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No, the idea is that red is a property as we see it, not something that causes us to have a response, which could be something unlike color, such as a...

The way it appears would mean the color in our experience. Except that one thing is a property of the object and the other is a perception of that sam...

If there's no laws governing what can be then all theories are equally valid. No laws or no physical laws? Why do laws have to be physical?

Agreed. I also think science without universals doesn't work.

It is. I'm disagreeing with it on those grounds. As a Humean account. Non-humeans call that contingency. Physicists seem to manage. Newton said gravit...

Since I recently just watched it, reminds me of the documentary Free Solo, about Alex Honnold climbing 3200 feet of El Capitan without a rope in 2017....

It means we have an explanation for how A causes B to happen. In physics, the electromagnetic force is the explanation for chemical bonds. Chemistry h...

Your vote doesn't matter. It won't change anything unless you vote in a small enough election where it's possible for one vote to matter. You aren't d...

Solidness as we conceptually thought prior to atomic theory does not exist, except maybe under extreme gravity like a neutron star. When people first ...

The counterfactual theory doesn't say whether B is necessitated by A, which the traditional notion of A forcing B to happen entails. Therefore, we can...

I didn't think causality would be the main topic. I thought the object nominalism was more controversial as most people aren't willing to dispense wit...

It's odd because I've made those sort of arguments to the direct realists in this forum before and got argued down. They didn't seem to think there wa...

Consciousness. Probably not physicalism. How do you know this? Chalmers proposed a law binding consciousness with informationally rich systems. So pro...

Hardly. It just means color as we experience it isn't a property of the object. Other than none. Which is kind of the point. Before modern science, sk...

You don't understand that the all possible world is a logical necessity by definition and the other isn't?

All possible universes is a logical necessity. One is not.

The wavelength of light the creature sees, which gets represented as a color sensation. I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing about, other than you don...

You don’t see a difference in those accounts of causality? In the all possible universes, it’s impossible for A not to follow B. In the other account,...

whether or not something is possible has everything to do with causation, outside of contradictory statements.

Possible Universe X: B always follows A. Possible Universe Y: B follows A up until time T. Compare that to All Possible Universes where: B always foll...

The counterfactual definition still doesn’t solve the problem of induction, and it doesn’t distinguish between impossible and possible but never happe...

Logic. Also, I didn’t make a claim about object existence. I referenced the nominalism of a philosopher Michael and I were debating in another thread.

You can't have something be both all green and all purple. It would show that color is perceptually relative to the perceiver.

One could instead argue that we directly see the environment, of which the apple is part of, and environments have lighting conditions. It's a mistake...

It would show that the apple doesn't have the property of being green or purple. Rather, it's the perceiver in question that sees the apple as having ...

So we could use Conway's Game of Life example. There are three simple rules governing the evolution of the state of each cell. And from that you can g...

Here's a counter factual argument. Take something that could happen, but never does. Say the creation of a large river of Sprite flowing through some ...

For sake of simplicity. In the everyday world, it will often get messy. The cue ball striking the 9 ball and hitting it into the corner pocket would b...

The problem of induction says we don't know this to be true about the future. But if there is a C which makes it so that A can't be false and B be tru...

Yes, it has to be something making B follow A, which would avoid the problem of induction about the future. Because if B is just correlated with A, th...

What does symbolic logic have to do with causality or laws of nature? It's interesting you want to use a syntactic formalism in a discussion on nomina...

Which doesn't help with the problem of induction. If causality is based on a law of nature, then the law of nature will ensure that B always follows A...

That's demonstrably false, since there's tons of counterexamples where appearance didn't match reality. Arguably, philosophy got its start noting thos...

You don't understand the notion of causality? If it could be shown that A causes B, then it will always be the case that B follows A. But if it's just...

Assuming it doesn’t involve relations. String theory was briefly mentioned on the podcast. True. Also known as mereoligical nihilism. A necessitates B...

Yeah, I was thinking something like that.

Maybe it’s not in yours, but color is certainly present in my experience of the world. You don’t have to believe iit if you wish to argue as p-zombie....

By the Copenhagen Interpretation. Different interpretations bite different bullets. The Many Worlds doesn't give up counterfactual definiteness realis...

The physicist Sean Carrol (Mindscape podcast) favors it. I've listened to a sampling from a few physics-related podcasts recently, and the Copenhagen ...

Wait, do the authors actually state that? Because what Michael quoted seems to say the opposite: Maybe you prefer to call it "virtual red" instead of ...

The experiences we don't have, which isn't in plain sight. Thus the notion that subjectivity has a private aspect to it.

That's odd. Let's say you see the an image of the blue dress before hearing anyone else has seen it. You show it to someone. They see a gold dress, bu...

By things, I believe Michael meant colors, such that there is a different visual experience of the same dress. Otherwise, what would be all the fuss?

It's going on as I type this. I also have recent memories of an external world. Should I doubt that narrative? If what we think we experience in the m...

No, classifying is descriptive. It's part of the language game. We experience the dress differently. Part of the confusion over the hard problem is fa...

Yes, because of the objective/subjective split with describing the world that Nagel's paper on "What it's like to be a Bat" laid out. Or Locke's prima...

I don't know, but color and shape are part of the visual experience. The difficulty of squaring that with the correlating brain function is the well k...

That's all true and I'm not arguing for radical privacy such that's in principle impossible to figure out what someone is thinking or dreaming. But pr...

How does this account for autism, or "mind-blindness"? Or how humans tend to anthropomorphize the world around us? How we find cartoon characters, pup...

Regardless of how you look at it, you're still experience an environment that is not in the external world and is not publically available to others. ...