The apple is red in order to be noticed by an animal. Banno may think that he is no mind, but he is most probably an animal, with some capacity to per...
Seems then that we agree that there is mind seeing the apple Thought it worth checking, given how people here are easily spooked by their own psycholo...
If there were no apple, there would be no point in seeing an apple. Our senses have developed through evolution, because they work. Yes they do help u...
Seeing the apple means precisely to apprehend it through our senses, to construct a meaningful representation of it based on sense data. It's a relati...
Not to be pedant, but panpsychism doesn't actually provide a solution to this problem. It rather explains how animate matter becomes ever more animate...
At a basic, grammatical level, the latter is the adjective, while the former is the noun derived from the adjective. Redness is therefore the state or...
It's not about your species. Animals can reject things. Dogs tend to reject salad. Cats tend to reject swimming (and dogs). The capacity to reject thi...
If you change the definition of words, it's going to be hard to communicate... It takes a lot of time and chance to get to true consciousness. It does...
No argument from me, just curious about your kind. I've met zombies before, as well as automaton wannabees, but it's the first time I meet with an out...
The world is a vast place. You could be a little more specific. I bet you live quite close to a certain human body of flesh, bones and nerves, that yo...
Did you ever wake up to find A day that broke up your mind Destroyed your notion of circular time It's just that demon life has got you in its sway Ai...
Okay so you conceive of your "seeing of an apple" as different from the real apple. That's all there is to it. That's what the debate is about. When p...
People have disagreed about apple colours before. When they do, are they seeing a different apple? Beside, there are also optical illusions about colo...
It may relate to these issues but it does not impact on them. E.g. you can think apples are red and still be a dualist. You cannot actually reject any...
Good point. People keep loading the concept with extraneous baggage. By the way, Dennett's pumps illustrate that qualia are objective to a degree, and...
I have no evidence that things disappear when I don't look at them. In fact, conservation of mass and energy requires that the existence of things doe...
So you are going to tell all about how minds, sensations, feelings are uncommonly but properly theorised or intuited? 'Cause the other guys ain't tell...
Yes, one can direct one's thoughts to a degree, or at least it feels this way, and this is a big reason why we identify with 'our' thoughts. We have s...
LOL. Talk for yourself, Banno. You can of course contend that you personally cannot make sense of the concept. But don't deny other people's use of it...
I think we all know instinctively that the world can disagree with us, that it can very well contradict our interpretations of it. The facts of the wo...
For colors, the looking and the being are dentical. An apple that receives no light cannot absorb part of the visible spectrum and reflect the other. ...
Consciousness by definition is always the consciousness of something (the world). So the world does not spring of consciousness, it is a logical requi...
Certainly, talk of "frequencies" depends upon language use, just as talk of "redness" does, or talk of anything else... and ' we've named "red" ' depe...
You too can do better than your silly attempts at undermining perfectly fine concepts. You cannot destroy any concept anyway, least of all the concept...
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