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I've mentioned this already: reason cannot undermine reason, a subject cannot doubt his own subjectivity, observations cannot prove that all observati...

That's one of the related philosophical issue indeed. Another one, much more pressing here in my view, is What founds the knowledge of Dennett, if not...

Okay so on this ordinary language scheme, subject/object duality is necessary.

"The cold is feeling Alice" makes as much sense as "Alice is feeling cold", right? English grammar makes no distinction between subject and object. Er...

In Europe, everyone is happy the cryptonazi lost. A title from the French press this morning: Trump almost alone in his bunker (Journal du Dimanche)

Hope it works for you. I will stick to science and to the tools nature gave me.

You behave dogmatically here, you try to defend a long-dead dogma (behaviorism), and that's why you have nothing interesting to say on the topic. You ...

yep, that's about right.

I don't know what the metaphysical implication is. The physical one is that you need a frame of reference to describe any event. This is a logical, ma...

I guess nothing ever happens in the view from nowhere, then.

That's just another way to say the same thing though.

So your conscious experience is not subjective? Is that what you say?

Your what?

I'm no idealist. Consciousness rules not the universe. Animals endowned with it use it for their own highly integrative analysis and action orientatio...

Accounting by whom and to whom? We always return to the subject.

Two behaviorists make love. At the end one of them says: "It was good for you. How was it for me?"

It's not horseshit. To deny one's subjectivity is by definition to deny one's own life.

It rules out action at a distance.

The biologist bases his knowledge on observation, which implies subjectivity. He trusts his own senses and his own intellect, subjective and biologica...

Yes, in short. They question their own senses a bit too much. Real things are simpler than all this mad neurosurgeon literature, because biology place...

I am a learning specialist of sorts... An effective, logical and well grounded philosophical approach to learning must involve Phenomenology, and due ...

Alright. I'll take the first one. 1. An atom decays and emits radioactivity. At what scale is this event happening? Assuming that the laws of nature a...

You need language that is as objective as possible, apparently, and to give it to you, I need tools to spot and guard against my natural subjectivity....

I am going to try and interpret this in my own language, if you don't mind. Correct me if I am wrong. The question would translate in my language as: ...

You are asking the wrong guy. The view from nowhere and everywhere is the view of God, and I am an atheist.

What It's Like To Be An Italian ... would be an interesting topic for a philosophy book. I doubt it would bring more clarity than similar books about ...

Qualia are always plural (to me anyway, like data), and private so you cannot actually point at them. But you can perceive them.

You are being cancelled because you believed your own senses, rather than what emperor Dennett told you to believe... How dared you? :-)

Sweet non-dreams.

You feel insulted by the concept of mind?

Oh for gode sake. Don't use the concept if you don't need it, and let others use it if they seem to need it. It's not like we're forcing you to eat yo...

The credibility of a source is important, though. Who is saying what, and for which reason/motive, is important. Or do you believe anything Trump says...

I'll steal it. We can apprehend the world through quality and quantity, hence both of these must exist, at least in our mind. Very neat.

That's a very elegant argument... Thanks!

Good for you. Can you tell sugar from salt by tasting it? If yes, you have qualia too.

Haha, thanks. It's good to see an optimist philosopher who hasn't sacrificed his senses on the altar of nihilism, and can still enjoy his coffee.. :-)...

It's your denial that I find sad. You guys are denying your own senses and your own life. It's nothing to me of course, but it makes TPF a bit depress...

Can you taste your coffee and find it too strong, with not enough sugar or milk?

If that works for you, why not? It doesn't work for me. I see the subjective experience as the font of all knowledge.

Consider that you can reliably identify the actual chemistry of your food by tasting it, at least for those chemicals that have a taste. You can decid...

I guess that was not part of the initial Darwinian advantage. The system evolved over eons to provide each individual its own capacity to make importa...

I make no guesses about how memory works either. I've read a few books. It's complicated alright, so let's perhaps not go into how it works. What I ca...

I think qualia are functional. If they exists, they exist for a reason.

So why did you want to go into that, then?

Let me explain with another gustatory example. I made dinner tonight, a carbonara. I picked a big piece of guanciale (a sort of extremely fat bacon ma...

How much do you need to complexify it?

If you can recognize your favorite coffee only by its taste, it means you have memorized this taste somehow.

Would you be able to recognise the coffee you like in a blind test?

It is a logical claim. As such, it could be disproved by using propositional logic. I am saying something like: If A and B do not exist, then the prop...

Not confusing them, just saying you can't have flavour preferences if flavours don't exist.