The only thing that is indeterminate is what you choose to call a "dune". If instead of baggage words like "dune" you use the mathematically precise w...
By the "naive realist view" you mean modal realism? There is a modal realist interpretation of quantum mechanics where all quantum possibilities are r...
What does it mean for something to "exist"? How does "being logically possible (consistent)" differ from "existing"? I don't know what the difference ...
What do you mean by A and not-A? If A is an object and not-A are all objects other than A, I don't see necessarily any contradiction in the simultaneo...
But if the mind is identical to the brain (or to some parts of the brain), then the mind, and everything in it, is spatiotemporal and therefore not ab...
Any object is either a collection of objects or it is a non-composite object (empty collection). There seem to be no other possibilities. And we have ...
As soon as there are ANY differences in the world, you have a structure describable by mathematics. You can count the differences, you can make combin...
Pure sets are collections built up from non-composite objects called empty sets. Collections can be concrete or general (Platonic), same difference as...
If they reject the principle of identity (or non-contradiction, or excluded middle) then I don't know what they are talking about. A circle that is no...
Non-deterministic traditionally means involving absence or incompleteness of causal relations, meaning that future events cannot be logically derived ...
Probability is reducible to well-defined pure sets too, so there is nothing undefined ontologically. Something either exists exactly as it is or it do...
Except such a difference is undefined and therefore doesn't exist. Its supposed definition refers to other definitions that refer to other definitions...
It just seems that both non-relations and the qualia of experience are unstructured stuffs. And who is to say which unstructured stuffs are qualia of ...
Yes, from the "inside" it is the stuff it is, and from the "outside" it has relations to other stuffs. (some of the other stuffs can be regarded as "c...
P-zombies would be like relations without stuffs, which seems inconceivable to me. Relations alone would be relations between what? Between nothings? ...
In general, I see stuffs (non-relations) and relations between them as inconceivable without each other, complementary to each other, and neither one ...
In pure set theory (a foundational theory of mathematics) every stuff is structurally a set whose identity is completely defined by its composition, t...
Actually, I would say that the root of the hard problem of consciousness/qualia is an ontology that focuses on relations inspired by the success of ma...
Maybe we could rephrase the question this way: "Why are there non-structured stuffs associated with structures of (causal) relations?" And then the an...
Basically, to trust logic means to trust that a thing is what it is and is not what it is not. Logic is just an elaboration of the principle of identi...
On the one hand, the idea of collections is as non-mysterious as it gets. On the other hand, it fascinates me that a collection is something different...
Mass/energy is the property of having causal relations to other objects, and causal relations are a special case of mathematical relations in spacetim...
Are there collections in reality? If so, then reality is mathematical because all mathematics can be expressed in collections. That's what pure set th...
As I said, a space is a special kind of collection that has a continuity between its parts. There is a rigorous definition of it in mathematics. A spa...
Yes, it would be a contradiction for unicorns to exist here and now because they don't exist here and now. If there is an object such as a spacetime w...
Apparently, qualities of our consciousness are qualities of spatiotemporal objects with causal relations. Energy in physics is generally defined as th...
How do you know that they don't exist? They may exist on a different planet or in a different universe. They may also exist on Earth in the future. Bu...
Apparently consciousness consists of unstructured "stuffs" or qualities. For example the sensation of red color doesn't seem to be decomposable, altho...
But as I said, without definition there is nothing, so in order for an object to be logically consistent it must have a definition. I don't mean a hum...
Right, I think it never was. Right. But still, you could do what you wanted to do, so in this sense you did a freely willed (wanted/desired) action. H...
If free will is possible (logically consistent) then it exists. But how is free will defined? Without definition there is nothing. If free will means ...
I think this is equivalent to asking "What caused logical possibility (consistency) to be, and why?" Like, why is A identical to A (and not identical ...
Qualia have been posited as qualities of consciousness, as opposed to relations. They stand in relations and thus ground a structure of relations but ...
But even in the non-representationalist view we don't perceive a tree (an external object) directly but only as "marks" left by incoming photons in ou...
I mean programmed like learning machines. But initially the wouldbe organism has no goals (blind nature doesn't program any particular goal in it), it...
Programmed but not necessarily consciously, just blindly smashing simple things into aggregates and those that happen to have the properties needed to...
But they have intelligent behavior like object recognition and logical operations which is realized by physical interactions. The intelligent behavior...
Why not? We already have electronic devices that can recognize faces or other objects and act on that recognition. Or perform complicated logical oper...
In our modern age, the idea of a soul as a conscious entity that can incarnate in a physical body and survive the physical body's death faces this dil...
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