Harry Hindu

I'm not so sure about this definition. What entails "oneself"? What is something that one can be aware of within oneself? What is the difference of be...

Much of your post seems to be mischaracterization of the problem and/or a poor choice of terms. Take your first sentence for instance: What do you mea...

If you're questioning an object's existence independent of some perception of it, then I ask you what your mind is like when no one is perceiving it. ...

Would it make sense to continue to call them "simulations"? If we found out that Big Bangs are really the start of a new simulation, and that is the n...

And how does the farmer know that some alien didn't sneaked into his farm and kidnap his brain to use as a battery? In other words, this line of think...

So what is your brain like when you are alone in a dreamless sleep? Where does your mind go when you are alone in a dreamless sleep? Ive asked you thi...

Why is there a mapping at all? Talking about mappings implies some kind of dualism. I want to know why minds appear as brains when we look at them.

How is translating words not a type of language use? And it seems to me that in using language or translating languages, you follow rules. If you want...

And computers can follow instructions, which are rules for doing something. Does following rules entail understanding and knowledge? If so, then a com...

, , , Exactly. Not to mention it undermines language use as we use objects in the world as the medium to communicate. If we can't get at the computer ...

So "you" are just a perception in your brain? When you use the word, "I" you are referring to a perception in your brain? When "you" aren't being perc...

Is consciousness divided into a perceiver and an object of perception, ie the Cartesian theatre, or is consciousness and perception one and the same? ...

Not all shapes and sounds are words, but all words are some shape or some sound. So it seems that shapes and sounds are more fumdamental than words, a...

What about an entity with multiple senses like us? You only see one side of the coffe cup but can feel the other. Which sense is informing you how the...

It seems to me that we are talking about relationships when talking about how it appears, and not when talking about how it is. Appearances are how so...

Exactly. Ideas and mental categories are just other things that we refer to with words, and ideas can refer to things in the world, but not always. Th...

Isn't that what I said, just using different words? What happens when the TV screen goes black? Why are you not seeing the game any longer, even thoug...

Yes, but what does it mean for something to look and feel like anything? Isn't there an aboutness to how they look and how they feel? Are you not info...

I'm not making it difficult. What I'm asserting IS indirect realism. https://www.iep.utm.edu/perc-obj/ Think of light as the TV screen. We don't see o...

The problem is that by asking what something looks like independent of looking at it is an incoherent question. Its like asking if you can get the sam...

Then how does Searle know that there is a subjective field if it's not perceived? It almost sounds like Searle is saying the objective field and the s...

Do minds have shapes? Why do minds take the shapes of brains when I look at them? Is there no room for indirect realism? You seem to think the only vi...

Because of causation. Effects (perception) are about the cause (object), but effects are not the same as the cause. Do causes and effects have the sam...

Youre not answering the question and I dont know if id agree that shape is a property of objects. It certainly is a property of our perception of obje...

Theres no game here. Go back to what YOU said: I asked: In other words, what do you expect or imagine to be the same between a part of the world and t...

Sure, many people need an escape from the cold hard truths of reality. Art, sports, religion and leisure allow us to go on living despite the awarenes...

Another strange question. X-Rays don't look like anything independent of eyes looking at them. To ask what something looks like is to ask how it appea...

Im not sure I understand the problem. Why would you expect a part of the world, ie appearances, to be the same as the entire world? What do you mean b...

I think the problem lies more along the lines of figuring out if the hardware really exists as we perceive it. I'm sure my mind exists. Not so sure ab...

Yeah, I didn't think so. :wink:

Really? Care to show some scientific study that says just that? What is the "you" that sees hears feels and so on that is mitigated by the nervous sys...

Senses do pass information one way, unless youre Superman and can shoot heat rays from your eyes. Already said this. Go back and read my previous post...

Phenomenal is dependent upon senses and a sensory information processor. The reason you suppose there is an experience with brains is because you have...

We obviously have different goals in mind.

No. Rationality produces a list of facts, like an encyclopdia, that can be accessed when someone gets to the point of giving a damn (has a goal) in wh...

It is scientific myopia that leads one to think that their senses aren't part of the equation of explaining what language is and does. When using your...

Claims have implications, no? That is what I was talking about - the implications of your claim. In order for a claim to be meaningful it needs to be ...

So the phrase "think before you speak" is meaningless to you? And what would "You don't know what you're talking about." mean? What is the language ga...

Problems like this always come down to the naive vs indirect realism debate. We never perceive other minds. Why? We perceive brains and computers - bo...

My intent wasnt to write something interesting. Is that what you are saying the point of this conversation is - to write something interesting - to ge...

Then it sounds to me that saying "It's a language game" just means "using words to refer to other stuff that are not words". Of course, we could use w...

Register, as in indicate, display or show, as in some form of output. Advertise, let know, inform... We are talking about the same thing - the movemen...

Thanks for the example of information transfer. You actually give two examples of information transfer. The transfer of information between Alice, Bob...

It's the other way around. It's not that language isn't just information transfer. It's that language is part, or a kind, of information transfer.

Then a toaster knows how to toast bread. Got it. :up: You know how to plug in a toaster and flip the switch but a toaster is what knows how to toast b...

All you have done is explain how words can be used to convey information. The fact that a word can be used to convey different information than what t...

This whole story was obviously planned by Nike for name recognition. I mean what better story than to make a shoe with a version of the American flag,...

So if someone puts on a Betty Ross flag sticker on their shoe, does that make them racist? Should we be looking to Kapernick to define what is offensi...

And they only give a shit about what their target audience thinks so that they can manipulate them into buying their shoes. That was the whole purpose...

Why didn't Nike involve Kapernick when this shoe was in the conception phase? If Kapernick is their ambassador and has the power to cancel a product t...