I'm certainly not saying the Dems are more corrupt. I'm saying that they are equally corrupt and need each other to maintain the status quo. If you ha...
Used for what? To accomplish what goal? To win the game? Or to communicate? How does one communicate without the understanding of representation -that...
Any links regarding this? How is a process REconstructive without access to the original construction? What does it mean to be self-organizing when na...
Spoken like some who only gets information from sources that confirm their own cognitive biases. It's interesting that all the bad things that happen ...
The idea that the mind is working memory is a way of understanding the mind as both the faculty doing the thinking (working) and as a kind of a contai...
Sure, but the question was why do hallucinated spiders look like real spiders. How do you explain the behavior of someone hallucinating without "silly...
We are natural outcomes of the universe and its properties that we find ourselves. It's like asking how does anything exist in the way it does? Becaus...
Sounds like Senator Palpatine creating fear to use as a reason to seize more power and to become Emperor. BLM and the Good 'Ol Boys should just agree ...
I don't really know that we are our minds. What of our bodies? Are we not our bodies? If confusion results from saying that we have access to our mind...
Yet we can theorize about the underlying causes of behaviors of organic and inorganic matter that we can't observe directly all the time. That's why t...
They could have meant, "You don't know how I feel!". The point is that we already have a way of using words that can refer to our feelings in an objec...
The ideas of direct vs indirect realism themselves are problematic. What type of access do we have to our own conscious minds? It seems to me that we ...
Sure, it could simply be a matter of communicating more efficiently. When someone says that the cherry tomatoes are good, it is short for "I feel that...
"The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while ...
I should add that when you attempt to include the map as part of the territory when making a map of the territory, it involves jumping down a never-en...
Kind of like having a map of the territory without including the map's location on the map. The map is as much a part of the territory (the world) as ...
What is mathematics composed of if not the visual of black scribbles on white paper? If you're talking about what the scribbles represent, then I woul...
I think that if you were actually paying attention then you'd know I'm neither of those, too. I'm an informationalist, or relationship/process philoso...
I just don't see how that could be. My point is that you can't have one without the other. What could you be intellectualizing about if you had no sen...
Mathematics are as much mental attributions as colors are. After all, the symbols of math are made up of shapes and colors. Any alien species would pr...
We know that the brain is adaptable and can repurpose processing power that was used for visual and auditory perception for tactile perception. A bett...
Yet it would have been less typing for you and more educational for me and others had you simply used the time you had in forming these snarky replies...
What use are the senses without cogitation? What use is cogitation without senses? Brains evolved later from nerve nets. Feelings existed before integ...
To those asserting that there are "physical" brains that model, are at least admitting that there are models, but can't seem to explain where their mo...
This is interesting topic. How would the "beginning of time" appear to measuring instruments and to brains interpreting those measurements? If time is...
I don't see how watching videos of his lectures would be any different, unless me means different things with the same words when he writes them as op...
What is it that you're looking for that you say you can't see? You'll need to define "computer program" because now it seems that you're just moving g...
The point being that at the most fundamental level, knowledge is composed of sensory impressions: colors, shapes, sounds, etc., aka qualia. Your exper...
The components of knowledge. What form does your knowledge take? When you say that you know something what are you pointing to? How do you know you kn...
That's only if you think the world is as you experience it (naive realism) while at the same time believing the idea that the experience itself is cau...
You take walking for granted. Learning to ride a bike or drive a car is a science as much as learning that you can walk and then learning how. How is ...
We all try to be consistent. If we didn't then no one would understand anything we say or write. It's usually when some of us find that our observatio...
When I look at your brain I see a grey, squishy mass. Is your mind a grey, squishy mass? Are you saying the entirety of your experience of the world i...
DingoJones just did. How do programmers write programs that they can't see? I think you're thinking about the output of the program, like the webpage ...
None of this helps at all. My mind is not made up of jittering neurons and electric currents. My mind is made up of colors, shapes, sounds, smells, ta...
Then you haven't determined if either one of you is speaking intelligibly if you haven't determined if a common point if reference is needed. What wou...
Exactly. Your description of your pain indicates where the doctor should narrow his search and reasons for your pain. If it turns out you don't have a...
That's because pain is the phenomenal state. The injury that triggers the pain is outside the phenomenal state and is what you're talking about when t...
What are the chances that you are both able to carry on this conversation so long without experiencing the words of this screen in similar ways? What ...
First, how does the husband know that his wife is being raped and not a masochist cheating on her husband? It seems obvious that in the act of committ...
Then your position is that all rapists deserve to be killed by their victim's (X-)husband? Strange that you interpret a factual statement as a demand....
That depends on what you mean by "perception". Perceptions are about the things being perceived. If not then your perception of others perceptions is ...
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