Janus

Yes, but I also said that they can be said to arise together, but that all the evidence points to the existence of material conditions prior to there ...

Okay, but if we know of no consciousness which is not accompanied by material conditions, it follows that we cannot really have a grasp of the possibi...

Cosmological, paleontological. We know of no consciousness which is not accompanied by material conditions. It is arguable, in fact it seems unarguabl...

How could there be any such thing in a temporal world? In relation to moral thought the only universality I can imagine would be that most people cros...

What remains outside of our imaginative acts is whatever there is or was prior to our acting imaginatively. It can be said that all "day-to-day though...

Right, consciousness is determined by material conditions, and without material conditions there would be nothing to be conscious of. On the other han...

It doesn't have to be a universal claim, but merely an observation that no one has been able to present a universal truth, such that the unbiased woul...

I can have an itch and scratch it without having being consciously aware of having done so. Or I can have an itch and consciously notice it, and then ...

Right, we can certainly specify a sense or senses in which reality and existence may be distinguished, and other senses in which they are synonymous. ...

I hadn't thought about connotation. Would that be a matter of meaning, or association of meaning? I'll have to think on that. I'm trying to think of t...

What do you think "thickness" or "depth" of meaning are, if not either polysemy or ambiguity? That said, are polysemy and ambiguity not related? I thi...

It's not that I'd say the individuals are necessarily sociopaths, but that their attitude of "let them sink or swim" is sociopathic. I don't believe t...

Then they have a narrow view of flourishing as being relevant only to themselves. I don't believe it is as simple a matter as "not subsidizing sloth a...

I don't believe morality is a matter of "positions" at all, but of a compass based on the ability to empathize with others. To harm others is undesira...

So, in the zombie case the sights, sounds, feelings, emotions and so on were detected but never consciously, even though the zombie is able to report ...

No doubt you are aware of the phenomenon of blindsight where people are able to navigate environments even though they are not conscious of being able...

Do you think P-zombies are a real possibility or merely something we imagine we can imagine?

So, it would be no different than the LLMs in that they are changed by their experiences.

You haven't answered the question which I posed prior to Wayfarer's subsequent response which your post that I ma responding to responds to : I actual...

I generally agree with your argument and find Wayfarers stipulative point about the fact that all attitudes are first person attitudes to be either ir...

They might try to stop people acting cruelly because they feel the victim's pain and see the propensity for cruelty as a mental illness (not being abl...

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It doesn't sound like you are disagreeing with what I've said, although it does sound like you think you are. I don't deny the reality of altered stat...

My point was that if you try to frame your insights into accounts of what-is-the-case in some quai-empirical sense, which is precisely not to escape o...

That is what I meant. I believe that people of all cultures experience the world of sky and earth, plants and animal, gravity, water, food, sex, illne...

That's interesting. I had no religious upbringing as my parents were of a secular mindset, although my mother always said she believed there must be m...

Interesting, thanks. Where did you come across this critter? Does it spend much time above ground? I hadn't noticed a lack of African members, but now...

Jesus mate, you must have been a precocious child of 7 or 8 to be thinking in terms of culture, reality construction, potential worlds beyond our sens...

Beeeautiful...was it in your garden in some possible world?

I would have thought you are too level-headed to take such thinking seriously, even at an early age.

I've spent enough time thinking about it, to be satisfied that there is no point to it, since we can have no knowledge of such things. I was only refe...

What I had in mind was simply reasoning based on unbiased premises. Take, for example, the dialogue between Thrasymachus and Socrates about the nature...

I think you did pretty well, and I agree with the general argument you've presented. Another tack, in my view, would be to point out to anyone who car...

I don't have time to read that now to find out whether the article accords with my own understanding of Whitehead, but I'll just note that according t...

The "bifurcation of nature" can be understood in more than one way. Whitehead specifically had Kant and the German idealists (other than Schelling who...

Totally agree. I'm with Peirce on the idea of metaphysical and scientific truth as something asymptotically approached by the community of enquirers. ...

Levin himself says he doesn't have a clear idea of what "platonic space" is. He posits it because mechanistic causation cannot really begin to explain...

I don't know the answer to that—we are given what we are given. Are you suggesting Karma? I think we do know what it is we know. I would just say that...

That is what is said by religions like Buddhism and Hinduism—that we live behind a veil of illusion, "maya". But there the illusion is the illusion of...

Well, we see things very differently. For me the key is the arational, when it comes to any knowledge or understanding which is not empirical, discurs...

"Meta-cognitive insight" is always given in symbolic language. So the question then becomes "what can it be insight into beyond linguistically mediate...

I wasn't trying to suggest mind/brain identity?the same question applies to mind as to brain: is "the mind constructing reality" itself a "mind-constr...

Is the "brain constructing reality" a brain-constructed reality?

Even if we frame 'the world' as the 'in itself', forever beyond human experience (as Kant would have it) it seems undeniable that if we and the animal...

I think that's an important point. We can say that what is beyond the possibility of experience, whether in principle or merely in practical actuality...

What I meant was that each of inhabits an individual Umwelt. Others of course appear there. We know that others have their own Umwelts, and we also kn...

As usual: quotes from your authorities and attempts to dismiss what I've said by associating it with empiricism or positivism instead of addressing wh...

Experience shows us what is the case. Due to our symbolic linguistic ability we can reflect upon and generalize about the features of our experience t...

Functional adequacy, in fact extremely precise functional adequacy, does say something about what our rational truth propositions are based upon, whic...

Rational grasp of truth is not the point. If our senses did not give us an adequately true picture of what is going on around us we wouldn't survive f...