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Harry Hindu

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I don't see the difference in the meaning. Why would you say the cat is on the mat if you weren't implying that it was true that the cat is on the mat...
January 15, 2022 at 15:48
I use whatever symbol-system I've learned and that I believe my reader knows so that I might translate my beliefs into a form perceivable to them. My ...
January 14, 2022 at 14:30
This doesn't explain why I don't see the experience itself when looking at your brain. Instead I can only have the experience itself of looking at you...
January 13, 2022 at 15:08
Because everytime himans declare theyve discovered the fundamental level of reality we find there are even smaller things, like atoms to protons to qu...
January 13, 2022 at 14:54
It's not obvious, or else I wouldn't have asked in the first place. What use are you hoping to get from a definition other than the way some word is u...
January 13, 2022 at 14:47
I don't see how any of this answers my questions in my previous post. I asked you a question and now you're answering it with questions. Remember, I'm...
January 13, 2022 at 14:46
How do you know that there is a "fundamental level" of the universe? Any "level" is just a view from somewhere in the universe, so levels of the unive...
January 13, 2022 at 14:43
What are particles? Isn't any particle really just an interaction of smaller "particles", which are in turn composed of the interaction of even smalle...
January 13, 2022 at 14:23
Right. So preliminary perceptions can lead to a misinterpretation of those perceptions. Only after you do a double-take and look more closely do you s...
January 12, 2022 at 14:23
No. It is what you implied. Let's recap. You said: and So you implied that being aware of something is seeing it as it truly is. I asked you how you k...
January 12, 2022 at 13:57
Thats the definition if time that works for me. Nothing else is needed. Why dont you tell me what I'm missing.
January 12, 2022 at 13:14
Then there is a difference between awareness and experience? What is the difference?
January 12, 2022 at 12:45
What the clock measures is change. The measurement of change is time, like the measurement of space is length. Clock is to the ruler as time is to len...
January 12, 2022 at 12:42
Sure we do. Our experiences are what it is like to feel light entering the eye and the chemical changes in the brain. An experience is not the thing e...
January 11, 2022 at 12:17
This is a convoluted way to try and prove whether time is real or not. How about starting off with a definition of time and then we can discuss whethe...
January 11, 2022 at 11:45
So you can become aware of something by reading a book and not necessarily by experiencing "directly".
January 11, 2022 at 11:42
Then how is it that you can say that you have a neural network if youre not aware of it? You dont read other peoples posts and just keep repeating you...
January 11, 2022 at 11:28
Then I think that we are talking about different hard problems. Is it not the type of evidence that we have for recognizing our own self-awareness vs ...
January 10, 2022 at 15:08
Well, there is the relationship between hot and cold, and then there is the relationship between your body temperature and the air's temperature. The ...
January 10, 2022 at 15:04
As I've been trying to show, mind and brain are the same, but appear different because you are observing from different viewpoints, or measurements. I...
January 10, 2022 at 14:47
Again, you seem to be confusing the image of a brain with the brain. What I've been trying to tell you is that the mind is capable of perceiving itsel...
January 09, 2022 at 16:42
It seems to me that only x can say what they are and everyone else can only see it - which means using the way light reflects off of x as a means of k...
January 09, 2022 at 16:42
Why not just agree that divorce and marriage are relationships so that you don't contradict yourself in saying that a divorce is a type of unity. What...
January 09, 2022 at 16:16
The hard problem is trying to explain why there is a difference in the evidence used to assert that you are aware vs.asserting that others are aware. ...
January 09, 2022 at 13:39
For most of human history governments have gained legitimacy through lies and fear. The governed may appear to be consenting (North Korean citizens pr...
January 07, 2022 at 14:10
I dont know what this means. I describe self-awareness as a sensory information feedback loop, like the visual or auditory feedback you get when point...
January 07, 2022 at 13:42
The definition in the OP is wrong. Scientists have described space as a thing that can expand or contract. Put a wall between you and I and an object,...
January 07, 2022 at 13:18
Yet it only takes one individual to break the agreement, or relationship. Is not space a relationship between individuals?
January 06, 2022 at 13:26
It wasn't replies, but questions that I asked that you need to answer for me to better understand your position. I'm not satisfied with your answers (...
January 06, 2022 at 13:21
Well no, an image is not the thing the image is of. You seem to be confusing the thing with an image of the thing. Is the image of the thing seen as i...
January 05, 2022 at 15:53
What do you mean, "see as they truly are"? Do you see anything as it truly is? Does the mind "see" itself as it truly is?
January 05, 2022 at 15:41
What else are numbers if not scribbles on a page, which occupies space?
January 05, 2022 at 15:38
What is it that keeps the agreement intact? If at any moment I can make an agreement, at any moment I can cancel the agreement. It takes more than one...
January 05, 2022 at 15:32
I've also been told by many folk that God exists and wants me to be saved by him. Does that make it true? You're not appealing to popularity are you? ...
January 05, 2022 at 15:23
Connect a camera to a monitor and then turn the camera back to look at its monitor. The visual feedback in the monitor is the camera's view of itself ...
January 05, 2022 at 15:20
Occam's Razor comes to mind here. I don't see much of a difference between these two descriptions other than the number of words in the description. I...
January 04, 2022 at 13:52
In the context of understanding reality we don't necessarily need language or definitions to do so. Just an understanding of the relationship between ...
January 04, 2022 at 13:45
Like I said, it was a COPY of your mortgage agreement. You'd have to hack into the bank's computer and delete it there too for your mortgage ro be gon...
January 04, 2022 at 13:17
These are all examples of information. Information occupies space. If you don't believe me, look at the contents of your hard drive on your computer. ...
January 03, 2022 at 14:18
Using these definitions of object and space, objects and space would be the medium of change. Another way of looking at it would be objects and space ...
January 02, 2022 at 14:31
Exactly. Words are used to point to states-of-affairs that are not just another use of words. To know is to both be justified and to reflect a convict...
January 02, 2022 at 14:12
Images are a type of information and is what is evoked to describe the difference. Is there really that much of a difference if TV screens with images...
December 30, 2021 at 14:04
I said earlier tha behaviors are goal-directed, not natural selection. NS is the means by which goal-directed behaviors come to exist in organisms. So...
December 30, 2021 at 14:03
I didn't see much in these articles about memory being dynamic. I found this interesting article though: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/...
December 26, 2021 at 13:57
So you're saying that reflexive and habitual behaviors didn't evolve to achieve some goal - like survival?
December 26, 2021 at 13:48
I'm not sure what to make of this. If intentionality is part of the same system (the whole body) then why can't we say that we always behave with inte...
December 26, 2021 at 13:37
They can't describe in detail what is there. They just know something is there. This is the difference between p-zombies and non-p-zombies. The assump...
December 26, 2021 at 13:25
Ok, but what other uses? That is what I'm asking. Strange that you can't even provide any examples of what it is that you are trying to say. So you've...
December 26, 2021 at 13:21
Then what's the difference between imagining and remembering - neurologically and phenomelogically?
December 26, 2021 at 13:13
What does it mean for hallucinations to look like the real thing? How can something that isn't real look like something that is? And what does it mean...
December 23, 2021 at 14:52