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The flow of time is that we experience the present always turning into the past (in memory), such that the only moment which exists for us is the pres...

That so many caveats have to be made for "the world being as it appears" is evidence the world is decidedly not as it appears. Three wouldn't even be ...

Is that a difference that makes a difference?

However, if that means the flow of time is an illusion because the future and past all exist as part of the block universe, then that is yet another e...

Don't be so hasty. This video suggests otherwise, at least form some physicists: https://youtu.be/S9wvLbttrVE This is a form of the Copenhagen interpr...

The Black Hole Information Paradox is a big issue in physics because information loss would mean processes cannot in principle be time reversible, whi...

Sure, but for whom was the mouse behind the tree? A predator? The mouse? Certainly not the world. States of affairs are a bit tricky. They can contain...

Never heard of yellow snow? You can certainly have polluted snow which is brown or black. You could also pour food coloring on it. Snow cones are a th...

Not perceiving the world as it is is different from it being impossible to know the world as it is, which seems to be the charge leveled. First, the w...

Do you think this is the case with meditation, inner dialog, imagination, hallucination and dreaming?

It is the opposite. That we have to work hard, applying a rigorous methodology of experimentation with a heavy reliance on math, resulting in many cou...

Naive realists tend to be rather dogmatic about their perceptions.

To a degree. I'm not espousing skepticism, except to dogmatic claims. I think we know a lot, just not with certainty. But much of that knowledge came ...

Uh-huh. We made this shit up. Not like Hume, Kant, Locke, Pyrro, Schopenhauer, Rorty, Meillassoux or a hundred other philosophers haven't made or disc...

Maybe I was waiting at a bank teller on my phone and couldn't finish responding to the post. If you can't stand the heat, get out of he damn kitchen.

As it is means exactly that, not a world filtered, incomplete and filled in with sensations. Yes, we do perceive something about the world as we're ru...

Agreed. Perceiving is relational. It’s also conscious.

Then we cannot be perceiving it as it is! I echo Wayfarer in that this pretty standard philosophical fare, and not new at all.

Empirically speaking? Not really. We have less than certain facts and theories explaining those facts, subject to further revision and new facts.

There’s a SEP entry on the problem of perception. It’s as old as philosophy. The short of it is people noticed that we’re subject to illusions, halluc...

We cannot see the world as it is, only as it looks to us. Remember the black cat radiating heat? You don't see a thermal cat.

Don't see reality as it is. The bolded part is the key part. We do perceive reality. But we do so from a certain perspective. The best we can do is re...

If sensations of perception are generated by our biology, then the world we perceive is not the way the world is, but rather the way we humans interac...

All the stuff sparrows and humans can't sense. Also, how sensation is a relation based on the interaction between reflecting light, eyes and brains, f...

Yes, but what if Sarin gas, deadly radiation or Smallpox were released on the field. Would a person see that?

I have an inner ineffable confidence which cannot be expressed properly in words that if Banno commits to this thread, it will get close to 100. How's...

Ha! Yes, but not one which is perceived. A mathematized world is the best we can do. Even if there are limits to our knowing the world as it is, this ...

Surely this will be resolved before 100 pages.

What it's like to not exist for p-zombies.

https://cdn.emojidex.com/emoji/seal/100.png?1417133853

I do agree on one thing regarding p-zombies. A world of zombies would not include talk of colors, tastes and pains. And thus, there would be no qualia...

Is Banno's coffee bitter and sweet as it is? Will defeating Covid be inherently sweet?

What about in relation to as things are, or at the very least, as modern science describes those things?

There is Ned Block's The Harder Problem of Consciousness using Commander Data from Star Trek as a superficial functional isomorph as discussed in this...

No, but it can be made to sound insane. One should note that the entire article is written from the third person. We only ever hear the reports of the...

Good post. Something that has never been settled in this thread is whether the qualitative characters of sensation inevitably lead to the one or more ...

I'll get on with reading the entire paper and get back with a response or two. I'm in the middle of several things, which is causing my qualia to danc...

The forms need not be platonic. They can just be patterns in the physical. I don't think Chalmers is a platoniist. I believe he has a paper defending ...

Because you're bing misled by ordinary language and the way English phrases sensations as if they were objective.

I agree that structural invariance makes sense, while absent, fading and dancing qualia do not. Chalmers is a functionalist plus qualia.

I never said only. I pointed out the difference between being sweetened and being horsed. One makes sense, and the other doesn't. Qualia is ours, but ...

If it wasn't in your mind/brain, you wouldn't be behaving.

Where would you put the quale? I doubt you think brains work any better here.

Sure, if we ignore the last several centuries of scientific discovery, and restrict ourselves to talk of cats, apples and the five elements ... If it ...

Not quite, we can see the form of magnetic field lines using iron fillings. That's how fields came to be part of physics in the first place.

Well, we don't see the empty space between or inside atoms, do we? Nor do we see the electromagnetic field holding the molecules together. Nor do we s...

That's some Protagorean level of sophistry.

But that would just be one mode of several forming the skeptical argument. We could appeal to the healthy person, but then what about other animals? W...

Brexit here we come!

Do you think we'll ever be able to reconstruct a book from the ashes of a fire, or unscramble an omelette? Some things are practically intractable.