I don't see any reason to make that kind of distinction. List one example when it would be a good reason to use those terms where you couldn't use mor...
Right, so just use "mental" to refer to mental phenomena and "loudspeaker" to refer to loudspeaker phenomena, "stellar" to refer to stellar phenomena,...
Right, so you're saying that mental phenomena are special where they deserve a special term while all other phenomena fall into the other category. Wh...
If your saying that subjectivity is a feature of minds, then how is that any different than talking about the features of some other process or thing ...
It takes time to communicate, so time exists independent of minds, therefore transcendental idealism is wrong. If minds are seperate, that implies tha...
If indirect realism isn't at odds with idealism then there would have to be something other than minds or ideas that separates minds. This would be th...
Yeah, I interpret this as babble. It would be more coherent to ask if God is an object. If God is the world then God is an object. As I mentioned in t...
Yeah, its not that his head is in his mind. Its the idea of his head that is in his mind. The only time his head is in his mind is when he looks in th...
Then you would also agree that we control who can release other humans into the world as bad, or a lack of, parenting leads to destructive, anti-socia...
This works well. How would you explain contradictory knowledge that we possess? We must integrate all the information we have into a consistent whole....
We could just as well say that the mind is an object that observes other objects. We can dispense with the terms, "subjective" and "subject" all toget...
I think indirect realism deserves a mention as well. Why do we experience bodies instead of minds? How can we lie to each other where the contents of ...
Any explanation of knowledge has to address how knowledge can be wrong. When we find our knowledge was wrong, did we really possess knowledge? Do we e...
But other observers exist independent of your experience of them. Where do they exist relative to your mind? If they are seperate minds then that impl...
How do you know this? What is quale? When you look at a person you see matter, not quale, so how do you know that a person has quale but not a compute...
We explain how matter behaves as a result of what it is made of - tiny particles called atoms. We do? What are ideas made of? If you don't know, then ...
It seems that we are still in the same predicament. Matter is made of something that we don't know what it is. We could say the same thing about ideas...
Then we don't agree. You keep using this term, "matter". I don't know what that is. I'd say that your distinction between "matter" and "ideas" is not ...
Sure, but that isn't to say that the author never had any intent to write anything down. Those words still mean what the author intended even if no on...
I already asked you this question. You're asking me how they work, when I asked you the same question. How did the words, "animals" and "design" get o...
No. The confusion arises out of making them distinct. Abstractions are causal. They cause us to behave in certain ways when they are in or mind. How d...
I think the problem lies in the premise that if one responds instinctively, one is responding irrationally. Animals are not irrational. Determinism im...
This is very confusing. First, the word, "unicorn" does not just evoke <unicorn>, the word itself is evoked by <unicorn>. As I have been saying, words...
You're right. It is stupid. All because you couldn't answer a simple question several posts ago: You beat around the bush, performing all these mental...
They have at least one identical property. They are brain phenomena. Why can't you either admit that you are wrong in saying that mental phenomenon is...
But what you said after that - the part I quoted - you said that mental phenomena are a subset of brain phenomena. A subset is part of a larger group ...
Didn't I just say that your usage isn't much different than my, or the common usage of these terms? Doesn't that mean that you do use those terms in t...
Exactly. Using the same term with with different meanings in different instances would be unclear in your use of the term. Okay, the string, "unicorn"...
When we become aware of present situations we modify our intentions to address the situation. We also plan ahead, and when that goal is in the mind we...
That really isn't much different than my usage, or the common usages of those terms. I emphasized the parts that are similar, if not the same, as how ...
Yes, by implying that my definition was idiosyncratic. If you weren't implying this, then you were speaking out of context, for none of the definition...
Exactly. And the idealist can do the same thing - claim that everything is ideas. What are they actually saying? They are both saying the same thing, ...
Sort of like how one has to select from a set of possible options. But there is only one meaning to the message - the source's intent. What did the se...
If this were the case, then we could raise elephants in a human society and they would become human. This obviously isn't what will happen, because an...
But it wasn't factual. You were wrong to say: It isn't very different from some conventional usages. It's in the dictionary. Yours would be the one th...
I mentioned earlier that our intent to get better is a result of the experience of pain. We don't experience the intent to get better when we feel goo...
Love is a feeling that you feel - in your body. Why would the feeling be in your body, if it wasn't something about your body? We can place ourselves ...
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