Marchesk

Our models and shared language include private and subjective. The mental talk is part of ordinary language. What's ironic here is that ordinary langu...

Inner dialog doesn't exist? I hear my thoughts in words.

You haven't refuted it ...

I'm neutral on no commenting, because people can have different reasons for not commenting. One might be that they just don't know the topic well enou...

A pubic carving up of the world.

Luckily for me, it doesn't matter what you've seen. This is like arguing with a solipsist. If you don't already know what it is to feel happy, why sho...

There's a recent television show called Counterpart where an experiment ends up duplicating our world exactly. The other world is linked to ours throu...

We can still compare someone being happy with someone being sad even if their happiness and sadness are never exactly our happiness and sadness. To th...

Intersubjectivity which includes attribution of mental content to others. I know my own conscious experiences and assume other people have similar one...

Only if you adopt a certain philosophical position that makes it impossible.

So the public referent to "pain in your head" comes from a bunch of technical jargon? The public concept is of a first person experience. That's why i...

So why are they called, "the neural correlates of consciousness"?

Where did the meaning of something being in someone's mind come from?

Why do people in ordinary language occasionally say things like, "the pain must be in your head"?

That it hurts?

Reminds me of a short science fiction story in which a cryogenically intelligent alien is recovered from deep space and is restored to life. It's some...

That only works we can correlate with experiences we already have.

Or we can do none of them. The experience of pain isn't a behavior. Behavior is often a result of being in pain, but not always. We can also perform a...

No, the issue is that pain can be faked successfully, not that we have no way of potentially finding out after the fact. Behavior is often an indicato...

I don't believe you.

Really? You don't know?

The first being inferential and the second direct. In those cases where we lack the requisite neurology, we can’t know the correlated experience.

If you wish to abuse language to make a philosophical point. Otherwise, people fake being in pain. As in they behave as if they are in pain. Sometimes...

Obviously not, or faking pain for deception or acting would be impossible. I really don't get the behaviorists. It's so clear to me how they're wrong.

That's a very anthropocentric point of view. I was thinking in terms of the cognitive structures the brain produces internally to make sense of the wo...

Because you stated that one would have to possess the same neural makeup to have all the same experiences. Cognitive Science, evolutionary biology, va...

If one were to be pedantic, as one often is in these sorts of discussions, no two phones are identical, but they might be the same brand and model.

I'm asking if you think we can't exactly compare feelings/sensations.

Is the issue with trying to pin down exactness for feelings as opposed to noting that we know what it's like to feel fear or happiness or pain? If you...

I'd be careful to ascribe Buddhist meaning to a 1st or 2nd century Christian text, even if it's non-canonical, "gnostic" one. It would better be under...

It makes sense to some of us. Those of us who think there's something to being conscious, and not all conscious experiences are the same across sensat...

So what does it "look like" for neuroscience to someday make all experience public? We can imagine people watching dreams on a tv monitor, assuming an...

The problem is that human language is relatively recent ability added onto much older nuerological abilities that handle experiencing things like pain...

You're talking about carving up our experiences into meaningful categories. That would be true of the world outside the body as well. But animals can ...

But how would this behavior be possible unless human brains were capable of forming concepts? The problem with behaviorism is that it treated the brai...

Language and non-verbal communication in shared environments. As humans we have very similar biology. That helps. But subjectivity only partially ever...

The scientific method doesn't include subjectivity in its theories, even though that's how we all experience the world. Whatever consciousness is and ...

Philosophy and subjectivity didn't begin with Descartes. The ancient Greeks, Chinese and Indians recognized that subjectivity or the mental was someth...

Ah, the direct realist specialty. Things are as we perceive them because we say they are.

There is no value, purpose or morality to the universe itself. It just is because it could be for whatever physical reasons. Same with life where the ...

What makes moral claims objective? While I agree that genocide is bad, I don't see what sort of fact about the world justifies that being an objective...

Is there a difference? /s

It appears to flow, but it does not actually flow. This is not because of the physics of the block universe, since time does not flow. Rather, it's an...

I open my browser console and type Math period and get a list of mathematical functions and constants in that Math class. So at least for the Javascri...

Apparently, Descartes ruined it for everybody else. Also, there seems to be this fear that any non-material conclusion leads to woo. Which is bad, bec...

In principle, burning a book is reversible, as is a corpse. It's just not feasible for us to do it. But according to the physics, everything you menti...

Assuming the mind is explained as a function of the brain. There's quite a few people who think this has not been the case, at least for consciousness...

Direct realism is about perception being direct. Metaphysical realism is what we both agree on in principle as realists, but we don't tend to agree on...

If that's what we would expect, then why has there been a philosophical debate between A and B-theory of time, where the second maintains that the flo...

I can find other physicists stating similar things. No, the point is it makes sense Einstein's theories, which rather overturned our notions of space,...