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That's good, because I am not speaking about nature. I am speaking about a sentence that I find illogical, the sentence: "I doubt that I exist as a se...

You are welcome to produce an alternative definition of "doubt" if you think it useful, but the meaning of the word "doubt" in standard English is a s...

The folks who think that there no problem at all are welcome to do something more productive with their time than write here that "there is no problem...

Written by a Portuguese, I am sure...

Scandals like what? Did Lula forget to pay a parking ticket? Cut his head, now!

Makes no actual sense. Slaves were worth a lot of money. What is true though is that the porthuguese started the slave trade, in order to develop Bras...

LOL. God forbid!

It never was controversial, and it was proven by Descartes a long time ago.

... and to observe, and to know, and to doubt. To be confused, to argue, to imagine. And we are doing all of that here. The tool we bring to the discu...

Rather, because it's about the very baggage they bring into the analysis: their capacity of analysis is the object of the analysis. The reflexiveness ...

That a person needs to hold a doubt for there to be a doubt, is implicit in the definition of doubt: "a feeling of not being certain about something, ...

Fair enough.

There's no view from no where. No seeming without a seer. No knowledge without a knower. No doubt free floating in the universe, without a doubter. Th...

I don't mind how things must be, I care for how they are.

"We" means a collection of "I"... It's telling that you couldn't express your idea here without using a personnal pronoun. If one doubts that there is...

. As Descartes pointed out, who would be doing the "you" part, then? The doubter cannot doubt his own existence.

:cool:

Just to conclude on the orchestra metaphor, if one trained an infrared camera tied to a computer on an symphonic orchestra, and asked the orchestra to...

I would tend to disagree. MRI monitors the intensity of the biological effort made in various places of the brain, but it won't tell you what the resu...

Guess I would require a definition of the concept of "family resemblance"... :-)

So you have a special definition of consciousness for blind folks. Good for them I guess...

I seriously doubt the Portuguese were worse than the British or later the Americans in terms of how they treated slaves. One characteristic of British...

Yes, we are very good at lying to ourselves.

Probably because there is some survival or reproductive value in you having an experience. Our consciousness exists for a reason. That reason may be G...

None of the computers I know have eyes. Can I conclude that they are definitely not self-aware? What about people without eyes? Can we classify them a...

Alright. Would you happen to know if some computers are able to achieve a scoring of 4:5:6 on the Glasgow coma scale, as of today?

Which is stupid alright.

I am not really interested in a scale. A scale is merely a measurement tool. I am interested in a definition of consciousness that would be aggreable ...

I was not asking for some name dropping, but for a definition of consciousness that is not vague or slippery.

Some people say they don't use foundational concept X, for instance the concept of "truth", and they truly believe that they do not use the concept, w...

You mind mentioning a few of them?

Why don't you give it a try then? Make the concept less slippery, if you can. Me, I consider it perfectly normal to lack a precise definition for a ph...

It's equivalent to the concept of consciousness.

Read somewhere: Breaking news: Philosophers give up on hard problem of consciousness -- "it's just too hard!"

Yes, because you've already done it again and again based on a real human body. But if at age 6 or 7, someone had asked you to draw a human body from ...

When you dream, the world 'around' has that dreamlike quality: people are not who they seem, objects and folks evolve into other things. It's usually ...

I was thinking of something more radical, like some science-induced telepathy, which would then allow us to feel what it is to be a bat. There's no te...

In Brasil, specifically. Okay. What about anywhere else?

I doubt it very much. There's no such thing as "mental furniture", ie some stable, solid mental representation of anything. Our minds are always in fl...

I read the post and I think the guy is mistaken in assuming that "nearly all of you have a canvas." I certainly cannot recall with any ease the face o...

Agreed. There would be variations. A new sense such as bats' sonar would theoretically imply a whole new set of qualia specific to that sense, of if y...

So then, are you saying that all politicians are corrupt?

Nice!

Let me guess: it works much much better wherever you just happen to live, for some odd reason? Beware of parochialism...

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I have sympathy for Chalmers pushing back against the reductionists and simplistic materialists like Dennet, but I tend to be puzzled by his arguments...

I find this surprising, because generally in biology, function determines form. So I would think that conscious experience exists for a reason, that i...

Yep, Trump did not invent anything new on 6th January, yet he gave ideas to others. This said, Bolsonaro was in actuality classier than Trump here: he...

How would you describe the issue, then?

If you are thinking of 6th January, it's the other way round: an American president copying your average banana republic. Trump behaved just like thes...