How can you call them symbols if they don't already represent something? Meaning is inherent in symbols. Effects are symbolic of their causes. Maybe "...
Re: Noise Noise is information that isn't being attended to, or not applicable to the present goal in working memory. When listening to someone across...
So subjects are nouns? Looks like objects and subjects are synonyms, unless you're saying that objects can't be discussed, described, or dealt with. :...
This can be said about any experience - visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory or tactile. We use past experience, knowledge, and rules, to eliminate ...
Again, communicating beliefs is a seperate issue than having beliefs. Making sounds with your mouth is a behaviour that expresses your belief just as ...
Beliefs are not about what can be put in propositional form. How beliefs are communicated is a seperate problem than what beliefs are. Seems like you ...
What on Earth are all of these scribbles in this thread is about? Is it about a debate? What is the debate about? Is it about something being the case...
On what? What if the speaker was referring to a dream or a fictional story? There are many instances where the present king of France is bald would be...
Like I said, its a matter of some string of scribbles being useful or useless. Scribbles that fail to refer are useless scribbles, just as a dog's bar...
LOL. Its not the snow that is yellow. Notice how you said there are other things mixed in. Those other things mixed in isnt snow. "Yellow snow" is sim...
The hard problem for dualism is to explain how these two opposing substances (material vs. immaterial) interact. Essentially dualism creates the probl...
Yet A=A+1 still has meaning to both a computer and human being. Such statements produce real outcomes in both computers and human beings. Programmers ...
Asserting that the snow outside is white isnt useful, as it is basically redundant information -as if snow could be another color. I don't know anyone...
But if the source of disagreement is that we are just talking past each other, then that isn't really a disagreement is it? What do you mean, "meaning...
Here, I would just say that static relationships are less complex than dynamic relationships, therefore static relationships have less information tha...
Having a belief and being able to symbolize it with scribbles and sounds are two separate things. We can symbolize anything, not just beliefs, so aski...
I'm not quite sure that I'm getting you here. Words and statements are just visual scribbles and audible sounds. Writing or speaking are actions. So w...
Excellent question. Thanks. No. I'm not saying that all relations are causal. Causality is a kind of relationship. So, if you are saying that there is...
Now, not only do I not understand the question, but I don't understand your reason for asking it if you're just going to say that it doesn't matter if...
No. I said that the more complex something is, the more information there is. There is information in simple systems, just not as much as in complex s...
I don't understand the question. "WHO" is behind what? Yes, causality = information = meaning. However, I don't understand your aversion to synonyms. ...
If creative could give an example then it wouldn't be an example of a belief that can't be put into statement form, rather it would be an example of a...
Yes, that is an example that I like to use, too. I also like to use the example of a tree stump with tree rings. The tree rings carry information abou...
All you have to do is use some sounds of your choice to refer to your belief. Does it matter that no one else understands the sounds? If meaning were ...
What interests me is how effects are about their causes and how causes are about their effects. It is also interesting to note that every effect is al...
No. It's not. First, I'm not a materialist. Second, I'm not trying to escape the need for anything except unnecessarily complex assertions using terms...
The more complex something is, the more information there is. If information only exists in minds and data exists everywhere else then meaning would b...
When a deer smells a wolf and runs the other way, does the deer have beliefs about the smell and that it means a wolf is nearby, and that if a wolf is...
Maybe the physicalist is humbly asking how opposites interact? If the dualist is going to use terms that are opposites to describe the world, then it ...
I certainly have, and no where have I seen the word, "immaterial" used to describe waves. As I have already pointed out, material and immaterial are o...
The assumption was never hidden. The assumption is the basis for dualism. If dualists are just going to start asserting that mind and body aren't so d...
What scientific theory says that waves are immaterial? The wave-particle duality is an epistemological distinction, not an ontological one. You are ma...
If we can't see the world as it is, then can we know the world as it is? For instance, you seem to know that we can't see the world as it is, but how ...
Of course the measurement doesn't determine the state of the object. I never said that it did. What is measured determines the state of the object. Th...
What does this mean? The amount if heat determines the state of some object. What does it means to declare material and immaterial as "substances"? It...
This is just dumb. We don't use thawing as an explanation to explain the interaction between ice and liquid. Why do we need "thawing" to explain how a...
I'm not sure I'm getting what you're saying. Are you saying that spirit is the medium that this interaction takes place? Wouldn't that already be cove...
Introducing another substance just adds fuel to the fire. The interaction between "substances" is a problem for naive realists who believe that the wo...
A robot has a relationship with its environment as well. Humans are part of the environment. To assert that humans are somehow special in this regard,...
My hypothesis is that we currently don't know what is conscious or not because we don't know what makes brains special equipment in that regard. When ...
How is that different than a brain in a skull (BIS)? Is the visual of a brain a representation of a brain or something that isn't a brain? If its a re...
I would say that communication exists in all causal relations. Effects communicate their causes and vice versa. Behaviors communicate intent. Behavior...
:confused: Saying that a dog or a cat is a pet isn't saying that they aren't different, only that they share a property of being a pet. No. It's just ...
Hmm. It seems like wavelengths of light aren't necessarily required either. Maybe we should consider the implications of what Sara Walker was saying i...
That's a mighty big IF. Anyway, the reason you'd still identify as a man is because your memories are of being a man, and that you were born male. But...
Then we at least agree on something. Instead of "information", what if I said that everything is causal? So your answer to the question: "What makes b...
Yes, but the question now is, why is it inaccessible to an observer? And what does it mean to be inaccessible to an observer? Isn't it indirectly acce...
Then I would assume that you would also assert that everything is "physical" doesn't explain anything either. You do realize that different causal rel...
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