along two lines: (1) How are perceptual features formed? (2) What is the phenomenal con...
November 01, 2020 at 14:33
>Deplatforming is against freedom of speech. >Trying to stop political rallies isn't.
November 01, 2020 at 12:51
It is tricky. The nascent way we split up phenomena and describe them isn't a neutral process of observation and recording with respect to the topic o...
November 01, 2020 at 12:35
I guess I'll take you both at your word that you're not prepared to discuss it seriously and leave it at that. I wish you would've saved us some time ...
October 31, 2020 at 15:49
You responded to a series of reasoned posts with an insult, an appeal to self evidence (self evident to you) and a bare assertion. Make an argument en...
October 31, 2020 at 14:36
Also consider this bit from the essay: Adding "subjective" to something has an uncanny way of moving it into someone's head. Edit: as an analogy, "isn...
October 30, 2020 at 18:48
I don't think so? The problem with the "subjective state" isn't the "state" it's the "subjective". Similarly with "private state", it's not the "state...
October 30, 2020 at 18:25
Also @"jamalrob" because perceptual intermediaries. Why not? It's a question of what the "object of perception" refers to. Earlier in my discussion wi...
October 30, 2020 at 15:31
Double post because of the notification bug, and I think this is an important clarifying point in my dispute with @"Kenosha Kid". Yes! I'm coming at t...
October 29, 2020 at 17:57
That's what the article is criticising though, if they're not pre-existing objects, they solely permeate the "conscious apprehension" as objects with ...
October 29, 2020 at 17:33
the least big it could've been, the least big. nobody could've prepared for this, you think democrats would've done better sticking with the WHO? chin...
October 29, 2020 at 17:18
The problem is breaking off that last stage, AND is made available to that same person's consciousness? What is made available to the person's conscio...
October 29, 2020 at 15:56
Let me rephrase, there is a big difference between saying that a person has a sense datum/experiential entity with a given structure that only they ha...
October 29, 2020 at 14:58
I'm trying to highlight that the article is criticising privacy in the same way it's criticising other alleged aspects of qualia. There's a big differ...
October 29, 2020 at 14:20
Here's the thing I don't get; if you've removed the ineffability, the difference between first person and third person epistemic standards, you've rem...
October 29, 2020 at 13:55
Tried to get at this tension here and here here. Maybe a decent analogy is: If I write this program for my computer: addit=function(x,y){ thesum=x+y r...
October 29, 2020 at 04:07
I think you're pretty off the mark here exegetically @"Kenosha Kid", If you are wondering about something which may be or fail to be "immediate", "int...
October 29, 2020 at 00:03
The difference between a property of an object and an object is pretty big. "3 is prime" says the property "is prime" applies to 3, whereas "is prime"...
October 28, 2020 at 21:31
@"Kenosha Kid" too, as this post is talking about problems with the qualia concept, previous post I made that this post is elaborating upon. The impul...
October 28, 2020 at 19:21
Aye. I read it as an illustration of the kind of thinking that prepares someone to start parsing their experiences in terms of qualia. Another way of ...
October 28, 2020 at 18:14
How's this one going?
October 28, 2020 at 15:41
If you're going to respond to me without making an attempt to do any exegesis for the paper in question, I'm just going to ignore it from now on.
October 28, 2020 at 15:14
From Dennett's parody philosophical dictionary. It says so in Quining Qualia in the second paragraph: Read the bloomin' thing!
October 28, 2020 at 14:28
@"Luke" Yes! "Perceptions as pictures viewed by the mind. Qualia as picture properties." is the view I think's being criticised. Intuition pump (1) ab...
October 28, 2020 at 13:47
Qualia as experiential objects with intrinsic (non-relational) properties are MMP's target of criticism in the opening sections of Phenomenology of Pe...
October 27, 2020 at 18:03
I dunno read and analyse the paper and see what you think.
October 27, 2020 at 01:33
Whether qualia are appropriate to describe internal states, and indeed what the phenomenal structure of those internal states is, is a distinct proble...
October 27, 2020 at 01:23
Back to qualia, then. Whether it's right to claim that qualia do not exist, at least as they are theorised/described intuited, is going to turn on how...
October 26, 2020 at 21:51
I don't think it's the same as behaviourism in general. If behaviourism is characterised by the claim that there are no internal states of any sort, t...
October 26, 2020 at 18:23
Read the links I provided, then. I did bother to reference the post, but I appreciate that it was very dense and relied upon familiarity with the term...
October 26, 2020 at 17:55
Nah. I'm an eliminativist towards qualia because how they're used seems to me to commit their user to an account of perception which relies upon a per...
October 26, 2020 at 17:34
I had the self refutation objections in my head. The other thread's OP link has Strawson explicating a version of it. (1) Eliminativism towards (class...
October 26, 2020 at 17:16
AFAIK that's part of his intentional stance idea. Say if you put an expression which always evaluates as true as the terminating-when-false condition ...
October 26, 2020 at 16:40
Third option; which I take to be Dennett's (then we can get back to the thread). (1) People feel stuff. (Dennett agrees) (2) There are theoretical acc...
October 26, 2020 at 15:52
I think calling qualia sense data is an equivocation, or at least non-standard use: SEP on qualia and sense data. At best, a sense datum has propertie...
October 26, 2020 at 09:56
Works in some way. As signalled by the scarequotes. How? What is that way? Is there more than one way? - That space of questions is (allegedly) left t...
October 25, 2020 at 18:53
What's an an intuition pump? The purpose of an intuition pump is to challenge an intuition about a claim. It isn't a formal refutation, knock down arg...
October 25, 2020 at 16:40
Relevant to what? You're better off asking @"Isaac" about neurology things. Attention reference: I'm sure you've seen this experiment regarding attent...
October 25, 2020 at 13:19
@"Pfhorrest"'s points in it were good for a broadly sympathetic construal of the qualia concept in a (reasonably) theory neutral way. I tried to write...
October 24, 2020 at 22:35
There's a very long discussion here which might help a bit. About qualia, not specifically about Dennett. If you refuse to bracket what is self eviden...
October 24, 2020 at 21:29
Let's assume that's true: (1) It still might be that exploring our phenomenal/experiential states rigorously leads us to doubt the folk theoretic noti...
October 24, 2020 at 21:18
Lots of talk about eliminativism and gotcha games around it, not much talk about the dispute. Regarding "direct acquaintance" with "fundamental qualit...
October 24, 2020 at 19:04
When you've decided exactly what name you want I'll change it for you.
October 22, 2020 at 17:55
What would you like your name changed to?
October 22, 2020 at 17:53
How did Dawkins set evolutionary theory back by decades?
October 17, 2020 at 19:26