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God? Consciousness collapsing the wavefunction? A glitch in the Matrix? Time travel shenanigans? I do agree the world is what makes the same stuff the...

Clever.

Disappointed there's no Schrodinger's cat.

Isn't the body/world collaboration a dualism? If we're asking whether there's an external material world, then we have to go beyond just the world as ...

Magicians make careers out of that saying. Fair enough, but it's not just the things presenting themselves to us, since we're doing a decent chunk of ...

Netflix could use more excellent series at this point.

Ah, that would make sense. Predestination is the movie name of that story. And the tv show Dark is Predestination on steroids in a German setting. But...

Sounds interesting. I take it they're also fine with being amoral.

Okay, but what is that we're seeing? The world as it is, the world as we see it, a simulated world?

Dreaming of pictures in the head? It is kind of odd how much vision is focused on in these kinds of discussions. There are other senses and types of e...

Ever read '-All You Zombies-' by any chance? A bit tangental, but I always wondered what the main character meant by that. I think he was talking abou...

He's an eyewitness to what the earliest Christians believed. I agree though that the gospels likely added narrative elements to make a compelling stor...

Paul was the earliest NT writer in the 50s, and he did go to Jerusalem to meet with Peter and James the Just (Jesus's brother). Paul doesn't relay muc...

Nuclear energy doesn't trap heat in the atmosphere. It's no more of a concern for climate change than putting up a shit ton of solar panels.

But limited it to say 2 degrees is better than 2.7+ degrees. 1.5 isn't happening. At least not by 2050. Maybe with serious carbon capture and decarbon...

Yeah, are you worried about next century?

The tech miracle would be commercial fusion. With cheap, abundant energy you can do a lot. Such as large-scale carbon capture and desalinization. As f...

Would you say those nested forebrains are good at organizing sensory impressions into meaningful categories of things?

That the world we experience is an appearance provided by our mental faculties. You can trace the arguments for this back to Kant. And Kant was respon...

Take it as a given that we see colors, hear sounds, feel pains and see how to fit that with the rest of our understanding of the world.

You say everything is water. I say, what about fire? You retort that I need to explain fire non-waterly. Being that it's ancient times, I say I don't ...

I have a really hard time coming to terms with the idea that it only 'seems' like we're experience those things, but are actually performing biologica...

The physicalist is the one saying everything is X. So when someone points out a Y, it's on the physicalist to explain how Y is really X. So, how is my...

But what sort of sunsets are we missing out on if we had different sorts of visual systems? We know that visible light is just a small part of the EM ...

Dennett didn't say that. But it's easy to infer from his attempts to debunk qualia and arguments against the Cartesian Theater. Dreams are a potential...

Perceive objects as they are would be one criteria. That means no secondary qualities of the perceiver added on to the perception. It also means a lac...

He doesn't, nor does he deny that we're conscious. But what matters is the meaning of the words he uses. Consciousness and feeling for Dennett do no n...

So there's no consensus among professional philosophers regarding the nature of perceptual experience. I guess Dennett would fall under Other as he pr...

@"Banno" So I'll report a minor illusion I had yesterday after stepping outside a coffee shop, glancing at the clouds in the sky and then seeing the m...

Sure, but since the act of perception is not the thing perceived, that raises the question of whether the result of perception differs at all from thi...

You realize that argument only works for realists. Skeptics and idealists will remain unconvinced by it. They will just reply that we can't make justi...

You can read The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin for a fictional account of a nearby alien race dong that.

That and they would probably have been observing us for some time before we observed them. So they would know quite a bit about us, if any such ascend...

It might be harder to see bio-signature light years away than a techno-signature. And even if the alien probes are in stealth mode, to hide their home...

A related question would be whether any alien civilizations have technologically ascended. That would clue us in to the possibility. Of course we woul...

User whatever terms you like, but your first person experiences of warmth, pain, color, etc. are not part of the physical descriptions of the world. T...

Is the thermostat biologically equivalent to you? But this isn't about what words you can and can't use if you subscribe to this or that. It's about t...

I can't tell which position you're actually arguing for or against. I assume it's a reductio? I any case, I'm confident you do feel pain, and trying t...

So you don't feel pain?

If 'natural' is taken to be synonymous with empirical. But there's always the question of what gives rise to the empirical. What is the nature of exis...

“It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists” ? Ludwig Wittgenstein

Existence is woo as far as I'm concerned.

What's that like?

So ... p-zombie Chalmers is imagining the redness of red and what it's not like for his zombie twin to lack that red sensation, and it's implications ...

They wouldn't see colors, they would just react to wavelengths of light in a certain range. We have this question with robots and various light detect...

So you see zombie colors, hear zombie sounds, think zombie thoughts, dream zombie dreams?

I believe Chalmers would disagree, because he would say that consciousness is not reducible to information. It does not logically supervene. Rather, t...

Information flows in from the environment. Or to be more precise, a bunch of sensations flow into the brain from ongoing contact with the environment,...

Yes, there is a head umpire and occasionally one of the players will disagree with a call the umpire makes. Usually having to do with enforcement of s...

There's nothing it's like to be a zombie. So for us humans switching places is the same thing experientially as being unconscious. It would be like lo...