Harry Hindu

But it's not. It is your own use of language that reifies subject and being. Are subject and being simply scribbles you've put on this screen, or do t...

When observing another's brain activity, how can you tell if the visual sensation you experience of another's brain activity is your own brain activit...

I think most of our disagreements were the result of talking past each other. We can use both meanings without any contradiction. We just have to make...

Here you are only explaining how things are - that how things are is subservient to the question of what to do. Meaning as use and all that and it's w...

I would disagree with the assertion that mind is a different substance to the other things around us. I would agree with the assertion that the way th...

"The current Republican Party is a clear and present danger to the USA" It appears to me that Creativesoul is itching for a new Civil War in the USA.

Why does the trophy say, "Agent Smith's Lower Expectations Award"?

It seems to me that suffering is the awareness of being in pain. I'm not sure if any of it is voluntary. We have an injury, we have pain and we have a...

You misjudge me. I'm not looking for an award. I'm looking for an answer.

Then what is it that suffers? If I break my arm, I am aware of the pain. In being aware of the pain, I am aware of my injury. You seem to be saying th...

How can you discuss the viewpoint of materialism without discussing it's validity? In discussing materialism you are inherently discussing its validit...

You missed the point. In discussing materialism you inevitably get to the point of realizing it has no merit.

It's not really about suffering, but our awareness of suffering. In what ways are we aware of suffering and how does that differ from actual suffering...

Then the point of this thread is to preach to the choir? When I was a Christian, I didn't seriously think about the view of being a Christian. I just ...

Then when you look at other people and see bodies and brains (via their MRI brain scan) then bodies and brains are part of the map, not the territory.

Information doesn't generate anything but more information via some process of causation. So the feeling is just information, as feelings inform you o...

Like...? So you're saying that you've never held an idea that you though could not be seriously doubted, yet only to discover later that you were wron...

Youi just explained how the world is for "we", as in more than just you. You just explained a state of the world in objective terms. How could you eve...

What is subjectivity if not information about location relative to some other location - like your head?

But we can speak objectively about subjective experiences. Is it not objectively true that you have subjective experiences, or that you feel a certain...

As I pointed out in my previous post, there are instances in our actual lives where we have discovered that what we thought we knew was wrong. So it s...

I don't know what a view from outside of a head would look like. It's an impossibility. Third-person views are simulated first-person views. But that ...

I don't see why not. Feelings are just information, and information takes the form of the relationship between cause and effect. As such feelings are ...

Too vague. What do you mean, "actual lives"? There are many that seem to spend much of their "actual lives" on these forums expressing doubt in "radic...

What is the difference between you knowing something and the way something seems to you? What is the difference between the way things seem to you and...

I can imagine. We can also observe blind-sight patients and understand that while they may be able to navigate around objects they cannot see, then ca...

Information-processing is taking certain inputs, manipulating them in some way based on the instructions of some program to produce certain outputs. W...

"Anything that is not known but seems reasonable can be accepted and entertained provisionally for pragmatic reasons;" is what it means to believe any...

The goal of the listener is typically to understand what was said by the speaker, not to make up its own meaning to the words spoken by someone else. ...

Saying so doesn't make it so. Do better.

What do you mean by "sees"? Can an organism see it's own mind? I think that "information" is more useful here. Just as every computer that comes off t...

Wrong. The hard problem exposes the fetish of physicalists with their naive realism and dualists with their inability to explain how two opposing subs...

But that is the question the hard problem shines a light on - how does electrical signals bounding around in our heads deceive our heads? In essence t...

It doesn't necessarily assume that there isn't a gradual scale, but if there is no cut-off then you're implying that everything has some degree of con...

Well, there's proof that p-zombies would have no idea what a human is talking about when it comes to the mind and consciousness.

Funny. I was going to say the same thing to you.

It does not change the meaning. To "believe in" something as in believing in love is the same as saying you believe "love exists" to be true. To belie...

Banno? Is that you?

By looking at their live brain scan - just as any neurologist would. But do you need to look at your brain scan to experience your own mental activity...

P-Zombies are make-believe concepts that have no basis in reality. P-zombies are stipulated as having no experiences of color, shapes, sounds, feeling...

I put it several ways but you're cherry-picking. Before you responded you had to read my post. It took conscious effort and time to do so. How would y...

Self-consciousness would simply be thoughts of the self. The question is what are thoughts composed of, or what forms do they take? What makes a thing...

A blind-sight person seems to understand what their deficiency is. They seem to be unsure about what it is that they are experiencing visually. They s...

Your response is not you reading the post. That comes after reading the post. How do you know that you responded to my post? Before responding, what i...

What reason would there be for a rock to feel that? Rocks don't possess goals of seeking out a nominal temperature, therefore there would be no reason...

Then it wouldn't be a superman. It would be a supercomputer as opposed to just computers, which is what you are using right now. Maybe superman would ...

To answer your question, you should answer 180's. My answer to 180's question would be a type of relation composed of sensory information. Sensory inf...

Sounds like something a p-zombie would say. Are you a p-zombie? What form does your information about the world take? For instance, how do you know th...

Seems to me that both scenarios are real life scenarios. What use is math if not meant to be applied to real world scenarios? How is an impossible sce...

This is similar to saying that there is a relational aspect to things. Saying it like this closes the divide between physical and mental things. The h...