I can't help butting in here. If I am interpreting him correctly, Bert is asking why the kinds of behavior you observe, and capacities you attribute, ...
Right, except that is not what I was saying would make a difference. Caring about the community (including of course the environment) and doing someth...
Why would you worry; you haven't claimed to be original anyway: Peirce, Pattee, Salthe, Rosen etc.? I'm not saying that semiotics is not interesting o...
I don't claim to have the magical potion; if I had it, I would apply it and save humanity. I don't believe there is any magical potion that will make ...
If people changed such as to care more, then we would see how it pans out. It can't be engineered. So, we'll muddle through as usual, semiotics aint g...
What you seem to be failing to see is that the simple notion that the world would very different if we all, or even a significant number of us, cared ...
You seem to be saying that aporia is the beginning (a state of readiness), but is it not also the middle and end? Or could it be that we are perennial...
How can I describe what doesn't exist? You know as well as I do that the world would look very different if we all cared as much about others as we do...
All dualisms are really traidisms; not to see that is just a failure of the imagination where thinking stops up short. As Gurdjieff said "Man is third...
You state that as though it is a fact; but it's a dogma or else it's merely an opinion, depending on how you look at it. In my view the shitness of th...
LOL, it seems you read not what I say, but what you want to read. Where have I damned science? I have a lot of respect for science. Those who damn sci...
Relative to the body as it seems to us, the pain is "in here" and the rose "out there". But I'm not claiming that is true in any absolute sense and so...
Make a case against what? As far as I can tell nothing you've said is relevant as an objection to the simple distinction between what is and what is n...
If you could explain clearly, of course. If it is some recondite rave based on specialized knowledge that I am not familiar with, then probably not. D...
Yes, "Intersubjective arena" is exactly what I mean by public It can be said that in a certain sense what is seen is not the same object from one mome...
Subjective experience is undoubtedly constantly changing in one sense, in terms of content, but it remains affective, qualitative. It's hard to imagin...
Yes, or the relation between the mind and the body considered as different substances. Considering the mind and body as different substances just is t...
Not at all. the view does not rely on God at all. That is just your righteous projection. The way I use the term "third person" simply denotes the pub...
I'm not sure what you have in mind here: are you suggesting that experience may somehow cease to be qualitative in the future, or that science may som...
In the absolutist context: 1. Ignorance (even of the questions) 2. Knowing the questions, uncertainty of the answers 3, Delusory certainty. In relativ...
I find it amazing that people cannot see that the so-called "Hard Problem" only arises when a third person account (science) is expected to be able so...
I don't agree with that. I think the sense of self is the most immediately given experience of all. Other than that I don't disagree with what you've ...
True, it has many fields, each one of which deals with investigating the empirical. Of course there are disciplines which cannot be unequivocally coun...
The sense of self is an example of consciousness. It seems to me that the sense of self cannot be epiphenomenal, since it most certainly has real worl...
Science is concerned with the features of perceptible objects which are publicly available to observation and which are measurable. That is what I mea...
We want to do both; I would say and it seems trivially obvious that modeling the causality has "the better hope of engaging the causality", since phen...
Right, consciousness per se is a kind of abstraction because actual consciousnesses is always consciousness of something; that is, conscious experienc...
True, to say that there is an absolute nature of reality, even though we cannot say what it is, doesn't seem to be an absolutist claim. Although I do ...
Right, so if consciousness is thought as fundamental then the brain and its sensual body is a structure of consciousness, designed by consciousness to...
Right, but I wasn't specifically referring to introspection by "internal". (That said introspection is certainly part, and an ineliminable part, of ph...
Right, it all depends on perspective and on what is being counted as fundamental, which is what I've been trying to point out to the real gone one. As...
Yeah, I don't think we are disagreeing. My point was only that a scientist could start either from the presupposition that the brain produces consciou...
Not mean, but stupid; a poor reader. I haven't claimed anything. I have explicitly stated that a couple of times. I have presented the speculative ide...
Yes, I agree completely. But the speculatively projected metaphysical or ontological implications of empirically grounded cognitive science are anothe...
When you answer the questions I posed instead of going off on a number of sarcastic tangential rants that do nothing but reveal your own set of prejud...
I have asked and received no answer to the question as to how the experimental results would be expected to look any different if the brain was a rece...
I don't have the time to read all those. As I said you really should produce the argument yourself, or at least point to the passages in those papers ...
I can't see any evidence in what I've read that is conclusive of either view. What evidence actually suggests that the brain produces rather than rece...
Anyone with physicalist presuppositions will say that of course it comes from the brain: where else? On the other side those who think consciousness o...
I think a scientific approach to consciousness is fine, provided it doesn't claim a totalizing authority. The phenomenological approach is equally val...
Yes, I tend to think such an account is impossible in principle because it would need to be some kind of weird hybrid between what Wilfrid Sellars ter...
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