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It seems a tight needle to thread. There's no guarantee that our representation of our environment's structure corresponds to the structure of phenome...

Eh, I'm still a noob in this, I'll take any free education I can get. The forward/backward propagation steps in Box 3 in the Frisk paper are probably ...

@"Swan" @"Mark Dennis" In Soviet Russia pissing contest stops you. Now.

Because this is also interesting, @"StreetlightX" had a thread on this at some point in the past. The gist of it was that relational concepts admit of...

I like this conjecture a lot. Explaining the unity of consciousness in terms of our body's self modelling processes as realising a single action-sensa...

Silicon lattices are made of silicon. They can still change. Silicon lattices are not silicon lattices since they are made of silicon. Silicon imperso...

What I take from that is that you never put the bong down.

... Put the bong down.

To where. :P

You make it sound like "order" is a single event, and "chaos" is a single event that happens when order doesn't. In reality, lots of stuff is self org...

Super interesting article. If I've read the article right, we have that actions and anticipations are both generated to minimise predictive surprise o...

I've been reading this one on and off for a while. Tell me what you think of it plx!

Before you learned to think critically and analyse stuff, you were still learning. It's not your fault that it's hard to challenge these things with r...

Why did you pretend to be a trans person in another thread you tried this crap in?

Go see a therapist? A sex therapist? It'll be hard work, but it'll be worth it.

I think that's a nice corrective, but I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. I did consider writing "embodied cognition", but I didn'...

Why did those bloody abos get an apology when I didn't..

I think what @"Isaac" is imagining as a concept is quite different from, in virtue of being a more general form of, ideas about what we do with ration...

That was from another other thread.

(previous thread) You're right. It's not just that. It's: Your position is internally inconsistent. But If it weren't, you (or the worldview you promo...

(1) Harryhindu posts in a thread regarding a prejudice or systemic injustice. (2) Harryhindu attacks all narratives which affirm the relevance of the ...

My (broadly Humean) guess is that concepts typically are learned associations; iterated relations of relations of neural patterns (patterns of pattern...

Probably the same demographic attends. We just remember the exemplary and contrast it to the usual.

That makes sense. Sudden noises, people going apeshit on shrooms, forgetting your keys, leaving the oven on while you're out... I wonder what the scop...

I figured you were all about the extended mind stuff, I wasn't just writing for you there, I wanted to highlight that it's easy to use a vocabulary th...

Agree that red is a concept. Stuff is also red. There's an interplay between language use and perception; the language we are used to invites us to pa...

When visiting your girlfriend's family for the first time, imagine yourself fucking their mother, and then their grandmother, this will allow you to e...

I think this is about right. I would emphasise, though I don't know if this is relevant to colour specifically, that when we perceive; language and co...

So let's imagine that there's an experiential state someone is in. This is how what they're doing feels. (edit: pay no attention to the situation and ...

Subjects are points in spacetime?

This seems agreeable to me. I'm still curious over exactly what kind of stuff counts as a 'facet of experience'; where are the boundaries? How did the...

I know you are not talking about concepts, you are being influenced by ones which you have that you are not articulating. This is concept talk.

That you think you're providing a theory neutral description of phenomenal character is part of the problem.

Very much this. Though I take a pretty cynical view of it. The kind of description of experience going on here is reflection upon it with a certain pr...

So the colour quales and shape quales are distinguished in our experience by something which is not reflected in our experience.

(1) I see the table, it presents as a certain shape and a certain colour. (2) The shape and the colour present together. There is a shape-colour quale...

I agree. Shape and colour are distinct concepts. Are they distinct in the phenomenal character? Are they distinct in the percept?

Ok! I don't think we're talking cross purposes, then. At least, I think I understand you. I assume there will be an analogous colour quale. Is the sha...

Right! And in the quale is there some corresponding shape property of the table?

Maybe! I see the cup as blue. The (my) phenomenal character (in terms of colour) of the cup has a blue quale. "What it is like to see the cup? Partly,...

What assumptions are you explicitly denying? What's a quale to you? Edit: run me through an encounter you have with a quale?

It's funny. Qualia discussions on here usually go like this in my experience. Everyone gets baffled because "the other side just doesn't understand". ...

I agree with this. How could I not? What I don't agree with is that it says the same thing as this: "There's some shape to the table, as a property of...

More words then please.

And I did. No. The shape of the table isn't experienced as a totality. If you like; there are table properties that are not experiential properties. S...

@"Isaac" also linked this one.

Sigh, you don't discuss with someone who refuses to answer return questions and defines your options. I don't want a rhetorical pissing match, I want ...

Ok. The table has lots of properties. How do these consist in the perception?

No? There's an underside of the table.