Just trying to make sense of your distinction, which seems valid (and appears to fit definition 2 of my own SEP quote on the different uses of "qualia...
Yes, and some people are deaf or blind or lacking in some other sense(s). Maybe someone somewhere has been born without any senses or phenomenal exper...
For the interests of philosophical discussion, I suppose. But perhaps we mean different things by it. From the SEP article on Qualia: In my initialy r...
Why do you expect anything to be "added"? AFAIK, "qualia" is just a term of art for any phenomenal experience, including taste. I don't believe it's m...
I find it odd that it's presented as "watching you eat cauliflower" (in the third person) and then going on to describe the taste and texture in the f...
On your account, then, phenomenal consciousness is simply physical existence? So, p-zombies are functionally identical to humans except they lack...ph...
Besides by definition, you mean? You tell me. You're the one claiming that the difference between having and lacking phenomenal consciousness is tiny ...
Yet this tiny, trivial difference leads you to believe that zombies cannot exist. Then in what sense have you “added” phenomenal consciousness to a ro...
Right, so why do you consider “actually experiencing the things that we do” to be trivial? We might say that humans have the capacity to perceive and ...
In that case, I fail to understand why you consider it trivial. Having a perspective on the world via sight, sound and touch; being able to taste stra...
What is this “trivial thing”? It is an absence of inner experience. You even refer to it as a “lack” of something. How can you ascribe this as some so...
Zombies have no inner experience or phenomenal consciousness, by definition. What is it you think you are ascribing to everything? The absence of phen...
That's not how I understand it. Zombies lack our first-person experience of the world in the non-trivial sense: they lack the sense experiences normal...
Why can't phenomenal consciousness emerge weakly? Yes, which I consider to be a better response than resorting to the extreme position of panpsychism....
The only two options for phenomenal consciousness are either strong emergence (i.e. magic/supernatural, so impossible) or else panpsychism? Surely the...
I still don’t understand why you prefer panpsychism to emergentism. Also, you claim that phenomenal consciousness can "only emerge strongly" and is "l...
It’s been so long since I read any philosophy of mind that I’d actually forgotten p-zombies were intended as an argument against physicalism. Anyway, ...
Simply look up the word "idea" in the dictionary. But perhaps you think that what we call ideas aren't ideas at all. All of the above implies that my ...
No. Is a unicorn? Or a dinosaur? Merely possible existence is concrete and not abstract? I would say it's the opposite. What is abstract then? Unlike ...
Yes, I agree. A presentation of the argument from the article which is even more relevant to free will might be: Simply replace "cannot know ethical t...
I assume you mean Kant. I'm surprised that he would say that free will and desire are incompatible. In what sense incompatible? Do you have a referenc...
Yes, I see. If free will is the ability to choose, then what is relevant to moral responsibility is the ability to choose actions which are socially/m...
I was conscious before posting the OP that I had omitted any mention of determinism. However, I think the deterministic argument is of a similar form ...
Yes, this is how I also understand Strawson's argument. I'm calling it a bad argument because the will is the source of our choosing between options. ...
I didn't accuse you of anything. I noted the apparent contradiction in your statements that unicorns both do and do not actually exist. I suppose by C...
My attempted translations of your "wistlily" language into standard English: =>(1) If the actual possibility that someone might think of an idea is es...
Allow me to try and clarify my disagreement. As Pfhorrest explained: Before Clavius' Law can be applied, you require the bracketed statement (not-P im...
Your argument boils down to the claim that since the possibility of inventing an idea has always existed, then the idea has always existed. That is, i...
Your supposed argument assumes the conclusion. I asked you earlier what "essentially linked" meant in your argument: "Since Poss(invent EID) is essent...
Unless your algorithm can discover ideas via actual practice, then it adds nothing to the argument that ideas are discovered rather than invented. In ...
I think this requires much further justification to avoid your clear contradiction. Does Clavius' Law save you from all contradictions? The matter see...
If it is possible to invent an idea, then it is impossible to invent an idea? Hmm. It does not follow. That is your assumption. What does "essentially...
To come back to this, one could equally say that if inventing an idea is possible, then the idea must not fore-exist. It should be obvious that this d...
In your previous post you indicated that "Poss(EID)" refers to the possibility of coming up with the idea. Now you are indicating that "Poss(EID)" ref...
...or invent EID. The possibility of coming up with the idea might have always existed. But that does not mean that the idea has always existed; someo...
This doesn't follow. Why is it certain that all existing things will be discovered? I don't understand what "possibilities are defined in terms of the...
They currently exist only as possibilities. Possibilities are not ideas, as you agree. How does the "understander" know whether a string is meaningles...
I don't find it absurd. I don't understand why you do! Whether or not it is "actually happening", I think it is very possible, and makes perfect sense...
No, this is where we disagree. What you mean by "two different, but identical, ideas" is just what I mean by "the same idea independently". I've been ...
We have to wait? I thought all ideas already existed? It seems that your algorithm will also produce (mostly) junk strings of symbols that aren't idea...
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