Harry Hindu

Yes. I've often put "external" and "internal" in quotes as I don't really see it as an inside vs. outside thing. I agree. In this sense, a "view" is a...

I thought I did. I said an explanation is a use of language, and then I explained what language is. Yeah, but how did we get to the point of "understa...

It seems to me that if something is logical, it is deterministic. If the same input is put into a logical system, you always get the same output. Same...

How do you think those GUI's are made? By higher level procedural coding, like Java (which isn't related to JavaScript), Visual Basic, Python, and C++...

I made the point that the solar system or the sun is a perfect self-sustaining balance between the outward push of the nuclear reactions and the inwar...

The "lower" animals are driven more by instinct (genetic knowledge) than learned knowledge. Humans, chimps, dolphins, elephants, have larger brains an...

It's not just when it creates, but when it thinks. If god thinks (has a mind), its thoughts change. There is more than one dimension, so back to polyt...

Instincts, which is built-in (unconscious) knowledge thanks to natural selection. Check out the field of evolutionary psychology.

No, the problem is that your definition of entropy and negentropy isn't clear. Where do you draw the boundary of life and non-life? Are dragonflies en...

I see explanation as just a use of language, and language is just composed of visual and/or auditory impressions. When we explain things to others, we...

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer (learn a computer language), because it teaches you how to think.” -Steve Jobs

Living things, including brains, don't just "restructure their hardware" randomly, or for no reason. Input is required to influence those changes (lea...

Travel, no. Looking, yes. By looking at the Andromeda galaxy you are seeing it as it was 2.5 million years ago. By traveling closer to the Andromeda g...

That's not really how I see it. I see explanations (both right and wrong ones) as part of that causal substratum I talked about. They are just new arr...

Not if you define "thinking" as processing information. Computers have an input (raw information (data)) and an output (processed information), just l...

And put together into completely new configurations (imagination). This is another reason to think of sensory impressions as fundamental units.

Yes, and eventually realize that it may even be presumptuous to call this state-of-affairs a "view" where one is "seeing" brown surfaces. What the f**...

"Emergent" might be the wrong word. It's a result from our size relative to the size of other things. We seem to be right in the middle with everythin...

This is the most incoherent reply you've had yet. If an idea can only resemble an idea, then an idea is a resemblance of itself? Or, it would be that ...

If everything is ideas and if the ideas external to my mind are the ideas of God, then why is it easier to predict the mind of God than it is to predi...

But if determinism is the case, and we could re-run the Universe, every event would have been precisely the same down to the smallest particle, then i...

What do you mean by "purely logically"? If matter interacts in deterministic fashion then it there are rules we can establish and make predictions wit...

I didn't bypass it. I replied and I said that it is only coherent if they mean something, or else it's just scribbles. That isn't subjective. You're t...

And there would be no problem with our bodies interacting if God was material and we all were material. What is the actual difference between "materia...

But you and Berkeley are saying that the tree (the external tree, not the idea of a tree) is an idea too. If everything is an idea, including the thin...

There was nothing to grasp. You keep referring to what scribble or sounds an idealist and materialist makes when I'm talking about what those scribble...

And I already told you I'm not interested in the difference of scribbles or sounds. I'm interested in the difference of what those scribbles and sound...

It is very difficult for you to stay focused. I wasn't asking about how the difference in that post. I was asking how you can expect others to underst...

So then why are you trying to be coherent to others when you speak? How is it that you expect them to understand anything that you say? Do words mean ...

No. It would be by answering the question that you keep avoiding.

I wasn't asking anything. I was simply reiterating what you said - that your concept of "matter" and "mind" are only coherent to you, and that isn't e...

I'm done with the game of yours. When you can actually answer the question, we can continue.

Okay, so then your idea of "matter" and "mind" is only coherent to you, then. It is when something is coherent to many, not just one, that we make str...

No, I'm asking about "matter" and "ideas" and how you understand the difference. You've only supplied a difference in scribbles.

If the concepts of "matter" vs. "ideas" are coherent to you then why is it so difficult to answer the question? I'm trying to get at the state-of-affa...

Because in order to say anything, it must be coherent, or else you haven't really said anything. You've simply created a bunch of scribbles or sounds....

Again, I'm not asking on the difference of what they say, I'm asking the difference of what they mean. Both statements are incoherent, therefore they ...

I already went over this with you. Saying two different things that are both incoherent isn't really saying anything different, other than simply usin...

And I keep reiterating that what they say is incoherent.

I asked this question a million times before your question about begging the question. Maybe if you try to answer it, you will see why I said you're c...

I asked you what is the difference between "matter" and "mind", or "ideas". Stop getting distracted.

I already said it isn't. Because you are begging the question. Mass is an amount of matter, so you are simply saying that materialist claim that matte...

Actually it's "No, I can say shit and not back it up."

This doesn't answer my question, nor address the main point in my post (but that is what I should expect from you by now). I was simply asking what ex...

Which existent do idealists say has mass (you said not every...so some might)? Mass is the amount of matter in an object, so you are begging the quest...

But you and Berkeley are saying that the tree (the external tree, not the idea of a tree) is an idea too. If everything is an idea, including the thin...

Excellent points. I would say that nature of social and natural phenomena is propagating genes. Different species and different members (males and fem...

Science explains the smallest unit of matter as protons, neutrons and electrons (or maybe quarks now). The arrangement and amount of protons, neutrons...

This is begging the question. What is it about "physical" and "non-physical" that are different? We used to think that it was fantasy that human being...

It seems to be the other way around. Science implies an interconnectedness between everything. You cannot exist without air, water or food. Atoms are ...