This doesn't address my point that you have never experienced another mind. You only infer that other minds exist through the behavior of bodies. Why ...
You both didn't seem to get the gist of my post. They believe that their body doesn't match their "inside". They believe that they were born in the "w...
To ask how something appears independent of looking at it, or independent of how light interacts with it, is a nonsensical question. How something app...
We're not talking about different information. Both senses provide different representations about the same thing - the shape of the stick. What is th...
That sounds like a somatic delusion. What happens when you tell them that they have a vagina when they believe they have a penis? Don't they become of...
I don't know. Are there any physiological differences in the brains of the religious who have delusions of grandeur (that they are important to a god,...
And from this idealist statement it can only follow to be skeptical of the existence of other minds. What would keep you from taking that last step in...
Exactly. So the brute distinctions of color are themselves evidence that some rules are being followed even before the rules of categorizing them. The...
If I were entirely cut off from the physical world, then how do I experience it? You are promoting dualism without the explanation as to how the menta...
This doesn't make any sense. If different senses provide different information that contradict, then they both can't be right. You can only be right i...
Transgenders have what is called a somatic delusion - where one believes that there is something wrong with their body. http://www.minddisorders.com/B...
It doesn't seem like philosophers are trying too hard to sound smart. They seem to be trying too hard to be artful (rather than accurate) with their u...
No. Sounds only exist in the mind. Vibrating air molecules are located within the world and sound is a representation of those wavelengths of air mole...
So then if there is a God that made us, then that would make us machines? Is god a machine? As usual in a philosophical discussion, terms need to be c...
To me, the indirectness or directness of perception isn't based the difference of the image compared to what it represents. It should be a given that ...
What about when we are outside on a sunny day and attempt to look through a window inside a dark house? We can't see what is inside because there is l...
That the amount of information we acquire about our environment visually is directly tied to the amount of light in the environment. What would it be ...
But the stick isn't bent, the light is. We don't see sticks in water. We see light. We are informed of sticks and glasses of water by the light that e...
If there is still experiences after "death" then there was no death. You are still alive and having experiences. How would you even know you "died"? W...
I thought I was quite clear, that is unless you are trying to act like you don't understand what I said in a feeble attempt to prove me wrong. If you ...
Only if there was a limited amount of light could you see anything. I'm talking about utter darkness. No light at all. Have you ever hear of the phras...
You seem to think that distorted means completely and utterly inaccurate. I see accuracy in degrees, not a simply black and white, accurate and inaccu...
Because I see life as worth living and others commit suicide. We can be in pain and not dying. So pain isn't something that informs us of our mortalit...
There is no "if" about it. There are known medical cases of hydranencephaly. Most of the brain never forms and 90% of babies self-abort when this is t...
This depends on what you mean by "know". Knowledge isn't the object, it is about the object. We know about objects by their representations. Knowledge...
If the lights were out, then could we see through the object? Does the quality that allows the object to interact with light the way it does, if light...
I don't believe this election was a shift to the right. It seems more like a shift away from political correctness, the assault on free speech, and th...
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. How could there be a "huge debate" over whether the brain gives rise to consciousness when we don...
The left has deliberately conflated border security with xenophobia and rule of law with racism. "Illegal immigrants" and "radical Islamic terrorists"...
And here we have another "philosopher" who doesn't bother educating themselves in modern science, or more specifically, modern neurology and psycholog...
I would ask why are there only two alternatives (life and death). I would also want to know why life is worth living for some and not for others. Why ...
That is not at all what I meant or said. I never used the word adventure. I said that life is interesting. The North Pole isn't. That's why I'm not th...
I live for the experience of being alive - the drama, the sadness and the happiness, because one cannot be without the other. Being alive is more inte...
Then the man wasn't intelligent enough to understand that others wouldn't agree on what he said - that there would be arguments about his meaning. He ...
Jesus wasn't a psychologist. He didn't seem to realize the concept of consequences for your actions. He was a hypocrite as he said things like what yo...
So then you're following the "Golden Rule" by doing what you would like have done to you - you're informing yourself of the likes and dislikes of some...
Actually, the dichotomy between matter and mind isn't the dichotomy I was trying to emphasize. By definition, matter can exist without mind. The same ...
Both are categories, and categories are created by the mind. I'm a monist, so I believe that there is only one primary substance and because we alread...
How do hallucinations make use of light? When you claim to see a giant spider, where is this reflected light coming from that cause the brain to creat...
I'm not. Seeing is when you are using light as a source of information about the world. Hallucinating or dreaming is when you aren't using light as a ...
If photons are absorbed, then they aren't seen, nor are they re-emitted as a new set of photons. Light sources emit photons, everything else either ab...
Again, we are simply talking about the correct and consistent use of terms. Dreams without waking would be reality, not dreams. Inner dialog without d...
The way you know is to define these terms (subjective and objective) clearly. What is subjective without the objective? Isn't the subjective a limited...
There's an obvious misunderstanding of terms going on here. Seeing is a process that only occurs between light, eyes and a brain. These objects are se...
You're not locating a visual field in someone else's head. You're modeling a visual field that is in someone else's head inside your head. That is wha...
I'm not unexperienced at interacting with people either and it's easy to tell when someone makes a statement and then doesn't have the balls to back i...
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