Harry Hindu

It seems to me to be both ways. To say what something is, is to also say why it is. And why something is includes what it is. You didn't answer "why" ...

It seems to me that you would have an incomplete explanation as to what something is without the why it is that way.

Talk of "fundamental particles" and of "higher scales" is really just talk about different perspectives of the same thing. Different perspectives can ...

Does might make right? That depends on what you mean by "right". Someone can point a gun at me and give me the choice of accepting that the Earth is f...

Asking "why", or "how" is the same as asking the "reason" something happens. I still don't see a difference between "efficient" cause and any other ca...

Neither. Its a picture. A picture of what, you may ask. Ask the artist, would be my reply.

well, if you had no visual content, could you say that you are looking at anything? It's not just colors, but also shapes arranged in a particular pat...

Feelings appear only in consciousness as a representation of the state-of-affairs that is the ground. You are conscious of the fact that you are imagi...

I don't see how C1 follows. How did you know that you were looking at a tree in the first place, and what does it mean to "look at" at tree? You "know...

I have the sense of gathering or acquiring information, not arbitrarily creating it. If the relationship between a criminal's behavior and the evidenc...

Here, in describing "opposition", you even say that these things are the same in every way except in the way of opposition? Aren't you then saying tha...

So you need to remember my post before you know what it says? How does that make any sense to you? You can know how to do things without remembering h...

, sure it does. Which pocket did the black ball go in, and where is that relative to the other balls still on the table? Billiard balls leave colored ...

Then asking why we can't access other people's quale is one of those nonsensical philosophical questions that, even if we did answer, wouldn't provide...

Here's a definition of experience from Merriam-Webster: Experience: the fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct ob...

But we can reduce it to an objective description. I simply need to describe what I'm experiencing. If you were there on the moon with me, what would b...

But how can we share quale without becoming the person themselves? That would be like asking what it is like for that apple to have the same colors, s...

I don't see how this is so difficult for you to grasp. I think you're blowing through my posts without taking the time to actually read it - every wor...

How is it that these three people aren't sharing their "unsharable" experience of red, when they use language to share their experiences of red? If it...

Why not? Is it not objectively true that you are on the moon and have a vantage point from on the moon, and experience colors and feelings of weightle...

Of course there is. As I was saying, when you have an experience, it isn't of just one color across your visual field and nothing else. You have an ex...

You're simply revamping my own position. To have this idea, of "is and is not", is to already experience distinctions, of different things at once or ...

Where was it ever said or written that the truth would be subject to your disposition?

You can reflect on World History and ethical dilemmas just as you can reflect on your own awareness, or your circulatory system or neural system. "You...

Then how can it be that we are aware, or know, that we have experiences? Is it not what differentiates us from other animals - that we can turn our ow...

That's the thing with a mirage. You are never walking towards it. That is what gives it up that it isn't a pool of water. Pools of water don't change ...

If you had read all of my post from where you got that quote from, then you'd have understood that I said that the mind must have already had the capa...

But I was conscious of the details of walking when I was learning how to walk. I don't know how many times I have said this and you continue to overlo...

That's simple. I'd be dreaming, just as if I were hallucinating, I'd be hallucinating. I wouldn't be aware, though. That term is reserved for actual k...

I know exactly what you are talking about. What's obvious is that you ignored what I said. I already said that I can create illogical, meaningless pat...

, I'm just trying to make you aware that you are misusing the word, "aware". If what you are saying is true, then when you see a mirage, you are "awar...

What relationship is established with me just closing my eyes and imagining the color green? I can imagine things as simple as the forms my thoughts t...

If there are no waves in your mind, then how is it that you can say "I'm thinking of waves."? Again, I'm not saying that there are actual waves in you...

It seems that it is you that is "making shit up". If not, then please explain how the sentence, "If I hallucinate pink elephants in the garden, then I...

You are only aware of this after the fact. It is easier to recognize a day-dream because you have the outer world imposing it's existence on you when ...

All these things that you say aren't the Experience of Red (propagating, oscillating, waves, neurons firing, etc.) are all visual descriptions of some...

I don't see how the homunculus theory leads to solipsism, but to the issue of the conscious mind being a model, I would direct your attention to your ...

I don't see how your example applies. In consciousness you are aware of the will to touch the nose, and the movement of your arm and hand towards your...

Read the second sentence - the one that came after the one you quoted, but you omitted. I said that you think in visual scribbles and sounds, not hear...

How is there any explanatory gap at all, much less a big one, if neural activity IS the model? Again, all you see is a brain, or a model of the brain ...

Yes, but what are words except visual scribbles and sounds? If you say you think in your language, then you are essentially saying that you think in v...

But then why do I experience having control of certain aspects of my body. My legs don't start walking unless I will it. There is top-down processing ...

I'm not sure where you are getting your information about what happens when we are unconscious either. The only place you could be getting it is from ...

The implication of indirect realism is that what we experience is a model of the world, not the world as it is. This means that when we look at someon...

I think you both are confusing consciousness with intent. None of these things happen when we are unconscious. Edge detection never happens when we ar...

This sounds like evidence that you have a modular mind - one that has evolved separate parts to solve different problems. It sounds like you have thes...

Sounds interesting. I'll look it up. Thanks.

...says someone who isn't up to par with the latest attempts of scientists (not physicists, but neurologists and psychologists) to explain consciousne...

Actually, people having wild notions is not earth-shattering. It would be earth-shattering if their wild notions, like the notion of a vantage point b...

http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/amazing-human-eye All this means is that physics hasn't described consciousness - yet. It doesn't imply that conscious...