Then how do you know that you are conscious? Its important to know how you know that you are conscious, or any other fact for that matter. Do you know...
What else could it be? Where does the observation of shivering brains reside? In what form does the knowledge that brains shiver take if not a visual ...
I don't think so. Can you report anything that you aren't aware of, like being conscious? By what means do you know things, like that an apple is on t...
How can you not see the contradiction here? How can someone claim that we can't be aware of the causes while at the same time explaining the causes as...
But you are aware that you are conscious and you being conscious is part of your surroundings, no? Informed, as in possessing knowledge. Are you consc...
"Synonymous" isn't the word I would use. I would say that without consciousness, there would be no red - only 600 nanometer electromagnetic waves (and...
I understand what you mean. If you want to know what "red" means, I'd simply point to things that are red. But the same cannot be said about conscious...
But that doesn't really answer the question. What is "you"? It goes back to my question before...Are "you" one neuron, a group of neurons, a brain, a ...
The theory and the definition need to integrate well. You can't have a definition that contradicts the theory. And your definition has to make sense e...
A term that explains why from your vantage point it appears that my brain is shivering and from my vantage point it appears that the world is shiverin...
Hmm. I wonder, if this were the case, how could we imagine anything at all. What causes one to experience unicorns and dragons? And if this were the c...
The ultimate question that needs to be addressed by any "substantial" theory would be, "why is the evidence that I have for my consciousness different...
No. There are other theories other than "everything is mental' and "everything is physical". What does it even mean for an atom to have a mind and how...
Then how can you say the YOU are conscious if you can't tell if anyone else is conscious, and there is no theory of conscious? Given what you said, it...
But how do you know that? Is knowing that your brain is in your head the same as your brain being in your head? Is there a stat of affairs where both ...
I don't see the difference between the 3rd and first person perspective. Which part of some perspective is 3rd person vs first person? The information...
Actually, they see with their skin. They question is, how does what they see with their skin integrate with what they see with their eyes, smell with ...
Why would by big toe be conscious when my brain is conscious of the state of my big toe? Is it my brain that is conscious or my neurons? Are you the c...
But isn't our brain in our heads? Your brain shivers are meaningless. Where are the scribbles you are reading now - in your head, in your brain, on th...
Then its brain shiver events all the way down? If not, then the brain shivers represent events that are not brain shivers. If not, then how are brain ...
I guess it depends on one"s assumption that intelligence and thinking are not necessarily mental processes. It seems to me that Block is simply assumi...
You obviously didn't understand the question. If its neither, then you haven't said anything useful. I'm asking what it is that is in our heads, not w...
If its neither then how do you know that what you experience has anything to do with apples at all? What is it about the experience that makes it abou...
Its either representations in our brains, or the real objects in our brains. Do we have real apples in our brains or representations of them in our br...
Right, so we continue troubleshooting. If we take one of each type of patient and prod their brains with a metal rod, does either one experience red? ...
But as enlightened pointed out before, not everyone's eyes get the signal because we have color blind people. Where does the "physical" difference bet...
What I say is that if the existence of colors is not dependent upon the existence of light in the environment, rather colors always occur when there i...
Buyer's remorse already, and you haven't even received the item you bought through the mail. :joke: Yep. Like I said, the principle is established in ...
I'm not really advocating for more than two parties, although that might be better than what we have now. I'm saying that we should abolish political ...
This is a great example of how emotions cloud your judgment, and the power propaganda has on weak minds. The Dems made the exact same argument when Tr...
Hmm. I'm not sure I understand the difference between naive (direct) realism and indirect realism. Is your mind not part of the world, and you have di...
Its amazing how people blind themselves to the simple fact of a two-party system of government, where one party reverses the "progress" made by the ot...
Sounds exactly like what the Dems would be doing if the roles were reversed. Just like the Supreme Court vacancy fiascos at the end if the Obama and T...
Senator Graham's announcement that there will be no more Republican presidents if they back down from this fight is a call out for civil war as States...
We were talking about politicians. They don't ask questions. The reporters do. Politicians make assertions. If you aren't telling the truth or a lie t...
:rofl: Post-truth bullshit. If it isn't the truth, then its a lie. You're not interested in the truth, only your ideology. But then, like I said, ethi...
The amount of harm, chaos, destruction, etc that they cause is subjective, as is all moral and political truths. People also conveniently lumped all t...
As if no president except Trump has lied, and even acquired power by lying. :roll: You people's political party is no more than a religious cult. Demo...
Do you understand what Aristotle is saying? Take in what Aristotle is saying and then roll it around in your head and then get back to me with how you...
Why do you keep moving the goal posts? I explained it using the way you expressed it in your OP. I already pointed out that A cannot be any propositio...
Yes. I did. Search for the phrase, "non sequitur" on this page. The principle of explosion IS a non sequitur error. Then how are you defining, "contra...
No it can't. It has to logically follow, or be causally related with, the prior statement or its a non sequitur. I did mention this the post you repli...
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