Harry Hindu

You didnt answer my question. What makes some string of scribbles nonsense? What makes some string of scribbles a joke? I understand English but didn'...

You don't read people's posts, do you? Yohan's post said nothing about disliking your argument. You also keep avoiding difficult questions. If mind an...

Step one would be to define consciousness in a way that addresses why first person evidence of consciousness is different than third person evidence o...

What makes a neuronal network conscious but not a silicon network? Sounds like biological bias to me. Also, this seems to be 3rd person view of unders...

Is the problem that the sentence is actually nonsense, or that there are no instructions for translating such an arrangement of scribbles? What does i...

Am I reading this right..? Are you suggesting that we have billions of conscious entities within one brain? I wonder, which neuron in my brain is my c...

Its not from a dualist perspective. I'm a monist, but not a physicalist or idealist. The point was why is there a difference in appearances of mind vs...

Then why have a mind at all if all we need are brains and their functions? Are electrons and their wave functions more fundamental than brains and the...

Just a few months ago the common theme was to question the validity of reason being a method for obtaining truth. It seemed to me that there was an "i...

It seems to me that you'd need a proper definition of consciousness to make such an assertion. What it is about consciousness that collapses some wave...

It seems to me that to solve this riddle, we need a concise definition of "understanding". Then the Turing Test isn't very good at determining some sy...

I guess it depends on what we mean by "dependent" and which scientific theory of consciousness is being used to show that the system isn't dependent o...

How are they my scribbles if you're rejecting that I had something to do with causing their existence? I'll be happy to discuss this stuff with you wh...

Then that is your problem because you keep using referring to mental properties when describing the experiment, as I pointed out. So maybe the problem...

Sounds like consciousness is deeply involved to me. QM attempts to describe reality. The equipment and the human observer are all part of reality. Wha...

Again, you'd have to define consciousness to assert when it absent and when it isn't. If it were absent at what point do you observe the results. If t...

Who says that actually cited a case of a wavefunction collapsing without consciousness? Wouldnt they have to provide a theory of consciousness to asse...

I think it is a practice in anthropomorphism to single out mind from the rest of reality. Mind is just one type of processing information and matter i...

Sounds to anthropomorphic to me. Humans weren't the first organisms with eyes, nor are eyes the first sensory organ (measuring device) to have evolved...

I don't know what you're trying to show with this phrase. How is the human body, including the brain, not mechanical? How do non-mechanical things int...

Materialism is nonsensical as it simply relegates consciousness as some kind of illusion yet asserts that the world is how it is observed by conscious...

"Article III of the Constitution establishes the federal judiciary. Article III, Section I states that "The judicial Power of the United States, shall...

This is a strange thing to say considering that words are themselves visual and auditory sensations. What does it mean to define sensations with other...

I dont understand what you mean by "beyond language" as we are informed of states of affairs by looking and listening - it doesn't matter if what we a...

I don't see how it lies outside the language sphere when language use is an instinctive behavior for humans. It stems from the fact that we use our br...

But there wasn't such a thing as conservatives or liberals at the founding. So liberal and conservative interpretations of constitutional law would be...

Sounds like certainty to me.

Then what is meaning, and while you're at it, what is speaking? What's the difference between speaking and making noises or drawing scribbles? What if...

Thats not a problem. People can discuss imaginary and untrue things and be oblivious to the fact that what they are discussing is imaginary and untrue...

Contradiction and inconsistency is a lack of reason, not a different type of reason. Computers can't compute contradictions. The produce errors if the...

You seem to have forgotten that words are merely scribbles and sounds. So to say that words are defined by other words is saying that scribbles and so...

No it isn't. What does a society with systemic racism look like vs a society without systemic racism but still has individuals that are racist? It see...

Straw man. You said no one here has said that. I showed that you and 180 did say that. Now you want to whine about me reducing your argument to some s...

Only if there were an infinite number of words. There isnt, so your argument is invalid. And yet you can't define reason without using the word consci...

When you post links to stats that show blacks being shot by police at higher rates relative to population, what are you trying to argue? All you have ...

Exactly. Identity politics skews your view of the world where you see everything through the prism of your own skin color. Whenever a white man disagr...

:lol: This is rich - you both now want to be so "concerned" about logical fallacies after having blatantly committed them yourselves and didn't care, ...

This is nonsense. If part of the definition of a mammal is that it is part of the group that we call animals, then animals needs to be defined in orde...

But you missed all the fallacies made by your side. So you're inconsistent in your application of the rules and thats the worst fallacy if them all- h...

Still fighting racism with racism?

0.94 here. I know, when I post, there isn't much left to say after that. :cool: Admitting you're a hater?...nice!

So the House bill that banned choke holds against all humans, not just black ones, was an attempt to drown out BLM? Or was is to be inclusive rather t...

This is an unwarranted assertion. What is it about consciousness that makes reasoning limited to it? To answer this we need a proper definition of con...

What are you, a Hobbit? Because my arguements are flying over your head. Look who's talking. I could not agree more. BLM's narrow-minded scope of addr...

Then the distinction between victim and perpetrator is a feature of perception (whose perception?), and not real? If I took your posts and reposted th...

There you have it folks: Its okay for blacks to fear cops based on some stats, but not okay for cops to fear blacks based on stats, them ignoring inst...

If only blacks and non-blacks weren't distrustful of blacks who commit more than their fair share of crimes, particularly hate crimes. When a black wo...

Whose senses?

Which is to say what the word generally means, and how it is commonly understood, or interpreted. All of these terms are compatible with each other, s...

Isn't that what "defining the meaning of words" means? If not, then what is a "definition"? I'm not sure I get what you mean here. My point was that t...