Sir Philo Sophia

so, you think scientific and technological developments were driven by Intellect ???? LOL! They were driven historically by warfare , and scientist pr...

You missed @Zelebg's magical module which your cellphone is missing: 5. Program B: consciousness & free will -> feeds into 6.& 2. He's not going to te...

If panpsychism was true then would not you expect that the lowest forms of animals with brains would share very similar abilities of MC/EC as do human...

I really like where you are trying to go, but I believe your premise is not only malformed but misguided. That is, your (circular) question is really ...

I can see some need for qualia in certain kinds of imagination, but I currently see concepts of access consciousness as able to do most types of imagi...

In my current model, consciousness is an emergent 3rd entity that forms as a dynamic standing wave resonating with our internal and external configura...

Not true under my current model. My hypothesis explains a different model for such infinite regressions, it is simply put as a standing wave resonant ...

Sorry, in my prior post, I thought this was on the thread re imagination vs concepts. Any how, when you imagine, you are playing games of known things...

OK, what does that imaginary character look/act like? I'm saying the more form/process you give it the more you will find it is actually based on what...

In my hypothesis/theory/model under development, it is energy patterns as an entity in-and of itself. That is, in my model, consciousness, esp. the qu...

I do believe that consciousness exists internally w/o external reference. I believe there are (at least) two major problems/flaws w/ the cogito and so...

so, you are not yourself when role playing or acting? you think is a kind of controlled, temporary schizophrenia?

so, then, if consciousness as quasi-stable, dynamic standing wave resonance (quantum, entangled, or whatever) w/in our brains, why would inducing alte...

not really. I can imaging the concept of infinity, but can never enable my mind/imagination to in any way experience it. we just imagine it as an over...

I have been entertaining a hypothesis on that for many years, and I still hold it possible, if not plausible, if not actual. That is, in my model of c...

nope. That is not the hypothesis I am positing there. See my reply to TheMadFool for some detailed mechanics of my hypothesis on the qualia conscious ...

I can appreciate your intuition as to why those may feel/seem different, yet I disagree. I think imagination is mostly, if not completely, degrees of ...

I don't believe that is true. I think information primarily about detecting a useful or causal difference. Many differences are only thing useful or c...

I'm starting to build a coherent hypothesis that qualia and emotive phenomenon are logically needed to optimally create and convey wisdom, but not at ...

that is not a meaningful relationship, definition, or framework. What you 'care'' about has nothing to do with the metaphysical/logical/causal/scienti...

I'm not sure (I'm thinking not at all) they are related as nouns. How would you say they are related?

I think you are defining the meaning of a philosopher's life, not human life. At the risk of sounding like a reductionist, the genetically programmed,...

I applaud where you are trying to go with this, but I have to respectfully disagree with your model/ideas on that. For one thing, I'm not seeing 'util...

I would tend to agree with that belief. In my current model, consciousness is an emergent 3rd entity that forms as a dynamic standing wave resonating ...

Sorry, but I would not tend to agree with that statement either. I do not think that intelligibility is primal when it comes to building knowledge. I ...

good explanation/summary, thanks. I can why you'd want to attack it this way, but I'm not so sure that is the best way b/c I do believe that conscious...

I gave you one, actually. see so, we detected presence of a particle having a collision pattern like a Higgs boson would have with very high probabili...

sure. Pattern/event/object 'A' is observed and found to occur semi-periodically; however, 'A' is not understood in any way, we can only detect its occ...

I disagree with that. I can think of practical situations where knowledge is formed from information that is not intelligible; that is, I do not belie...

see my #2 above for my proposed experimental ways to get closer to the qualia truth wrt color.

that is obviously a cop out... if I call your prior answer hogwash that is discounting what you reply as being nonsense, not being confrontational. yo...

Seems to me this boils down to 3 main factors: 1. The frequencies of light that (most) humans are pre-wired to call red, do indeed exist in the physic...

For such a bold, sweeping conclusion, you need to define what you mean by Perception and what is Responsiveness. Otherwise, sounds like self-serving, ...

so, according to your definition, you would say that an AI robot machine that has Perception and is Responsiveness to that perception is presumed to b...

I thought that is what you meant. your conclusion above is correct, which is why formal logic has only been useful in math theorem proving. FWIW, the ...

The next paragraph actually uses sound as their example. See below . In my above example, one of the cochlear hairs/nerves will detect and convert a s...

Sorry, but I've started reading your cite of Pierce, and, off-the-bat, the opener already tells me that it fails to overcome my above counter examples...

sorry, let me rephrase more clearly: For example, one type of meaning regarding something physical is if one observed a physical process that in-and-o...

under my framework, to establish one self-consciousness we have to be able to explore all our boundary conditions that ware resonating within and thei...

why are you limiting the definition or process of knowledge building to formal knowledge? Very little of our initial, formative knowledge is formal. A...

how is that agreeing b/c sounds like you critiqued me arguing the opposite: " but expressing such a continuum would require an infinite number of sign...

not true. a sound pattern, after being converted to its electrical wave analog, is broken up into all kinds of meaningful physical features, many of w...

hogwash. there is nothing about continuity that precludes machine implemented emergent AI conscious agents. If anything, they could be more in touch w...

I disagree, at least b/c in reality/practice there are a very finite set of linguistic object categories. I think you misunderstand my linguistic cont...

Before even being in a position to question one's existence as a 'thinker' by virtue of 'thinking' I think there are at least 3 prerequisites: 1. (sel...

That seems like some big leaps of assumptions to conclusions, resulting in an off-the-wall sounding position. Please clarify your logic/evidence why "...

can you clarify what you mean here? I my mind, math support all faculties of the human mind, esp. since the operate under known physics and signaling ...

I see why you want to go there, but I'm not quite sure of that in general. Before even being in a position to question one's existence I think there a...

I disagree. You are talking about current AI state-of-the-art. I am talking about the philosophy of AI (in light of current AI state-of-the-art) as a ...

that is only your anthropomorphic opinion, of course. Just b/c the ancient greeks could not ponder a thinking machine doesn't mean that modern philoso...