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Right, but then he uses this to argue like Keith Frankish that subjectivity is an illusion. https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.p...

Because you can't experience my imagination, dreams, inner dialog and have to settle for language and behavior to know about them. And if I don't tell...

And how does this work with imagination, dreams, inner dialog? Subjective experience isn't exclusive to perception.

Dennett isn't alone, though. I linked to Keith Frankish's article on Illusionism.

This issue crops up with perception in general. The ancient skeptics loved to rub people's noses in all the ways perception can be mistaken. But Denne...

If it is a mistake, nobody has succeeded in showing how you can explain the subjective in terms of the objective, which is what the hard problem is ab...

Dennett, like Chalmers, Searle, etc. thinks that consciousness can't be fit into a physicalist explanation of the world. But unlike them, he takes the...

Sure, but what Illusionism is denying is our experience of color, which I think also undermines the warrant for believing in the processes which give ...

This link is to a PDF of Dennet's review of Keith Frankish's survey of the Illusionist argument. https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusion...

This is a good point, but I think they're using illusion in the sense of a magic trick which creates an experience of real magic that's actually smoke...

Frankish says that the Illusionist argument can't just be pushing the hard problem back one step, so what's being claimed is that the illusion is that...

That's debatable and a minority position called color realism. Wavelengths of light and reflective surfaces are real. Whether either of those could be...

Nah, the carrying capacity changes as technology improves to support more of the same species (humans). A hunter-gatherer lifestyle would not support ...

We don't know this, and it probably isn't impossible. We just aren't anywhere near that technologically advanced. But I doubt it's physically impossib...

But as at least one other poster has brought up with the magic example, we can conceptually understand houses being turned into flowers by some specia...

But is that because we have a biological imperative to survive? We can also say humans have a sacred duty to procreate and propagate the species. But ...

Who cares if you have to lie to someone threatening your kids? Is this something you're going to feel guilty about? No. Is it something society will j...

Sort of, but I was conceding your argument. For now.

In my mind, it seems like you proved your point. Horses are mental cats. Oh wait, mixing things up with the OP.

Why does it feel like you won the point?

Based on what you've been arguing, Terrapin cannot speak of himself extra-mentally.

But does he only perceive himself mentally?

Only the mental conception, though.

I'm pretty sure you can find a few on here. @"Terrapin Station"

So physicalists fail to take that into account?

Does this mean that no physical theory can be complete because it will always fail to account for the mental component in deriving the physical theory...

Yes and no. Information can also be thought of as physical. The lightwaves bouncing off objects into photoreceptors is a physical exchange.

Problem with that is explaining how it is that I can predict your likely death if you cross without looking, if it's just something material that perc...

Would it matter if nobody observed your death? You'd still stop experiencing.

I don't see why not. If I tell you there's a busy highway there, and to look before crossing, you could reply that I'm not speaking of the extra-menta...

Yes, but that doesn't mean the thing presupposes a mind experiencing it.

Well, that would all depend on your epistemological views, right? I think I can speak of things extra-mental, even though my experience of them is men...

I've learned recently that cats are actually flerkens (movie reference). I do agree with the OP that philosophy arguments on here tend to go down the ...

The entire history of humanity is technological. We can't survive without some level of it. And we certainly can't continue to support billions withou...

Just remember to double tap the zombies. Also, good cardio for running away.

It's universal given a standard definition for arithmetic and natural numbers. And seeing as how useful arithmetic is, we can assume any intelligent b...

So in reality we live ideal lives? Way to settle that long standing debate.

Could this be generalized to asking why it's ethically wrong to consider one group of people better or worse than other groups based on some biologica...

A scientific prediction has to be based on experiments and observations that can be reproduced. Otherwise, human bias and experimental flaws can be mi...

Indeed. Notable ones in the past 50 years or so: Population bomb: no way we can feed several billion people. Silent Spring: chemicals like DDT would w...

Methodological naturalism. The main issue in this thread isn't with climate change predictions, it's with societal collapse predictions, which are not...

What, no reintroduced cloned Woolly Mammoths to go with rest of the natural riff-raff? What better way to combat climate change than with an ice age c...

Science is all about repeatability, and societal collapse isn't a repeatable phenomenon. It has happened for various societies in the past. But that's...

Also, when did the doom and gloom predictions go from later in this century to a decade from now? The conspiratorial part of me thinks it's a strategy...

There's no way to make an accurate prediction like that. It's one thing to predict the climate 10 years from now. Seems like we have fairly good model...

I think it was more that nature was meaningless in the absence of something like God. So yeah, if you could be immortal, the world would still be lack...

To be fair to the anti-natalist, boredom is just one part of what makes life less worth living. If some occasional short term boredom were the end of ...

Yeah, America had a big market for comic books at one point which hasn't gone entirely away and a lot of the characters and stories have made it into ...

There is Black Panther, who leads a fictional African nation in Wakanda that's more advanced than the rest of the world. He ends up giving refuge to C...

So how do you interpret Thanos form the Avengers: Infinity War where his goal was to solve the perceived threat of overpopulation with genocide in ord...