It looks like you just stated a truth about reality, therefore it would be an objective statement. How do we make objective statements with words, whi...
There is a difference. Being the thing implies that there is one thing. Talking about direct access implies two things - the thing being accessed dire...
Well, if bullshit surrounded the kale, I wouldn't want to eat it, for sure, even if you cleaned it. The smell... :vomit: Now, if you don't mean litera...
I don't understand when you say "my thinking is different from thought..." Thinking and thought are the same process. The rest of your post doesn't se...
Knowing-how is simply a sequence of knowing-thats. Knowing-with is simply knowing-how to use a language, and knowing-how to use a language is a sequen...
What does it mean to say that our what our thoughts are about are the same, but the thoughts themselves aren't? If you only know about something by yo...
That isn't what I was trying to do. Language is just visual scribbles and sounds, like mostly everything else in consciousness - that is about things ...
I wasn't trying to make a distinction between an "external" game and "internal" understanding. It seems to me that if there is no "internal" understan...
If there were very few differences in the way users of different languages look at the picture prior to being asked to describe it, and the difference...
Are you asking where the actual food went after supper, or where your experience of the food went after supper? Your experience of seeing food left th...
Why wouldn't we see the same colors if we are members of the same species? It would be surprising for someone to say that we are so different that som...
If you can make any sounds you want, then understanding isn't part of the language game. You just make sounds. If there is a language "game" then ther...
Intentions aren't always realized. What one intends does not always come to fruition, so a final cause, or an effect in the future is not the cause of...
It is critically relevant to what we are talking about, MU. Think about about it. When someone experiences a particular color and they use a word to r...
Try having thoughts when you havent eaten or slept for days. If the mind is causally connected with the rest of the world that does practice some form...
It seems to me that the private vs public distinction is incoherent in a shared world with causal relationships, where effects are not their causes, b...
Looks like movement is relative, whether relative to another object, or a point in space (a point in space seems to qualify as an object in space). Th...
As I said, they are the same independent of the difference of being in different spatial-temporal locations. You see the word, "Wittgenstein" the same...
If you're agreeing that we all experience the same colors, then I don't understand why you disagree with me about a "private" language. If we all expe...
Time is not composed of instances. Time is relative change. Movement is relative. An interval is simply a string of instances - each a particular snap...
And then we bring about the way the world is not in our minds, to the world. Our imaginings can become reality. How does that happen if the world is m...
Considering W was a bad writer, it's no surprise there are bad readings of his writings. It seems to me that if we all have different beetles in our b...
Your explanation of "similar" is circular. Similar: resembling without being identical. The way our beetles are different is that they are in differen...
Actually, MU, words are just visual scribbles and sounds. The hearing or seeing the word, "beetle" would be just as "internal" as any other experience...
For a person to be changed, then need to be open to change. "Rooted beliefs" are beliefs that the person already believes is true, and anything else i...
That would be the naive realist position. For the indirect realist, the things that appear in our minds are about things that are not in our minds. Ho...
You said that they are "radically different". I would agree, but probably not in the way that you meant. They are radically different because one exis...
It seems to me that unicorns do exist. They exist as ideas, not as organisms. Ideas have just as much causal power as an organism. The idea (or more p...
It would seem to me that we have direct access to the "representation" itself, which is a real thing that has causal power. The "representation" would...
Well, yeah. Idealism is weird. I dunno. Probably the same as an idealist would being that they believe that little minds exist in the cells and atoms ...
Exactly. Anyone understands that solipsism is the logical conclusion that one reaches after having philosophized enough (and to say that someone has p...
When you can propose an experiment that supports your metaphysical claim then your metaphysical claim becomes a scientific claim. Metaphysics is just ...
Google "selfish vs self-centered". I see philosophers throw around these terms, "knowledge" and "understanding" without any clear meaning to those ter...
I didn't say, "selfish". I said self-centered. There's a difference. It seems to me an inherent human quality to think oneself as "important", or "val...
You forgot social acceptance. As a social species, human beings need social interactions. Many people will do almost anything to get attention from ot...
1. If we understood death, we wouldn't need religion. Religion is a knee-jerk knowledge-gap-filler. When our ancestors didn't understand something (wh...
Concept is just a mental category. We categorize part of our brute visual experience as the concept, color, and language isnt necessary to do this. We...
Gotta love Gov. Cuomo. He just stated that he would like you to "voluntarily" not go out to parks and play any contact sports, but if you don't volunt...
First, you talk about learning, then the next sentence talks about "fixed action responses". I don't see what one has to do with the other unless you ...
That depends on what knowledge is. We possess knowledge that we don't know we have. Have you ever forgotten something, only later to be reminded? As u...
Frequency is a property of light. Color is a property of minds. I don't need frequencies of light to strike my retina for me to experience colors. I c...
How do you know what is in a chick's mind? What does it mean for the chick to not know what it is doing at first? It seem to me that the chick is show...
I don't know, maybe your assumption that the low-hanging phil 101 fruit is done with is wrong. I didn't take time to read the wall of text in your lin...
Read it again. I'm talking about what YOU said. YOU are the one using terms like "physical", "immaterial", "higher consciousness", "lower consciousnes...
If you didn't define "intent" or show how it has a causal influence on the brain, then no, you didn't come close to addressing my earlier points that ...
You're avoiding the questions and this post doesn't address any of the points I have made. All you have done is provide an explanation as to why the p...
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