wonderer1

Sure. There is lots more to look into, and our technology is crude next to the complexity to be understood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk?si=lSbZGhR7316_Aaxx

So atheists have a high degree of confidence that God doesn't exist. The label "atheist" is useful to convey that. Do you see a problem with people us...

Do you think that is the case with all people who believe themselves to be autistic? Anyway, don't answer. I've threadjacked too much already.

Do you think God wanted me to be autistic, or needed me to be autistic?

:up: I think you will find it a fun read.

I think you misinterpret. I read that statement as an expression of humility, and recognizing the role of earlier thinkers in Newton being able to ach...

I'd suggest replacing "authoritative" with "reliable". Authority doesn't really have anything to do with it.

I prefer Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.

For me supervenience is an epistemic tool I typically use in what I'll call a visuo-intuitive sort of way, without seeing a need for a logically rigor...

I'm seeing more clealy where the :100: :smile: came from. :wink:

Extraordinarily well stated.

I'll leave you to think about it.

Well, a fucking brilliant jester, and I enjoy a lot of what he has to say. So I'll leave that there. :wink:

LOL I'm an eye witness, and you are a gaslighter.

I think reifying "physicalism" as you seem to be doing is kind of silly. The word "physicalism" is a label people use for a set of perspectives some p...

The Constitution lays out the criteria for being disqualified. I already pointed this out. He incited insurrection. That you are unable to recognize t...

:lol: Yeah, I see what you did there on multiple levels. However, the person you quoted looks at things at various level including physics, chemistry,...

Due process is ongoing. And punished? He is raising money on his notoriety.

So are you saying it's a rhetorical ploy? Attempting to manipulate people into seeing things as you wish? Feel free to explain, but I'll take that as ...

I've mostly seen the distinction come up in the context of scientists saying they practice methodological naturalism as scientists but are not metaphy...

Yeah, it's unfortunate. I'd probably vote for you, considering the likely alternatives. At this point I'm hoping The Rock runs. Sucks that Schwarzeneg...

It is not a basic human right to be on the ballot for POTUS. There are criteria spelled out in the constitution. Not having engaged in insurrection is...

Can you quote anyone calling herself a physicalist saying anything remotely like that?

That's a non-sequitur. How about a more substantive response? Why would brains be any less shaped by evolution than other biological organs? Philosoph...

It is relevant to the fact that for you... But I'm happy to drop it if you aren't interested.

I don't see much distinction between physicalism and naturalism, other than in usage. My impression is that "physicalism" is just the word more common...

Can you support this?

I'd say something more along the lines of physicalism is a label suggesting recognition of the sort of explanations that seem likely to be reliable. Y...

:up: It about being able to talk about the same thing at two different levels of abstraction, what is viewed as the emergent level and the pre-emergen...

I'll leave it to @"Walter".

It's a matter of facing the way things are in reality as compared to being in denial. Brains are a somewhat important aspect of our biology. Why would...

No, I don't see it as supporting Kastrup's idealism, however I can see how Kastrup's view could be an expression of his recognition of the distributed...

The "meaning of these marks" lies in the way they activate pattern recognizing neural networks in your brain, and the way those recognized patterns br...

Loved it. I probably won't be a good reader and comment on all of the entries, but this one really struck a chord.

What is your view on possible world semantics?

So this already created world is B. How is it that the following is not saying that God creating a different world is not even possible?

So would you agree that means that if God is simple then he did not have a choice to create a world other than this one?

Since it seems likely that Walter is asleep... Would you agree that there is no possible world in which God creates B and therefore it was necessary t...

Going through this thread and it seemed worth pointing out that fMRI doesn't come anywhere near individual neuron level resolution. The last I looked ...

Thanks.

What aspect(s) are you still trying to understand?

Link?

But then Tse demonstrates, in the body of the book, that he has looked into the sort of things that need to be looked at in order to develop that unde...

I wonder if there isn't some merit to the concept, if reframed in terms of us being elements of a social species, whose thoughts are very much a funct...

:rofl:

It is hard for me to communicate, because a key aspect of my perspective results from being somewhat autistic and somewhat savantish. But to take a st...

I pointed you towards Peter Tse's book awhile back. Tse is definitely one of the less clueless writers on the subject that I have encountered. Did you...

I'd modestly suggest that some of us have more of a clue than others, and given that it is a hard problem, it makes sense to look at it in terms shade...

It looks to me like you are throwing the baby out with the bath water. Some forms that energy can take are highly stable on the scale of human lifetim...