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It was gaining that knowledge which was the problem. They were then kicked out before they could eat form the tree of life and live forever like the g...

I believe David Chalmers wrote a book related to that called Constructing the World. He focuses on the idea of scrutability where you start off with a...

But physicalism is understood in the realist sense of materialism. There is some kind of mind-independent stuff making up the world.

I don't see where the functional turns into the phenomenal. You have every bit as much a hard problem with functionalism as you do with materialism.

It's certainly incompatible with materialism. A mathematical ontology isn't compatible with there being stuff, so I don't see how it's physical. But I...

Dennett argues against phenomenal consciousness in all his talks and writings, because he's knows well it can't be squared with physicalism. On this, ...

Neither. It's a response to the idea of pictures in the head.

So you're a panpsychist informationist. Materialism is wrong, it's information.

I misunderstood your point based on previous discussions about all human activity being natural.

I came to do what I stated in the OP.

I don't think this is meaningful. Environmentalists, biologists, ecologists and economists would not agree. You're just saying that everything on Eart...

Provided you can give an adequate description for consciousness AND he world. I agree that idealism doesn't have this problem.

A homunculi watching moving pictures in its head. In. color, with sound.

Difference between epistemology and ontology. Hard problem raises the possibility that the ontology of the world is dualistic, but it also raises an e...

Yes, and those senses still don't tell us most of what an object is without serious investigation by many people. Yes, but that's a relation. What is ...

First step would be understanding how the illusion is generated. Neuroscience would have to supply that. As for seeing things as they really are, eyes...

Sure, but is that definition one that is incompatible with physical reality?

Only if they possess the cognitive mechanism that creates the illusion.

Just wondering if Trump is considered a more important matter than a pandemic.

Only if your introspection is telling you that reliably. One might consider this a flaw with the argument Yeah, the coming-to-seem-to-remember. It was...

Any chance this thread gets half the attention that the Trump thread has gotten?

But zombies like soggy meat.

The point of the argument is that the appearance doesn't have the qualities which would cause a hard problem. It only seems like qualia, p-zombies, in...

An appearance of something which isn't there. And it's not limited to the visual. It could be any sensation or object.

it is odd, but what the illusionist is saying is there are no ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehended sensations. There is no rednes...

Nope, because an illusion of qualia does not present a fundamental conceptual problem That's what the illusionists think.

You don't need a justification to ignore any philosophical problem. You can just do it. Same with math, history, unsolved crimes, etc. But some people...

I would take the self to be part of the experience we miscategorize as phenomenal, and not something separate from that. But I'm not saying illusionis...

"Out there in the world" is understood to be mind-independent. Naive realism assumes that objects have all the properties we perceive them to have, th...

Inference to the best explanation, given the overwhelming data from studies, experiments and various medical cases we have now. Science is not compati...

The self is is itself a useful fiction. Don't Buddhists consider it to be an illusion?

I'm not sure whether this is a pro or con. Maybe the fact that we're subject to illusions and hallucinations suggests that the entire thing is illusio...

Maybe chill out while reading this: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/k0711/kf_articles/blob/master/Frankish_Illusionism%20as%20a%20theory%20of%20co...

True, but it's also being used as a metaphor. Illusionists aren't saying there's literally a computer-like graphical display in the brain. Also becaus...

That's the point of the debate. If there's no hard problem, then it's just a matter of the easier problems amenable to neuroscience and psychology. Ea...

But sensory modalities are a thing, and bat's utilize sonar which we don't, so they may have a kind of experience, or at least an illusion that we don...

The what it's like is the illusion that we have qualia. So we are having an experience that seems to be what it's like in the sense of the hard proble...

Yes, but this is a rejection of the hard problem, while explaining why we mistakenly think there is one. Yes, the brain is presenting an "interface" t...

Why would the brain produce a qualia of colors, shapes, sounds, etc.? Qualia aren't compatible with neuroscience. That's why it's called the hard prob...

One leads to a hard problem and one doesn't. An analogy used is that the illusion is like a computer desktop, which is a useful abstraction for users,...

The existence of nuclear and economic superpowers and their role in organizations like the UN and Nato have a lot to do with that. It's not so easy to...

The justification is in multiplying the probabilities which lead to a technological civilization. You start off with some percentage for habitable pla...

All those organisms die. They just don't do so from aging. There's no such thing as immortality. Something always kills you. But if it's dropped with ...

Also because cancer will kill everyone eventually if lifespans are extended enough (assuming something else doesn't first).

And people can be killed for good on that show. You just have to destroy the technology that stores people's minds, which happens. Even that super ric...

Flying was possible, and birds already showed that to be the case, while living forever is not, and there is nothing immortal. It's 100% absolutely ce...

You're going to die for one reason or another, no matter what medical and technological breakthroughs happen during your life. Only question is how lo...

It depends on whether God said, "Let there be chairs", or God said, "Let there be particles arranged chair-wise". Or alternatively, the chair-forms em...

Is it an answer to every question because God says so, or is God says so an answer to every question because of God's nature? If the first, then logic...

Life isn't meaningful either. It's a misapplication of the term. Life just is. You might find any given action or goal meaningful (purposeful is a bet...