But Romanticism was also literally the reaction to the Enlightenment. So it is post that science and metaphysical turn. In the end, the claims of bein...
Well I said it was a hope. I could have said a vain hope. ;) But I can see when you are not following the intended meaning that the words were suppose...
So how does that square with the neurological evidence? Why is the most bottom-up situation - when I'm driving through the rush hour on automatic pilo...
So when you see the tree falling in your mind's eye, are you directly perceiving the future or merely perceiving your image of that future. Are you ac...
A bit of neuroscience that may be pertinent. The brain’s hierarchy of processing is organised so information flows in both directions - bottom-up and ...
Are you confirming my point in your repeated failure to follow my meaning? I’m posting you carefully worded thoughts. I’m hoping they might constrain ...
The mind is simply the fact of the process of interpretation. You don’t need a further kind of witnessing thing within which the interpretation is int...
It was more than a lack of uniformity for them. A difference that makes a difference also implies reciprocally the existence of differences that don’t...
What do you mean by being “part of the world”? Are you making a claim about the properties of physical objects or neurological processes? Our concepti...
Good job then that the untenability of direct realism is matched by the unreasonableness of solipsism. That just leaves us to decide how to best chara...
How can perception be divided so that colour is your perception of a mental image and shape is your direct perception of the actuality? I agree that t...
That one made me laugh. Show me the simple definition of direct realism, or even indirect realism, in this SEP entry - https://plato.stanford.edu/entr...
When have I ever not flagged the critical discontinuity? It's the epistemic cut. It is only after that that life and mind become a thing. So that then...
You can name constraints. They really do things causally. And when we talk about consciousness, that normally cashes out as attentional-level processi...
A lot of familiar psychological terms are poorly defined. But we'll live. We can talk about the biological commonality with the laboratory animals int...
Are we talking about a dream tree? How does your own unsupervised neural network categorise those? And is the greenness of this tree - either real or ...
No neuroscientist could accept that simple account. Neurons respond to significant differences in the patterns of connectivity they are feeling. And t...
Sure. The AI labs will want to keep improving. But a computer that can actually do human things might have to start off as helpless and needy as a hum...
Yep, that is the line that direct realism tried to defend back in the 17th century. It would give up qualitative sensation and insist on the directnes...
A more causally-explicit way of saying this would be that a sign has the function of constraining an interpretation. So the actual physics of a sign f...
Correct. I said that. A good point. The system has no eyes. It is just fed 18x18 chunks of pixels - strings of hex code. It might be worth checking th...
How could we argue that the world is coloured as we “directly experience” it when science assures us it is not? Sure, phenomenally, our impressions of...
Remind me. How does your particular definition of direct realism account for hallucinations and illusions? How do I see a mental image? In what way is...
A pigeon can make the same perceptual discrimination. Human perception is of course linguistically scaffolded and so that takes it to a higher semioti...
As usual I have no clue what you are on about. Did you think I would argue that sensory level, and then linguistic level knowledge of the world is ind...
If you want to argue your case with actual perceptual examples then go right ahead. What is direct about motion detection or hue perception I wonder? ...
Yep. And that is the point. The OP certainly comes off as an exercise in naive realism. You can't both talk about a mediating psychological machinery ...
We've been over this before. Let's just say that your version of direct realism wants to skip over the reality of the psychological processes involved...
Yep. I wasn't going to mention it again for the umpteenth time but the architectural approaches that particularly impress me have been Grossberg's Ada...
This would still be proof of indirect realism. The network, after all, still has to learn to see/recognise patterns. Note also how the learning depend...
Yep. So we agree on pragmatism and its approach to rationalism? What is distinctive is that purpose is included in epistemology. The map is not claime...
Again, the issue is what is one to make of your language use when it employs dialectical structure as if attempting a rational argument. It could be m...
Still, I was pointing out the degree to which any force your argument could carry would be down to its rational structure. Or are you saying that hing...
Ah. So seeing red even in bad lighting conditions is the way we directly apprehend the ripeness and rottenness of objects. Sounds legit. Look at that ...
I said ultimately it is. But the tiniest possible scrap of a brute fact. Remember that quantification has fallen out of the picture, so it is the dich...
Yet there has to be a reason for protesting that there is no obvious reason why possibility ought to be limited. You can't have it both ways here. Eit...
Because symmetries are logical. They are the invariances that emerge as the sum or average of all possible variances. So if you feel it is logical to ...
But the laws can be accounted for at least in terms of symmetry maths and the logical principles they encode. So all physical laws respect a least act...
Of course. The only question is whether the state of mind is being caused directly or indirectly. Colour experience alone shows that conciousness is m...
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