Harry Hindu

So are we talking about distinguishing between body types or waking and sleeping states? My computer goes to sleep sometimes and then wakes up when I ...

What does it mean to be physically indistinguishable? Are there other ways of being distinguishable or indistinguishable? I don't know. What is "consc...

:sad: This is absolutely NOT the prevailing opinion, especially among scientists.

So there isn't a problem, yet you applaud that Brook Norton is struggling with a problem that you say doesn't exist? It seems to me that accepting som...

This appears circular, although I can't really tell, because it is so confusing. Seems like what you do is determined by what you will, but what deter...

Usually, maybe, but I think it depends on which effect we're talking about. Say what is happening is a crime. The observer isn't a participant in the ...

The problem is that people are confusing their goals. Take this as an example: Is my goal to spare the feelings of the CEO or to display the true stat...

And your anger is part of the deterministic effects of their actions. People react to other people's actions deterministically. How you reacted was pr...

I don't play language games. That is Banno's forte. Is it a language game? If it were then there was no ambiguity, was there, as you correctly interpr...

Sure, but they all involve logic (error-free thinking) if you want to actually solve the problem. If the way a question is framed is arbitrary, are we...

Now that I think about it, maybe this might help without diverging too much. What exists is what has causal power, or is part of a causal relationship...

Well, then I guess we're opening a can of worms because I see the material/physical vs mental/experiential dichotomy as a false one.

How exactly is "misguided" not the same as "wrong"? You say that it's "harsh", but if you're trying to spare my feelings, my feelings, and you trying ...

Because we seem to have come to the answer to that question. What we mean is "how do things (like perspectives and knowledge) exist"?

So there isn't a "how things are" when it comes to knowledge and perspectives? Then what on Earth have we been talking about all this time when saying...

It's a question about the existence of knowledge and perspectives - their nature, especially as they relate to what they are about.

Sounds like you can't really have one without the other. Every cause or effect is inferred.

I asked "what about perspectives?" - meaning, is there a how things are for perspectives? If there is, then how things are isn't an incoherent notion....

Nouns engage in actions or functions, which verbs refer to. Adjectives refer to properties of the noun. Variables are scribbles whose meaning can be c...

Programming is about automating the solution to a problem. Programmers usually start off creating programs for themselves, to solve their own problems...

So do your words refer to the fuzzy edges or concrete center? If one is referring to the edges while another is referring to the center, are they talk...

If it were exact, there would be no bugs or glitches. It's a matter of integrating each our private languages into a public one, just as the computer ...

What about the perspective itself? From where is it viewed to say that there is a "how things are" for a perspective? It creates an infinite regress o...

Good question. What does Nagel mean when he says there is a how things are to be a bat? Is it the same thing? Is "how things are" always a view from s...

And if how things look equates to how things are, then why do we have a multitude of different senses?

:kiss: Yep, syntax matters. When do you have a sculpture? It seems that "sculpture" needs to be defined in order to know whether you've made one or no...

Purpose is certainly related to causality as people use the term to refer to the reason behind a phenomenon, or the cause of the phenomenon, and to th...

Think about this scenario: Say "you" are remote controlling a robot on Mars that transmits it's video feed and information about the chemical composit...

But this is nothing new. I've said as much several times on this forum - that to ask what something looks like independent of looking is nonsensical. ...

I'm asking where the waypoint you passed is. If you can't define it, then how do you know you passed it? Excellent. So a purpose is a manifestation of...

"purpose" and "purposeless" are antonym's only because the rule of English states that the suffix, "-less" means "without". So by the rules of the lan...

I still don't understand this distinction between "you" and "your brain". How is it that the brain tricks something else that you identify as "you"? W...

It seems to me that in order to say that the brain gets stuff "wrong" is implying that you know what is "right". How did you know what is right or wro...

What is the difference between your example of an implant and hearing someone speaking on the phone? Hearing them in person still requires air molecul...

We perceive the world as it is relative to us. Something that is cold or hot is cold or hot relative to our body's surface temperature. Think about wh...

Ok. So, we need to know the nature of perception. How do we do that - directly, indirectly? Does it matter? Is the indirect vs. direct distinction mea...

Why would these processes be noticed only when they go wrong.

What I was referring to is that your post seemed to be saying that we would need to know the nature of perception in order to understand the relations...

You're confusing awareness with interpretation. You have to be first aware of something in order to interpret it. You are aware of sounds but it isn't...

So we would need a direct perception of perception? Or is the question what is knowledge? How do you know what you know is about what you know?

What is the relationship between the scribble "on" and the scribble "under" if not what they mean, as in they are opposites? The second usage of "on" ...

Yep. When watching a show on astrophysics for the layman, the scientists translate the math into words. You can say the same thing with words or with ...

Partially submerge an apple in a large mason jar half-filled with water, and you change the shape of the apple.

The shape-experience is two-dimensional. You can't see the other side of the apple, only the side facing you. So shape-experience can't be a primary. ...

No. Not perfect, because I asked you a question regarding your statement that you avoided. So when someone keeps asking you questions that you answer,...

OK, so your statement has been corrected in the above quote. In X=a, does X mean a? Think of it this way, On1 = used as a function word to indicate po...

It seems that I can never oblige you in any discussion we've had. So I am therefore asking you to please stop quoting me, because it is always an ad h...

It seems to me that 1) entails 2). In doing 2) you are necessarily doing 1). If you question your own beliefs before exposing them to external critici...

You do realize that you quoted me and referred to my statements first, which warrants a reply with the specific statements quoted. So, you're saying t...

I'm going to go ahead answer this question myself since no one has been able to answer it without contradicting themselves. The answer is that in disa...