This would seem to suggest that there is more than objective facts about color. Which is why we can't say what a bat experiences when using sonar, but...
So we can't say, "I know that I see a red coffee cup", or "I know that I had a dream last night of my teeth falling out while addressing an audience i...
Our only chance of survival is to also close all factories, convert all energy to solar and use hydrogen storage, stop all science experiments except ...
Invest heavily in nuclear and geothermal along with storage for wind and solar. Might have made that 1.5ºC target by mid century a little more realist...
So perception isn't veridical, rather its a hallucination controlled by the world based on the brain estimating what's out there, which is updated fro...
Wouldn't it be important for figuring out the truth of your model of perception? If you're a BIV, then you're not perceiving anything. It's all a gene...
Just to be clear, Kant understands us to be organisms with sensory organs and nervous systems which interact with the environment, and evolved from co...
A more realistic concern might be Boltzman brains, since current physics allows for the likelihood of such beings coming into existence as a statistic...
The noumena. The same issue rises for the simulation argument. If reality as we experience it is a simulation, then what sort of world is the simulati...
It doesn't seem on a Kantian view that one can have such knowledge. All knowledge is given as things appear to us, according to the categories of thou...
What does "as it is in itself" add to the thing-in-itself? The idea is the world independent of human cognition and perception. Whatever it is that gi...
Meaning the experience is an event taking place in the perceiver, while the tomato is an object with potentially some property related to the perceive...
I do sometimes wonder whether it has been worth it — at least the last several thousand years of wars, slavery, famine and various forms of oppression...
So the sun will keep coming up tomorrow and the day after and so on because or minds must structure experience that way? Let us hope that the thing in...
The ironic thing is that Putnam was using the BIV thought experiment to try and refute global skepticism by arguing that a BIV could not truthfully sa...
I may have been a bit distracted in addition to having the wrong address. The pay just isn't that good. If you have complaints about the world you are...
In fact, I snuck in and wired up Ciceronianus's brain last night while they were asleep. The only problem is I wasn't sure of the address, so it might...
So one can see this as a response to Humean skepticism. Hume said that causality is not given to us in perception, but rather is a habit of mind. Kant...
The argument is that materialism has no subjective sensations as part of its explanation for the world. Colors, sounds, tastes, etc are not part of th...
I agree it is, but that means the real world is more than physics. In the case of color realism, it means that colors are not physical, even if the th...
Yes, but take vision for example. The ancient view of vision was we are looking out at the world through our eyes. And that's how it seems to be when ...
Culminating in Nagel's What is it like to be Bat. But it also goes back to the ancient skeptics where the honey might taste sweet to you and bitter to...
The problem for neutral monism would be explaining how the material and mental arise for whatever the neutral substance is. Since we don't know what t...
Yes, but we're not aware of that chain. We're aware of things being colored. That chain is something science carefully teased out using properties of ...
Can you explain why Kant makes this claim? What is empirical idealism and why would transcendental realism entail it? Is empirical idealism the propos...
Sure, but what is the world? We do, and we can wave our hands about, kick rocks and debate with other people. But so can skeptics, idealists and other...
Anything science hasn't learned about yet. For example, an empirically supported theory combining gravity and quantum mechanics. Or the proofs for unk...
It seems to me that Byrne and Hilbert in the article are unwittingly defending the popular idea that colors are in the brain, by acknowledging them to...
A machine intelligence might consider biologicals to be a waste of material resources and wish to convert everything into something more efficient. Or...
From listening to several of Sean Carol's podcasts, it seems he and other physicists of his persuasion take the wavefunction as being descriptive of r...
Sabine Hossenfelder is of the opinion that the popularity of MWI and other multiverse ideas are due to the majority of physicists being Platonists. Th...
The moon has a gravitational influence on Earth, such as with tides and keeping the Earth from wobbling too much, which keeps seasonal variation from ...
Some people are much more discriminating when it comes to certain sounds that they've spent a lot of time understanding. Take the musical instruments ...
It's not for animals, anyway. Ideology is more a justification for being violent. I once asked someone who was knowledgeable about Viking culture and ...
Look at Chimpanzees. They can be both peaceful and aggressive. Less peaceful than Bonobos. Perhaps more peaceful than ants? I was watching some docume...
Because racial categories as such didn't exist until the Atlantic slave trade. And it wasn't Eastern Europeans or the Irish doing it. It was several W...
. Also, the fact that the Neanderthals and Denisovans aren't here along side us today. They went extinct for some reason, and it can't have all been f...
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