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Name one.

It is indeed a part of what I meant! But the additional point is that what is denoted by the symbol is an intellectual act, not a phenomenal existent....

Because a lot of your comments come off as if you're trolling. You're clearly educated, but in threads like this, you're not addressing the issue, bey...

Whereas I think you're exemplifying the problem that the OP is seeking to explain.

And not a valid one. The mark is a symbol. What it represents is a mathematical value, not an object.

You'd think!

If I ask you to point to the number 7, what would you actually point to? At most, you could indicate a token—a mark on paper, a glyph on a screen, or ...

For the record, I will never accept eliminativism because it denies the very thing that makes knowing, questioning, arguing, or explaining possible in...

The data recorded by such devices can’t be an illusion until it is interpreted by a user. Otherwise it’s just pixels. LLMs are different, as the opera...

Schopenhauer says time began with the first eye opening.

I'm mainly going on the SEP entry Refutation of Idealism. After the first edition of COPR came out, Kant was annoyed by the fact that many critics acc...

Fair enough. I'll concede that. For what it's worth, I think the Cartesian 'dream argument' is defeated in principle by Kant's 'refutation of idealism...

Yes, well, if you're saying that their research disproves the 'simulation' idea, but not, in principle, Descartes 'dream' argument, I guess I can see ...

Here, I want to come back to the reality of intelligibles. Scientific principles, mathematical relations, and the natural numbers are not dependent on...

There’s actually a vast literature on whether or in what sense scientific laws exist, whether they’re laws etc.

It’s an artifact as such an extension of human capabilities.

I’ve noticed Peirce’s distinctions, mainly through interactions with @apokrisis over the years, and have read up on them a little. I find them useful ...

Many would agree with you.

Besides - the article says ‘ We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of qu...

Me too but I’m also aware that may be a metaphorical expression.

I don’t think Plato himself said that. His ‘demiurge’ was not strictly speaking the same as the biblical creator. Those conceptions came much later wi...

What the research proposes is a domain of abstract mathematical structure—symmetries, constraints, and relations—from which the behaviour of physical ...

I think any useful metaphysic has to be able to disinguish reality, being and existence. These terms all have overlapping meanings, but they’re not ex...

I've been a Dennett antagonist ever since before joining this Forum. I thought the title of his book Consciousness Explained was ridiculously pompous ...

Oh, no I didn't write it, but I feel it supports the point I was making in my comment. I heard about that article on another forum a couple of years a...

I’ve always felt that the basic idea behind the myth of the Fall of Man is indispensable in understanding the human condition (not that I necessarily ...

I have never posited consciousness as a 'thinking thing' or as an homuncular entity. And an illusion is something that only a mind can entertain. Alth...

Of course! Neither you or @"Patterner" are the kinds of reductive materialists that Bitbol (and Chalmers) have in their sights - but plenty are, and t...

I think that is just a tad cynical.

I should add a caveat about McGinn. His “mysterian” view is useful in one narrow sense: he at least takes the reality of consciousness seriously, and ...

Another snippet from Michel Bitbol, this one from a paper Is Consciousness Primary? (I’m on a Bitbol bender at the moment.) It is an example of how th...

All of this still operates entirely within the materialist frame. It searches for an objective correlate—some measurable physical proxy—that can be ma...

For that matter, why is THIS thread on the front page? :brow:

Fair enough. What with today's climate shenanigans in Australian politics, I'm sensitive to the downplaying of it, that's all.

A lot of really bad things can happen, short of civilizational collapse. For example, Bangladesh faces exceptionally severe consequences from climate ...

Any one-sentence OP is basically click bait.

What if the whole of evolutionary history is that process? That the emergence of life just is the manifestation of the subjective? And furthermore, th...

Excellent question! Broadly, it means humans are confronted with the fact of their own mortality, in a way that animals are not. (This is not to say t...

Meanwhile, here in Australia, the conservative political parties (Liberal-National Coalition) look set to dump the commitment to Net Zero emissions by...

At this point, I’d like to draw attention back to a book page mentioned by @"Pierre-Normand" - Hillary Putnam on Facts and Values. The cover descripti...

Existentialism grew out of phenomenology. But neither of them are the subjects of Chalmers’ argument in ‘facing up to the problem of consciousness’.

… not to forget Socrates…. It’s not all ‘lazy syncretism’. Consider for example Fathers Bede Griffiths and Raymundo Panikkar. Both exemplified Christi...

Hmmm… do I detect a similarity here? :chin:

In a broad sense, but they are not counted amongst the ‘exact sciences’, are they? Their proponents might aspire to it, but there are many difficultie...

That’s a reasonable point and one that turns on what “natural” means. If by natural we mean “what belongs to the order of things that occur independen...

There's an important perspectival shift missing in that account, somewhat analogous to 'figure and ground'. As I said, you cannot find or point to con...

A note on Tillich (various sources) Tillich argued that the God of traditional theism — conceived as a supreme being among other beings, a kind of hig...

Because it's not! You can observe other people. and animals, which you can safely assume to be conscious, and which you can safely assume feel just li...

I agree with you, but I already acknowledged somewhere in this thread (can't find it now) the role that ecclesiastical Chrisianity had in spawning ath...

It certainly puts modern Western science, as understood since Galileo, on one side of it. Unambiguously. You know that German culture has a word, Geis...