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Might be garbled, might help. I see the table. (an event) x R y (x = me, R = sees, y = table) I see the table as brown. Is this: x R y ? x R (B(y)) ? ...

I guess what I'm trying to emphasise is that maybe associating qualia with facets of experience; like redness or whatever; is rather artificial. There...

Tell me the story of how these properties inhere in a quale?

Another thing that bugged me; observation or awareness of one's own mental state. If I'm observing a quale, the observation of that quale is part of m...

"This is a way Terrapin thinks about properties" "Therefore we experience the way Terrapin thinks we do" What state of mind do you have to be in to no...

You experience properties? Weird. Do phenomenal states consist of properties? What does that look like? How do you access them? A whole individual acc...

Yes. That doesn't mean I think rocks are capable of producing their own phenomenal states?

Brain and/or bodily states. I had no idea I balked at it!

Yes. Monism's usually understood as a substance ontology. There's only 'one type of thing', and neutral monism says that the 'one type of thing' is bo...

Eh, reducing questions about what a self is to what our intuitions tell us it is? That's not my jam. I shrug. Don't like substance ontologies (except ...

Introspection's a lot different from awareness. And are they accessible in the same way? Are sex quales like food quales? If you say "qualia come from...

Are you sure? It seems simple to me, I think you're sitting on stuff just as crazy, you just don't problematise it. And that's a problem.

I don't think he's ever assented to it; or been totally convinced of it; but he has defended it as sensible. I think "worthy of consideration" is abou...

Qualia aren't supposed to have hows, they're just there. That we have experiences is (probably) theory neutral. If you label those experiences "qualia...

Having global suspicion about a domain is a pretty strong commitment! Chalmers himself gets a lot of mileage out of (what he sees as) conceptual conse...

It makes sense! We always come to an understanding instantaneously of what we experience (experience-of is always experience-as). Something with no pa...

I don't think that's right. That we 'have experiences with content' in a pre-technical sense is uncontroversial. What's controversial about it is that...

You can link to videos (at least I don't delete all posts containing them), just write a bit about it and make sure it's relevant. Relevant might incl...

@"creativesoul" The posts which consisted solely of insults have been deleted. Play nice.

I try not to think about explanations that are merely possible or might exist?

I don't know if you meant that, I thought you were being snide. See? Contextual.

Aight. Rather than hearing you being supportive and critical at the same time. I heard "I agree with you, by the way what I perceive as your worldview...

Jesus H Christ on a bendy bus you're being snide. But yes. Edit: there's always problems in everything.

Well, I don't understand how people find it so obvious, but I do understand what people mean when they say qualia or "what is it like". This is why I ...

You can understand a stipulation without believing in it. I think everyone agrees that there are first person experiences. I don't think everyone agre...

I miss my pipe.

You can have another koan then! We should learn to be more surprised by falsehoods than by truths.

While things aren't always what they appear to be, they usually are.

It would be extremely surprising that there were two different flavours of consciousness, that agree with each other almost all the time, but differ s...

I dunno. What we think is trivial is usually fundamental to our worldview, and should usually be examined - special emphasis when others who we otherw...

Nah. Don't understand this at all. I won't have the experiences associated with doing the sex act, but I can absolutely know what it's like to have se...

Oh I had no idea "what is it like to be X?" was a concept! :yum: I'm done trolling now.

No u! How dare you doubt the arbitrary conceptual structure imposed upon my first person experiences which is then retroactively equated with them!

I really don't understand you. To my reckoning, there are these weird people who picked up a way of describing bizarre altered states of activity from...

I can't, impossible.

Yes. Well, no. What I actually did was I figured that if there was a what it's like to be me, it would be the same if I focussed on my ass where I'm s...

That's my feet. That's not me.

Not when the amygdala and prefrontal cortex are influenced by socialisation, childhood environment... I think, anyway.

I've read the essay, I just don't experience things like that. I've never felt like there's something which it is like to be me. How the hell am I sup...

I just don't understand. Felt what is it like-ness? First person? Guess I just don't experience it like that.

Aye. Intention makes the most sense as a folk psychological concept and part of our social ontology IMO; but I would be extremely surprised if there w...

Another nice thing about the hierarchy; our mind's distinctive features are relatively impotent in it - you can will your leg to move, but that doesn'...

From the link: I mean... humans as individual entities are both at once. We're quantum shit interacting to bring atoms interacting to bring molecules ...

Yes! Yes! We could talk about this elsewhere sometime if either of us can be bothered.

This is an aside, but it's interesting. I agree with you that the token-token stuff doesn't correspond to, or shed light on, any scientific stuff; I a...

I'm quite happy to be a smart ape. You don't seem to be. You want more. Luckily what apes as smart as us can do, think; how we are; is very very rich ...

I would believe that mysticism and reason were two sides of the same coin if they were, but they are not.

So long as the catalogue doesn't necessitate buying anything in it, we can see eye to eye.

@"Wayfarer"

18 people for a between groups study? Skeptical. Anyway, the research question is "do well practiced meditators have higher gamma synchrony than contr...