T_Clark

Not to be flip - ok, ok, to be flip - I think there is pretty good scientific evidence that all the people in the world are not chatbots. You and I se...

I suggest you wait to respond to this post. I'm way behind on this thread and I'll have more comments in additional posts. It might make sense to wait...

I'll take a look. Thanks.

I don't think we do agree. I don't think biological processes are either necessary or sufficient for mental processes to develop. Unless you believe t...

As usual, I think you know a lot more about this than I do. Reading more about chaos and complexity are high on my reading wish list. Any particular r...

Keeping in mind that flipping 1,000 heads in a row is no less likely than any other specific series of heads and tails, there are 2 ^1,000 possible co...

At about the same time a scientist, I think it was Lord Kelvin, said that the enterprise of science had reached a conclusion. All that was left was to...

I was at the YMCA today. One of the weight lifters, tired and sweaty, had a t-shirt that said - "Suck it up and get on with it." He didn't know he was...

I don't know if you're from the US. If so, this arrogant attitude is one of the reasons Donald Trump is president. Such contempt. It's also one of the...

There are no answers to why questions, at least not in science. Sometimes we can figure out how. As for how do mental processes arise, I believe it is...

I have found it's very common that I write something that I think is clear but other people don't understand what I'm trying to say. Sorry, I've gone ...

We're not getting anywhere. I'm think we've taken it as far as we can.

I believe that biological processes are sufficient to explain human mental processes. Nothing else is required. I think you have your logic backwards....

Calling my conclusions "intuitive" doesn't mean anything. If you want to say that you don't agree with them without additional evidence, fine. That's ...

I wasn't aware that you had said that. I must have misunderstood. Sure, although trivial. We're only talking about one particular type of mental proce...

Unless I have misunderstood him, he does believe that mental processes come from other than merely biological processes. If that's true, he should pro...

It is my understanding of how things are based on 1) a limited amount of specific reading on the subject and 2) my underlying belief in the way things...

Consciousness is a mental process, one among many. Mental processes are manifestations of biological processes. Those processes have been and are bein...

As I have said, there are theories of the biological nature of mental processes backed up by scientific studies. To a certain extent, that's beside th...

What I said previously is that it is my understanding that mental processes are a manifestation of biological processes and biological processes are a...

As with all other things in the world, just because. That's how it works. No mystery. You put all that stuff in a jug, shake it up and down, pour it o...

I agree, but from what you've said, I think you and I have different reasons for thinking so.

Sorry. I'm lost. I could keep track of some of what you wrote, but in the end, it spun off.

Yes, you can get behind it or outside it to see what it is. The confusing difference is that you can also see it, feel it from the inside. That confus...

I don't understand. My way of saying it sure seems simpler.

I don't know what that means.

Mental processes are different in kind from biological/neurological processes in the same way biological processes are different from chemical process...

It is my understanding that the human mind is structured, at least partially by evolution I suppose, to see things in dualities in spite of the fact t...

First, I don't know if this lead to any misunderstanding, but my quote isn't right. It should read "chemical activity," not chemical and biological. B...

Both, in different ways. Our experience of the world is a manifestation of brain activity. That manifestation, whatever you call it, the mind I guess,...

This is not true. There is a well-developed branch of cognitive science which studies the biological and neurological basis of consciousness. They hav...

It has been my position in this thread that I don't think this make sense from a pragmatic point of view. As I said in the OP: Also, it is my understa...

Thanks. Really helpful post, although it's helpful in making me think about broader issues, not necessarily about coming to conclusions about my origi...

Are you using "indeterminability" as a synonym for "indeterminism?" I don't think that's correct. It seems to me it is closer to being one for "unpred...

As I indicated in the OP, I see the determinism/predictability question as just one in a larger set of issues. I would love to broaden that discussion...

In spite of your snotty criticism, I have found this thread very helpful in clarifying my ideas about determinism and predictability. Randomness has n...

If clairvoyance could give actual, verifiable predictions of future events, that would be good evidence for determinism, although perhaps not exactly ...

You have referenced Taleb many times. I admit, having not read his books, I had always seen him as a charlatan like Malcolm Gladwell. You've convinced...

You and I (and several others) have gone back and forth on this quite a few times in this thread. I think we've taken it as far as we're going to get....

What in God's name difference does it make if JTB or TB is true? Who has ever cared about that other than a few people with too much time on their han...

Also - if JTB is on the cutting edge of unresolved philosophical questions, philosophy is in big trouble. The Gettier paper was written when I was 11 ...

As Lincoln wrote - of the average Joes, for the average Joes, and by the average Joes. The contempt philosophy shows for average Joes is one if the re...

I think you're saying that the quintessential Hamlet (or anything else) is the one used as a standard by which others are judged. If so, then I think ...

Well, don't leave us hanging, tell us the difference.

I think I was too offhanded in my response to your post. Let me explain more. Your post provides a good description of a simple system where it is rea...

The idea of randomness kind of snuck into this discussion. It's not something I've thought enough about to be comfortable with my understanding. Your ...

As I discussed previously - I'm not talking about flipping a coin and trying to predict the outcome. I'm talking about flipping the coin numerous time...

I don't want to get too far from the definitions I established in the OP. The substance of the position I have presented is that I don't think it is u...

In the OP and subsequent posts, I laid out specific meanings for "determinism" and "predictability" and the kinds of situations to which I think they ...

An interesting discussion of Armstrong's work, but definitely outside limits of my experience. Maybe science hasn't always claimed to see the world fr...