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Isn't this the same thing as Zeno's paradoxes of motion?

Thanks for the link, I read his article before and the evolutionary argument against naturalism is an old one. Lewis had his own version of it. I'll w...

There is also the question that after AI arrives, what is to prevent future AI from being created? Surely it will want to cripple the human mind in so...

I'm curious, what are your thoughts on the global workspace theory stuff? (global neuronal workspace et al.)

I remember Searle brought this point up in one of his lectures. He said someone once asked him if proof of the non-existence of free will was shown to...

Simply detecting your consciousness would be an effect of detecting consciousness making it not an epiphenomena. You have to presume Zombies are real ...

I'm not an anthropic mechanist (in relation to humans) if that's what following the classical laws of mechanics means. The main reason is that I find ...

Neat question, an eliminativist would just say humans are big machines and that our notions of conscious planning, direct perception ect are confused ...

The point of introducing QM is to give mind somewhere to move, to escape causal closure. Libet, Eccles and others used it to that end.

I agree with this. Others have pointed out the "hallucinatory" explanation for mind always resort to positing macroscopic biological (neurological) ca...

It gets its data from numerous sensory organs, yes, but is "presented" as a single part like a movie. Movies are themselves illusions which is what el...

I agree , there is a difference between machines and AI. The OP might be titled what will we do when machines do all the work. If AI exists then there...

Okay I watched it. Chomsky was very clear that there is no mental-physical distinction because there is no physical. He gave credence to mechanism tho...

Thanks, it looks fairly long (nearly 2 hours). I'll watch it and write my thoughts later. :)

I think most people who agree with materialism/monism are property dualists in that they see consciousness, the personality, the soul ect as emerging ...

Mongrel, can you link Chomsky's piece here? I'm guessing this is one thing and not an overview of Chomsky's statements involving Descartes over time.

I don't understand this dissolution of "self" when they are still writing in first person terms to describe the experience. Presumably the investigati...

Thanks, I'll try and look that up later.

People don't know what someone else is thinking nor is there any visible change to anyone or really anything around them when they are.

I think the biggest argument against it has always been "where does your mind end and mine begin" what are the boundaries? Are they physical or mental...

Okay, thanks, sure I see that. It fits a lot with my own meditation experiences. The thoughts do appear autonomous after a time and you can passively ...

Sorry, I wasn't talking about any acheivement (that's a separate discussion). I was speaking specifically about the (meta)physical ability for somethi...

Thanks, so has anyone ever asked him how something can be epiphenomenal and yet cause him to still generate an entire philosophy based around it? I'm ...

Yep. But wouldn't this require a person/self to suffer to be correct? If the self is an illusion that vanishes on close analysis how can there be any ...

And these testaments are derived through introspection and a direct 1st person experience. See the contradiciton? How you can recall an experience of ...

Evolution selects for fitness not accuracy. If being ultra rational, emotionless allowed people to exist longer then that is how it will be. Although ...

Sort of, the thread title comes from it and it was linked in the original forums.philosophyforums.com thread. Feel free to make objections to any part...

If you're convinced of this why waste your time convincing others it is not real? What use would it bring?

If that is so easily done why would eliminativism exist?

. You're right. For some reason I didn't think of that part. Guess it takes philosophy to unravel that bit. Although it does put some parts of philoso...

I wouldn't use the expression brain. Since there are holographic theories of mind and other things where the mind is not contained just to brain. Also...

I think the answer to that is that each mind is a special snowflake (to use a modern expression) so it can only be one place at one time.

I think the voluntary/involuntary acts (the phenomenal feeling of them) are at the crux of the argument. That's where the controversy of the Libet exp...

I see it as an attempt to bridge the Leibniz's gap. From wet nerve cells to experience there is a gap. You can't open up a head and see flying unicorn...

I'm still not entirely sure what absolute idealism means. I haven't read Hegel myself directly yet (life is short). If we're going down this line wher...

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZefk4gzQt4 Yep, individuals would become overly reliant on AI. So it would look similar to communism (or t...

But what is the you and I? The genes themselves which switch on and off over the course of a life anyway. Also many modern conceptions of the universe...

Not cave folk, I'm thinking older than that. What I mean is that some of the information would obviously be adverse. Let's say one dream has a predato...

The heart was at one time considered the essence of a human. Yet it's possible to envision a completely artificial heart that exists functionally in a...

Would you have any problem with other things like say AI and aliens assuming the title of Human if they behave in a way undiscernible from humans? In ...

I meant they would have had greater evolutionary value than their current forum. The reason I say this is because dreams present adverse information t...

They are unusual from an evolutionary perspective since they appear to present false information which could endanger the animal itself. All I can thi...

Well, integrated information theory is really a version of panpsychism isn't it? So first (according to it) there is only consciousness but then there...

Really? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201407/come-back-homunculus-all-is-forgiven Anyway how can pain or anything be realiz...