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I didn't define anything?
June 01, 2016 at 02:21
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...
June 01, 2016 at 00:37
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 ...
May 31, 2016 at 20:14
Obviously not, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.
May 31, 2016 at 20:13
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...
May 31, 2016 at 19:55
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 ...
May 31, 2016 at 19:28
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 ...
May 31, 2016 at 17:48
Aren't p-zombies just people with no qualia? So doesn't every philosopher who denies there are qualia, claim to be a p-zombie?
May 31, 2016 at 15:01
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...
May 31, 2016 at 04:25
That's what the Socratic method is all about. "You said it, not me." Why would Dennett take offense at people agreeing with him?
May 31, 2016 at 04:07
I'm not saying he's plugging his ears. I'm saying maybe he doesn't understand the concept because he has no qualia.
May 30, 2016 at 14:19
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...
May 30, 2016 at 02:07
I think that's a realistic possibility.
May 29, 2016 at 19:26
The magical new breed of Indigo Children: kids claim to 'see' colors.
May 29, 2016 at 07:14
What if there's qualia gene buried somewhere? Outward signs include professing belief in qualia, being homosexual, and browsing DeviantArt?
May 29, 2016 at 06:51
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...
May 29, 2016 at 06:39
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...
May 29, 2016 at 05:11
The majority of mainstream analytic philosophers.
May 29, 2016 at 05:10
I'd think they were lying (like the aforementioned philosophers) ;)
May 29, 2016 at 05:10
It's Schopenhauer's! :)
May 27, 2016 at 19:19
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...
May 27, 2016 at 06:46
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...
May 25, 2016 at 17:31
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...
May 25, 2016 at 14:15
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...
May 24, 2016 at 22:11
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...
May 24, 2016 at 22:00
Schop. believes that the Will will eventually destroy itself, because it will create creatures (us) whose powers of representation become advanced eno...
May 24, 2016 at 21:35
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...
May 24, 2016 at 19:24
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...
May 24, 2016 at 19:22
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...
May 24, 2016 at 19:18
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...
May 21, 2016 at 21:00
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...
May 21, 2016 at 19:35
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...
May 21, 2016 at 16:58
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...
May 21, 2016 at 07:17
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...
May 21, 2016 at 06:27
Why, though? Think about it.
May 21, 2016 at 06:25
I don't know. There's no point in denying it under any pubic circumstances, but I don't see how I could have any idea.
May 21, 2016 at 06:09
What makes the basketball players so different from the symbiotes? How could I know? And what does it matter?
May 21, 2016 at 06:01
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...
May 21, 2016 at 05:47
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...
May 21, 2016 at 04:33
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 ...
May 21, 2016 at 04:02
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...
May 20, 2016 at 22:13
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...
May 20, 2016 at 04:07
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...
May 20, 2016 at 02:04
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...
May 20, 2016 at 01:42
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...
May 20, 2016 at 00:44
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...
May 19, 2016 at 23:43
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...
May 19, 2016 at 21:22
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...
May 19, 2016 at 19:43
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...
May 19, 2016 at 17:34
An infant might need certain stimulations associated with genuine affection -- whether or not any genuine affection has to be behind them is a differe...
May 19, 2016 at 17:04