The point is, the measure of our understanding of a phenomenon is what predictions and/or inferences we can make about it. When it comes to your posit...
Your answers are basically just asserting your position again. What I am trying to get at, is why. And to also tease out the answers to questions that...
Indeed. In fact, even talking of "your existence" being "renewed" could be misleading here, as what we're actually positing is that every instance of ...
Because I am trying to get your meaning. You're alluding to bodily continuity, so I am asking follow up questions of why bodily continuity is critical...
Can we know that? What if the transporter functions by firing your actual atoms across space? If assembling your own atoms back into the configuration...
This seems to be alluding to different levels of consciousness. Sure, there are different levels of alertness largely corresponding to brainwave state...
But that's my question. When I ask why spatio-temporal continuity matters, I mean why is it critical to whether consciousness persists or not? If we b...
But why? What is it that your specific atoms contain that hold your "essence"? And how many such atoms need to be moved across for you to still be ali...
In my experience Why does that matter? And how, precisely, do we define it? Because of course it is vulnerable to the same sort of "imperfect copy" pr...
Oh ok. Yes this is just an IME thing, so no worries if you disagree. But often when there are debates on the transporter problem, and you have the peo...
That was the point. I was explaining that duplicates being convinced they are the original, and third-parties believing the duplicate is the original,...
I still don't think you're following me, sorry. I am talking 100% about the first-person perspective of the person going into the transporter. You are...
Well it's just a thought experiment. We also can't make Laplace's demon. A difference though is that personal identity is an issue that will eventuall...
Absolutely. Every time I have discussed, or seen discussions of, the transporter problem, it seems both sides assume that continuity of consciousness ...
It's not that it's a boring answer @ToothyMaw, and I thank you for it, but I still don't think you're quite getting my point. Today, yes, if someone h...
In terms of the OP, I think this is one of the few answerable questions regarding sleep and dreaming. Our brains have different brainwave states, thes...
It sounds a bit like true scotsman. You or I might consider something beautiful, but it's not true beauty, according to the conceptions of Kant. Well,...
I'm still not sure I entirely follow, as you still have not provided a concrete example. When people talk about a beautiful face, and we can point to ...
I would say so. My post gave multiple examples illustrating exactly what I was talking about. Asking for one example of what you mean by "sensations o...
Speaking from a more neuroscientific point of view, there are of course aesthetic qualities to things for the vast majority of people. And not just "f...
Actually I was about to say the exact opposite. Factory farming is inherently cruel and we don't need examples of specific workers intentionally abusi...
Agree completely. It's a bit of a bugbear for me. For example, Matt Dillahunty, who I respect as much as any popular speaker on religion and philosoph...
Right. As I said though, sometimes that quantifier is ambiguous. For example, if I say "There's nothing to be afraid of", I am saying the set of thing...
We don't know that all physical things must have a cause We don't know that all transcendental things do not require a cause We don't know whether inf...
As I've said previously, the noun "nothing" in English is special, in that it means different things in different sentences, but almost never refers t...
The discussion about human tetrachromacy is irrelevant to the issue of seeing the world as it is. Whether or not women with two different cones for pe...
Im a member of a couple in-person philosophy groups, and they're fun from a social point of view, but the discussion tends to stay in first gear. What...
Well another reason is a pragmatic one: we know of no alternative. Deductive logic seems necessary to even be able to reason in the abstract and induc...
In reality, our planet contains many chaotic systems, therefore, in a sense, a small domino can topple a larger one but it's not an amplification or i...
I think perhaps you're trolling now, as this post contains numerous errors: 1. I never said that exclaiming "ouch" would be evidence that anything was...
I am not a dualist, I am a neuroscientist. I want to understand pain because there are people both with painful injuries and diseases, or indeed simpl...
I said no such thing -- you were asking me about the mechanism by which physical neurology causes subjective experience. That's what we don't know. It...
:roll: This is beyond infantile at this point. I defined pain. I've answered all your questions about pain. I've told you I can elaborate on the mecha...
Not at all; those are different concepts. What pain is, how pain sensation works, what we mean by subjective experience and how much we (don't) know a...
All this started from me suggesting that your argument was a subtle shift of the burden of proof. Call me naive, but I honestly expected a simple resp...
And you are still failing to reply to a single thing I write. I would be quite interested to know how your "screenshot" notion of the brain would make...
Well I just said, I disagree with the notion that we should give up on a physical model of consciousness. There is no guarantee in this universe of so...
Haha, what? I didn't claim to know what pain is, why would I have a burden of proof on me? What I know about pain is that it is an unpleasant subjecti...
Oh brilliant, just throwing out another argument and ignoring the points being put to you, yet again. The first answer to your rhetorical question is ...
C is misleading at best. There is no image per se, only data which may be meaningful for a human running a program that can parse a particular file fo...
That's a shift of the burden of proof. I feel pain. I assume other humans also feel pain for various practical reasons, but also because if other huma...
Your response is just to again assert your claim: This claim is false, and I'm trying to explain to you, repeatedly, why. Consider for example that th...
No, you went further than that: (emphasis added) Regarding your point, I disagree. I have no expected timeline for when any particular problem will ha...
Have we been talking past each other all this time? No, I don't want to call consciousness an illusion. In fact, to me I don't see the point: it's ess...
Exactly. In the case of digital cameras, data is stored in some file format that would likely be meaningless without knowing the format. There's no di...
@Metaphysician Undercover I'm confident at this point that there is nothing I could say, nothing any physicist could say to you, that could ever shake...
I don't think you need the word "actually" there. I did not suggest otherwise. Agreed, and indeed, it doesn't even need a whole culture to be like tha...
You have this backwards. You are the one that have asserted that neurology cannot produce consciousness. Science OTOH does not need to assert the inve...
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