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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 ...
April 24, 2024 at 15:46
I didn't think he proposed a solution. Rather, it was an example to show that supertasks are impossible.
April 24, 2024 at 15:08
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...
April 24, 2024 at 14:44
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...
April 24, 2024 at 14:41
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...
April 24, 2024 at 12:36
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 ...
April 24, 2024 at 12:32
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:46
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:43
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:36
For example, one group defines "direct perception" as "ABC". They claim that "ABC" is true and so call themselves "direct realists". Another group def...
April 24, 2024 at 11:14
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...
April 24, 2024 at 11:11
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) ...
April 24, 2024 at 11:09
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 ...
April 24, 2024 at 11:06
The dispute between naive and indirect realists concerns the phenomenal character of experience. You can use the word "experience" to refer to somethi...
April 24, 2024 at 11:00
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...
April 24, 2024 at 08:50
I think the scientific evidence strongly suggests that experience is either reducible to brain states or supervenes on brain states. I think the scien...
April 24, 2024 at 08:25
What is the physical/physiological difference between us seeing a mental representation and a mental representation existing in our heads? This is whe...
April 24, 2024 at 08:19
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...
April 24, 2024 at 08:08
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...
April 24, 2024 at 07:59
Experience exists within the brain, distal objects exist outside the brain, therefore distal objects do not exist within experience. Experience is cau...
April 24, 2024 at 07:52
Are you referencing the problem of induction? There is no clear answer to that. According to the scientific method a statistical significance of five ...
April 23, 2024 at 21:24
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...
April 23, 2024 at 21:10
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 ...
April 23, 2024 at 19:52
Thanks, although it's actually a variation of Thomson's lamp.
April 23, 2024 at 13:58
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...
April 23, 2024 at 11:35
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...
April 23, 2024 at 08:54
Yes it can. I feel pain and I feel the fire. I see cows and I see colours.
April 23, 2024 at 08:51
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...
April 23, 2024 at 08:48
I didn't say that we don't have reliable knowledge. I said that we don't have direct knowledge.
April 23, 2024 at 08:42
It seems consistent with the scientific evidence. Experience exists within the brain. Distal objects exist outside the brain. Therefore, distal object...
April 22, 2024 at 15:33
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...
April 22, 2024 at 15:12
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...
April 22, 2024 at 14:25
No. Experience exists within the brain (either reducible to its activity or as some supervenient phenomenon), whereas proximal stimuli exist outside t...
April 22, 2024 at 14:13
Mental phenomena; colours (inc. brightness), shapes, orientation.
April 22, 2024 at 14:11
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...
April 22, 2024 at 14:09
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...
April 22, 2024 at 14:03
"Store at room temperature. Best served chilled." Well now I don't know what to do.
April 22, 2024 at 13:55
No.
April 22, 2024 at 13:51
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...
April 22, 2024 at 13:09
No
April 22, 2024 at 11:55
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...
April 22, 2024 at 10:35
The experience is prior to and distinct from the response. Those with locked-in syndrome can feel pain. I can resist and fake an itch.
April 22, 2024 at 10:12
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...
April 22, 2024 at 10:08
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...
April 22, 2024 at 09:56
Yes, we see distal objects. And we see colours. We feel distal objects. And we feel pain. We smell distal objects. And we smell smells.
April 22, 2024 at 08:59
Because I'm including hearing and smelling and tasting and feeling. It's not all about sight.
April 22, 2024 at 08:58
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 ...
April 22, 2024 at 08:51
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...
April 22, 2024 at 08:46
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...
April 22, 2024 at 07:58
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...
April 22, 2024 at 07:51