Beauty is a feeling, which is a real property of you when looking at the painting. Rectangular is a shape, which is a real property of the painting. I...
I'm not assuming anything when I ask the question, "What form does our linguistic abilities take prior to learning a language?". You were the one that...
So, what are you saying, Apo - that you're just another sheep following the herd? If solipsism were the case, then "my experience" would be the world,...
If you have a better explanation, I'm here to be persuaded, but it doesn't seem like you have a better explanation. You're only "argument" is "That's ...
No, it isn't. That is the problem you still don't understand. I said that "subjective" doesn't really exist, so it would be incoherent to use the term...
Right. Thanks to the differences in our brains - thanks to the way we are "designed". I'd like to know the form our linguistic abilities take prior to...
No. You seem to be having a problem reading and replying to my posts without putting words I didn't say in my mouth. I said that what is "subjective" ...
But not only because we are rational agents, but also because we have senses that take in information about the world, one of which is numbers. How co...
I didn't ask about the implications of your statement. I asked what it meant. I asked you why you used to the term, "physical", as it isn't necessary....
Then what you are saying is that being "subjective" is misspeaking, or not meaning your words to be taken literally. If beauty is a feeling then it wo...
You keep making statements that are confusing (and then don't have the stamina to back them up). What does it mean for something to be real but not "p...
How do you go about determining the factual basis for values and meaning without measurements of values and meaning? It seems to me that you are conce...
You agree that beauty is a feeling about something and that "subjects" only have feelings, so why say that nothing has beauty in itself? If beauty is ...
No. You wanted to have a discussion about Jerry Coyne, remember? You wanted to focus on a small sentence that wasn't even that important in my post, r...
The last part seems to be making a distinction between your feeling and beauty itself, as if beauty were more than a feeling. I asked you what beauty ...
And they bash certain scientists for being dismissive of philosophy. The hypocrisy! What these extremists in "both camps" don't realize is that philos...
It's funny to see them ignore our comments, Galuchat, while they continue to go round and round - never getting at what information actually is. Hmmmp...
No, it is you that is making the error because you are putting words in my mouth. I never said that you feel the painting is beautiful, I said that yo...
It's easy make the distinction of life and non-life when talking about a giraffe and a cup. But what about when talking about a virus, or the beginnin...
But this doesn't go against what I said. I said that we can make distinctions between subjects, just as we can make distinctions between objects. The ...
Ok, I see where I misunderstood. It seems to me, though, that terms like "now", "then", "before" and "after" become meaningless by eternalism. If time...
Of course there are simultaneously occurring phenomenon. How else do we measure time if not by the simultaneous rotation of the Earth with a movement ...
Subjects are just other objects. Just as we can describe the differences between objects based on their attributes and properties, we can also make di...
you seem to be confused by the cause of red being seen in different objects. For apples, it is an indicator of ripeness but not so for cars and post b...
Again, "direct" and "indirect" are meaningless, especially if it's models all the way down. That's weird because I have no conscious effort, or will, ...
That isn't freedom. Computers are designed to perform many different functions - from creating a document and printing it, to surfing the internet, to...
I thought I already did in the last post. I also thought I said that we can dispense with the terms, "direct: and "indirect" as they are meaningless. ...
Language isn't teleological. It's that most of human minds are, and they project that onto reality in how they use a language. There are others that t...
Is it not also a justified belief that there is an "I" telling "me" what the "I" is finding to be a justified belief, or is that really happening? Is ...
I don't see incentive as part of the equation. Things behave in certain ways as a result of how they were designed. There was no incentive prior to, o...
I don't see how any of that disagrees with what I said. A physical trait or behavior is a different outcome than redundancy. Redundancy has its compon...
I don't understand the distinction. It is all interesting to me, or at least the part I want to know about at any given moment. I could get all the bi...
If you cut one, or rearrange the organization of a set, and it doesn't affect the outcome (the expression of that trait), then it would be safe to say...
Then talk of light and laser beams are just misdirection. I thought we were talking about waves, not apples, lasers or light. Again, do waves really e...
An effect is a model of prior causes, as it carries information about the cause. Does your model carry information? If not, then how can you even call...
I think the mistake Apo made was making the distinction that a wave is not red. Apples are red or not red. Anyone who knows what they are talking abou...
No. I didn't use the word, "indirect" in my post. If I did, then that word would be in quotes as well because I put "direct" in quotes to refer to it'...
You're right. We have been through this before, thanks to you not reading and not paying attention to my posts and avoiding the difficult questions. Y...
I can't help it if you don't get my point in questioning the distinction when it comes to causation and information flow. The cause is NOT the effect....
All this is is more naive realism, Apo (you refering to some real thing that is happening with scribbles on a screen, as if you have a clear, unimpede...
Go back and read what I said again in the previous two posts to you, one of which you ignored, but they are both making the same point. I mean, you ju...
Has information theory really been around for 70 years? It seems to me that you have some way of determining that information theory has been around f...
Confusion is subjective. What is confusing to one doesn't mean that it is confusing to others. Per your own argument, something being confusing is the...
A materialist would say that the mind is made of the same stuff "out there". An idealist would say that the world is made of the same stuff "in here"....
It seems to me that you are also insisting on some naive realism every time you talk about reality being a triad, as if it were ultimately true. Even ...
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