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SteveKlinko

['Member']Joined: April 07, 2017 at 17:55Last active: September 05, 2019 at 13:508 discussions387 comments
Location: Titusville Florida

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Fulltime Electronics and Software Engineer, Philosophy Hobbyist, Brain Physiology Hobbyist, Conscious Mind Research Hobbyist, Stereo Equipment Enthusiast

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David Chalmers, Joseph Levine

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In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
Damasio says things like "A feeling arises when the organism becomes aware of the changes it is experiencing as a result of external or internal stimu...
August 28, 2019 at 11:10
In: We Have to Wait for A.I. (or aliens) for New Philosophy  — view comment
I scanned responses to this briefly and might have missed if someone had mentioned this: Around the turn of the century (1900) a patent office worker ...
August 27, 2019 at 15:46
In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
If you think Dualism is Woo then you must be a Physical Monist (Physicalist) or a Spiritual Monist (Spiritualist). In either case you would be promoti...
August 27, 2019 at 12:23
In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
I believe you are saying that the Flowed Perspective is thinking that there even is such a thing as Consciousness. If I could only ignore myself then ...
August 27, 2019 at 11:53
In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
This is because the Gap might more specifically be a Processing Gap rather than being a general Explanatory Gap.
August 27, 2019 at 11:10
In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
They study the Neural Correlates of Consciousness. They have no idea How something like the Experience of Redness happens. Biological Life is made out...
August 27, 2019 at 11:04
In: Emphasizing the Connection Perspective  — view comment
Some say Idealism means Monism and some say it means Dualism. Idealism is one of those terms that can be twisted around to mean various different thin...
August 26, 2019 at 18:47
In: Neutral Monism  — view comment
If instead of generating Consciousness, the Brain (Neural Activity) is able to Connect with some sort of Conscious Space where Consciousness resides t...
August 14, 2019 at 13:53
In: Is there literature on the space of all possible minds?  — view comment
Some thoughts on Conscious Space, which may be related to the Space of Possible Minds, can be found at: http://TheInterMind.com
August 12, 2019 at 13:55
In: What is Mind? What is Matter? Is idealism vs. materialism a confusion?  — view comment
It is a good exercise to try to find the most basic building blocks of the Universe. Science has traced it back to Energy, but you are Speculating tha...
July 24, 2019 at 13:14
In: Neurophenomenology and the Real Problem of Consciousness  — view comment
Maybe more mapping will inspire clues to look in new directions. But the mapping in and of itself does not bring us closer to bridging the Explanatory...
July 24, 2019 at 10:43
In: Neurophenomenology and the Real Problem of Consciousness  — view comment
Mappings are useful. But no amount of Mapping gets us any closer to solving the Hard Problem. More Mapping does not chip away at the Hard Problem. Thi...
July 18, 2019 at 11:11
In: The HARDER Problem of Consciousness  — view comment
The question about whether Data has Consciousness or not cannot be answered at this time. We don't even know what our own Consciousness is. I think wh...
July 13, 2019 at 15:25
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
conscious experience might just be complex information processing (owed to complex neural systems/activity). If you study the Visual Areas of the Brai...
July 04, 2019 at 13:49
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
I had hoped that the original post was an answer to your question. What do you disagree with from that post?
July 03, 2019 at 16:48
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
Let's try this: I think Consciousness is the overarching name we give to the topic. To say you are Consciously Aware means you are actually Experienci...
June 30, 2019 at 15:12
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
If I talk about the Conscious Experience of the Color Red, for example, I am of course assuming you are Aware of the Experience of the Redness. I don'...
June 23, 2019 at 15:07
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
You are right that they can slowly move around in a controlled laboratory environment but you are wrong to imply that we don't need the Conscious Visu...
June 20, 2019 at 21:38
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
These cases of brain damage to the visual system show that these people can maneuver around obstacles slowly. If forced to go fast they cant do it. Th...
June 20, 2019 at 10:27
In: Insane Denial Of Conscious Experience  — view comment
Good Discussion. See my comment to your first post. The point of this Discussion is to propose a reason for Conscious Experience. It is mind boggling ...
June 19, 2019 at 10:57
In: Illusionism undermines Epistemology  — view comment
Lets just think about the Redness of the color Red. If you are Experiencing Redness or if you are having an Illusion of Redness, it is still Redness t...
June 19, 2019 at 10:44
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
If that's all you think of that then Ok, Good luck, Bye,
May 16, 2019 at 22:20
In: Questions about the future for determinists  — view comment
The obvious way out of your dilemma is to include Quantum Mechanical considerations into the operation of your Brain. The Determinism vanishes in a se...
May 15, 2019 at 11:15
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
It has been known for a hundred years that Conscious Experience is related to Neural Activity. You think that the only thing you need is pre-conscious...
May 15, 2019 at 11:03
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
So you are able to move around when there is a Conscious Visual Experience. You seem to be saying that the Pre-Conscious processing is not enough.
May 14, 2019 at 21:59
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
Do you really think you are not using your Conscious Visual Experience when you are absentmindedly driving, or are you just not remembering all the dr...
May 14, 2019 at 10:47
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
Yes Robots have no Volitional input capability. You cannot create Volition with programs. Rather, we need to make special Volitional connections to Ma...
May 14, 2019 at 10:27
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
Do you really think you would be able to move around in the World without bumping into things if you had no Conscious Visual Experience? The Visual Ex...
May 14, 2019 at 10:25
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
I hoped that my previous posts explained why the Neural Processing is not enough. Maybe Brains can evolve that don't need Consciousness but our Brains...
May 13, 2019 at 17:50
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
I agree that Conjecture and Speculation are all we have with regard to what Consciousness is. Everything is still on the table. Science knows absolute...
May 12, 2019 at 19:39
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
If this is a comment on something I said then I don't know which of my posts you are referring to. If it is just a general statement of fact then I ag...
May 12, 2019 at 19:24
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
This argument involves a strange condition called Functional Blindness where no Neurological deficits can be found in the Brain but nevertheless patie...
May 12, 2019 at 17:15
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
The Primacy Of Consciousness: The Scientific view of Consciousness is that it is some kind of byproduct of Neural Activity in the Brain. Most Scientis...
May 12, 2019 at 13:10
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
When I reach for my coffee mug I have a Conscious Visual experience where I See my hand moving toward the coffee mug. If My hand is off track I sense ...
May 12, 2019 at 13:00
In: We're conscious beings. Why?  — view comment
I think Evolution could be heavily guided by Conscious Mind (CM) sensations. Pain will make an Organism or Animal do almost anything to get rid of it....
May 12, 2019 at 12:56
In: Simulating Conciousness  — view comment
First thing is that Science does not know what consciousness actually is. How can you simulate something when you don't know what the thing is that yo...
May 09, 2019 at 22:15
In: Fish Minds Project  — view comment
We Humans say we have Consciousness, but we don't really know what Consciousness is. We won't be able to say too much about the Consciousness of Fish ...
April 30, 2019 at 23:09
In: My biggest problem with discussions about consciousness  — view comment
We Humans say we have Consciousness, but we don't really know what Consciousness is. We won't be able to say too much about the Consciousness of B, C,...
April 30, 2019 at 22:56
In: Mind or body? Or both?  — view comment
Conscious Experience is not explained by Physical Brain Activity. Take for example the Conscious Experience of the Redness of Red. This Redness is in ...
April 26, 2019 at 16:10
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
I think the Redness thing will always be in a different Category than the Electromagnetic thing even if Science can find an Explanation for the Rednes...
April 03, 2019 at 10:45
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
For example, I think there is a Huge difference between the 670nm Electromagnetic Scientific Phenomenon and the Redness Mind Phenomenon that we experi...
April 02, 2019 at 22:37
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
There are separate groups of Neurons that fire for Red and separate groups of Neurons that fire for Blue. Measuring the firing of these Neurons will i...
March 31, 2019 at 23:14
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
It seems like you actually think there is 670nm Electromagnetic Waves banging around in your Brain when you have a Dream about something Red. Any Elec...
March 31, 2019 at 19:16
In: If I knew the cellular & electrical activity of every cell in the brain, would the mind-body problem  — view comment
I fully expect that this problem will be solved someday. But there are people in Science and on these Forums, the Physicalists (or Materialists if you...
March 31, 2019 at 16:03
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
I'm not sure what the ambiguity is. When I say Conscious Sensory Experience I am talking about things like the Redness of Red, or the Toneness of Stan...
March 31, 2019 at 15:48
In: Intentional vs. Material Reality and the Hard Problem  — view comment
Of course you are just trying to be Sarcastic. But I think the Scientific knowledge we have today makes my criteria completely workable. We are not wo...
March 25, 2019 at 10:54
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Conscious Sensory Experience seems to be in a Category of Phenomena that is not part of any known Category of Scientific Phenomena. It is not Super Na...
March 24, 2019 at 23:46
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Your experience with the Physicalists might be right but my experience with them has been that they believe Consciousness is just an Illusion and is n...
March 24, 2019 at 20:20
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Yes. I am very aware of what Qualia are. Also the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap.
March 24, 2019 at 15:53
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Very true.
March 24, 2019 at 15:51
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