Sir Philo Sophia

Okay, so I amended my definition to add the following two constraints: "and perpetuating its unique, non-least-action existence, by self-directed repr...

I don't believe that is true because he path of least action in any environment is set by the physics And forces. Living beings cannot change the phys...

Thanks for your very thoughtful feedback and input. I will read those scientific Papers later. However I did scan over their abstracts and conclusions...

Excellent point! I have already considered this yet did not encoded in my definition. I will soon post the revised definition that excludes that possi...

Thanks for your comment; however, I have to respectfully disagree. Consciousness is a logically separate aspect and capability beyond what is the mini...

I forgot to answer this part of your replies. That is a very interesting point, which I was not considering so far. I may need to refine my definition...

Thanks for your good lines of questioning. Yes those necessarily can only follow the path of least action so are inanimate. Yes those necessarily can ...

yes, Nominalism was off topic. the 3rdness is very long, but I'll scan it over for anything that catches my eye/mind. thx.

I disagree with your various Views and approaches to the problem, however, I very much like your direction and style of thinking. Generally, I find th...

please point me to your post in "the Lounge". I do not know how to find that. thanks, and doing well in the WFH model and avoiding indoor crowds, etc....

If I thought you had the mental capacity I'd explain more conceptual layers of details, but you are clearly not fertile ground, so I move on...

I 2nd that motion. Moreover, OP saying "We are virtual, people, I’m telling you." is a meaningless statement, IMHO. b/c everything mental is virtual. ...

I know your intent is to, again, be flippant. Yet, between your deaf ears, I bet you are completely unaware that all matter we experience in the unive...

I don't think that is correct. they always came from experimental observations which needed new theory to explain. mystical stuff rarely translates in...

OK, so, in your way of thinking, all humans have about the same level of intelligence (difference only in how much it is expressed) and consciousness ...

what working-in-progress definition of 'intelligence' are you using to make these kinds of statements, in re consciousness?

so you are coming from the camp of "God's intelligent design" as explaining our universe and human condition? also, you apparently are saying that you...

so, according to your views, a mentally retarded human (e.g., exhibiting less intelligent activity) has less consciousness than an average human (e.g....

why would biologically self-propagating be related to consciousness. Maybe you did not mean to say it that way. why would degree of intelligent activi...

if everything is conscious then how does that help us define it, and why are our computers or electronics not conscious, not even the way a mouse is? ...

how is a program in your simulation real, physical, and material? you are talking about simulating the physical alligator behavior. However, I say the...

see above for general framework. I am making it up as I go. Have not gone to implementation mechanics yet, just establishing the basic tools and metho...

I have said. You could have asked clarifying questions or critiques as I have of you, but until now, even if flippantly, you have not. In short, as I'...

nope. Nothing to do with stuff like that. I've laid out a basic framework model for it, but apparently on your deaf ears, which has you making fun by ...

I can see why your intuition links the two, esp. in a human/mammal model, but are you saying you believe only consciousness things can have or exhibit...

I did not hear anything there that could be experimentally verified as you suggest. Moreover, how does that address my above issues raised re 'post ho...

re "you might as well call it 'quantum collapse'," maybe some concepts I'm working with relate to that on macro system scale. re "'magnetic field dens...

do you mean access or qualia types? I assume you mean qualia kind. I am modeling the qualia/experience consciousness as a resonant condition that does...

since you are opting to not address my counterpoints then maybe you'd at least explain what the experiment would generally look like and generally how...

I don't see how entaglements help one's qualia of macro physical things like color, taste, passage of time. You have not addressed any of my many stat...

why not? you make the same kinds of presumptions and metaphysical models. What is wrong with panpsychism in your opinion, which your approach does not...

OK, so say I make a robot that evolves its own personality, goals, and decision making by way of a genetic algorithm, and then have it makes its own f...

so, the agent would have to be self-aware?

I doubt it. there are so many counter examples of entities that behave quite intelligently but show little/no signed so consciousness. e.g., in an ext...

or 5. consciousness has nothing to do with switching switches. Your switch architecture of bran is wrong so your premise/question is malformed.

is that not, essentially, glorified panpsychism? I’ve got at least 2 problems with your proposal. 1. All the evidence I’m looking at strongly indicate...

So, would you say a sense of agency is required? Would you say an 'intention" is required to determine/measure if 'free will' of the 'agent' actually ...

I find it great that you are struggling at this hard topic with critical thinking and points. I'll address various highlights you pose. That is not re...

I retract that broad statement made in haste. Of course that is not true, but what I was getting at is that as soon as a human knows it is expected to...

Maybe I'm too drunk or brain damaged to understand the purported obvious genius of your statement(s), but seems obvious to me that the mind is a virtu...

Just because you say so doesn't make that a viable model. private virtual reality doesn't solve the problem of coding a coherent, unified ego-state of...

sounds like hypothetical mumbo-jumbo, not evidence. How do algebraic abstractions help anything re a physical model of 'Self" or "I"? recursive algori...

I don't believe so. Check our thread but I recall agreeing to *imagination* being (at least in some important way) a virtual experience, but that is a...

Not true. Your computer program will still have pre-determined behaviors even its functionality and/or goals can be expost facto updated, which is com...

OK, that is a start, but conflicting definitions generally will not converge. For this definition then clearly your computer programming example has n...

OK. Let's drop the discussion of your definition/views on 'free will'. Seems like a dead end there for me too.

So, you believe the emotive experience of, say, fear is a phenomenal qualia (like color) that the we cannot even begin to explain?

at least b/c it is an objectified and unified state which happens apart from time and apart from its hardware or embodiment (incl. any programming) an...

again, just asking you for your definition of 'free will' for which your statements and examples are based upon. If you continue to resist then I will...

bad example. just b/c the programmed changed its 'goals' it is still a deterministic program which is constrained to a (narrow) set of pre-determined ...