apokrisis

Does it help to say that even in deepest sleep we have a dim ruminating sort of consciousness? The brain can't actually shut down. Every neuron has to...

Did you have an example of one?

Of which there are none. Except in every sci-fi work of fiction I guess.

Did you misunderstand? I was saying that humans with conscious intent write the programs. The computer runs the program without consciousness or inten...

Hah. Wasn’t expecting that comeback! :rofl: Have you ever checked out Howard Pattee on the “epistemic cut”? He makes the best hard-nosed physicist’s c...

@"Wayfarer" Yep. And this context can’t be just “represented”. It has to be lived all the way down in that physically embedded sense. What biological ...

You can say you believe it because you have already presumed that life is made of “meat”. You have skipped straight over the issue of how that meat ev...

I think the hole in your argument is that creative thinking involves both this deductive reasoning (from the general to the particular), but more impo...

A set of instructions written by someone with conscious intent for a machine lacking such a capability.

My summary is that I don’t say it is impossible that machinery could be “conscious”, but we have to recognise why standard notions of computation aren...

But beliefs without a rational basis apparently. Well that was already clear. :up:

I’m trying to keep things simple. Sure the photoreceptors respond to a range of energies. But still, that energy is being sampled by three pigments wi...

I note you carefully steered clear of my last question. How are you defining "just"? So unless you are simply happy to keep chanting propaganda slogan...

Yep. That is the social side of the equation. We must always be able to offer the world some good reason for our actions. So there is the dilemma. Our...

Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Sadly also absolutely wrong. Screamingly, laughably wrong. Like being wrong every time you make a claim? That would be a bett...

Disruption of that mid-brain habit vs frontal brain attention axis I was talking about? Compulsions are the urge to emit stereotyped actions patterns....

Think it through. How could one even define "social" except to the degree that individuals are in some kind of conformity? Collections don't have to b...

More correct is that it reveals that habit can be overridden by attention. The decision to push a button at some particular moment is a habitual act -...

I would argue that nothing needs replacing, but an extension is required. A missing element of meaningful assertion has to be recognised. The liar par...

But it is easy to evolve extra photo pigments yet even as many as three Is unusual in large brain mammals. However dragonflies can have 30. So evoluti...

What’s your definition of “just” then? For example, is it just for the law to impose a duty of care on you as a driver so that you could be charged wi...

Only the bit you posted. I generally agreed with that. My position is that the primary/secondary distinction is a matter of degree as all perceptual q...

Vagueness is better as it speaks to what we don't know. And even that to which may be unknowable or undifferentiated. Uncanny just means strange and u...

So you accept the rule of law then? On what basis? And when it comes to rights, doesn't jurisprudence usually say rights come with duties? For instanc...

The technical term you were searching for is "vague".

He did the genetics and was searching for test candidates who had expressed two variants of the "red" photopigment gene. The way that the developing r...

There’s definitely a bridge in my book. But it is neurosemiotic. Ain’t no one wants to talk about that. :wink:

I agree that this is a critical point, but it may not touch the fundamental point - at least so far as the Hard Problem is framed. It is really import...

You have an expert understanding of the issues. What are your own thoughts on the prime puzzle of qualia? Why is red experienced as red? That is, we c...

Even judgements of weight are deeply psychological - secondary qualities - as shown by Weber-Fechner’s Law. We experience the proportionate difference...

Colour reveals the surface and so helps you see the shape. Imagine you had a bag of toy animals all in the same green plastic. You have to sort them f...

Might want to check on colour constancy before going too far down that dead end. https://youtu.be/XYnqH_HHZDo

You may be right. I'm just going on the literature of the time and my conversations with those doing the research, such as Dr Gabi Jordan and Dr Jay N...

This is in fact an issue of basic philosophical import as it forces us to change our whole thinking about what "minds" are for. We think of them as be...

Is turquoise blue or green? If you try the same shade of that on a number of people, you can get different answers, suggesting small differences in ne...

I spent a lot of time studying it as science, thanks.

But our eyes and brains interpret a world of objects. If representing actual frequency were so important, why would the eye sample the world at just t...

It is a particular branch of maths these days. Symmetry theory. Although of course it used to be mostly geometry as you might expect. The maths of spa...

Here is someone who knows what he is talking about! :strong: This is bang on. It is not about seeing "colour" as it is in the world. Reflectance is si...

You’re doing a lot of shoulder shrugging here. Sure I characterise the divide in caricature terms - woke vs redneck. But then people are caricaturing ...

But you keep avoiding direct questions. As well as those of others.

What kind of answer did you think the OP wanted? Were not its language and concerns explicitly neurobiological? But I guess you have your Procrustean ...

Armed militia would worry me. Cancel culture is being matched by online extremism. If there is unravelling, it is happening in both its directions. ht...

Sure. There is a distinction to be made. But is it due to a "language game" or is it due to neurobiology? One starts to sound awfully Whorfian about c...

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Sure. In the context of a neurobiological discussion, that certainly does become a meaningful use of words.

odd that folk seem to thing that philosophy of language explains away the question ... as if there were no experience, just its notion.

You are being terribly literal. But yes. Liberal democracy would mean being free to fight for such arrangements and free to contest such arrangements....

That’s the bind. If you aren’t free to be unaffected by things then you aren’t really free. But there is no point to freedom unless it is so as to be ...

Heh, heh. Ask a neurobiological question and get some rando pushing philosophy of language. Sorry about your retinal disease. I’m sure it is more than...