I think biologically it is a break away from habituated behavior. Sometimes I say something automatically and I know I wasn't thinking when I said it....
The thing is when I have localized anesthetic it doesn't feel like something is missing. It feels like it no longer exists or doesn't belong to me. Li...
Lanier's use of the zombie wasn't important. It's whether consciousness can be computed using the transcript of meteor showers. I've never found any c...
Sure, but are are we not moving away from the classic definition of being able to capture the transcendental, the fixed and unchangeable, as in a mime...
I recall Searle believed minds had to be made of a certain something. I think the analogy he used was pistons. They can't be made from putty. Minds ha...
This isn't a really a subtlety though. The zombie argument presumes the zombie will always be identical to the other person having the phenomenal expe...
yes, just that. I'll be able to give a better answer to this soon. I'll make a note of this thread once I have more detail. But I'd say both of those ...
Well consciousness is attention and attention is usually directed at attending a mental event which the autonomic mind could not deal with. It's not s...
Some people like Sperry believe a divided brain creates two individual minds each with consciousness. Like the split brain experiments, what do you sa...
I'll try to explain better. I've forgotten some of the technical terminology so bare with me. Aren't properties themselves supervenient on their under...
I understand frame of reference in epistemic terms, but I don't really get how distinct things can have a phenomenal frame of reference. Brains are co...
There has always been epistemic solutions to consciousness in psychology and neurology. Top-down descriptions exist over any good neurobiology text bo...
This just goes into the free will argument. I didn't consent to my mind you're correct. Though it was pre-existing as potential genetic code and the c...
Yep, same thing in b-theory of time I believe. They're all Parmenidean arguments. So the world of reason is describing a different world to the one ou...
I think anyone who has ever had a dream would be aware of zombies or solipsism. Children today play VR so they are more familiar with the concepts. Th...
Wittgenstein might be considered an eliminativist. Anyway I'd probably say the meaning of words are how they are used (that part is correct) but the f...
It probably would be better if forums like this supported nested comments. Then people could interact with your crits freely without letting it interr...
Internet forum culture seems to be dying out (even this one is a quasi-backup of an earlier one which closed). They will probably be a footnote if any...
I think P.Churchland has a vastly different view to Dennett in that he sees the direct empirical experience as being more informationally rich than ou...
Well that section isn't sourced unlike other parts which contains a direct quote from Dennett's new book. I did some googling but could not find the o...
When he says illusion in recent years, he literally means user illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_illusion It's difficult to unpack a lot of...
The closest to definition he comes is here which he describes as fourfold. "Qualia are: "(1) ineffable (2) intrinsic (3) private (4) directly or immed...
We also don't have any independent lineage of life existing on earth that we aren't descended from. We also have failed to recreate it even with all t...
So Quning Qualia quote 1: "Everything real has properties, and since I don't deny the reality of conscious experience, I grant that conscious experien...
There isn't really any other way he can present empirical evidence for his theory that the brain is just a big parallel processing machine with the ri...
This is a curious quote from that essay. He's pretty much stating that the "higher" levels of biology are real beyond the way we interpret and think a...
It fits more into a behavioral, functionalist epistemology. The focus is on its use in a given behavior but not the individual bundle of "quales" it i...
I think the idea is that the person doesn't know if their qualia has changed or how it has. We can agree that "color" is a quale right? I recall one c...
He knows that minds are shaped haphazardly (sort of) by evolution so he has faith in the scientific method before all else because it removes much of ...
I believe Dennett is making a statement about the ontology of Qualia, akin to Quine. The intuition pump about the coffee tasters in Quining Qualia pre...
Depends on which part pf PoM. Baars: A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness is the best scientific book on consciousness I've read albeit it's slightly o...
Could it be as simple as why bees and not just flowers? What I mean is could it be due to the existence of multi-cell organisms that single cell organ...
I think for science to function there has to be accidents in nature that the method is filtering out. If everything operated as billiard balls then it...
I think its generally agreed that the internal voice makes use of the same brain structures that allows you to hear external voices. Technically, only...
I think they are the same thing. Consciousness occurs when you need to bring attention to a problem. The "subconscious" mind is simply habit/ autonomi...
@Wayfarer made a thread about this. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3174/critical-review-of-consciousness-denialism-by-galen-strawson/p1 Den...
Sure, and binded together as a single phenomenon we can discuss physically on message boards ect. Yes I'm familiar with his multiple drafts model. So ...
Good thread, firstly, Dennett is inconsistent with applying the Cartesian theatre. Look at his past adoration for the global neuronal workspace theory...
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