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Eugen

['Member']Joined: February 11, 2017 at 17:46Last active: July 23, 2023 at 19:3343 discussions659 comments

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You are right, but not for the reason you think. There was a mistake in my initial post.
June 30, 2023 at 21:34
I don't really understand him. On one hand, he says particles can't form consciousness because they have 0 consciousness, but on the other hand, he th...
June 30, 2023 at 21:33
But that's not the point of my issue with Jaworsky
June 29, 2023 at 21:42
I'm not sure about Laszlo's view on emergence, but Jaworsky seems odd to me. He admits consciousness is irreducible to matter, but he says those prope...
June 29, 2023 at 21:09
No, you didn't. Your answer isn't connected to my question.
June 29, 2023 at 20:51
Thanks! Solved, although for some reason I cannot provide the link for the dissertation, but you can google it with the name I provided.
June 29, 2023 at 20:50
I didn't read his books, I saw a presentation of his and I also read some blogs of his and a dissertation of a guy about his work. https://podcasts.ox...
June 29, 2023 at 20:14
You didn't pay attention, that wasn't my question.
June 29, 2023 at 20:11
- No, there are no physical properties in Idealism, there are only mind properties. Mr. Chomsky created/uses Mysterianism to conflate two things that ...
June 21, 2023 at 11:53
What do you mean the same kind? What makes them the same kind? What is the difference between same kind and different kind? If motion is so mysterious...
June 20, 2023 at 21:08
My point is this is not related to the hard problem! Geeeez
June 20, 2023 at 16:49
It seems to me you're suggesting there's something interesting there that I'm too ignorant/dumb to see it. Could you please shed some light onto it fo...
June 20, 2023 at 14:56
Yes, exactly, the hard problem is a logical problem, not a question "How is it like to see a sunset?". And yes, there is no serious counterargument so...
June 20, 2023 at 14:36
Dude, I was sarcastic... of course I won't start the classic silly debate ''Hey, we can get to flying from parts that don't fly." But I will say this:...
June 20, 2023 at 14:06
And it's irrelevant anyway. Chomsky doesn't address the hard problem saying it has a ''composition fallacy". Chomsky redefines the hard problem in a w...
June 20, 2023 at 11:55
Really? How come? I want details, please!
June 20, 2023 at 11:53
The hard problem states it's illogical to get consciousness from non-consciousness, and there is absolutely no answer to that to this moment. So it re...
June 20, 2023 at 11:32
Manuel, you're falling into his trap. Let me explain. There are two dimensions here: empirical and philosophical/logical. Chomsky thinks empirical evi...
June 20, 2023 at 09:45
"What seemed“brute emergence”was assimilated into science ordinary emergence—not, to be sure,of the liquidity variety,relying on conceivability. I see...
June 19, 2023 at 21:52
I have no interest to make this a me vs Chomsky thing. Forget about my personal opinion. My issue is that we're stuck in a grey zone when we could eas...
June 19, 2023 at 19:34
But being over and above makes it radically different. That's the point.
June 19, 2023 at 18:56
So what exact part/s of Property Dualism would Chomsky reject in order to say he wouldn't accept Property Dualism?
June 19, 2023 at 18:03
But that is Property Dualism.
June 19, 2023 at 17:35
Ok, I think I'll have my last shot. My strong emergence implies Property Dualism (not Substance Dualism!) and consciousness would be over and above it...
June 19, 2023 at 16:34
I will. Thank you again for your answers!
June 18, 2023 at 22:33
Thank you! But heavy is not fundamental, bricks are not heavy. Heavy must be > 10kg, and each brick has 1 kg. Yes, I asked several times, but I want a...
June 18, 2023 at 22:25
What's his address?
June 18, 2023 at 22:16
Heavyness strongly emergent - I doubt Chomsky would believe that. Heavy is just an arbitrary quantity for mass. What the f is strongly emergent about ...
June 18, 2023 at 22:16
Manuel look, I appreciate your effort but it seems to me you intentionally avoid some of my clear direct questions.
June 18, 2023 at 22:06
So Chomsky would say liquidity is irreducible?
June 18, 2023 at 21:51
- You're missing my point. No, it is not weakly emergent because our theories describe it, it is weakly emergent because there is no property of liqui...
June 18, 2023 at 21:11
That's exactly my point. Moreover, I don't even care if one is surprised or not. There is a clear difference between weak and strong emergence and it ...
June 18, 2023 at 20:09
Thank you and sorry for the late answer! I'm very confused when it comes to Chomsky, so it takes time for me to come up with something. I. I know the ...
June 18, 2023 at 10:35
Thank you for your contribuition! I will come back with answers, but for now, I am reading Chomsky's Mysteries Nature Hidden. I have read a bit and I'...
June 12, 2023 at 08:42
Thank you! ''I)" is pretty clear. But for ''II)" I have some things to say. Logic is enough to accept that consciousness is either a. 100% reducible, ...
June 10, 2023 at 09:12
Agree. It can be helpful at times, but not a trustworthy source.
June 09, 2023 at 14:00
What exactly is the advantage of information over matter when it comes to explaining consciousness?
April 30, 2023 at 21:33
I'm not debating that. I said ''IF the hard-problem is real..."
April 30, 2023 at 19:11
I'm trying to relate your comment with the OP. I can't.
April 30, 2023 at 17:14
You've made your point and I appreciate your sincerity. Thank you!
April 30, 2023 at 17:03
I was ill-inspired to use the example of information. I should have written ''any fundamental substance", you can call it X. The only condition is tha...
April 30, 2023 at 16:49
So, in your opinion, only science can tell us what is and isn't a ''fact"? I'm not going to debate that, I want to understand you.
April 30, 2023 at 16:32
I can resonate with that.
April 30, 2023 at 16:30
Moreover, if you imagine a green bird, nobody will find that image in your brain. But that's a refutation of materialism, not a refutation of fundamen...
April 30, 2023 at 09:45
''Meaning" is kind of consciousness....experience... it's vague
April 30, 2023 at 09:17
I did, because I think weak emergence is eliminativism. I might be wrong though...
April 30, 2023 at 09:15
Anything that is not consciousness or conscious.
April 30, 2023 at 07:27
So after all, the problem does not reside in the gap between non-subjective experience and subjective experience. Information, in your opinion, has th...
April 30, 2023 at 07:18
It seems to me our difference is in language. Is there a real fundamental difference between the interaction between atoms in a chair versus the inter...
April 30, 2023 at 07:13