The people in the green world would still experience dark and light areas, or else how would they distinguish objects from the background, or from eac...
Well, I'm an indirect realist, so I would agree that we don't directly apprehend, but we do apprehend. How would we be able to even posit and confirm ...
I'm not so sure. Is time and space an illusion - a product of how our minds parse the world? Time is just relative change. If the mind is a process, t...
The only property that is changing between you and your wife and everything else is location. That's it. Your wife is still a human being. None of tha...
This is incoherent. If there is an external world that our experience isnt about, then what does it mean for our experiences to be caused by the exter...
Exactly. If the properties of the orange change, then how can we keep calling it an orange? It seems to me that it would be a different object at diff...
There are properties that vary at different spatial-temporal locations but not all of them. Color and texture of the orange doesn't change as I move a...
Ok, then those properties are what we are talking about, which include the object's location in space and time. Objects have other properties than jus...
Mars and the Eiffel Tower don't have eyes and a brain. They don't have subjective experiences. How would they have reference points? Are you saying th...
If there is nothing but objects of perception, then solipsism is the case. If there is more, then realism is the case. It's really that simple. I neve...
A reference point is a location is space-time. If there are a combination of reference points, where are they located relative to each other? I can se...
Nothing new here. An appearance is a reference point. Not everyone is talking about reference points (appearances). Some are talking about how objects...
Sounds like realism to me. For a realist there are objects and perception of objects. The qualia of experience are not objects themselves. Many people...
Then I would ask what happens to the tree when the lights are out? Why do you need light to see anything? Realism is just one of those theoretical exp...
And so I predict that this thread isnt going to go anywhere until we start to do just that. When you're stuck with trying to explain or define "aggres...
Read Dawkin's "The Selfish Gene". Aggression and violence are naturally inhibited because to allow them to proliferate is a detriment to any society m...
Illusions are simply misinterpretations of what is real. It only seems like water when you don't move towards it. When you move towards it, it doesn't...
This is why I don't engage in ethical and political discussions much. Ethical and political discussions always comes down to feelings, or opinions. Th...
It's really simple. If there is no object independent of perception, then it would simply be wrong to say that we perceive anything. There would be no...
It seems obvious to me that I own what I worked to get, where "worked" doesn't entail stealing from others, or oppressing others, rather it entails pr...
If you want to quibble, just Google "how much money would everyone in the world have if it was divided equally". It's been discussed elsewhere on the ...
Is it aggressive to lock your doors so that you can keep all of your possessions and your home? Do we own our bodies? According to you the State has t...
Your post is all just scribbles to me. In other words, I have no idea what you are talking about. Your scribbles did not invoke any images in my mind ...
It's not that words brings the universe into existence. Words make the universe communicable. The word, "tree" is a word. A tree is not. A tree looks ...
If behavior is the effect of some cause, the cause is the meaning of the behavior. In this sense, purpose is the cause of the behavior, and is therefo...
I did. It seems that other prominent philosophers don't even think that Derrida's Deconstruction theory is legitimate philosophy. How is it that you c...
No, I asked what human-caused scribbles and sounds mean, among many other questions. You aren't answering the questions. :brow: Huh-wha? They are abou...
Money is power, which why money should be taken out of politics. Take out the political parties as well so that people are forced to vote for ideas, n...
That is only the show that they put on for their constituents. They all work together to expand the powers of government over the governed. Behind clo...
This is because they aren't using facts. Facts are only important in science, not in politics. While political parties may use scientific knowledge to...
I don't see how any of this addresses my post. I'm not the one playing games or dancing with language. I'm asking direct questions and you are perform...
How can a term be vacuous when words are only used for coordination? And the reason you gave that it was vacuous isn't that it doesn't coordinate (bec...
So how can scribbles be about themselves? What does it mean for something to be about something or itself? Or to filter our instinctive behaviors. But...
It might do you some good to read the rest of the post. The definition I used is how everyone uses the word "meaning" - to refer to some cause or purp...
What is "languaging" behavior? Just making scribbles appear on screen because you put scribbles on a screen? or representing some ideas that are not o...
What you have ultimately done here is talk about language - about what language is. So where is your infinite regress? You provide an "only 'given'" y...
Maybe we should take a look at the very question of asking what something is. To say what something is is to say what it's relationships are. Your per...
If it's limited, what is it missing? How do you know it is limited? In order to know it is limited, you'd have to know what is missing, and if you kno...
So, are you saying that you have access to your mind, it's just that you don't have a good explanation of what your mind is for? How would you even kn...
So we can only be skeptical if we actually had access to both how they appear and how they are? But you keep saying that we never have access to how t...
Skepticism would still exist even if we experienced things as they are, for how would we know if we experience things as they are? What would it mean ...
They don't differ so much that we call them different names. Dogs, horses, sharks, and lizards all have noses and eyes and nervous systems. They diffe...
if the brain is not a type of machine than what is it? What does it do? What is it for? You seem to think that only carbon-based life possesses consci...
Then attention is a type of awareness? If awareness and consciousness are the same then doesn't that make attention a type of consciousness? Can we be...
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