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And what does that have to do with how the US government is structured? Republicans didn't exist at the foundation, and if you go back far enough, the...

Are we playing let's ignore history because we don't like the current party in power?

Its representative of state governments, which is its purpose. If the US wants to be more democratic, then changing the nature of states so that a sen...

The House represents the people, the Senate represents the states. That's because America is a union of states. The US government was never meant to b...

Right, but this can be rephrased to one has an experience of a body perceiving things with senses, which provides us an experience of a world that we ...

Right, except that in philosophical discussions the lack of clarity leads to much semantic wrangling. However I wonder if that isn't more to win the d...

An argument explaining why the purported explanation fails to explain the phenomenon in question. If you say that consciousness is identical to brain ...

Then that sounds sort of like object oriented ontology where all objects are in relation to one another which isn't exhaustive, so no object has compl...

Sounds like youwere saying the object only exists from some perspective.

On a realist account, the object exists whether anyone is perceiving it.

Experiments and building theories to test. We obviously can't see the chemical composition, or at least not without an electron microscope. The color ...

There's no point in continuing if you're going to argue for the sake of arguing.

I'm just saying that introspection is limited. Humans didn't know this at first. Chemical composition would be one thing. The rest of the EM spectrum ...

People agree on what the standards are for facts, such as using a thermostat to measure temperature. I'm wondering why coercion is a topic in this dis...

Facts aren't opinions, so yes. You haven't really thought out the implications of the radical relativism you're advocating, and how it would make life...

I notice people agreeing on facts when it's practical or important to do so, and only disagreeing when they have some other belief that's in contradic...

Eliminativism maintains that propositional content which includes beliefs and desires are fictions and will be replaced by future neuroscience with a ...

Consider the implications for engineering or even meeting people at a certain time and location if we can't agree on facts. Everything is relative to ...

Sure, but it's still a sensation and not what the thermometer is measuring.

Actually, I said we do have some access to how things are because "I'm horsed" doesn't make any sense. So we can conclude that perceiving a horse has ...

Someone can tell you the temperature. There's probably thermostats that read off the temperature. When you learn to read it, you will get the same val...

Yes, it would seem that is so. I would contend this only works if the world has a related structure.

I agree with this. It's a little bit more than that. Kant was responding to skeptical implications Hume raised with his empiricism, which were raised ...

Wouldn't that apply to other humans as well as elephants? How do I know other people exist? The same way I know elephants exist. If that's just part o...

Yes, the feeling of cold/heat cannot be the temperature the thermometer measures because the feeling varies between individuals and even the same indi...

That’s all a very good point. I had not considered any of that in context of meaning is use until your earlier post. Same sort of generalization issue...

Arguing in circles makes one dizzy.

Full circle, eh?

Skepticism only becomes an option when we notice a discrepancy between how things appear and how they are. Or when we can't tell the difference betwee...

What's the difference between feeling cold and tasting sweet or seeing red? You have those experiences because of the kind of animal you are. The poin...

They differ in ability and range. Also, some animals have eyes that see more than three primary colors. And some senses that humans lack, such as sona...

Are you a bot? If so, can you describe your subjective experiences, if you have any?

An organ, part of a an animal. It's for survival and reproduction. Also, wasting time on forums. They would be life forms. Depends on their behavior. ...

An explanation of the consciousness in my book would explain how certain brain states are conscious and others are not. It would tell us whether a mac...

I’m wondering how we can use language at all if every instance of using a word is unique. As you pointed out, even the word use is a generalization. L...

Well then, just spell out the real problem. Give your analysis of what an explanation is. I can't think of a non-controversial or overly simple defini...

For starters, treating psychiatric conditions isn't an engineering problem.

Are we willing going to go down the road that we can't use language to speak in the general sense? All word meanings are unique and particular? Maybe ...

This doesn't inspire confidence in me that using the language game approach can solve philosophical problems. However, I was reminded of it when tryin...

the biological part.

But not also medical problem?

explanation is like pornography. You know one when you see it. The dictionary definition you gave is very generic and simple. Say for example I asked ...

thats if the technology delivers on those goals someday. I take it’s too early to know how effective Neuralink will be in treating psychiatric conditi...

problem is I don’t think the brain is a machine, and I think awareness and discrimination can be performed by a simple enough device that we don’t hav...

Define it for me. I feel like invoking @"Banno" at this point. Definition of explanation?

Okay, go for it.

Since you're not suffering any confusions on the matter, can you: 1. Explain why only certain brain states are conscious? 2. Say whether a machine lik...

You tried, but I think there's a hard problem without the quotes, and that's why I'm explaining it to you.

You're making a claim about the world that's problematic for several reasons. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be a hard problem, for all the reasons that...

I can say the world is like a square circle, and you can rightfully tell me that's a contradiction.