apokrisis

Wake me up if you want to engage in the substance of my posts, which have been about how the conceptual dichotomy of attention~habit makes neuroscient...

You were saying medicine is no folk craft. So that is why medicine would try to understand what goes on exactly in the mechanistic information-process...

Roll that rock, Sisyphus. :)

I asked how it was relevant to any position I've advanced. You can't explain. Oddly that is tiresome.

Where's the problem with one thing's general being another's particular. Put these various items in hierarchical order - cat, Fluffy, animal, persian,...

Telling the truth now, eh? Get over yourself dude.

There's no hope because the way general beliefs about the mind are socially constructed are socially useful. You can't fight what culture wants you to...

Or your conception of consciousness demonstrably impotent.

But so what? If you think this somehow impacts on any position I've expressed, please explain why.

And does medicine treat that as spooky woo or does it search for the mechanistic explanation? Wouldn't you like the docs to be sure whether you happen...

Wow. This is news! Next you will be telling me you can think of things, but not do them.

Well my point was consciousness is a confused folk psychology term. And that is why neuroscience tries to sharpen things by tieing what we sort of mea...

For crying out loud, I was addressing a specific point - "van Inwagen suggests that an explanation for why human-oriented horrors exist is because the...

As you say, Inwagen put those outside the bounds of his argument. So I'm not sure why you want to change the goal-posts. However the same argument doe...

But Ingwagen is already accepting that God wants there to be freewill at that point. That must be some ultimate good. And so the price you pay for tha...

I would say van Inwagen could be justified like this. Our initial intuition is that a line could be drawn accurately because there is some average deg...

Did you mention that exactly halfway is where the rate of increase peaks, so is also exactly where the rate of decrease first starts? The middle secti...

Actually I said a state of intentionality. And when I was talking about a generalised intent, I was explicit about that meaning a general constraint i...

Yes, Platonism, or better yet Aristotelianism, is more sophisticated. Instead of just being anthropomorphic, the larger cause of being is assigned to ...

You are still not getting it. I said the process of attending leads to a particular state of intention. So it brings intentionality - our general long...

Yes. Naturalism would oppose supernaturalism as immanence vs transcendence. So the first cause or prime mover would have to be understood as a self-or...

I would say this "dissociation" is a function of how we choose to approach the task of explanation. Talking about consciousness is really coming at th...

This is the way to look at it. It is the rational argument as to why our experience of reality would be functionally limited, not the thing in itself....

So you are meaning by semi conscious to be asleep and not meaning an automatic or habitual level of responding? What gives?

Yes but I was talking about intentions. And it was my usage you were attacking. If you want to talk about intentionality, then that is a different sub...

Good thing that's just your misrepresentation then. I have stressed the complementary way that habit level and attentional level processing support ea...

For the record, you are just misrepresenting my position. Talk about attention is talk about a general faculty. Talk about intentions is talk about pa...

Are you that hard of understanding? It is the way I've ruled reality in that I'm defending. So yes, you could rule it in "any old way" and so what. Bu...

You are making a category error in trying to make attention the efficient cause of a final cause. I agree, it is hard to avoid talking like this. But ...

Again, I've ruled reality in by making it a testable belief. The recalcitrant nature of some of my experience is the evidence supporting that interpre...

I was talking about using the attention~habit distinction instead of the conscious~unconscious one. And then - as we mostly study the neuro-architectu...

My point is that you in fact have access to two things - your general theory and your particular acts of measurement. So this allows for a process of ...

You can't know. But it is a hypothesis you can adopt and test.

I didn't say it was a textbook. But in fact it was being used as an introductory text for neuroscience at my local medical school. And it did focus on...

As is always the case in such philosophical quandaries, it is fruitless trying to achieve the grounding of an external perspective. The only epistemic...

PMed.

There you go. It was fact free waffle.

So speaking neurological, what actually is going on when you are conscious vs "semi-conscious"? What's your model in terms of actual brain processes? ...

It is interpretation all the way down. But also, part of what we then experience is the recalcitrant nature of our experiences. So every time we open ...

Wiki is useful on symbolic interactionism and its attempts to place itself - pragmatically - in the middle of the usual realist vs idealist debates. S...

Dude. So many ways to misconstrue anything I say. You keep demonstrating the grip that a socially constructed worldview has on folk's thinking. You ar...

Now you are trying to force what I say into your traditional socially constructed reference frame. (Not necessarily a wrong thing, but definitely an e...

A point about that. A metaphysical strength distinction does rest on a fundamental opposition. Or to be more precise, not merely an act of negation bu...

The elements of a triadic semiotic modelling relation are there. You have an intent. It exists to organise the world. And it is mediated by signs. So ...

One thing this looks to miss is that what you are socially constructing is a constraint. And so any distinction remains irreducibly vague in practice....

That's backwards. Memory as a technical term can mean all sorts of things just applied to humans. There is long term memory, short term memory, iconic...

Are you serious? What's the problem with a genetic memory that can capture useful random changes? There is no logical or metaphysical hole in this as ...

Its a joke. A rock just wouldn't get it would it?

No. The universe is a dumb as a rock. Which is what requires life to evolve and entropifiy what the universe itself cannot. So it is not a positive re...

Thanks. My background is in neuroscience and theoretical biology. But that thread is many pages long. A brief answer is that biologists now understand...