True, but that's only part of the issue. If after 30 seconds he's flipped the switch once and if after a further 15 seconds he's flipped the switch a ...
Given that each division is some {1\over{n}}m then such a movement is akin to counting all the real numbers from 0 to 1 in ascending order. Such a cou...
It does follow that the journey cannot start. Therefore given that the journey can start then the premise that there is no first division is false. It...
The paradox does not require the physical possibility of such a counter. It simply asks us to consider the outcome if we assume the metaphysical possi...
I don't understand what you are saying. The example is simply: after 30 seconds a single-digit counter increments to 1, after a further 15 seconds it ...
Naive realists. That's why they are naive realists. See What’s so naïve about naïve realism?: Note the distinction between the constitutive claim of n...
60 seconds will pass in the universe. The counter is just one thing that exists in the universe and it changes according to the prescribed rules. So g...
Well, yes. Phenomenal character exists in the brain, the brain exists in the world, and so phenomenal character exists in the world. But it is still t...
For example, one group defines "direct perception" as "ABC". They claim that "ABC" is true and so call themselves "direct realists". Another group def...
You can call anything you like "direct realism", but it is not a given that you are saying anything that contradicts indirect realism. Each group just...
The phenomenal character doesn't take place in the distal world. The phenomenal character takes place in the brain, albeit is (in the veridical case) ...
Well that is why I have spent 60 pages trying to explain that much of the dispute between indirect and non-naive direct realists is a confusion borne ...
The dispute between naive and indirect realists concerns the phenomenal character of experience. You can use the word "experience" to refer to somethi...
I think this is a misrepresentation. The paradox is that given the premise(s) what happens at the limit is undefined, and yet something must happen at...
I think the scientific evidence strongly suggests that experience is either reducible to brain states or supervenes on brain states. I think the scien...
What is the physical/physiological difference between us seeing a mental representation and a mental representation existing in our heads? This is whe...
I don't think the physics is relevant. The question can be asked of any universe with any physical laws. The thought experiment is entirely metaphysic...
I suggested that movement was discrete, not that space was discrete. In other words, at a sufficiently small scale, when an object (esp. particle) mov...
Experience exists within the brain, distal objects exist outside the brain, therefore distal objects do not exist within experience. Experience is cau...
Are you referencing the problem of induction? There is no clear answer to that. According to the scientific method a statistical significance of five ...
If movement is continuous then an object in motion passes through every {1\over{n}}m marker in sequential order, but there is no first {1\over{n}}m ma...
Bernadete's Paradox of the Gods: It's the same principle as Zeno's dichotomy, albeit Zeno uses distance markers rather than barriers. Given that each ...
I think there’s a simpler way to phrase this problem. After 30 seconds a single-digit counter increments to 1, after a further 15 seconds it increment...
The debate between naive and indirect realists does not concern whether or not we can feed or slaughter cows. It concerns whether or not our perceptio...
What does it mean to directly see something? By "directly see X" naive and indirect realists mean that X is a constituent of experience, so when naive...
It seems consistent with the scientific evidence. Experience exists within the brain. Distal objects exist outside the brain. Therefore, distal object...
It is a constituent of the causal process that causes your visual experience but it isn't a constituent of the visual experience itself. See What’s so...
Yes, that looks about right, although it may be that interpretation and mental phenomena/experience should be combined as a single thing. I'm not enti...
No. Experience exists within the brain (either reducible to its activity or as some supervenient phenomenon), whereas proximal stimuli exist outside t...
Because naive and indirect realists mean the same thing by "visual experience" but disagree on its constituents and so disagree on whether or not we h...
Because there's no philosophical disagreement. One group just prefers to use the verb "to see" only when talking about seeing distal objects and the o...
I'm pointing out that both "I see distal objects" and "I see mental phenomena" are true. I see cows and cows are distal objects. I see colours and col...
I wouldn't say that. I don't even know what this would mean. I only say that the same kind of stimulus can cause different experiences for different o...
I'm not sure what you mean by "inverted qualia". All I mean by such a term is that the same kind of stimulus (e.g. light with a wavelength of 700nm) c...
By "what feels to me like pleasure feels to you like pain and vice versa" do you mean that the sort of things that would cause me pain might cause you...
Yes, we experience distal objects like cows. And we experience mental phenomena like colours and smells and tastes and pain. This is why arguing over ...
What do you think "see" means? What do you think "feel" means? Do I see colours? Are colours a mental phenomenon? Do I feel pain? Is pain a mental phe...
No I don't. We can refer to things that we don't directly experience, e.g. Hitler and dark matter. But this dispute has nothing to do with language. C...
They mean the same thing by "visual experience" but disagree on what constitutes it. Taken from What’s so naïve about naïve realism? It is important t...
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