No, I wouldn't laugh at you RogueAI. Just want to clarify this isn't a ego thing or jeering in any way. Please continue to have a fascination for alte...
Those are easy problems, not hard problems. Easy and hard do not denote their difficulty in finding a solution, but their difficulty in finding a path...
Not at all. The only viable version of the hard problem is it stands today is that we cannot know what another subject is experiencing from that subje...
Because they are accidental. You're just not properly identifying the situation. Lets simplify this. Why are the boxes accidental? Lets not just say t...
Some of neuroscience is almost certainly idealistic, in which case idealistic philosophy has free reign. But the fact that the mind comes from the bra...
I don't know. You're asking about a fictional reality. We can't make judgements about fictional realities, because they're fictional. Can we create a ...
No, citing a book without any specific arguments from the book is an appeal to authority. If an argument from the book had been presented to counter m...
If these are truly accidental properties, then they are not in consideration. As a reminder of an accidental property, these are properties that are v...
Of course they entail what they entail. All you have to do is show that brain death and a lack of mind are not a correlate. All you have to do is demo...
You know this is a completely false statement. You can't just claim they are correlations, you have to prove it. To prove a correlation, you need to r...
Good post Wayfarer, the time and detail that went into this is appreciated. I'm ok with point 1 at the moment, so lets go into the proposed contradict...
Yes, you are misremembering, but I believe its because I don't go into significant detail about context here. Upon re-evaluating the original paper, I...
Thank you Bob, your input and insight is always welcome! My availability to respond is more limited this week, but as long as you don't mind a possibl...
Good question! For those who don't know what that is, last Thursdayism is the idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical ...
Heh, ok Wayfarer. I know when I have or haven't countered something and I admit I'm wrong or mistaken rather often. Truth is more important to me then...
I'm not an evolutionary cognitive scientist, so what I say is as worthwhile as any other person's opinion here. If I had to guess from my limited know...
Good point. Even 20% of people born without limbs have phantom limb syndrome. What this tells us is the brain actively fires looking for limbs to use....
So the reason why your brain understands what is going on in your body is because of nerves which send communications to the brain. it is these nerves...
Its fine if you wish to stand by that, but it did not counter my point which refutes that. I can respect this however. You've demonstrated your reason...
Great post Bob! I agree with you that at this time there are a few differences of definitions, and we both have to clarify what we mean to a point whe...
And what you've done IS pointless. I answered your initial question by informing you that Husserl does not have inductive hierarchies. That's a key po...
You didn't say the thing you said that I quoted? You're saying my answer that the hierarchy of inductions does not exist in Husserlian philosophy didn...
No, that's not the right way to approach this. Spend some time going over the argument, then explain why you believe the entirety of it and its conclu...
Do you see how your own criticisms contradict your own statements? You claimed that "laws" exist apart from human reason, then in another reply you no...
No, you wasted my time with that question. Obviously phenomenology does not have a hierarchy of inductions. I'm looking for serious discussion and con...
Referring back to your own words: Aren't you just assuming there are other possible worlds? Aren't you assuming that 7=7 is independent of any brain t...
I admit to some disappointment that my last reply was not addressed here, but I'll address this. What is the number 7 Wayfarer? It is an identity of t...
I think after hearing your explanation again, qualia boils down to subjective experience for me. But, we may dive a little deeper into what subjective...
Thank you for the valuable feedback. I have written and rewritten this over a long period of time. The first iteration was 200+ pages, more like a rou...
Hello Caerulea! I'm so sorry that I never saw your notification that you had replied. I'm pretty upset about it as you spent such a nice amount of tim...
I agree completely with you. I would say this another way. Obviously there's something there to measure. If not, we wouldn't get a measurement. What w...
Yes, a good idea. I think I'm going to spend the time really getting into qualia vs quantitative experience as I think that's the crux of where a lot ...
Water under the bridge. I've had my bad days, thanks for staying. :) You're a good person Wayfarer. My attempt was not to ignore this point, I still d...
I'm not exasperated Wayfarer, you're the one stamping down on the stone here (Callback! I liked that story.). You agree that its materialism 101, so y...
Wayfarer, matter and energy is the only true existent that we know of. Please show me someone who knows of something that exists besides matter and en...
Sure, we don't know everything yet. Just like we don't know how quantum physics fully works. Doesn't mean we can't take what we do know and work with ...
There's not question being begged here. Doubt or skepticism alone does not refute what is known. Its the old "evil demon" argument Wayfarer. What if e...
I've never understood this thinking. Every animal living thing is matter and energy. Many living things have consciousness at a basic level. Therefore...
It is an easy mistake for good people to make, that they believe everyone else has a tendency towards trying to be a good person as well. This is not ...
That is why we have the law and courts. At the end of the day, if the courts conclude guilt, the opinion of the public does not matter. America in gen...
Its not a matter of whether someone accepts the conclusions, its whether the conclusions are logical. People dismiss logical conclusions all the time,...
Its all matter and energy Paterrner. I already covered that with Bob in my last reply, so feel free to sort through to that section. If my reply to Bo...
I think this is a good approach and agree on this. I like your separation of qualitative and qualia at first, but then you erase the distinction makin...
Perhaps its the construction of your sentence I disagree with, and maybe not your underlying point. The problem is you keep saying "impact" as if its ...
Sure, lets use a modern medical practice, anesthesia. If you've ever had a major surgery, they give you different types of chemicals with the sole pur...
Its not interpretation. Its using the definitions provided in the OP which the transgender community accepts to come to a conclusion. Hopefully a logi...
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