Or you're clearly not trying if it makes no sense to me. Someone speaking a different language to me clearly does not understand that I don't understa...
This makes no sense. How can you apprehend something which cannot be conceptualized? Apprehend and conceptualize are synonyms. Both are akin to "grasp...
Not just ideas, but everything. Effects stand for, or represent, their preceding causes. The scribbles in your post represent your idea yesterday that...
Right. So is math the numbers and symbols, or the thing the the numbers and symbols are about, or the relationship between the numbers and symbols and...
I don't understand. You apprehend both what? What is incompatible? It don't see how fundamentally, symbols always represent something mental when you ...
When you look at the world what do you see? Is it concepts all the way down? Do objects and their behaviors symbolize mathematical concepts or do math...
It is just scribbles and sounds that children learn to imitate. Using language is a behavior, and just like all other behaviors we learn to interpret ...
So you agree that language is necessary for math? Sure, because the mathematical concepts refer to states of affairs that isn't just more math. What i...
So when you look at reality you see numbers and mathematical function symbols, not objects and their processes? F=ma refers to a state of affairs that...
Math would have never been discovered without language. So are you saying that the mathematical symbols don't refer to anything that isn't just more m...
Never read a layman's book on QM? If math was the only language that could be used to explain QM then what need would there be for an interpretation? ...
Mathematics is just another language and is therefore invented and arbitrary. It uses scribbles to represent some state if affairs, just like other la...
So when you read people's posts on this forum you're not trying to understand what the writer meant when they authored those posts? If you're only pro...
This simply can't be the case. Newborn infants have to learn the language and learning anything requires an ability to reason. The ability to reason e...
You're fooling yourself if you think that the distinction between how you observe your own mind vs. other minds is a difference in the scribbles and s...
But the book is in a public language, written by someone else with their own private language, so how did author else come to understand the readers p...
Yes, or another way of looking at it is that we are all social individuals. We are individuals that find happiness in being social. It's why we can ag...
I mistyped. I meant to say it's NOT your private language if you're having trouble understanding it. Yes you did: If a book helps a person gain insigh...
Science Identifies and integrates sensory evidence which is the nature of reason. Science is essentially based, not on experiment, but on observation ...
You're confused again. I'm not the dualist. If you had been reading my posts, youd understand that I'm arguing against dualism. Again, we're talking p...
LOL. How do you know what they're saying if it's about a private experience? If others claim that a book on dreams does give them insight into their d...
If what you are saying is that we mentally represent the world in similar ways thanks to our similar biological functions, then sure, that seems obvio...
I'm asking questions about what you have claimed. I'm trying to understand what you are claiming. You said that mental processes involve conceptual th...
That maybe they are one and the same phenomena, just from different perspectives - one from the process of observing yourself outside of your body (li...
Then why are there so many books written that claim to be able to interpret your dreams for you, and many people claim that those books have provided ...
You're not good to address this? You can't tell the frequency of the sound in your mind because frequencies have to do with wavelenghts. If the sound ...
Nope. I was the one that asked you the question because of what you claimed,, not me, and because you can't answer it without appearing naive, you jus...
What does it mean to know the sound of internal humming when you can't check its frequency? If you need to know the frequency to know the sound and yo...
Chickens and fish have minds, as they have brains and minds are what brains do, right? Jellyfish are an example of an organism that doesn't have a bra...
Like colors, sounds only exist in the mind. The sound you hear when you hum and the "sound" you "hear silently humming" in your mind is a memory are t...
What about processes in the brain that do not involve conceptual thought? The information in your consciousness was processed in the brain before appe...
If a processor processes, when it doesn't process does it still make sense to call it a processor? Is a brain still a brain without the activity, or j...
Here: You said the former does not make sense and the latter does. If the former does not make sense and the latter is not saying the same as the form...
"Though his mind is not for rent Don't put him down as arrogant. Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is." :coo...
Are not big toes and public hairs part of a person? Are mental states of a person the same as the physical states of a person? If not, what is the dif...
The same can be said about leprechauns and ghosts, but we don't use terms like "transcendent" to describe those things, why? You'd have to know when y...
Maybe we could say that the latter is atheism and the former is a-religion. There is also a-political. A-political would include all forms of politica...
You're conflating mental states with states of a person? Mental states are brain states, just from a different perspective. Is your big toe and pubic ...
The mono-theist believes in none of them, except just one. There is just as much evidence for one as there is for all the rest - none. The atheist is ...
Why are you making it about skin color? What's the matter, Netherlands have too much white privilege to find an qualified candidate to translate a spe...
If synthesis is a follower, and I'm not, then telling them how to live their lives and how to think, and then they do just that, is what we both do an...
The problem with this is that we can observe the guts digesting, we cannot observe the brain minding. It's only one or the other - we can observe a br...
That's what a social construction is - a SHARED belief, not an individual belief that contradicts the social construction. So is gender a social const...
I was going to say the same about you and my posts. What REASON would they be repulsed? Why are others not repulsed? It seems to me that it is a diffe...
It's a silly question. Being yourself doesn't necessarily require knowledge of who you are. A cat does not know it's a cat, but has no issues being a ...
No. I'm not. I'm asking why CNN and all the other sites are making it about color, and why you can't provide evidence to the contrary (because there i...
Yes. Stop watching TV and watching movies, as it's all propaganda. For some reason people want to be like the characters they see on TV and the movies...
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