You haven't given any argument to think such a thing though, just a pointless digression into the Chinese room. Let's get back to brass tacks: I'm in ...
Sure but what's the relevance here? We're talking about whether an entity can itself be under the illusion of having sensations (a nonsensical notion ...
I'll stop you there. We don't know. We don't know to what extent images are formed in the brain; we know that sensory data from the eyes is broken dow...
Agreed. The Chinese room is about whether we can infer intentionality, let alone subjective states, in another entity based on its behaviour. This is ...
I think the op is right but actually think this is already implicit in how we currently divide politics. "Conservatism" could be seen as a kind phrasi...
What's the distinction between the illusion of consciousness and consciousness? Physical pain is unpleasant, and explaining how matter can have unplea...
It would have to be rare to the point of basically being unique for this alone to work as the solution to the Fermi paradox. As big as space is, when ...
Because I know since pushing myself more, I get more opportunities in my career, relationships and general interests and hobbies. My point is that, be...
I think there is a danger with these kinds of labels -- I think they can be self limiting. I always thought of myself as an introvert, and I am, but t...
It's true that a lot of the time we can be unaware of the full dangers of using a technology, like the ozone layer example. But when we do know, the i...
You have said that our understanding of gravity is flawed. The theory of gravity itself does not include the suggestion that we necessarily find the c...
I'll start with your last set of questions first, as it's the most concrete point. I'll get to the rest when I get time. quote="Metaphysician Undercov...
Again, please publish your data and receive your Nobel prize. If you're right and physicists are wrong, that's a big deal and you should reap those re...
Quite. It's not that science turned away from logic (whatever that would mean). It's that science comes with a toolbox for gaining an understanding of...
Black is the qualia that first made me realize that color is not "out there". But some people still don't quite get it, so you might find a better exa...
No what I meant was your allusions to things like your definitions of action and living matter, for which we're supposed to go and find from other dis...
But you're making a specific claim about an area of physics. It's like if I claimed that in bowling 3 strikes in a row is called an Emu, and when some...
I actually like attempts to define free will, if only because they might end the nonsensical "Do we have free will?" debate, which, in my view, is 99%...
You said that our understanding of gravity is "flawed" and "primitive". This is a claim of scientific understanding, not philosophy. Firstly, finding ...
Yeah, I could agree with this. Defining physicalism as "closed" might well be misleading and pointless (incidentally, I neither call myself a physical...
I'd actually say it's the other way round. Alternatives to physicalism generally suggest that there are mental or spiritual aspects of the universe it...
Let's go back a step first. You've now agreed with me that physicalism does *not* make the claim that we know everything about the physical universe. ...
I meant straightforward in terms of comparative ease of understanding. I mean, you just summarized the theory in 14 words, you can't do that with all ...
It's more than just that. Galaxies' star rotation velocities were the original reason for positing dark matter, but there are numerous other lines of ...
The problem with the wiki, and the OP, is the conflation between whether an action has benefit to the individual, and whether it was motivated by bene...
Well we need to be consistent, and not engage in a bait-and-switch. If we want to say that all instincts are selfish, because they are the product of ...
I was speaking of "the group" in the widest possible sense, because we were talking about altruism. When talking about human altruism, we normally con...
Sure. Let me give an example. Let's say we're talking about "playfulness". Now, it's not hard to think of how that behaviour may have had survival ben...
Sure, and that's what I understood. What I am saying to you is that a single counter-example is a big problem for the philosophical idea that life is ...
Yes possibly. We can describe animal behaviours in two ways: 1. Why the behaviour evolved. What selective pressure resulting in this being a common be...
Yes, exactly. This is a thread about what life is "all about". You have phrased it as "life is competition" You cannot simply handwave counter-example...
I think with your allusion to consistency, what you're implicitly saying is that if all life competes, then the statement "life is competition" is val...
I would still consider that a subjective judgement. Let's go back to the guy who wants to spend his life bouncing on a space hopper. If we look at thi...
The point is, the only reason it is not considered a polygon is because it breaks equations like that one. The OP was saying that, since infinity brea...
First of all, it's worth saying that life does not need to be "about" anything. Sure, this is a philosophy forum and we can talk about what we think l...
1) As Banno has pointed out, you can't do this. You can't use infinity as if it's a regular number. Consider: there is an equation for calculating the...
Good point. I need to give this more thought...does the Chinese room apply if consciousness is informational, but not Turing-compatible? But at first ...
Sure but I don't think your point is actually different to Searle's, or something he's overlooked. Because firstly, yes, when he is talking about "com...
Yes, that's right. According to the wiki: The argument is just against certain computational theories of the mind, and he is just trying to show that:...
When people talk about "computers" within the context of strong AI, they usually mean Turing machines i.e. something which runs a program which can be...
Once again, this kind of train of thought is more linguistic that ontological. Consider that not all languages even have a word for "nothing"; many la...
So much of the discussion of the hard problem seems to be based on this flawed reasoning. The fact that we cannot think of a physical model, is neithe...
I'm not trying to shut the conversation down, I was replying specifically to posts about what physicists say and how physics is taught. (Emphasis adde...
Well, indirectly, yes. But largely as a side effect. There are lots of other roles and responsibilities e.g. being drafted for war which have consider...
As is often the case, the real mystery is why anyone gives a fuck about who touches their own junk. And I think the answer is, we're a social species ...
It's not just graphically. There are multiple models of the atom, and while there is a clear "best", most accurate model, it's nonetheless often usefu...
This is the standard solution to the problem of evil, but it doesn't actually work. How do I make decisions? I make decisions based on prior experienc...
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