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Agreed. We have a number of concepts available already, such as "sense data", "sensations", "perception", and even "apperception" (the perception of p...

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The four...

This may be a tangent, but few people know that colors, and the need to produce them on an industrial scale, were one of the main reasons behind / sou...

Nothing else is available, but you would be surprised how much we know through the scientific recording and analysis of intuitive, or rather introspec...

A lot of them are about highly improbable "what ifs". Like your memory of green changing to red... What do this highly esoteric hypothesis achieves ex...

That's very generous of him. But how can he speak for other people than himself, though? These things are eminently personal. How does he know that ot...

So how does he account for experience? Does he try to account for it at all?

Learning is illusory, knowledge is nothing. Just kidding...

There's something here. The concept of qualia may idealize sensations, literally. That is to say, it maps sets of sensations (confused, intermingled, ...

Welcome to TPF. We need more life-affirming philosophers me think. :-)

That's good advice, thank you. Personally, when I point at logical contradictions, it's often because I feel annoyed at a certain facile nihilist appr...

Me think we should distinguish between two (or more) forms of gotcha! In one case, the argument still stands after the gotcha, which is just a tactica...

That's true. We can speak for instance of the gorgeous reds of Georgia O'Keeffe. https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/georgia-o-keeff...

Fair enough. Let's talk of colours, smells, feelings, tastes, timbres and tunes then. If that's umweildy, we can use the acronym: CSF3T. As is the cas...

I disagree with pan-psychism. I thinks it's like trying to use a sledgehammer to kill a fly. But I will look at the argument that Drake pointed at.

An afterlife? Which would come after what life, exactly? The life of nothing? Is the afterlife going to be an eternity of Nothingness, too? I can't wa...

The evidence lies in the fact that most forms of materialism are self-contradictory. The theory is a construct of the human mind, and yet it denies th...

There's no such thing as nothing.

Lots of gotchas in there... :-) Any particular point in that discussion which seemed useful to you?

That would be molecules of water, which therefore would supposedly exist... I just mean that consciousness is a functional process. It does something ...

'Folks' have no theories. Individuals have theories. And nobody I know spends much time trying to theorize colors or sounds... In this domain, the cla...

I've read it as well, and could not for the sake of me understand his logic. One could call the taste of chocolate, the melodies of Vivaldi's Summer a...

Mental states cannot be explored by any other mean than introspection. The way they appear to us through introspection is pretty much the only data we...

You have a quote that proves that, or is it just something you made up?

It may well be that consciousness itself is a functional process. Ever thought of that?

And I agree with him wholeheartedly. Just because we can't explain our own consciousness is no good reason to call it magic.

Okay so if Dennet doesn't understand something, it cannot exist. Therefore Dennet's ignorance is magical: if he ignores a phenomenon, the phenomenon d...

I recommend you to stop doubting and to start swimming.

He writes well for a philosopher. I like for instance the argument that "consciousness is not only pizza".

That's exactly what he is saying, though. It's an attempt to deny the cogito.

I agree. This idea that consciousness and qualia are illusions is simply absurd. Rather, materialism is an illusion.

I have studied them a bit. I like Egyptology. You must take into account that these texts are 3000 yr old or so, older than the Bible. So the level of...

Yes. But I think it may be the reason why the idea that the world we are immersed in is an illusion is so pregnant: because it is one, to a degree.

Yes to all that. Thales also said to have studied in Egypt.

No, but you can prove it's moot, that it makes no essential difference. Another way to solve the equation is to realize that indeed we do live in a si...

Us?

It helped Descartes and it helped me, so it can work.

I hope you guys invent time travel soon, cause I really liked the 80's.

Even in solipsism, the information comes from a source, and you ARE experiencing something alright, but you fear that what you experience is NOT REAL,...

Likewise, a rock can hurt you, and that demonstrates that you can receive an input from them. I just think that it's best to talk these things over. S...

Do you often talk to rocks?

Why, yes. That was what the humanist movement was all about: assert people's reason and capacity to observe and understand nature without resorting to...

Typo for ' meditation'?

Good for you. Science a fascinating story, but it's often told in a historical revisionist, eurocentric manner. Science 'history' books often read lik...

Open a book?

For physics, Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery. For biology, I agree with on Monod's Chance and Necessity. Also Stephen Gould. For social science...

But then they'd have to accept all the other wakos: the 9/11 truthers, the holocaust deniers, the young earthers, the flat earthers, the hollow earthe...

I understand. In fact I was once faced with such a choice (Chirac vs Le Pen 2002) and I abstained. But it's a matter of survival at this stage. If one...

O oh shoot, it dYslexic. Can I ask the mods to fix this?