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How could you show it isn't? Any evidence would be something acting upon a body.

Well the binding problem is still unresolved. (Well some like Dennett say it's not real.) So it's not like there is specific criteria for it.

He's just repeating whatever Bostrom says. Btw from Bostrom's paper https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html lol, :grin: I like he sweeps a...

I don't know. It's possible a lot of the time compression stuff are cheap mental tricks. I can obviously imagine more than exists on earth but the min...

Those are still determinate events since you could say it was your neurological (clasical) state which chose the irrational number. I get what you're ...

ok one question, If a device generated complex decisions that were then fed into a brain which a short time after were made conscious 100% of the time...

So can this not be resolved by being at an earlier point to A)? IE: the observer predicts this mental content exists at X time and will be made consci...

I wasn't referring to the dream in itself. I mean the fact parts of dreams are unpredictable unlike normal thinking. Content we associate with intenti...

I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Btw, I see things like driving as evidence of there NOT being a subconscious. For example, when my mind drif...

The dreams are limited by the energy they are running off. Eventually you will wake up because you need food.

The zombie argument only makes sense if you believe epiphenomenalism is possible.

I don't think cognitive bias counts as subconscious mental phenomena. The intent is there but it doesn't pull it off. When people learn more their int...

I'm fairly sure you're talking about his "on the hypothesis that animals are automata" essay, and it's comparing it to a steam whistle having no effec...

Terrapin was very specific but perhaps this example might help. Conscious mental content: Kevin robs a bank because he consciously wants to go to pris...

I'm generally in agreement with Harry here. I also agree with the sense of self evaporating the more you spend socializing instead of the opposite. Ta...

Your conscious phenomenal experience is a special snowflake. People have different phenomenal features to you. I never thought this was a difficult qu...

Well evolution presupposes they exist. Evolution has a general linear A to B timeline. So natural selection is saying, this is the way the universe is...

So the context has to be changed in order for the ball not to fall? eliminating each classical cause is the sisyphean task? Like attempting to end can...

Sorry I just re-read your OP and I understood it a lot better now. When you're using "eternal" in the OP you mean as in the change of events being inf...

Yeah this sounds more like eternalism (the view that all points in time and real and eternal). Anyway while I'm here, I never understood how conscious...

I can see lots of legal issues opping up with they/them. I suppose Xe/Xir is popular in some communities. There just isn't enough non-binary people ye...

It's empirically demonstrable you would not be able to know their dream until they told you. He's simply saying the mental content (or at least one fo...

To be clear, I was referring to the Churchlands in that post. I can't find the video but Paul was specifically critical about language being something...

I think eliminativism could mean that the folk terms used to describe our experiences aren't suited to a laboratory because they are rough stereotypes...

But I'm not making a statement of identity (like type-physicalism as it is currently called). I am discerning between evolutionary and sociological ex...

Interesting, the way it is described is that you become lucid within the dream first and then move on to vibrations. I have plenty of lucid dreams and...

Astral projection http://uk.iacworld.org/what-are-the-sensations-of-astral-projection/ As said before, I did experience some of this before I knew the...

It wasn't really about ideology which is a complete structure but more meme based (as in an experience built out of tiny ideas which can some from any...

Sam, what are your thoughts on the meme argument for the corroborating evidence? The meme argument would say the "after life/ OBE experience" is withi...

Actually I was addressing the entirety of your post (including the free will stuff). But I will post in this thread since it was more active and it is...

So hormones don't count for anything? (All evidence suggests they change phenotype and alter the mental state). https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/0...

A couple of things, the first part seems similar to the argument that consciousness is epiphenomenal. Yet if it is without effects then how can we tal...

But if you ignore the differences and look towards their commonality you can discover their origin, from a tree which they both come from and then tra...

Thanks. Yes, much of it can be attributed to Freud but as said the unconscious mind contribution has stuck. Why Freud Still Matters, When He Was Wrong...

But this is just speculation, as I mentioned before if opening one door opens up a thousand other doors it could be it never is shut off because there...

I think the discussion has always been whether or not the subconscious mind/ habitual/ the autonomic has intentional mental content in competition or ...

I rushed that last sentence out. But I thought about what you said. So yes, maybe, though it could also be us anthropomorphizing an abstract state. Th...

I'm content with sitting in silence or sunbathing for hours but I'll tackle the OP. There's an assumption here that there is a highest capacity possib...

Isn't this more universal mechanism/ reductive materialism/ atomism than physicalism. For example, most people attribute the breaking of the window to...

Thanks, I still think the generic properties like "brick" to its earlier visible state as "mud" "clay" would be formal causes though. The division of ...

Thanks, really what I was asking after was what is the core difference (if any) between "material" and "efficient" cause. The classical difference wou...

you've said before your metaphysics supports the four cause model. if you have to be more analytic about it how would you frame the four causes?

So all forms of physicalism are bottom-up?

yeah you're right. The closest thing we have are people with Aphantasia who lack a "mind's eye" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia however durin...

I get that. When I say debunked by empiricism I'm meaning something direct. In order to claim a strong victory for mechanists shouldn't life be reprod...

Hi Mike, welcome back. :) I remember your threads were fairly interesting. As far as your field hypothesis goes, there is something called a morphogen...

I liked some of their posts. But I do think they could have tried a little better to engage alternative ideas and sometimes it seemed trollish. For ba...

I'm over my head here. But I've seen MWI described as superdeterministic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism The future of all measurement...

Thanks a lot I'll look through them tomorrow :smile:

Any links where I can read about this? (QM moving towards this view as opposed to MWI or alternatives?)