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This is a whole field/. Not just confined to humans.

It was to deal with some stuff that came up. I think there will be separate forum wide threads for each discussion with the guest.

Deleted the personal remarks from your question. Also PM'd them to you in case you wanted to keep them anyway.

Done.

Title's too long. Not just editorially. It hits the character limit for a thread title.

I'm a bit hesitant about that being OK by itself, I think it would be OK so long as the quoted bit is contextualised explicitly by you in your discuss...

There's really only one order like this. You have a set like the naturals: {0,1,2,3,...} which are presented in their standard order with the successo...

I've made a joke before about Dirac delta priors, don't get to wheel it out very often. Alice: "What do you learn from the evidence?" Bob: "I always l...

That's amazing. The equivalence is ironically still true because both are false; the duck is seen without a black-band and so is the rabbit.

/uploads/resized/files/vk/ki8vmolysl2ggako.jpg The rabbit wears a black band on its neck if and only if the duck wears a black band on its neck.

It reveals that some environmental patterns can generate more than one perceptual feature. Notice that we don't disagree where the lines are drawn eve...

I guess we don't want to be anti-realist and say that any system just is our representation of it. Otherwise there'd be no possibility of disaccord wi...

Why would it need to be impossible? What's the reasoning behind (N1)? I don't think the hidden states matter here. The perceptual features or internal...

The thing that bugs me about the argument is (N1). If I can replace "real for certain" with "true", the thing that bugs me about it is I have to assum...

A bijection between evens and odds. The set of all even numbers is given by {2k} for k in {0,1,2,...,} The set of all odd numbers is given by {2k+1} f...

I gave you a worked example.

I quite like reading Marx as something of a metaphysician; what would metaphysics have to look like for what he's saying to be true? I enjoy reading h...

Answering out of order: Let's see if I can re-cast your argument as a syllogism. (N1) In order for an output of a model to be real for certain, the co...

To be honest I think what you're saying is irrelevant to the argument. Use value - (a use value is...) item that satisfies human wants or needs. Item ...

Unfortunately almost no one is cordial in argument all the time. It pays to be understanding when someone gets uppity. Though it's hard to remain unde...

For me it can be difficult to tell whether something's technical or not if I'm unfamiliar with it. Knowing what's relevant to what in a technical matt...

It's just in case. I think you need to check your math privilege. :yum: "Can you even imagine? They don't even understand Ito integrals..." (paraphras...

Define f: \rightarrow by f(x) = 2x Claim: f is a bijection. Proof: We will proceed by showing that f is injective and surjective. Injective subproof: ...

Satisfies no human want or need?

So what you want from Marx is an analysis of what it means for something to be useful. Rather than more cursory remarks regarding how something has to...

Not sold on this. If outputs of whatever system of belief formation we have actually were probability statements, rather than being realisations of pr...

An odd claim, considering seeing money as a social form of exchange is central to the value theory. So there are two sources of profit. One is profit ...

People will only buy things they can use. Something needs to have a use value in order for it to have an exchange value. When both apply, an item is a...

It would help if you described the contradiction.

The notion of a cat might be contained within a mind, though I'm not so happy with the vocabulary. Let's make it a bit less abstract. (1) I have a cat...

I'm skeptical that beliefs can play any sensible part in a definition of truth simpliciter. Though I can read what you have written as a definition of...

Eh, fair, I'll delete the comment. :up:

Insofar as the whole of existence is a heap due to the paradox of the heap? Dunno this argument.

I imagine it would be part of use value.

Two accounts: (A) So - phenomenal consciousness is defined as independent of access consciousness. These are conceptual distinctions. But: Observation...

Just wanna give credit where credit is due, you've made excellent posts this thread.

As are laws, countries, economies, cultures, people, love, justice...

:point: :up: That's very similar to the point I'm making. Theory ladened perceptual features are still about their content; they are a relation betwee...

Original argument is stupid crap. What's ownership in the Treatise? Whoops I seem to have found one of those widely occurrent natural phenomena, the g...

I wrote a synopsis of Friston's general approach outlined in the linked paper here. In terms of how they relate to external events/the environmental s...

Aye. I saw that in the paper. I couldn't really tease out how a conceptual scheme could be "in the large part, true" other than thinking of it has an ...

I think that's about right, at least on how Davidson's using "conceptual scheme". It might also be that a conceptual scheme is implicated in how conte...

Oh, that post was motivated to get the discussion back on what I see as the central issue. The scheme-content distinction. The "red herrings" I highli...

I'm very grateful for any time that you spend with my questions, and I hope that you have a fun time interacting with strangers interested in your wor...

That's part of it, yeah. Didn't see @"Moliere"'s equally excellent second one. Were you informing me of Moliere's excellent posts because you wanted t...

There are a lot of things we can get hung up about here. One is whether conceptual schemes only cash out in effects on language use. This is a red her...

Doubt any thought process that leads you to believe your thinking is globally unreliable. Either that thought process is reliable or it isn't, if it's...

I'd be interested in hashing out an experimental design with you at some point if you'd be interested.

Boring. It was boring. I've done some free time coding looking at equilibrium distributions of random variables on dynamical random graphs; in these c...

I guess fundamentally the point of relevance is that humans are not just recipients of hidden states, we are creators of them - active perception both...