Wayfarer

You’re not seriously asking that question are you? :worry:

But the point is, information can’t be reduced to energy and matter, although I suspect that will be over your head. Otherwise, why would Norbert Wien...

He was 'thinking out loud' - obviously. 'If only we could zap the virus with light and disinfectant while it's in the body!' Just like any child.

True that. Only a dogmatic fanatic could think there's anything the matter with Trump. :lol:

If you are familiar with abhidharma analysis and the 12 steps of dependent origination then you can see that the dhammas/dharmas are like elements of ...

Essentially the concept of dharmas in Buddhism are not like the Greek concept of atoms, in that they are momentary existents. They come into and go ou...

It is one way of looking at it.

I myself tend towards transcendental/epistemological idealism. The empirical/phenomenal/sensory domain is real but not (in Buddhist terms) ‘self-exist...

'These hoaxes' being the whole 'deep state conspiracy', purportedly launched by the Democratic National Committee, in collusion with corrupt elements ...

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It's not that simple, but I'm not going to try and explain the conflict between scholastic realism and nominalism, which is an enormous topic. What's ...

There is an element which is the same in all observers, that element being bare awareness. But as soon as that bare awareness is differentiated, which...

Agree. It is one of the 'myths of the Enlightenment' that the laws of physics can be thought to account for everything in existence. That is one of th...

Right! That is the missing context from the OP. As the linked Wikipedia article notes, many others, right back to Aristotle, were all for parsimony wh...

‘Trump derangement syndrome’ was coined early in Trump’s misrule, to characterise the many people shocked and appalled by his election as suffering fr...

I don’t understand how it’s possible, in all honesty, to defend Trump’s performance in the office of President. No matter how you spin it, or twist it...

Semantics cannot be reduced to syntax either. But you need both, otherwise trouble get you in all kinds of.

There is an answer to that, which is highly specific to William of Ockham and his place in intellectual history. Hint: it is mentioned precisely once ...

Trump has hit the lowest point AGAIN! How many lowest points can one person hit? Well, stay tuned. But after an unending torrent of disasters, lies, m...

doesn’t apply to the Universe? Actually on a more serious note, there’s something your OP doesn’t say, which is what the types of ‘entities’ were that...

So what do you reckon old Bill would make of the multiverse? I reckon he’s be turning in his grave.

No, Heisenberg's 'uncertainty principle' is much more radical than that. It's not that we can't know both the position and momentum of the object that...

https://www.britannica.com › science

yes but that is my point. It is a nonsense word that has crept into the philosophical lexicon, and ought not to be used. The only place you will ever ...

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Not non-physical, perhaps, but certainly not objective, nor capable of being treated as objects. Incidentally, I regard ‘qualia’ as a nonsense word. I...

Daniel Dennett, who is Chalmer’s most obvious opponent, doesn’t believe there’s any hard problem whatever. But then, he can’t, because if there is one...

This is what comes to mind. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ol1ge

Which is just the kind of problem that Chalmer’s describes as ‘the easy problem’. I’m not accusing you in particular of bias, I’m making an observatio...

You can study consciousness through cognitive science and psychology. That's why I keep saying the question really is about the nature of being - 'wha...

Except that it doesn't. It means you're not addressing the problem. Here are some examples of what David Chalmer's calls 'the easy problem of consciou...

You're not addressing 'the problem'. You think your misunderstanding of it constitutes an answer. A lot of people do that.

That answers the easy problem, not the hard problem.

Thomas Nagel, The Core of "Mind and Cosmos"

But if your brain really was off - and I do wonder - then you wouldn’t. :razz:

1 is false. If you’re asleep you’re still perfectly capable of feeling - the brain is not off, that would correspond with anesthesia or coma. Which pr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkU1ob_lHCw

That's because you need to look at your assumptions, not just through them.

Right. And let me suggest why: because the strong consensus in our culture is to believe that everything is reducible to physical systems. That is wha...

Regarding Chalmer's dualism, his Wiki entry simply says 'Chalmers characterizes his view as "naturalistic dualism": naturalistic because he believes m...

Is the brain a physical thing? Well, of course, there's the physical brain - but only if you separate it from the organism, at which point it does ind...

http://consc.net/papers/facing.html Personally, I think the above passage reads better if 'being' was used in the place of 'experience'.

It would be better states as 'no objective description is the same as a subjective experience.' As often with this problem, your attempt to 'explain i...

My dog does one’s and two’s. The one’s I can generally ignore, but the two’s I have to clean up.

never mind that 'her choice' might result in another's infection and death. Trumpism is finally fulfilling its destiny - as a Death Cult.

The implicit issue is whether the belief or non-belief matters. Whether you believe or don't believe in the subject of a fairly trivial thought experi...

I don't see that at all. One of the main points of evolutionary biology is to insist that humans are on a continuum with other species. It was the rel...

But, mathematics and so on can't be understood in those terms. There's simply no way of doing it. If you were engaged in mental arithmetic, there's no...

It's a tendentious article in my opinion. In my view, rationality depends on the ability to abstract and to impute meaning. Most forms of animal behav...

There's often an implicit presupposition about what constitutes 'evidence'. That presupposition is generally an appeal to empiricism. This means the d...