Your disagreement isn't an valid argument against anything I've said. Then semantics/meaning is a fiction? Wouldn't that mean that syntax is non-ficti...
The problem is that you are still aware when asleep. You wake up suddenly to loud noises. How could you do that unless you were at least partially awa...
You used the term, "experiences", so I'm asking you how you were using the term. What does it mean to be "conscious" of something? It depends on what ...
Exactly! The relationship between cause and effect is information, and information is a fundamental unit of cognition. Isn't your footprint informatio...
Then it appears that there is no difference in an illusion of consciousness that doesn't have proper semantics, and one that does. Semantics is derive...
How about why you have experiences at all? What the heck does this even mean? What is the difference between unconscious and conscious phenomena, or s...
It appears that you've answered your own question. There are terms that we currently have that can define these things. The problem is that you aren't...
Humans, maps and territory are all observable, so I don't know what Marchesk means by "ideal" other than that they like the theory, or that it works f...
Again, what does it mean to feel? You are driving all over the road. One lane at a time. We were talking about computers. You are the one using these ...
Is it the theory that is physical, or what the theory is about (what it points to) that is physical, or both? Is testing physical theories a physical ...
And the appearance is itself part of the body, so you end up getting an appearance feedback loop when your body observes itself, like the visual feedb...
No, because this is the primary point of contention, and you keep ignoring the contradiction that you keep making. What makes the hardware in your hea...
If meaning is the role words play, then what about how we use words to refer to how computers function, as if they had minds of their own? They have m...
So understanding has to do with perceiving meaning? What do you mean by, "perceive"? Is the computer not perceiving certain inputs from your mouse and...
No. The question is just a different way of framing the hard problem of why there are two very different perspectives of mental processes, but only on...
I'll bite. What's so special about the floor, Banno? Isn't that how you learned the translation of a word and then use the translation? Didn't you hav...
If you are the translator then why do you need a translation tool? Where do the translations reside - in your brain or in you tool? If you need to loo...
The instructions in the room are written in a language - a different language than Chinese. How did the man in the room come to understand the languag...
I'm not clear on how this answers the question. Introspection is the observation of one's own mental processes. Others can claim that they can observe...
Of course life and minds follow rules. You are following the rules of the English language that you learned in grade school when you type your posts. ...
I don't know what this means. Present physical states are informative of prior physical states. I don't see how you can have something that is physica...
I don't really understand what you're going on about here. Making the claim that simulations have no real effects on the world when all you have to do...
But that was my point... that there are only one set of rules for understanding Chinese, and both humans and computers would use the same rules for un...
The problem with the "Chinese" room is that the rules in the room are not for understanding Chinese. Those are not the same rules that Chinese people ...
Predictions are simulations in your head, and predictions have causal power. We all run simulations of other minds in our minds as we attempt to deter...
None of this explains why have a different experience of my raw sensory input with memory, motivation, etc. than you have of my raw sensory input with...
There is no decision being made as we always goes with "just right". Hot and cold are merely informing you that you are no longer in a state of homeos...
But the boundary between life and non-life gets blurry. After all, life is just a more complex relationship than non-life, so it stands to reason that...
The hard problem is asking why are there both conscious states and brain states. People seem to be forgetting that we only know of brain states via co...
This begs the question then, what use is personal phenomenal experience in an evolutionary "survival of the genes" sense? This seems more like evidenc...
The last part doesn't make any sense. If all is replaced, then how can there be anything that remains? If I lost a finger, I would still be the same I...
That all depends on what you mean by "conscious", "experience" and "knowledge". If the accuracy of our knowledge is not affected by how direct or indi...
That's part of the problem - in thinking of these concepts in this way. For me, "I" refers to my body as a whole. I can think just as I can run, jump,...
How do you know? Isn't what you said prior to your present experience of what you said? Can't you only infer what you previously said since it happene...
No, I didn't. Go back and read what I said. I said that it is a relationship between water and something else. It's not my fault that you aren't payin...
This is circular. What is an experiencer? Are you referring to a homunculus? Also, you previously said this: ...but now you are saying that you can be...
That wasn't the type of argument I was making. If your "indirect" description of events that cause experiences is no different than a "direct" descrip...
You imply that you have "direct" awareness by describing these facts. What is missing from your explanation of the facts of the causes of our experien...
How do you know that you are experiencing something? You cannot be wrong that eggs are in the fridge if you experience them in the fridge? If your are...
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