Janus

I asked @"Clearbury" that same question and s/he got all huffy and claimed I didn't understand their version of solipsism. It seems that Clearbury is ...

What you are saying seems to amount to saying that in the absence of minds such as ours no truth claims can be made. When humanity is gone there will ...

By "this" you mean consciousness? We don't even fully understand or definitely know what causation, or anything else, is. We have a "folk" understandi...

Of course. Different neural networks will interact with books in different ways. Why would you expect it to be otherwise? Even different LLMs produce ...

That is the question. It's not how we intuitively think of consciousness of course. Hence the conundrum. We know what consciousness feels like. But th...

What you say is not true. We can measure neural activity. Of course, you will say that isn't consciousness, but that is just an assumption—assuming wh...

There is a leap from any empirical account to any metaphysical claim. We really ought to suspend judgement in the absence of any firm metaphysical gro...

It deals with the brain, which is physical and uses physical methods to study it. So what? I have no fear of other realms. I love imagining them, but ...

:rofl: Nice try, but I'm not biting. Desperation breeds denigration it seems. And I haven't anywhere said that it definitely can or that it definitely...

It seems reasonable to think that when we learn a language we learn not only words but the logic (grammar) which determines how words may be grouped t...

That's up to you of course. But I'm not interested in mischaracterizing your view of solipsism, but in understanding what it consists in. So far, I do...

Is the one mind yours or mine or both? Is it a universal mind of which we are all part? Of course if there is only one mind the idea that there are ma...

I am affected physically by what is said (sound) or what I read (light) and this causes changes in the body and the brain, and those changes are my in...

I think it is mighty presumptuous of you to think that people have "forgotten themselves" just because they think the physicalist account is the most ...

I'm a materialist and I haven't forgotten myself—I just think of myself as material because I cannot find any immaterial modality of being in myself. ...

I don't question the idea that we experience things. In response to your question about people being emotionally affected by things that are said to t...

I have no emotional investment in believing what I believe. It is simply what I have come to think most plausible. And for the record I say that peopl...

I'm afraid I still disagree. Intentional activities, interpretations and affects can all be understood to be neuronal processes. Of course we don't in...

That's just not true. If you are talking about what you write on the computer, then I would be looking at shapes (letters, words and sentences) on a s...

An ontology is something we posit. If something is real in the physical sense it has effects on and relations with other physical things. What effects...

Such principles are alive in the community, so your restricted notion of their possible existence is inaapropriate. How else could they exist but as g...

Sure we enjoy drinking the beer or whatever, sometimes more sometimes less consciously. Drinking the beer may initiate feelings in the body that we ca...

I haven't seen any hostile reactions. I've seen some impatient and frustrated ones. You can think of it like that, but really your experience of it is...

No, you are still missing the point. If there is only one mind and that mind belongs to just one person (which in this case would be the woman in ques...

Of course I don't deny the role of observation and measurement and also the existing body of accepted theory. Creative imagination is then required to...

Your definition of solipsism equates to eastern philosophies such as Brahmanism and mind only Buddhism and Western philosophies such as Neoplatonism. ...

All theories are stories. some more clearly supported by evidence than others. Scientific theories come from the imagination, just as other kinds of s...

All what you say means is that we experience the beer when we drink it— enjoy it or dislike it or remain indifferent to it, and machines don't have an...

In that case there must be a few different versions of commonsense. Some less common than others?

Right, we all (hopefully) say what seems most reasonable to us personally. No one knows for sure so we are stuck with what seems most plausible. Of co...

Even positing no qualitative experience seems wrongheaded, let alone positing no experience at all. Don't some experiences feel good and others bad? I...

Careful...you'll have @"Wayfarer" coming to tell you that there is no size difference absent a perspective. :ok:

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No experience at all?

What leads you to believe I didn't watch the video?

From our temporal view how can statements about future events be true or false? Are you proposing that bi-conditional logic presupposes determinism an...

I understand the idea that there is no universal now. No obsevers see time in reverse though do they?

So you think the outcome of the coin toss and everything else has an eternal truth value?

Does it have a truth value before the coin toss is completed?

OK, but it seems the point stands regardless. The substantial difference is that for us the past already happened, is thus fixed and has left its trac...

Take the example @"Banno" gave. "If everything remains undisturbed then there will be Gold". We know that is true because we have the condition "if ev...

Are past and future truthmakers not just past and future actualities? With your 'Hitler' example there can be no actuality, therefore no truth regardi...

So it would seem. Yes, I think this is exactly right. Some proponents of different views seem to think it is self-evident that their opponents are bei...

For what it's worth I think that our understanding of evolutionary processes and particularly the way in which our linguistic abilities have enabled u...

I can observe other creatures' behavior towards things in the environment. It's not a matter of interpretation. I can see that their different behavio...

So what?

That's a silly request. It's like asking me to show you a round square—impossible by definition. If you want to say we cannot conceive of even the pos...

I think skepticism is the right position, philosophically speaking. The transcendent can mean nothing to us, philosophically and that's why I say it i...

I think where you are confusing yourself is that you seem to think we cannot conceive that things have an existence of their own independently of us. ...

A cunt of a poem! I love it!