Kenosha Kid

Okay, well Dennett's view is that we don't need to understand the hard problem, i.e. it's not a separate problem that will remain once all the easy pr...

I woke up this morning and apparently it's the dark ages again. What happened? How about actually letting women be responsible for their acts, rather ...

What is your point here? That anyone who researches anything to do with mind must answer one question and nothing else? That's not how research works....

Strawson is responding to Dennett, not vice versa.

Indeed, I was just reading a paper about how the process can cause information loss and, you're right, we can hardly discuss perceptual features not p...

Reminds me of one of our prior conversations: It was more that there is a reason why we have a concept of qualia, and that reason holds even if theori...

Because, as I've explained, I'm not a psychopath. You might get off on hundreds of thousands of innocent people dying to enable America to control Ira...

There can be multiple fascists and, indeed, multiple fascists at any one time. The fact that you recognise America as the police of the sovereign nati...

I politely decline on grounds of nauseating distaste for fascism.

Because I'm not a psychopath. Right, my options are: become an Iraqi citizen, train as a police officer, and single-handedly arrest the dictator of my...

You have a very peculiar idea of what constitutes a war crime. Usually you have to consider the actions of the culprit, not just the target. Lying to ...

And yet why do I get the impression that your answer to the statement that the Iraq war was most definitely a war crime will be that no one was charge...

Well, physics has uncovered lots of WHYs, recently including why matter has mass. But why questions always yield more why questions. It is almost inev...

It's equally simple to divide the world into pro-our-war-crimes or pro-his-war-crimes. Again, propaganda, not philosophy.

Oh, the attractiveness of being judge, jury and executioner of others, as long as the same doesn't apply to them, is very simple, I agree. Again, thou...

That sounds like the history of philosophy. They absolutely do not. Yeah this is my bugbear too. It's used as a propaganda tool by the untrained for t...

I agree with this as a phenomenon, but that seems a rather anthropocentric idea of consciousness. When speaking of objects and properties of awareness...

Is this your philosophy: whataboutery? It has more than a whiff of propaganda and less of a feel of an actual philosophical position. Defend your own ...

Maybe a dome..?

Hitler, which I guess makes Hitler a hero... since he removed Hitler. (With apologies to Jimmy Carr.)

:rofl:

Our politics. And to do so by killing as many people as it takes.

Which is killing people until they accept your politics. Fascism, essentially.

When is your idea of then your interest is clearly not in freedom, but in forcing unbelievers to convert to your ideology, and killing however many pe...

Thanks again, Isaac. What action best describes scrolling down this page and coming across the picture of the two cars and identifying them as cars? I...

I'm struggling to see how that is suggested by the above diagram. Which is present in the image but entirely absent in the second flow discussed here,...

I'm going to rephrase, because perception as I understand it is a kind of conscious awareness, i.e. perception is not the projection of light onto the...

It's not incidental that only one person has been effected. It's not like it just happens to have happened to one person: it can only happen to one pe...

Pending... This is my question to Isaac. But my view is: no! The bulk of what the brain does is unconscious, that is we are not conscious that the bra...

Dude, I'm the last person you need to apologise to. I'm the worst for this :) That's interesting. If I may summarise, then, the conscious perception o...

From the above: The above basically says that the probability of transmission of a photon or electron or whatever is given by the value of the retarde...

Thanks, sorry for the cross-posting. Let's stay here :) Yes, I agree. In this case, we still have pre-processed data in our consciousness -- the shape...

This says merely that Dennett is denying the existence of ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediate qualia, or any slight variation thereof, which d...

The left one? It's a diagram of space and time, not just space. That's what spacetime curvature looks like.

In this 1983 paper, the author of the transactional interpretation of QM directly addresses the boundary conditions of the big bang and black holes an...

Another paper by Cramer (Foundations of Physics, 1973) specifically treating the arrow of time: http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/TI/The_Arrow_of_...

Not sure this should really be up there, but a copy of the entirety of Cramer's book The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is on my al...

I kind of panicked as my post wasn't at all driven by Quining Qualia itself. I should have just brought it back to the text. Dennett's issue is not wi...

Moved from another thread as off-topic; more relevant here. @"Isaac", no obligation to respond if you're not interested in this thread. --------------...

No, gravity bends spacetime only. This appears to cause space to flux inward (i.e. contract) toward the massive body causing the curvature. It doesn't...

:rofl: Sound financial advice! I was just rereading part of the paper on type II emission and absorption events, which are interesting. If we take the...

You're best placed to cast this in more exact terms, so stop me at any point, but some of that stuff the brain is doing includes: - interpreting optic...

My thinking was more that one can recover linear time from the cyclic times of many bodies.

Ah, it becomes emitted or not emitted in a time-dependent way (i.e. the longer the experiment, the higher the probability of transmission). Just to cl...

The last one. The retarded wavefunction is as per the Copenhagen interpretation but without collapse.

Minkowski is flat spacetime. In general relativity, it is spacetime that is curved, not just space, so, yes, time is curved as well.

Or maybe we should: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-galaxies-infant-universe-surprisingly-mature.html

Allow me to correct my wording: cyclic universes are contrary to empirical evidence, requiring contortions like CCC to make them work. :rofl:

Imagine a universe with nothing in it, that doesn't ever change. Time would have no meaning in such a universe. That universe could be instantaneous, ...