But that's what I'm doing, taking Dennett at his word that he doesn't have qualia, and is is a p-zombie. Why not take him at his word that he has cons...
You will be claiming that you don't have consciousness if your belief that consciousness isn't qualia can't be made sense of. For instance, suppose I ...
But suppose that we can't make sense of consciousness on terms that doesn't somehow equate it with the presence of qualia. It would follow that the on...
I can't understand the claim that consciousness doesn't consist in qualia as anything other than a redefinition of consciousness from its lay meaning ...
If they claim people are conscious, then there is no dispute, since they don't think they're p-zombies. But for those who think that consciousness at ...
I don't see any paradox in Schopenhauer's views. At best he's forced to 'admit' that there's something unknowable about the Will, which is hardly surp...
I don't understand. Wouldn't believing they're p-zombies be giving them the benefit of the doubt? But philosophers claim precisely not to be able to u...
That's a little psychoanalytical. I don't think an entire cultural or professional tendency can be reduced to individual quirks, unless these are some...
Right, so since this view is obviously false, one hypothesis is that Dennett thinks this because he has no qualitative experiences, so they're incompr...
Before there are sentient creatures, there are no subjects or objects. Pre-conscious forces result in consciousness arising as a kind of 'arms race' t...
A Feast for Crows is great. Once all the mandatory big plot is out of the way and the world is established, you get these great little insights into t...
I've read A Song of Ice and Fire, and have generally enjoyed the 'low fantasy' feel of it -- the actors in the world feel like they follow some sort o...
No, these are (barring suicide, for Schop.) negations of the will, and they are only possible in beings whose willings have created very complex repre...
It doesn't act on them -- the laws are an objectification of it. It's 'behind' the laws, not on a par with them. It doesn't have reasons for what it d...
Schop. believes that the Will will eventually destroy itself, because it will create creatures (us) whose powers of representation become advanced eno...
Okay. I'm not keen on panpsychism generally, sine it seems like a cop-out in the form of another retreat into the familiar or quasi-solipsism (I can o...
A disturbing quote to this effect from Schop.: "...the will must live on itself, for there exists nothing beside it, and it is a hungry will." Schop's...
Not all the way down, no, Schop. is explicit that presentation is only applicable to sentient creatures, and is an outgrowth of will which is prior. I...
You were wrong -- those other people never got each other. That feeling of fundamental separation isn't special to you or anyone else. Talk to any per...
The irony in your position is that you can't fathom other people existing unless they are like you, so much so that the idea that other people might b...
I don't think this option is open, because the position being outlined here isn't compatible with solipsism. Solipsism is a transcendental position, w...
The Socratic tradition requires that ideas be tested internally on their own merits. If what you said were true, then the discussions had in the Theae...
Nothing, really -- I'm checked out for the most part. I guess I have a kind of faith in my family members, the rest of it is hard to care about. Why h...
Let's bracket the question for a moment and ask a more basic one. Instead of 'do they,' ask 'would they need to?' If not, then of course the fact that...
No, I disagree. Getting people to move in a certain way doesn't require they have similar subjective experiences of that movement at all. Again, I dis...
But that's precisely the point You don't see how. And you won't, because there is no common place for you to see in which it comes together. The lack ...
I don't think basketball games are rare, but I also don't think they're really interesting examples of intersubjectivity. You can play basketball supe...
Whether there's an interface doesn't matter. The point is that the players can coordinate on a game in such a way that they can't tell whether they ar...
Yes. That was the point of the AI fighting game example. All that you need is for two people to make the appropriate motions, and those motions can be...
Don't symbiotic creatures have to be in sync? Yet they do what they do alone, without awareness of the other. They affect each other and maybe they re...
I think getting through the day doesn't really require treating other people with anything close to the humanity people are forced to grant themselves...
That's interesting. It raises the question of what would happen if the relevant proxies for actual contact were introduced. Sure -- one way to think a...
But experiencing something as an emotional source isn't the same as it being one. Put another way -- do you think all babies that grow up without bein...
Yeah, the proposition expressed can definitely be true, which you can see if you ascribe it to someone else, yourself in the past, suppose it, etc. Bu...
That depends on what you mean by 'makes sense.' In lay terms when we talk about things not making sense, any number of theoretical analyses might be c...
An infant might need certain stimulations associated with genuine affection -- whether or not any genuine affection has to be behind them is a differe...
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