Liberalism does not just entail economic freedom but also personal freedom. If the capitalist champions freedom from religion and government for the p...
Possibility and probability are mental constructs. Either the USB has information or it doesn't. If the USB never gets information written to it then ...
Translation: I'm right, you're wrong, consciousness is subjective! LALALALALA! I can't hear you! Add immature on top of contradictory, hypocrite and i...
What a joke. You make too many sweeping and contradicting statements yourself and then give a link with too many sweeping statements while claiming th...
When you say, " to access knowledge" that is the same as saying "to access information". You access information via your senses. The causal relationsh...
They are not objects of any possible interpretation. Everything happens for a reason. There is a cause for every effect, and the effect logically foll...
There are a lot of people that seem to confuse the boundaries of what it means to be a liberal (a libertarian - the true liberals). There are some on ...
This all seems interesting but you continually pull the rug out from under yourself every time you claim that consciousness is subjective while at the...
The keyword here in this thread seems to be "memory". Computers and brains have memories. What is memory? To me, memory is simply a stable arrangement...
You said something like this before in the thread which I called you out on and you failed to follow up. You seem to be saying that only others' consc...
How does the observer get actualized? Is there one wavefunction for every particle? When observing multiple particles what determines which wavefuncti...
Yes, information is a relationship and relationships are fundamental. Everything is a relationship, or process. Information exists everywhere causes l...
In other words, substance dualism. Googling "substance vs property dualism", the AI response is: "Property dualism and substance dualism are two diffe...
Because you're also talking about a multitude of properties (mass, charge, etc.), not just those two. You are positing property dualism by asserting t...
Then we are not discussing property dualism, are we? We are discussing substance dualism. This is circular. Does this mean that once we are able to pr...
The strange thing is that you both seem to be ignoring the access to your own minds that you have and not accounting for its properties/structure and ...
You are both forgetting about a very important thing - QM. What is a physical structure and how exactly does that differ from a non-physical structure...
Sure, mind causes matter to move and vice versa, but that would lead me to believe in a form of monism, not dualism. Properties are information and it...
Isn't the "point of the article" the same as being "objective"? If there is a point to the article that one is not seeing, isn't that the same as sayi...
But thinking in this way complicates things unnecessarily. How do physical and non-physical elements interact? Would it require positing a third eleme...
We don't ever just perceive the color red. What is the purpose of experiencing red if we are just suppose to perceive it? Judgements involve integrati...
I don't know what you mean by the "deep stuff that gets important". What form does the deep stuff that gets important take in the mind if not colors a...
You're confusing your ignorance of the cause with there being more than one cause. There is only one cause and because you do not know the cause you m...
Well, most of our information about our environment comes in the form of visuals, so it seems logical that we would think the world is at it appears. ...
What does it even mean to say something is prior to properties? If something exists, how does it exist? In what way does it interact with other things...
We directly experience some things but not others seems to show that the distinction between direct and indirect is simply one of causal complexity - ...
:100: Yes to all those questions as minds exist in the world. When I see someone in pain, are they and their pain not in this same shared world my min...
Asking the location of the universe is a silly question, like asking the for the location of reality. You could say that the universe is the set of al...
What does it mean to exist or not? Is not one property of Santa is that it is an imagining and it exists as an imagining? Things exist if they have ca...
A solution has already been proposed. Is relativity a substantial object or a relation? Is relativity real? Does it exist? If so, how? Your brain proc...
"Cause" is the wrong term to use. Change (of which movement is a type of change) is the essence of time. Measuring time is comparing one change with a...
I was responding to your contradictory claim, where you initially make a claim about what science has revealed as evidence for what you are saying: an...
Then the very foundation of science is called into question as science relies on observations. Science has pulled the rug out from under itself and do...
Really? Then where is the evil demon relative to me if we do not share the same world where it's actions are causally related to my experiences? What ...
It only seems to question whether we can trust our senses in a material world of brains in vats. The thought experiment still implies that brains requ...
:roll: Here we go again... dualism on a runaway train. How does a system not subject to natural laws become a source of those laws? Unmoved movers? So...
Unfettered skepticism that leads to questioning how, or even if, we experience an external world would create all sorts of problems for the brain in a...
This would be a problem for your god as well. As I pointed out before, for you god to exist eternally prior to the universe it would have to have done...
It doesn't mean any of that at all. To say that they're still objects while never being able to point to objects, only processes, is stretching the im...
God is a something from nothing and isn't necessary as the universe could be eternal without intelligent design. God just complicates the matter. I fi...
What role does qualia play in perception? Are colors, shapes, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes the only forms qualia takes? If we take the mind as ...
Sounds like you at a young age when you were trying to learn a language. I wouldn't say that getting a joke is a sign you have mastered a language. Th...
Fair enough. We seem to agree that understanding, like intelligence, comes in degrees. When someone wakes up during surgery there is something differe...
Whitehead invokes God as a fundamental part of his metaphysical system which, I believe, is why he uses the term, "becoming" in describing the behavio...
I think you are confusing how anesthesia works with how the brain and mind are related. Those are two separate issues. If you Google, "how does anesth...
And your responses to me and everyone you ever speak to is a product of your history of interacting with English speakers. Many people claim that we t...
None of this explains what makes organics sentient. Yes, I know I'm sentient, but why am I sentient? What is it about me that makes me sentient other ...
I can't imagine a computer without software. If it does not have software, it isn't a computer. I don't see how such a device could pass BAR exams or ...
I understood your point. You did not understand mine. Would you support a incumbent when you have lost money during their tenure, or does your politic...
I would say that the "Liberals" were no longer liberals. Once you start telling others what they can say or think you've crossed over into authoritari...
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