Ideas do not exist before they materialize into a brain and a language. At most, the relationships that those ideas express exist previously. Because ...
If I wanted to do that I'd be a reductionist and I'm not. I have made an argument that the brain can be considered the cause of the mental. Not that i...
Aside from this emphatic statement, it would have been nice if you had tried to prove it with a little analysis of my reasoning. You will understand t...
There's a lot we don't know about the universe in general that we know we don't know. Much more than we even suspect. That makes it possible to write ...
You swallowed the final part of my remark: And if you want to say that it's a mixed thing between matter and non-matter you should specify what the pr...
Sorry, what's your response to this? : If reason cannot be shown to be an effective way of solving problems, can it be shown that there is another way...
Among other things. It is also the power to divide problems. Traditionally, the reason is said to be both synthetic and analytical. I said that "reaso...
Are you telling me that you have to belong to some kind of sect or brotherhood to understand this panpsychism stuff? Or is there some peripatetic acad...
That is just the fallacy of circularity "Reason" is an abstraction. There are several methods that we call rational. Logic is a rational method. Analy...
I see no contradiction. Using reason to evaluate the consequences of reason does not seem to me to be circular. No more than doctor's eye measuring th...
No one, at least not me, is advocating reductionism. It is not a question of establishing the equivalence between brain impulses and language units. I...
The problem is not the use of reason to support materialism. The argument that Wayfarer is trying to thwart is not "the reason." It is an inductive re...
And what is panpsychism if not spiritualism or vitalism? A spiritualist doesn't have to be Victorian. There are very modern ones. But equally spiritua...
That's not a guess. It is the use of an inductive method that has proven itself millions of times. If you want to say that believing that what has bee...
The method is good for high-level discussions, but in a forum like this it may lead to muddled discussions about whether a certain John Doe really sai...
I don't think I'm conflating synapses with logic. I'm applying one of the basic forms of inductive logic. If x never occurs when y is missing, y must ...
This -more or less: The mind is the set of thinking faculties including cognitive aspects such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, ju...
An empirical inference is not logically included in the data that serve as a premise. It is a knowledge that advances synthetically on those data by p...
Not that I know much about Heidegger, but the concept of holism does not appear in the texts I have consulted. Neither his nor his interpreters. On th...
It may be a question of terminology, but this does not seem right to me. You can have sensations (called in philosophy impressions or qualia) whether ...
The problem then lies in two points: -Can a work I've done negatively affect a fundamental right of the community? -To what extent can I sell my work ...
There is no misinformation in the Wikipedia definition. It is the use that the major dictionaries collect and the use in tens of thousands of psycholo...
In principle, all property is a theft from the community. But even Bakunin wasn't thinking about socializing his socks. Instead of signing up to maxim...
It depends on what you mean by conscience. Sometimes consciousness and mind are used as synonymous words. For example in this Wikipedia definition sen...
Old-fashioned? 65 Categories found in PhilPapers. 10 Journals - including the prestigious Mind (over 20,000 articles). Doesn't seem like a very old-fa...
As far as location is concerned, I don't see the mind having a different place from the whole nervous system (there are neurons in my bowels, also). I...
Where do you place (metaphorically or otherwise) your thoughts on this sentence now? Is it not in your mind? Where does that thought occur? Not in you...
Confused? Try to tell me what is on your mind right now that is not experiences, emotions and thoughts about experiences and emotions or ideas based o...
Then something that gives me information doesn't have to be a mind. Information is the product of a mind: the mind that gives me information and/or my...
Because to say that a pitcher is empty, you have to describe the pitcher separately from its possible contents. And you can't do that with your mind. ...
You've decided that anything has a conscience because conscience is anything. There's no one there who won't agree with this logic. But I doubt that t...
There are a lot of objects that offer entangled, integrated, and unified information. A schedule board, a newspaper page, a puzzle book, my hat tag......
Everyone has their own tastes. You have just recognized an important difference between the "psychological" and the exterior of the mind. I would add ...
The Galactic Court appreciates your efforts to resolve the case but regrets to say that they have not been helpful. The DNA of the two Mr. X's is iden...
Correct me if I am wrong, but Heidegger did not identify the Being with any form of consciousness. Therefore, turning to Heidegger to justify that con...
The philosopher said that what you can't talk about is best left unsaid. It is also consistent with the myth of Hades and the Styx lake. But that does...
The metaphor of the theater doesn't work with consciousness. You can describe an empty stage. You cannot describe an empty consciousness. Consciousnes...
It's much simpler than that. When you hit your finger with the hammer, it hurts. When you hit the TV, it doesn't. Pain is a subjective experience. The...
If that's what Heidegger says, I find it incomprehensible. Hammer the television. Then hammer your finger. You'll catch a vital difference between ins...
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