Because people who don't like cauliflower try to avoid eating cauliflower independently of the circumstances. Because an optical illusion cannot be re...
I suspect the pumps (no less than 15 of them, mind you) and their increasing esoteric scenarios are there to confuse the reader, to make him lose the ...
What is an "extra" layer of epistemic value, may I ask???? Something you haven't yet read about in a book? Something non-canonical? And how can you po...
I already know that I'm going to cry I'm going to complain And that I'm going to laugh I know that in the dark You can't see 'nada' The sunset lasted ...
Voilà Voilà There you go, it starts again Everywhere and in the sweet France Here they go again Everywhere, everywhere, they advance The lesson wasn't...
Now the king told the boogie men "You have to let that raga drop" The oil down the desert way Has been shakin' to the top The Sheik he drove his Cadil...
Why treat emergence as something special, different from a tree falling in the forest? Are you making some assumption about emergence here, that would...
Let's see... In the unlikely hypothesis that I cared to know for sure how my tea tasted to you, I would try to figure out if you have any reason to li...
Right, so one cannot logically say: "subjective experience means nothing, only science does", because science is an effort to firm up and generalize s...
Mother, mother There's too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying You know we've got to find a way To bring so...
That is indeed a key point to differentiate science from other forms of knowledge. However, note that the replications and verifications are still don...
Exactly. So the more thought experiments Dennett piles up to try and disqualify qualia, the more he affirms that qualia can be affected by genetics or...
Note that the scientists who objectively and verifiably invert poor Chase’s taste buds in IP #8, the pill that changes Dennett’s experience of caulifl...
I just summarized each and every of his 15 "pumps", and then examined it... I am aware it is hard to do, it took me the evening. But now I can prove t...
Correct. It is private in the sense that you cannot be sure that others see exactly what you see. But it is universal in the sense that we all report ...
If there is no view from nowhere, there are views from somewhere. The cogito is happening: I think thus am, and the world appears to be as well; as we...
Okay, a brave attempt at a summary, but you stayed at safe distance from Dennett's actual argument, only evoking his "intuition pumps" without trying ...
Oh mercy, mercy me Things ain't what they used to be Where did all the blue skies go? Poison is the wind that blows from the north And south and east ...
And how is "7894785327954" not an equally "reasonable" answer, in the absence of any empirical fact? You lost yourself in a sea of empty speculations ...
Just another one for the fun: the Munker illusion: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Whites_illusion.jpg Figure 1. Rectangles A, on ...
Read the thread... please try to understand the points being made. The trick is to get out of your denial mode of thinking, to open your mind to new i...
The problem has been solved, to my satisfaction at least. Qualia can't easily be isolated from other qualia, and talking of them as simple objects (e....
Qualia are defined as the way things appear to us. If things are distinct from how they appear, stubbornly so, then there is some demonstrable stabili...
Let's call it the Marchesk-Olivier argument for the existence of qualia. :-) The key point is that the illusion doesn't go away, it is stable and repl...
Right. The point being that the image you are seeing is at an obvious, demonstrable variance with objective reality, but that this variance doesn't go...
There is something stubborn about optical illusions. Even when you understand your perception error intellectually, it doesn't make the subjective (an...
Yes, by and large agreed. If we could have the same kind of consciousness without a brain, we probably wouldn't have a brain... Vice versa, if we coul...
The illusion is that you perceive the A square as markedly darker than the B square, while in fact they are of the exact same shade of grey... (I actu...
Let me say it, then: we don't know for a fact that consciousness comes only from the brain. It could emerge from the entire nervous system, or even fr...
Lots of nice tunes and inspiring lyrics in the thread... :-) Thank you guys. Now a question for everyone, not just Americans: https://www.youtube.com/...
I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown until I stayed away ...
Indeed, which is far more than you can say for anything in 'Quining Qualia'... :-) You asked for speculations in this post, remember? If you didn't wa...
Why yes, one possible answer among many. By the way, the fact that we have two interconnected brains (left, right) rather than one can be used to solv...
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