How did you come to the conclusion that I did not imply that a view from somewhere isn't a view from somewhere, as in where someone is standing? If it...
What do you mean by your use of the words, "internal/external"? Are you using them in the same sense that the dog is internal to the dog house? If so,...
What does it mean to be "subjective"? Does it not have to do with a view from somewhere as opposed to a view from nowhere / everywhere? In this sense ...
Are you saying that philosophers should be telling the computer scientist how the computer works? Who do you call when your computer does not work - a...
But the flies are not at war with you. They just do what they do instinctively, with no malicious intent on their part. In this way, they are innocent...
Maybe a bit of both. When you, or computer scientists, talk about how a computer works we can't help but use the mentalistic terms to describe the beh...
First, I have deliberately tried to steer away from using terms like, "internal" and "external", as this just adds to the confusion by incorporating d...
You did not see a tiger. You dreamed a tiger. This is how you are misusing terms. A prediction is an imagined future. You may predict you will see a t...
What I am saying is imagination and dreams are a manifestation of the work being done in working memory. There is also the work of interpreting sensor...
You can only ever act on your categories. It's why you don't have a problem killing a fly as a fly is not a human even though it has flesh and blood. ...
Imagine imagining something when you don't have the world imposing itself on your senses and mind. The imagining would seem real, like your dream does...
But that's the thing. Categories are mental objects that can represent the world as it is only to a degree. Our categories tend to fall apart when we ...
No. RAM is the working memory. ROM is Read Only Memory. Long term memory is more like your hard drive and can be "written" to as we store new experien...
I would say the brain is more like the actual computer with a CPU, working memory and long-term memory, not just a CPU. Each part is necessary and can...
That is why I explained in the same post that you cherry-picked that predictions are a type of imagining, and dreams are a type of imagining where you...
Morality only appears to be absolute when a vast majority of people agree. The morality that we thought was absolute would be shattered when we meet a...
What if we were to start off with a definition like this: a human as a viable (it can survive on its own without artificial life support) organism des...
I think that "view" is the wrong way to look at this. The central executive in a computer does not view the data it is working with. The data simply e...
The same type of thing you experience when you make predictions, goals, solve problems, etc. Imagining is part of the process that we use to make pred...
So then what are we saying when we say, "human rights"? Is anyone free to decide when you are a human or not and deserving of "human rights"? Are we f...
Yes, but why would you think it unlikely that will be the case when you don't have enough information to say what is likely or not? I'm trying to get ...
If it did shut down completely you wouldn't be able to wake up to loud (and possibly dangerous) noises in the world. The places in your dream are amal...
Solipsism implies that the world and the experience are one and the same, which is what you are doing. Only in distinguishing between the world and yo...
How does saying that potential is not-yet-real differ from saying it doesn't exist? In your example, it seems that you are simply saying that potentia...
I wasn't implying anything. I was taking what you said - your description - and asking a question about it. You are the one that equated a GUI to our ...
I don't understand your point. If we don't know how a mass of neurons can be conscious then how can we even extrapolate whether a computer, robot, or ...
Embryology shows that the zygote does not develop directly into a human being. The embryo undergoes many changes that reflect the organisms' evolution...
I had a dream where I was trying to escape from captivity and I heard an alarm when I escaped but when I woke up the alarm was actually my alarm clock...
I think what you wrote is very interesting and pretty much lines up with what I've been thinking. I think the idea of potential is just that - an idea...
Well, now you're establishing some kind of Cartesian theater where there is a GUI that is being viewed, but viewed by what? Also, the computer screen ...
But that's the thing. What makes a mass of neurons conscious, but a mass of silicon circuits not conscious? The purple cow would be like a bug in the ...
The key to understanding the relationship between philosophy and science is to realize that philosophy is a science and the conclusions of one branch ...
I'm certainly not claiming that I am certain in what I am saying. I'm just trying to make sense of the mind-body problem by thinking that the problem ...
If you're using direct realism in a different way then I would hope that you would explain. All you are saying is that an observer observes. :confused...
Humans operate according to the parameters, programming, and designs created by natural selection. How does an unconscious process (natural selection)...
But we can imagine and dream of red things. So it seems to me that the color red is the form visual information takes and stored as such for future us...
Yes. The "in here / out there" distinction is a product of dualistic thinking. Do we talk about a table being outside of the apple that is sitting on ...
Actually, direct realism is part of the hard problem. In asserting that you see the world as it is - as static objects and physical brains, and compar...
How is it illusory? Are you imagining a purple cow or not? The fact that you can imagine things is not illusory. It is illusory when you project that ...
And there are Democrat lawmakers quoted as saying that abortions should be allowed up to the moment of birth for any reason. I think we can both agree...
I know many Republicans that believe that abortion should be allowed up to a certain point in the pregnancy for any reason. I don't know one Republica...
Other minds do appear as objects in the world. Consciousness is a process. Consciousness models other minds as objects, as in other people's brains an...
But that is what I've been saying - that seeing this as a dualist illusion IS the problem. Abandon dualism and introduce the idea of monism and see if...
Which words? It all resolves down to the ontological sense as epistemology is really the ontology of knowledge. Not according to some interpretations ...
But you are already assuming your conclusion by describing some event as subjective. You could have said the same thing without using the word and it ...
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