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Marchesk

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I am horsed

July 20, 2019 at 14:16 92 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

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Phantom pains exist. Those aren't functional. Also, it's easy to distinguish the functional part of the system from the experience of pain. We do it a...
August 08, 2023 at 01:50
You still have the appearance of colors, pains, etc that need explaining. Claiming they don't have phenomenal properties doesn't explain away their ap...
July 26, 2023 at 07:52
But the very fact of having an inner experience is evidence in favor of the hard problem. If color and sound are illusions, those experiences still ne...
July 26, 2023 at 03:53
I don't think mindless sensations are coherent. The sky isn't blue when nobody sees it. It's not any color. What it is are scattering photons, some of...
April 21, 2023 at 15:10
I've fed ChatGPT a fictional story from a show that didn't exist at the September 2021 cutoff date for it's training data, and the AI is pretty good a...
April 20, 2023 at 07:35
I watched a Quinn's Ideas YT video about blindsight a few months ago. Sounded interesting. https://youtu.be/QuPLk1Zt1-U
April 20, 2023 at 05:29
You can prompt LLMs like ChatGPT to do that. Some people have been playing with hooking the OpenAI api to robots and prompt ChatGPT to control the rob...
April 19, 2023 at 04:05
It clarifies the conceptual problem for physicalism. If you think we have phenomenal consciousness, then how do you square that with physicalism? If y...
April 19, 2023 at 03:56
Yeah, it's a more evocative way of specifying what the debate over the hard problem is about. But I'd rephrase it as whether functional/physical prope...
April 19, 2023 at 03:51
This is such an obvious thing that it's weird when people dispute it. What would it possibly mean to be wrong? We all do have private experiences that...
April 06, 2023 at 15:24
We can't if Boltzmann brains and brain simulations are a possibility. Or just simply performing the functions that are correlated with consciousness. ...
April 06, 2023 at 03:41
Well if nature is fundamentally physical, then subjective experience doesn't conceptually fit. The biological level is still function and structure.
April 05, 2023 at 11:23
And subjective experience is necessary for that? How do organisms without nervous systems survive? Are all living nervous systems conscious?
April 05, 2023 at 11:19
We don't even really know what 'matter' is. Could be quantum fields or vibrating 10 dimensional strings. Or maybe everything in physics is a kind of a...
April 05, 2023 at 10:50
Depends on whether we are cognitively capable of providing an answer. Can we answer all questions? Some philosophical questions have remained unanswer...
April 05, 2023 at 10:43
If that's the case, then we can rule out machine consciousness, and consciousness arising in other non-biological systems, like meteor showers that ju...
April 05, 2023 at 10:37
That's a just-so story. How did evolution produce conscious experiences? It's not over because you declare it over. We're having the debate write now ...
April 05, 2023 at 10:33
Why should we accept that definition for machine consciousness? It's not the same thing as qualia. You just created an arbitrary definition and assign...
April 05, 2023 at 10:30
An example of misalignment with information technology is social networks. At first they were hailed as a major benefit to humanity, bringing us close...
March 01, 2023 at 22:45
That would be an anti-realist interpretation. Sean Carol is a realist about the wave-function, so he thinks there literally is a multiverse, at least ...
February 15, 2023 at 05:41
Reasonable as in making sense within the MWI interpretation. MWI needs to be self-consistent and not have to introduce anything from outside the wave-...
February 15, 2023 at 05:40
That's informative and interesting. So once inflation ends, the multiverse begins, until De Sitter space, when there's nothing left to decohere and ma...
February 15, 2023 at 03:47
So, coming back to this thread after many days away, Sean Carol has stated a solution to the Boltzmann Brain problem is that there won't be any observ...
February 10, 2023 at 03:58
Keith Frankish's illusionism argument. That the brain is performing the equivalent of a magic show, tricking us into thinking there's something about ...
January 10, 2023 at 19:32
He has a very interesting idea on how to put MWI and wave-function collapse interpretations to the test. Assuming we can build a conscious AGI quantum...
January 10, 2023 at 12:24
As an aside, I was listening to Sean Carol being interviewed, and he made it sound like the very low probability events didn't happen, at least not ov...
January 10, 2023 at 04:32
I never said I wasn't crazy. Or didn't make typos, whoops.
January 10, 2023 at 00:31
It's obviously not the case if you've aware of savants or various neurological abnormalities, which you would hope educated people like philosophers a...
January 09, 2023 at 23:14
What about when you dream? I would put it more in terms of a VR headset kind of experience, particularly for lucid dreaming. Some people are really go...
January 09, 2023 at 23:03
Sabine Hossenfelder says it's not: https://youtu.be/kF6USB2I1iU
January 09, 2023 at 22:57
But that doesn't mean bats or other animals have the exact same set of sensations. We know that can't be true because many birds can see more than thr...
January 09, 2023 at 16:56
Even if so, that doesn't mean consciousness is understood functionally, as in we can provide a function which makes a system conscious. If we could, t...
January 09, 2023 at 14:57
Everett doesn't control how the interpretation develops after him. Sean Carrol, a current proponent of MWI, talks of universes splitting. There's a Un...
January 09, 2023 at 14:45
Agent Smith never did really understand what the Oracle was up to. Neither did the Architect until the end. There's several good YT videos that do a d...
January 09, 2023 at 07:42
I updated my comment and added a comment on Kant and the hard problem (that he would likely find it pointless).
January 09, 2023 at 07:35
Is Kant saying we reason that the real world responsible for our senses is beyond our perceptions and reason? There is a real world responsible for us...
January 09, 2023 at 07:30
Problem is you have to square this with actual observations, which have classical results when a measurement is performed. I'll refer you back to what...
January 09, 2023 at 07:17
We certainly have problems drawing the line on which life forms are conscious. And we can't say what sort of sensations animals with different sensory...
January 09, 2023 at 03:25
Chalmers espoused a property dualism in one of his books where any informationally rich system would be conscious. He's more predisposed to finding a ...
January 09, 2023 at 03:17
Ned Block wrote a paper on the Harder Problem of Consciousness using the android Data from Star Trek to illustrate the problem that we can't tell whet...
January 09, 2023 at 03:12
True, but a sufficiently armed group of people are not likely to be anarchists. Sure, but the alternative has been mob justice, which is judged histor...
November 23, 2022 at 00:40
And if people violate those mutual obligations, or wish to be violent? What do you do with Viking marauders or pirates? Warlords, criminal gangs, seri...
November 22, 2022 at 21:17
And what if I want to do things that are harmful to others, because I'm a selfish cunt and don't agree with rules against exploiting others? How does ...
November 22, 2022 at 21:06
And if their will is to harm others, what then? What if their will is to control others? Or maybe they just want to burn down the nearby forest becaus...
November 22, 2022 at 21:03
Wouldn't that just mean the results could be in a superpositioned state until some human makes an observation? That's the basis of Schrodinger's criti...
August 07, 2022 at 00:59
Does that work for colors? Do you think if someone said you would be seeing a gold dress that it would necessarily mean you saw it as gold and not blu...
July 29, 2022 at 16:52
If this were true, then we'd have no trouble figuring out what sort of colors a tetrachromatic bird sees, or what sort of smells a dog experiences. It...
July 29, 2022 at 16:50
In typical philosophy forum fashion, nobody can quite agree on the terms under dispute, in part because we have our philosophical commitments to uphol...
July 28, 2022 at 16:22
I've read Color Realism and Color Science before. It is a good overview. Seemed like a quality attempt at defending color realism, even if I'm prone t...
July 28, 2022 at 08:18
I didn't cite him. I'm not aware of Locke being a direct realist. Maybe with regards to primary qualities? You can read a summary about color primitiv...
July 28, 2022 at 08:13