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Best post I ever read here so far, so I gave you the palm. :-) Hence the mistake of pan-psychism is one of extension: it's not all matter that is infu...

I beg to differ... :-) Love Beggars Banquet and even Their Satanic Majesties Request. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k Been speaking about ...

The idea here (as I faintly see it) is that the mind-body problem appears intractable if the body is seen as a dead machine, because a machine and a m...

Give us your interpretation then.

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Thanks, good points. I'll read it again. I agree that Merleau-Ponty criticizes the concept of 'elementory' sensations with arguments similar to Dennet...

I consider introspection as a sense. Do we have direct access to anything?

It was 30 years ago... I remember very little of the book, except that the text made more sense to me than Husserl. I actually never came back to phen...

Wasn't he one of the first to raise the logical contradiction of some theory trying to undermine the reality of human subjective experience, from whic...

I saw her today at the reception A glass of wine in her hand I knew she would meet her connection At her feet was her footloose man No, you can't alwa...

'nough said.

Thanks for bringing that up. This is one of many excellent contributions of Popper to philosophy. World 3 is akin somewhat to what researchers call 't...

Nah. Intuition is as good a philosophical concept as any... But when a self-described p-zombie makes an appeal to intuition, he is contradicting himse...

Isn't that the definition of a qualia? That there's something like the taste of wine. It's a bit simplistic of course, as wine can taste like crap or ...

Yes, I agree.

I love you too, Isaac.

Probably not. But he would be able to faintly evoke it, enough to wet the appetite of his readers. So I agree that 'qualia' (sensations as we perceive...

If instead of a zombie, Dennett was a culinary critic with a gift for wordsmithing, he could make an attempt at it.

I suspect you also know something about your own mental phenomena, and this knowledge is based on a capacity for introspection. It doesn't come from n...

Self consciouness, I suppose. I kinda know when I am angry, impatient or happy. I kinda see the colour red. Etc.

makes a good point when he speaks of brain plasticity. This is a proven fact, that one's efforts to learn something can plastically change one's brain...

You cannot perceive your own mental events? That's odd.

anything that doesn't apply to elephants and atoms?

Note we don't know what matter is. We may never know, and yet we still study it. If by "what ARE mental states" you mean "how can we categorize them u...

Still, it's pretty sloppy for Dennet to use the very psychological term "intuition" in an attempt to annihilate psychology. Others have noted that he ...

In America and the UK, you mean? At this point in time, the rest of the world seems rather immune to the siren songs of naïve materialism and its view...

What you say is not specific to perception of of mental phenomena, it applies to elephants and atoms too. And yet scientists go somewhere that has not...

My point is: p-zombies have no ability for intuition that I can see.

I love the subtitles.

How do p-zombies define "intuition", by the way?

I would aim a bit lower than that. The true nature of things being apparently inaccessible, let's focus on how we perceive mental phenomena, and perha...

Okay, you want to expose some particularly interesting section for discussion? Note: Banno already convinced me to abandon the jargony "qualia" and us...

I didn't understand much of your post but I have no objection to this particular quote. If you don't want to address the human experience(s) in your o...

And likewise, you are not interested in experience either, you just want to refute the non-eliminativists. It's just another battle of the God Wars fo...

There are a number of meanings to the word "Book". I am speaking of the following: A set of pages that have been fastened together inside a cover to b...

Brains contain cells. Actual, physical books contain pages. They do not formally contain sentences. At best they can produce and reproduce sentences, ...

But what are images, if not information? What are symbols if not information vehicles? What exactly is 'pre-philosophical' about images or symbols? If...

Thanks man.

On the shallowness of words and men's love. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=siQ3vEWSYkM

Personally I believe that these questions must have some simple biological answer. Living organisms self-reproduce. Animals have a piloting system tha...

Of course! Also humor, dreams, ideas and music. You don't have those?

What IS matter? What IS time? What IS space? This sort of questions is above our pay grade. We cannot know the noumenal. It's been known for a while. ...

You have no sensations? No sense of colour, the food you eat tastes nothing, and music doesn't exist for you? yours must be a rather sad life.

Thoughts are information, written down and processed by neurons.

I'm certainly not confusing thoughts with neurological events. That would be a category error. And mentalists are people with telepathic capacity, whi...

What Dennett means remains unclear to me, and I suspect to his proponents as well. Ambiguity has its advantages. As for Banno, he seems to accept that...

Hence the "hard problem". And yet, mental events must be underwritten by physical events. There’s no information without some material support. Genes ...

For me it does.

How is that damaging?

Colours too have their unsayable and illogical dimensions. "Of taste and colours one should not speak". That's no 'dammage' as I understand magritte. ...