I've learned that Lewis is generally credited with introducing the term, although Peirce had anticipated it. But the modern problem of qualia took sha...
Do you know in which philosophical esay or book the term was introduced, and why? Quite aside from the difficulties you seem to be having in grasping ...
Of course. But then, I recall you discussing Deacon's Incomplete Nature. He also is very interested in teleonomic (as distinct from teleological) phen...
It’s not a digital computer, but it’s a device used for calculations. But the rhetorical point, was simply that computers no more intend than does the...
What thing would that be? Incidentally a nice Australian Broadcasting Corp feature on the 100 year anniversary of Heisenberg's famous paper https://ww...
I think that’s a rather deflationary way of putting it. The 'non-computable' aspect of decision-making isn’t some hidden magic, but the fact that our ...
Let's go back to the source. The whole 'problem' is intended to demonstrate the sense in which objective, third-party descriptions, the basic currency...
Yes, would need all of that - but the point being, computers are still physical systems. The point is they are qualities of experience and therefore p...
Yes, it is reasonable: but the point is, there was not! What I'm arguing against is the idea that our picture of the world, as we imagine it to be wit...
An abacus can be used to process information - it's a primitive computer. There's no real difference in principle between the abacus and a computer. T...
How is it not? How did the fall in temperature not cause the water to freeze, or the corrosion of the main support beam not cause the bridge to fall? ...
Nope. I dispute that. To say what it is, to name it, you have to bring it to mind. If you are considering what it would be, sans any observer, you're ...
The meaning of qualia is the quality of experience - what it like, as the literature has it. The experienced sensation of it. And the whole point of t...
MU, this is going to be my last word on the topic. You're confusing distinct Aristotelian categories by treating formal and final cause as though they...
I think we’re talking past each other at this point. My view, following O’Callaghan (and by extension, Aquinas and Aristotle), is that top-down causat...
Right. So, would the rules of the game be somewhat analogous to a form in the Platonic sense? There are very impressive displays of this kind of abili...
Another of Karl Popper's promissory notes, I'm afraid. But it's informative, and slightly scary, the ease with which it is assumed that consciousness ...
Expert chess players are able to play with no physical board. Grand masters, for instance, will play against 10 opponents simultaneously, sometimes wh...
Gets my vote. I think the insuperable obstacle to such an idea is that the nature of life and of mind are inneffable, and, as such, it can't be define...
Top-down causation doesn't mean external coercion or denial of agency—quite the opposite. It refers to the way the organization or unity of a system c...
I have no reason to doubt the media reports on it. As for you, you want to believe it, as one who has spent the last 8 years defending and supporting ...
What is an example of such an idea? Who holds that there is such a thing? As for mental causation, what if I were to write something that caused you t...
Not at all! I very much appreciate the careful and constructive comments on The Mind-Created World. They show genuine engagement, and I welcome the th...
From here. Again, thanks for your comments on the OP. Here I would like to clarify the key points where my claim goes further than a cautiously realis...
For Deutsch, the wavefunction never collapses; instead, all possible outcomes of a quantum event occur in a vast, branching multiverse. This preserves...
Because, so far as we know, consciousness is an attribute of sentient beings. And there’s no reason to believe that any collection of material compone...
I question whether computer systems possess any element of consciousness whatever. Organic life, for instance, is organic on every level, right down t...
Good essay and very carefully composed. Overall, I find it congenial, although I’m not as disposed to consider the theological elements. But this conc...
I think the issue here, is that what classical texts mean by 'thinks' is not what we normally intend by it. I read in The Embodied Mind, that prior to...
In this case, “is” doesn’t mean numerical identity (as in "Clark Kent is Superman") but rather participation in a common essence. The Father is God, t...
I've read that it looks like a contradiction if you assume “is” means numerical identity. In Trinitarian theology, “is God” means shares the same divi...
A visiting theologian once presented this diagrammatic representation of the Trinity which I, at least, found useful in understanding the idea: https:...
You’re not seeing the point. No depiction of pain, no matter how extraordinarily detailed, is pain. Pain is an experience, and experiences are undergo...
:100: The universe that most believe would be there in the absence of any observer would not have any form, as form is discovered by the mind (per Cha...
But then, you're willing to trust Tulsi Gabbard's rewriting of history, over the unambiguous findings of the bi-partisan committee that investigated t...
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