Harry Hindu

So is quantum indeterminism describing knowledge of a system, or the system apart from any knowledge of it? If the former, then is quantum indetermini...

Right. So change constitutes time. Measuring time involves comparing one change with another, like the change of a virtual particle's state vs the cha...

Space changes too. I don't know what "in time" means. Oscillations are changes. How fast (how much time) does one thing oscillate? You have to compare...

It seems to me that "why" questions could be just as easily asking about causality. Formal and final causes are illusory in that the goal in the mind ...

For what reason does a language have synonyms? Can you be conscious without being aware of anything? Can you be aware of anything without being consci...

In other words things change relative to each other. The relationship between one change and another is time.

Time cannot exist without change.

What if there is more to the universe than there appears to be? What if there is more than one universe?

So maybe you can summarize or quote the part of the article that information and meaning are not the same thing because the way people use the terms i...

Right, so it's not that I didn't understand your argument. You didn't understand mine. As I said, information is the relationship between causes and t...

So you don't understand my point?

I thought I made my point. If you would like to make another argument, go ahead.

Contradictions are a misuse of language, or if you want to use maps, are a misuse of maps. Some people claim that contradictions follow the rules of s...

To me both are impossible. In trying to imagine a square & no square I picture a square and then picture a circle, but they both cannot appear in the ...

Yes, genetic processes are carried out mindlessly, but information is mind-independent. Information exists everywhere causes leave effects. Take tree ...

To vague to be useful. Give an example of being affected by an object but don't know what that object is. I can think of blind-sight patients but the ...

No one can as it would require one to hold something in the mind while at the same time not holding it in the mind. Contradictions are essentially a m...

Then there is no such thing as seeing? Let's forget about minds for a minute. Colors and shapes exist, right? How do you know when you are reasoning a...

Thanks for moving the conversation past what is intellectually capable of. Red only exists in your head. Color does not exist in the world. So by bein...

Sigh. Thoughts are nouns. Thinking is a verb. I fail to see how scribbles that are experienced just like everything else are objective representations...

You seem to be confusing imagining with thinking. Imagining is a type of thinking. Interpreting sensory data is also a type of thinking which is the t...

But you described a world as it appears in consciousness - as if the world is as it appears for you - that the objects you perceive have all the prope...

I don't know if I would say it was "meaningless". It seems to me that natural selection found survival and mating benefits in the ability to construct...

What purpose is being aware if not to think (to process the sensory information for some purpose)? It seems that both awareness and thinking are integ...

But unlike the mother, God has complete control over the qualities that define and are part of each of its "children" that it creates. God has favorit...

It seems to me that neurosemiosis, or mental processes involving signs, or producing meaning, is the act of modeling itself. Signs are types of models...

Then you're a naive realist? What does it mean to be physical? How are brains perceived if not via consciousness? How is it that when I observe your m...

I consider Aristotle's Four Causes different facets of the same thing - information. Information is the relationship between cause and effect. Effects...

If you can't explain how it happens then there is a problem with the theory that says that it does happen. Until you've explained how it does happen t...

Information is the relationship between cause and effect. The mind is information in that it is the relationship between body and environment.

But a Cartesian theater is what you are implying in talking about models that are attended. Can't we turn our attention back on itself in attending th...

If it were uncontroversial then how is it you are questioning how it happens? I'm with you on the questioning it, just not with you in saying it's unc...

I thought that is the very thing you are questioning Apo on - how a brain alters, influences or causes changes in experience - essentially why there i...

This talk of models is strange considering that we understand models as a smaller scale representation of what is being modeled. Model cars are made o...

What does that even mean - as if time is a container in which things fluctuate? Fluctuation is a type of change. They don't fluctuate forwards and bac...

If everything is made of virtual particles, then what use is the term, "Virutal"? The virtual only makes sense in light of the real. It doesn't make s...

You obviously haven't been reading what I have wrote.

What information do others (philosophers or not) have that you don't when it comes to understanding the mind and it's relationship with the world? It ...

How do you measure time? By comparing one change (the movement of the hands of a clock) with another (the rotation of the Earth). Time is the measurem...

It just doesn't make any sense to assert that doubt is fundamental. If it were, then how could we ever store any information in our brain? How is it t...

Like I said, time is an illusion. They don't go forwards or backwards in time. They simply change.

Yeah, I never understood how scientists could say that processes are reversible - as if while the rest of the universe moves forward, some other proce...

It's the only point from which you know anything about the world, including brains. When you talk about brains and their functions you can't help but ...

Can you unsee the empty space around you that isn't empty at all? Can you unsee colors that scientists claim doesn't exist outside of your head? When ...

Yet you use the term to describe what the brain emits or produces. It's not my made-up idea. It's yours that I'm trying to understand based on what yo...

I really couldn't care what Wittgenstein says because it isn't useful. There is too much of a dependency on what dead philosophers have said with no r...

This is ridiculous, Meta. A person or animal decides to doubt, to run, or whatever. How can an organism decide to do something without knowing it's do...

Then consciousness isn't emitted by the brain, but is the brain operating in certain ways. You aren't being consistent. Well? Are neurologists conscio...

You can yell my name and I won't respond. Deceiving you is a successful act of acting like you are unconscious. What I am gathering from what you are ...

So neurologists are not conscious of the brains they are testing? When neurologists provide explanations of brains and how they function, are they tal...