What makes causality and determinism necessarily materialistic? My thoughts naturally lead to other thoughts. Certain experiences are prerequisites fo...
So now provide the link to the study in which some neurobiologist looked at someone's mental phenomenon while the subject was looking at a ripe tomato...
I would assume that you know your mind to be real. Then which is the case - direct realism, indirect realism, both, or neither? If you can talk about ...
The entropic cost in creating the sound or scribble isn't the only part of the equation. Don't forget about the mind that is observing the mark or hea...
How does one even learn a language without apprehending the scribbles and sounds in the present and reflecting on how those same scribbles and sounds ...
We did not evolve in an environment full of mad scientists that directly stimulate our brain. We evolved in an environment filled with electromagnetic...
:up: Yet you keep falling into the same trap of asserting you know how the body/brain works while at the same time asserting that we cannot trust our ...
Sure. Information is everywhere causes leave effects. What information is relevant, or attended to, depends on the goal in the mind. I don't know if I...
This makes me think about the distinction, particularly in quantum mechanics, between the unmeasured and the measured. Numbers are just scribbles (2 a...
It seems to me that the distinction between direct and indirect realism is useless. Would you say that you have direct or indirect access to your ment...
I never was asserting direct realism. What I was asserting is that we can still get at what objects are by using only our experiences of them. Indirec...
Well, we still have the hard problem to contend with here. If colors are not parts of pens, then how can they be parts of neurons, or neural processes...
Which accomplishes the task of having planes land and take-off in a safer way. The blips accomplished the task they were designed for - nothing lost i...
I don't see how any of this contradicts or contrast with what I have been saying, including the part where I mentioned the distinctions between direct...
So you've never heard of Franz Brentano and intentionality of mental states? If you don't want to continue the conversation just say so. It's much mor...
Then how do you not confuse a stubbed toe with a headache? There is an feeling of a location that the pain resides. What I am saying is that the relat...
What I mean by information is the form pain takes and the form colors take and the form smells and tastes and sounds take in your consciousness. What ...
Straw man. If the information about the damage comes from tactile sensors rather than reflected light in its camera eyes, does that qualify as pain? I...
You keep confusing what is lost in translation with what is irrelevant to the situation. I don't need to know about how you feel about your loss to kn...
I ask the hard question because he keep stating that pain and color occur with appropriate brain activity. If the hard problem isn't solved then it is...
Do you never try to convey how you feel to others? If you do then you must have some degree of certainty that they will at least partially understand ...
This doesn't answer my question. It just bumps against the hard problem again and we are back where we started. What is a percept? You have given a vi...
But it seems to me that you can describe to me where your loved one is buried so that I may find it and pay my respects without knowing any of that ot...
What is pain? Isn't pain information in that it informs you of some injury in/on your body? Can a robot be informed of damage to its body? If so, does...
I agree that metaphysics/philosophy isn't a word game. In using language we are informing others of some state of the world which can include mental s...
In other words, it isn't known whether color experiences require the appropriate neurological activity..., In other words it is possible that colors a...
What's so special about neurological activity that causes color? How does a colorless process cause color? How do we know that a robot with cameras fo...
It seems to me that colors take certain shapes which is why it might be difficult to see a red pen on a red table and why camouflage works and is a us...
You sure are making a lot of knowledge statements about what you know about others' experiences for someone that says Why is it hard to believe that t...
Exactly. Subjective experiences are only useful to talk about when wanting to know about the state of other minds, not other pens. Even if others don'...
Why is it useful to report what you see? In reporting what you see, you seem to know there are other people with other minds that can perceive what yo...
What is the purpose of saying "The pen is red"? Why is that useful to say? Does a red apple and red pen have the same constitution? Could we mean more...
The only relationship between supernatural and natural I'm interested in is causal. It doesn't matter where God is relative to it's creation. God is t...
Don't limit yourself. Is it not relevant in a thread discussing religion and metaphysics to assert that religion is a type of delusion? And does this ...
Citations? Really though, if God is eternal then there was never nothing to begin with. If nothing can speak, "What about me?" then how can you say th...
Because belief in the supernatural is one type of delusional belief. In being logical one rejects all types of delusion. My point was that consistency...
I think that anti-supernatural is too restrictive. Maybe anti-delusion? As for absurdism, I believe that meaning/information is the relation between c...
If God exists, then who created the circumstances of your hopelessness in the first place to then look to it for hope? God created childhood cancer, s...
What does theism mean by "separate from" if it still can affect its creation? What type of connection is it between a cause and its subsequent effects...
I don't think a new reality is generated out of an existent other reality. I was referring to your use of the word, "generate". I didn't use the term....
What do you mean by "justifies its conclusion"? Causes "justify" their effects. It just seems like a misuse of language here. I would say that causes ...
Reasons are a type of cause. Yes. I should rephrase. The likelihood of getting caught is a reason to not commit a crime. The likelihood of getting cau...
I still believe that we should hold people responsible for their actions. Holding others responsible has an effect on theirs, and others, future behav...
I don't know. Does a decision that was determined based on prior circumstances necessarily have to feel like it was forced? It seems to me that if it ...
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying or how your explanation describes exactly how neurons "generate "images"". I just think that using terms ...
I agree with you. How do we know that blind sight patients, or those that disassociate their awareness from their consciousness aren't merely misusing...
Let's go back over what Laplace said: The first sentence defines determinism. The second sentence describes an intellect as having a Law of Everything...
As I pointed out before, you are speaking from a position of ignorance. You simply don't know what LD knows. As I said, LD has a "Law of Everything". ...
The observer effect in QM seems to indicate that we might be confusing the map with the territory, or the measurement with what is being measured. It ...
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