I don't know whether it can, but the conceptual argument against computing consciousness is that computation is objective and abstract, whereas consci...
Assuming behavior can result in consciousness. There's good reasons for thinking that's not the case. Something that's not explicable in terms of some...
But how will we know how to put together a biological computer that can bring about a blue color experience? I assume that won't be a binary pattern. ...
Wait a second, what does a conscious output look like where you take some input, apply the rules of a mathematical model, and produce output? I'm not ...
Here's something related Elon said last year. To paraphrase: Then he goes on to talk about the limiting factor for superhuman intelligence is output b...
Yeah, this is far from widely accepted in philosophy of mind. People with a strong computer science background tend to endorse it a lot more than peop...
Sure, along with cold fusion, flying cars, and Martian colonies. We've heard this sort of stuff for decades now. You should see some of the futuristic...
But this argument doesn't work for everything. Say we apply it to the speed of transportation. There was a dramatic increase from horse to train, auto...
One potential problem is that we don't know whether a simulation can include consciousness. The fact that we're A. Conscious B. Don't have any clue wh...
Some realists do deny this, at least when it comes to perception. Direct realism denies that there is an idea or sense impression in the mind mediatin...
Yes, but only if it actually was. 1. We don't know whether that's possible. 2. If it is possible, then it's probably highly unlikely (statistical fluc...
Yes, but our senses tell us the world has been around for a while. So what reason do we have to suspect the skeptical scenario? What reason do we have...
In the old days, a good idealism debate would run 100 pages minimum, with much discussion of apples and mountain tops. Also chairs at the end of the u...
How would we perceive boundaries if there are none, and how would we even exist if there were no boundaries? I'm walking along and there's a huge drop...
Good thing we also have brains and other people to check our ideas with. Although I don't know whether suck skepticism can be refuted, it's pathologic...
Right, but if idealism is the case, then the world as it appears to us is massively misleading. One has to wonder why the world is experienced as if i...
Because all of our scientific and everyday knowledge tells us otherwise. People are born and they die. Humans evolved. The geological and astronomical...
I don't define it as induction. I can make inferences that the tree continues to exist in the quad after nobody is perceiving it, but I can't infer th...
But why is this faith and not inductive logic? We're not positing elephants trumpeting quarks as the basis for everything, or God (unlike Berkeley and...
Yes they are, but that's because it makes sense. Otherwise, how could you be born or die? How do we account for all these experiences of an external w...
I don't agree with it, but the argument is that unperceived objects can't be known, not that they can't exist. Well, Berkeley tried to argue that unpe...
Was Hume channeling a future Berkeley here? Radical empiricism does logically end up at idealism, so it's not terribly surprising. I just wasn't aware...
His body would be part of his perception. An idealist wouldn't except that their body is part of a mind-independent world, or at least not that they c...
It makes the most sense of our experience of being part of a much larger world to which we are born, live and die, as all those questions I posted see...
It can be argued against somewhat convincingly. How does idealism of this sort handle birth? Death? Other minds? Why does science discover a vast univ...
Assuming beliefs can be identified with brain states. But okay, how about this one? Sally: "Casablanca is the best movie ever made". Fred, "Nope, it's...
So this ontological stuff is the world, or reality. And you wish to call it "physical". But it could have things not described or predicted by physics...
There's no way for H20 not to have the properties of water when you take into account all of the physics and chemistry. Of course you can imagine a wo...
If you know all the physical and chemical properties of water, then there's no way for ice not to be slippery under the right environmental conditions...
Earth must be a pretty awful place for the Elite to want to move to Mars. I'd move to Antartica first before Mars. It's still breathable, has lots of ...
SEP agrees with you, but then goes on to say that ancient philosophers do discus matters relevant to our modern notions of subjective and objective. Y...
I could have sworn the Cyrenaics made that distinction. There's also the modes of the Pyrrhonian skeptics. Agrippa's Third Mode: Skepticism and ideali...
To answer this more specifically, the difference between appearance and reality. Thinks aren't always as they seem. The naive view of things is often ...
Or, Fred feels like it's hot in the car, Jill thinks it's cold, but Raymond feels just right. Or, Fred believes the salt is poison from his partner, w...
Warding off epistemological concerns would be one motivation. Wasn't Wittgenstein trying to dissolve issues like solipsism by arguing for the necessar...
This still doesn't dissolve the distinction. It just redifines objective and subjective into adaptive points of view versus the world itself. Unless y...
Problem here is that the slipperiness of ice is logically entailed by knowing the physics and chemistry. to imagine a physically identical world witho...
That's for sure. And Chalmers does discuss the difference between vitalism and consciousness. Vitalism was tenable before biology could fully explain ...
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