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Eliminative materialism, by definition, attempts to eliminate human consciousness and reason. Eg by saying it’s an epiphenomenon or an illusion. That ...

Ah ah... you really want to perceive Beethoven’s 5th as ‘a variation of air pressure’?

The materialist god forbids that people recognize anger by its phenomenal qualities. Aka the satanic qualia.

I don’t know about no ‘public model’. Is that a meme? An official theory? A frequent practice? A common sense position? Sounds like a slippery concept...

The images that we see are constructed unconsciously in our head based on sensory data, understood as a constant updating of our expectations. Somethi...

I never cared enough about gods to think or want this or that of them. They are metaphors, the way I see them, sometimes useful and poetic metaphors b...

Read it, thanks. That's really witty and useful, and very topical to pretty much all these discussions we've been having here on the "hard? problem?"....

That, or you overestimate it.

But a hand can hold another hand, and an eye can see another eye... Never heard of him, will check out. Underwritten by the brain, if you prefer. Info...

Sure, a human being or several could encode in the computer a capacity to emulate human speech, like Siri. But Siri can’t pass for a human being. It c...

This is the core of the issue, and probably why we think it’s hard, but I am not yet convinced that the human mind is unable to understand itself. The...

The camera has been designed on purpose to capture an image close to what your eyes would capture. The colors, the focale, etc. are designed to render...

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.” — James Baldwin Baldwin said this in ...

I doubt it. I couldn’t decipher the source code of a jpg file if my life depended on it. A cellphone couldn’t see anything or hear anything around it;...

No, they would rather avoid having to face the fundamental contradiction in their thinking, because they are afraid to look like fools. You for instan...

Thanks for the laugh! I have contemplated these things for about 40 years now. How long have you? I'm sorry but to me, philosophy cannot ignore logic....

Exactly.

It’s about the logical contradictions of materialism. Logic is important for some.

The Consciousness Deniers Galen Strawson, March 13, 2018 One of the strangest things the Deniers say is that although it seems that there is conscious...

Displayed to minds, I would say. There’s a mechanical, predictable aspect to perception. I cannot really chose what to see.

Exactly. If your cellphone was conscious, it would tell you things like: « Sorry, i don’t feel like taking pictures today; you are such a boring photo...

When you think of it a bit more, you realize that what the camera and microphone record are just bits. 0/1. Those bits are recorded so that the images...

Those two are the same thing, there’s no distinction to make here. Until you understand that the problem involves reflexivity, you won’t be able to ma...

I’ve always been a brilliant student, a bit too gifted for his own good. You strike me as a closed mind, a bureaucrat of philosophy. You could try and...

Exactly. I don’t understand how supposedly cogent and smart philosophers can keep making the same logical error again and again. Dennett must not be v...

I doubt it. It would take an extraordinary reversal of mindset from the Brits to even ask to go back in the EU. They would need to adore what they bur...

« If Wittgenstein could roar, nobody could understand him. » — A lion

Yes. The whole purpose is to behave and speak as if they were machines, so as to convince themselves that they are machines. I suppose it makes life e...

Good post. Yet, sometimes the explanatory note ruins the novel, in that it restricts its meaning(s) to one single facet or dimension. A work of art fu...

Didn’t know that. It’s a pretty good reason to join a trading block. And not to leave it I guess.

Ak ok. Perfide Albion as we call it. :-))

You’re Swiss?

I know, but they are almost invisible in the media. I am unaware of any radically pro-European UK newspaper for instance.

A little. Surrealist writing is part of the effort to shake our world view, to rediscover reality with new eyes. To allow a bit of folly back into our...

Good metaphor. Just want to say that we have two cameras (eyes), not just one, and therefore that we see actually 2 different footages all the time. S...

Surrealist writing is a bit different than making a conceptual artist statements. It is not meant to explain anything. On the OP, Carrington said: The...

Indeed, and intuition is very handy to design crafty experiments. Also to know what you are looking for in those experiments. Scientist without intuit...

What’s different is that I am using concepts like tools, opportunistically. I see them as sets, defined by the user. « Qualia » is just the set of qua...

Generally, I recognize my own take, yes.

I see no difference with my way of using this word.

It’s because I don’t see the origin of the two codes as fundamentally different, just because consciousness was involved in one and not the other. To ...

Reenforced at least, if not engineered. Manipulated. Lied to. Flattered and fooled. Day after day, for years. Another ‘crime’ of the UK, in my view, t...

Sure, but where did M. Morse’s intent comes from, if not some chemistry in his body? That is the hard problem, right? We postulate that chemistry prod...

Please do explain.

I certainly don’t think gods and fairies were involved in the creation of the Morse code. Some guy called Morse must have invented it. But how do you ...

I believe the genetic code emerged naturally, just like I believe other codes emerged naturally, including human language. The natural emergence of a ...

No idea.

I’m talking of the genetic code, not of some specific ability of a specific bacteria. You are saying that it’s not a real code because it has not been...

Try again. The infinite has absolutely nothing to do with whether something can or cannot be inside itself.

So if the genetic code was written by God (or some alien race), then it is actual coding, but if it is the result of random variations, then it is not...