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Intuitively, a thing cannot be inside itself. It is itself, not inside itself.

Rather, it is fundamental, and perfectly intuitive.

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I see no reason to assume such an imbalance. What I’d say is that due to the Norman conquest, two languages merged to form modern English: old French ...

I am quite interested in pretheoretical conscious experience. In fact, I taught you how to use this word, remember? https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...

We can’t synthetise the mechanism from scratch yet, which means we are still guessing how it might work. Note that all the flagella have to paddle in ...

Didn’t see that.

Stop trying to confuse yourself. I never said that everything was a symbol, only that some things are. Personally, if I want to talk about the apple, ...

Words are not the only symbols. Qualia are biological symbols, like genes. You don’t need to know genetics to reproduce your genes, and you don’t need...

It's a crime when it is engineered. Murdoch made sure that every 1 in 2 native English speakers in this world ends up a total moron by the age he or s...

The point I am trying to make is a little bit like what people call ‘color coding’. When one wants to represent, say, altitude on a map, one can do so...

As a native French speaker, one of the tricks in writing English is to avoid overusing words of French origin and tap into words of Germanic origin, o...

Yes, you see some of that happening.

This physiological apparatus uses symbols. I’m not talking of articulated language here, but of the symbols that colors and tastes are. You keep missi...

It’s not me talking but professor Shravan Vasishth, an Indian-origin professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Potsdam in Germany. How would...

I use them professionally. DeepL is my favorite.

There’s this new tool, DeepL, which is a bit better. I use it a lot. These things are similar to the Chinese room, in their principle. Une canaille in...

Dennett set up this strawman all by himself. You are not paying attention. You are welcome to obliterate your own concepts, and not use certain words....

It is one way to connect a subject and his objects, yes. It’s called perception. The subject perceives the object through a symbolic representation. T...

Confusing things is your specialty here, I guess.

As you must be aware of, one can objectify a subject without difficulty...

Correct, like a lot of other things. Words for instance.

Dennett was trying to attack the idea of qualia as ineffable, private and directly apprehensible in consciousness. Yet all he achieves with his intuit...

It seems you are not particularly familiar with facts either....

I think the concept is useful, as it allows for an understanding of how we can recognize tastes, smells, colours and voices, by assuming the existence...

Well then, drop qualia and use another concept to try to say what you want to say...

My question would rather be: who gives a flying rat’s ass, and why? If Dennett prefers to use another term than qualia, who is stopping him? Why does ...

You should thank Apokrisis, who clued me on to this vibe. This said, it has nothing to do with Dennett so I have posted it on another thread. The mods...

On the advice of Apokrisis I’ve been reading about Pierce theory of signs, and the importance of interpretation by a subject, which according to Howar...

and chips... My take is: the crime of anachronistic nationalism.

What a surprise! If you are interested in philosophy, as opposed to the speculative mental expertiments of the anti-mentals, I’ve been reading about m...

Thanks, interesting take by Chris Grey. He ends up with: That’s a good question.

Ok, I’l bite... And the conclusion is?

Mary’s room is what happens when a traditional male ‘thinker’ tries to behave all pro-women: 1) choose female guinea pig for your thought experiments;...

Err.. no, I’m not a big fan of Dennett. I think he is bulshitter.

Add a brain in a vat, a brain in a bat, a cat in a box, and poor Mary who never had her periods. I’ll try my chances with the nun.

That our perceptions and experiences are private and inaccessible to others is a fact, which empiricists should respect I think. I cannot read your mi...

Your recommendations are noted. Do you have any evidence regarding the issue being discussed, which was FYI:

I seriously doubt it. Don’t believe all the hype.

Err... can you narrow down your query? If you have a particular paper or experiment — philosophically relevant — that you want to point me to, I’d be ...

Not really. I’m not talking of conscious vs. unconscious here, but of predictable in advance vs. unpredictable. Libet’s experiment was testing the abi...

The whole idea of an “epistemic cut” is precisely how Pattee phrases what others call “the hard problem”.

Correct. Libet’s experiment is easily debunked. We know that our decisions are often taken after some deliberation, that we commit to a choice after c...

I’ve now read Cell Phenomenology: The First Phenomenon by Howard Pattee, and I must say it’s top notch. Thanks for this reference.

Nukes work better though. I don't care about what these enemies of mankind have to say in their defense.

I don't think so. They mass murdered the aborigines and gave rise a world-class disinformation enterprise leading the world right into the wall of cli...

Ok, will check them out. Thanks. "An early part of my adventures" was the Kabbalah and its sefirot tree. :-) Of course it's loaded with all sorts of i...

Indeed, we should start with Australia, where he’s based and started his malevolent empire. Invading them shouldn’t be too hard. Then dismantle said e...

Formally yes but in fact, Murdock rules them.

Most Americans say horrible things of their regime in Washington. They all want it to get fixed, and that's where I come in. I haven't decided yet it'...