Harry Hindu

In kindergarten the teacher doesn't use definitions made up of other words. The teacher uses definitions made of pictures. So it's not circular if wor...

The universe isn't divided into a macro and micro dimensions. The macro and micro are actually different views of the same thing. Consciousness is wha...

You don't have physical/digital documents that describe the conditions of your mortgage? When you forget the conditions of the mortgage, where do you ...

Yes. Yes. We IT experts use the term, "space" to talk about how much is taken up by data and how much is free on your computer's hard drive. You have ...

This is because the data on the disk is just a different arrangement of magnetic patterns than a blank disk. Your disk may have more information store...

Does a computer occupy space? If so, then why wouldn't the memory inside it also occupy space? The amount of memory that you can install in a computer...

If minds are separate then what is the medium that separates them?

If consciousness is related to a type of working memory, then you could say that the finite information in working memory occupies memory space. If th...

I didn't say or even imply that. Consciousness is a local interaction, not magical and not universal.

It seems to me that 2+2 says more than just 4. It says how you can get 4 from starting with 2.

The rules of math were designed by human beings, so don't we design the proof and the truth if we are the designers of the system? What is the proof a...

Then by what means are you aware of your mind? What does it mean to say that you are aware of your mind? What is the relationship between you and your...

Sure it does. It explains how observations impact the outcomes of the microphysical (ie collapsing the wave function). Because we are talking about co...

1. Isn't the mind part of the body, or are you saying that your body is an illusion? If so, then what is the cause of your pain when you experience it...

I wasnt claiming anything at all. I was asking you and Kenosha if the observer effect has more to do with how observations/consciousness behaves rathe...

What does this have to do with the material vs. Immaterial distinction? I asked what the difference was between them. You can claim to be a doubter, b...

What is the difference between material and immaterial? If you're willing to be skeptical of how the world is vs how it appears, then why aren't you s...

I don't understand how countless stochastic micro-physical processes could produce an entity in the macro world which perceives a world that is inhere...

If so, then the question becomes, Why is the physical world an illusion? If the external world isn't real, then why does it appear to be a physical wo...

, I just thought of something. Let's go back to this: If its possible that every one of us could experience a different color when looking at the same...

What would proof of determinism or indeterminism look like? It seems to me that if the latter were true, our posts wouldn't continue to exist in the o...

Biologists tell us about the color experiences of cats and dogs, why not humans?

Perfect. Then we can know about color experiences given that we know how alleles of genes that express the precise chemistry of your cone opsins; and ...

Sure, thanks to differences in genes. What differences in genes would we point to that makes us experience different colors when looking at the same t...

But the microphysical is really the same reality as the macrophysical, just from a different view, and the macrophysical is deterministic and includes...

So our beliefs are determined by evidence? If not, then what determines what you believe? If I asked you why you believe in something, wouldn't you pr...

Then we aren't talking about knowing red, rather we are talking about knowing what it is like for Harry to see red - Harry's red vs. A Raybould's red....

No, you're destroying what it means, not the symbol itself. People are destroying symbols rather than what it means, as if that symbol could only mean...

like I said you have billions of children all getting what is said and learn the words for the colors they experience. So, what exactly is the problem...

The same way your kindergarden teacher showed you - by showing an object or picture that is red. In showing a variety of different objects, none of wh...

Exactly. Kind of reminds me of how the n-word has been reinterpreted as something that is racism to something that isn't. If we're tearing down racist...

There is also the problem of defining, "red". Red only exists as an experience, and not outside of an experience. Wavelengths of light arent red, but ...

This is basically dualism and all the problems it brings, like how deterministic and indeterministic things interact - deterministically or indetermin...

Because you failed to explain consciousness and measurements properly, both of which are a causal processes. What determines that we cant know either ...

Then the problem isnt a lack of knowledge about red, but about brains seeing red. And knowing everything physical includes knowing what it looks like....

Gravity is part of the system we are talking about, not beyond it. And there are theories of quantum gravity, which seems to indicate that there is ra...

Sure, and we also have evidence that suggests determinism. How do we determine which is the case. Exactly. Hence my point that QM and classical physic...

ever had an experience of any of the balls falling up, or out through the glass? Why do the balls fall only down? You'd think that, all those And you'...

The expert consensus is also that QM and classical mechanics appear to contradict each other but they both work. The consensus also includes a need to...

I fail to see how a digital system used to measure an analog reality indicates that reality is indeterministic. It seems that what you are saying is w...

so dialetheism isn't refuting LNC, rather it is rejecting it sometimes? What makes one contradiction false another true?

So QM determines that determinism is impossible? It certainly isn't a groundless assumption that events would be the same if the universe were restart...

Then you seem to be saying that the words, "married", "bachelor" and "married-bachelor" are meaningless and that there is no difference between them, ...

I thought it was obvious that I was talking about a wedding band, but of course, a bachelor could be trying on a wedding band and still be a bachelor,...

That's good enough for me. I can't really refute the existence of god(s) or idealism/solipsism, only deny it, and the fact that you can deny them mean...

No, I'm saying that things can only be the case if they aren't immediately negated in the same instant by it's opposite. As I said, a contradiction am...

given enough paper, ink and time could you draw a picture of 1021 stars? Given the same amount of paper, ink and time could you ever draw a picture of...

It seems to me that in saying that there are borderline cases is the same as making a level of semantic granularity. The colors blue and green are dis...

But you did picture 1021 stars in your mind - with the scribbles, "1021 stars". Does not the scribble, "1021 stars" simulate a real state of affairs o...

Exactly. The key phrase here is "refer to opposite things" - as if opposite attributes can be the innate nature of something other than a phrase in so...