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Where? You just asserted, even before your premise 1, that only a mind can create laws of reason. And I say that the law of identity and all logic tha...

What do you mean by "imperatives"? If a mind is reasonable, it follows the laws of reason. It doesn't create them.

But which country has a justice system where the prisoner is denied knowledge of what he has been condemned for, even for the sake of causing him addi...

I deny this premise: 4. The mind whose laws are the laws of Reason is omnipotent I don't think that instructions or commands of a mind constitute the ...

Yeah, I guess I don't see the point in punishing someone by making them forget what they have done wrong unless this also has an edifying effect. I de...

See, the suffering of amnesia does seem to have an edifying effect on you. Suffering sucks, it makes you want to know what went wrong and rectify it. ...

But they knew why they were suffering, didn't they? They knew why they were sent to prison? The hardships in prison could motivate them to repent and ...

It seems that structurally, spacetime with the distribution of matter in it is a mathematical structure that exists timelessly, all at once. Does that...

We usually want prisoners to understand what they have done wrong so that they may learn from their errors. They know why they have been condemned to ...

And if the Earth was a prison or a rehab facility, wouldn't it be clear why we are being isolated, punished or rehabilitated here? What have we done? ...

If we are assuming an intentional purpose of an otherworldly origin, two more possibilities come to mind: 1) The purpose of you being here is to do a ...

A universal just tells you some of the properties of a particular, namely those that the particular has in common with other particulars of the same k...

In quantum mechanics it is not possible to derive a single outcome from a given cause but it is possible to derive a single cause from a given outcome...

Looking back in time, and assuming that known laws of physics are complete and constant in space and time, the current state of our universe can only ...

Red color. How is it a relation? Surely it is related to electromagnetic wavelength of about 650 nm. But what is red about number 650 itself? Or about...

Reality consists of relations and non-relations. Quantity is a type of relation and quality might refer to non-relations. Ontic structural realism say...

Do you also wonder why number two is number two instead of, say, number three?

Yes, in everyday life we just say that one ball caused another ball to move but this couldn't happen without the world in which it happened, which inc...

Given an effect (state of the world at time t) and laws of nature, the cause (state of the world at time t-1) can be *logically* derived. That may inc...

QM probabilities mean that given initial conditions and laws of nature it is impossible to derive (and thus predict) a single future outcome. Nature m...

What is reality? Collections of collections of collections etc. What else could there be? And I mean all possible collections, because what is the dif...

But when I experience the redness of a tomato, I experience it not as a relation between me and the tomato but as something that is confined to the to...

A better term might be "panqualityism", which means that reality is made up only of qualities. If you think that all qualities deserve to be called "c...

In my metaphysics, every object is something in itself (which constitutes its intrinsic identity), as opposed to its relations to other objects (which...

A certain kind of complexity seems necessary for our consciousness; from neuroscience it seems to be a dynamic (causal-spatio-temporal) kind of organi...

Even if you can't know the thing in itself directly, you know it must be something; a thing cannot be nothing. And you can know the thing in itself in...

Qualia are a synonym for sensations that emphasizes the qualitative, as opposed to structural, aspect of sensations. The structural aspect is more ame...

Why, a thing without itself makes more sense to you?

You can't directly know a thing in itself... unless you are that thing.

To my understanding, qualia are a special kind of "things in themselves". Every thing is something in itself (which constitutes its intrinsic identity...

I believe I have the ability to influence/control my future. I also believe that everything I do is completely determined by factors over which I have...

I don't think it's so clear that there is a widening gap between human maturity and new powers afforded by science. For one thing, advances in science...

Yeah. Woody Allen once said that he didn't want to live on in other people's hearts but in his apartment.

... until your body becomes so damaged with age that it will be incompatible with life. Then there will be exactly zero parallel universes in which yo...

Indeed. Nothingness is logically inconsistent. It can also be put in this way: if there was nothing there would be the fact that there is nothing, but...

Yes, super-substantivalism seems to be a correct label for my interpretation. I just noted that in the general definition of a space in mathematics/se...

In principle, it doesn't seem that surprising to me that when you put together some "unconscious" stuffs you may get a stuff that is "conscious", as w...

We find a general definition of a space in mathematics: a space is a set of "points" with some added "structure". The points can be whatever but obvio...

Nothingness as the absence of all things is impossible (logically inconsistent) because if there were nothing then there would be the fact (state of a...

It follows from the contradiction "X is not X", because from a contradiction, anything follows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion B...

Because if such an alternative existed, it wouldn't exist.

Well, what would be the alternative? A thing that is not what it is? An apple that is not an apple?

I see the quantum wave as an object whose mathematical (quantitative-structural) properties specify how it will interact with other objects. I don't m...

No, but I take history into account by including in the definition of an object the object's position in spacetime.

We can also define the identity of an object by its relations to all other objects. The object's parts are only some of the other objects. Since the t...

Do you mean that the particle has a position in a point of space like the escaped convict and the quantum wave is only an expression of our incomplete...

Yes, I would just add that this depends on how the object is defined. For example, in a sense it is true that my desk can occupy two locations in spac...

I wouldn't say that theoretical probability assumes the system is non-deterministic. Rather, it assumes that the system has certain regularities that ...

I think nothing in the most general sense can be defined as an "object" that is logically inconsistently defined. For example: a circle that is not a ...

I don't know whether Tononi's specific approach to quantifying the intensity of consciousness is correct but the general idea of associating the inten...