No kidding. But the judgement that is involved in making that argument is not physical. If you want to arrive at any understanding of what 'physical' ...
That's the nub of the issue - methodological naturalism is taken to be a metaphysics, which it actually is not. This is how science comes to be seen a...
A form of existence that is aware of itself. Well, for a start that is not true, because we all know many things that are never expressed. If you take...
Well, true, but I still think calling it out serves a purpose. I’m trying to get the point across that why it seems so obvious that only the physical ...
I posted a response yesterday: To say that mind is not reducible to physical constituents, is not to posit some ethereal substance or 'ghost in the ma...
Sure you do. It's implied in everthing you write. Whatever is being forced on you, is doing so by virtue of your prior commitment to the sole reality ...
Forms are not just the shapes of physical things; they are the essential principles that particular things must conform to in order to exist. For inst...
If you mean, Bernardo Kastrup, then yes, he describes himself as an 'analytical idealist'. (I suspect he includes 'analytical' to align his approach w...
Phenomenology is grounded on that awareness. The phenomenological method is grounded in awareness of the nature of first-person experience, but not fr...
As a footnote to the above, what really is 'physical'? Is the brain physical? Living organisms? I question these assumptions, because living organisms...
They're not that. There are limitations to scientific method in this respect as a matter of principle, which you're not seeing. It requires a differen...
I think that can be questioned. 'Intelligence' is the term we use but whether artificial intelligence is actually intelligent is questionable. I put i...
But aren’t they always connected? Can you provide an example of where they’re not? And can intelligence really be defined and measured? I suppose it c...
You're still not seeing the point, though. There is some ability to infer some obvious physiological correlations like pain or epilepsy from neuroscie...
I might as well try and spell this out, as it's been a bone of contention between us in many debates. There is a deep philosophical problem here. To s...
You have yet to explain how intelligence can be dissociated from consciousness. You might say that AI does this, but as noted above, AI systems don't ...
I struggle with the idea that causation is always indirect. As I type this, my keystrokes cause the appropriate symbols to appear on the screen. I und...
That is your particular intepretation of the problem. David Chalmer’s original paper doesn’t say that. He says that understanding the specific functio...
Hey, thanks for that feedback! As has been pointed out already, that abstract that you're reacting to was AI generated, for the purpose of criticism o...
They only have a tendency to exist. We know they don't have any determinate existence until they're measured. That is an implication of Heisenberg's u...
Thank you Banno, means a lot. I don't claim that it conveys anything particularly earth-shattering but I was pleased with the writing style and with w...
There's a well-known - some might say notorious - case which was recounted in a popular book of the 1970's, Supernature, and again in a more recent wo...
Paul Kneirem had a rather good little essay on the topic on the old forum which I think I saved somewhere. Also God does not exist, although you’ll sa...
I can understand why you would say that, as it seems a strange distinction to make, but the distinction between what is real and what exists is nevert...
Well, go ahead, define it. You say human level intelligence ‘can be achieved’ and superhuman intelligence some time after that. Show some evidence you...
Of course human-level intelligence is an aspect of human consciousness. Where else can it be found? What else could it be? But not associated with con...
now you mention that, I have noticed it, although haven't looked at it. I've just bought the Kindle edition of his The World is Full of Gods, which I ...
Indeed. That is one of the unique attributes of living beings. The hallmark of organic life is that it has to maintain itself rather than being subsum...
Yes, well for little Cara, the world is indeed a vast enchanted garden. https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/11/the-happiness-of-dogs-by...
The last few weeks I've been looking after a poodle-spaniel cross ('cavoodle') about a year old. She's never been neglected or hit, and as a consequen...
If 'gleaning' means 'understanding', then AI systems glean nothing. In fact a computer system knows nothing. I put that to gemini too, which responded...
Perhaps then you can parse this sentence for me: (I take it 'nowt' means 'nothing but'.) So, the objection appears to be, that body is wholly phyhsica...
But it is the inability to describe, explain or account for how physically describable systems are related to the mind, that is what is described in '...
That is meta-cognitive awareness - knowing about knowing, understanding through insight how the mind operates. That might seem obvious but since 20th ...
Odd, then, that you’ve created a long OP, and engaged in a multi page discussion, about just this fact, with no resolution apparent. Perhaps you're ta...
Because the clock itself has no awareness of the duration between two points on its face. The measuring device comprises a machine that advances a poi...
I believe 'cracked' is the word you're looking for, but then, a joke explained is a joke lost. Incidentally, for interested readers, a substantial art...
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