apokrisis

I am simply content to point out the reason I found Wittgenstein so unhelpful as a source of insight on the topic of "mentalese". About as useless as ...

I'm wasting my breath as usual. But if you want to understand the mind, start by understanding the brain. If you examine the neurocognitive architectu...

In terms of the neuroscience, the "compression" happens as you don't have to fully unpack an intention because you already know where it is largely ab...

Excellent argument. But it will be ignored. :grin:

Your dislike of maps is how you get lost even in the terrain of your own arguments.

Because it matters how the social hierarchy works in social animals. It speaks to the algorithm organising the complex lives of animals that are more ...

I’m talking about self-aware and introspective human consciousness as something beyond simple animal enactive awareness. How language scaffolds what w...

Well I was in the audience when Chalmers first raised his hard problem argument. I had lunch with him after to see if he was actually serious and had ...

When facts meet ignorance, opinions always win. You are not exactly a guy for the details, even if you continually demand them. :grin:

Well Keller only lost both her sight and hearing after an illness at age two. So she had that much normal exposure to the world in terms of her social...

If you have some enthusiasm for the “brain as an antenna” hypothesis, have you pursued the literature on it? It was going the rounds in the 1990s. I c...

And you have studied the relevant science or merely offer an opinion?

They certaintly become so. But the contrast is also forging both the public and the private as complementary spheres of enaction. So it isn’t necessar...

I would disagree. What emerges as fundamental are the invariances. The constraints of symmetry and then the degrees of freedom that result. And the re...

Exactly. That is the principle difference. And language depends on evolving an articulate vocal tract optimised for generating a semiotic code of that...

You are being histrionic. This is a simple case of humans using their latest technology to explain the mind. The marvel of radio broadcast - the BBC w...

Agreed. To be embodied needs a body. :smile: Here I would add that the reason we can feel we have an inner world is that our narrative habits can be p...

And how can that happen just in neurobiological terms? Where is the neuroantomy? How is the human brain different from a chimp or even a Neanderthal? ...

It is on my to do list. :smile: But what if introspection is a useful form of confabulation? Are you working with some science verified definition of ...

In good systems fashion, we are generally constrained and so our freedoms are suitably particularised. There is some collective direction to which our...

Fair enough. But understanding, sapeience, intelligence, etc, are loaded words. They imply an individual with agency and freewill and other good stuff...

Of course. Ballard’s point. Any sufficiently advanced tech would seem like magic. It is astonishing what a little biological realism in terms of compu...

Right. And this is why I argue against the notion that brains evolved to “be conscious and rational”. Which de facto becomes the cognitive standard we...

Absolutely. If anyone is extrapolating some aspect of reality to infinity, it has to be wrong. Just because dichotomies are what rule metaphysical log...

Are you talking about injecting the all caps vector study? Signs of introspection in large language models? AI says: So what goes on in a touch typing...

There was a flurry of comment about this a few months back. I was watching youtube reports. AI says: So this goes back to my earlier point about how L...

How is an LLM any different from a player piano? The piano may play a beautiful tune. But we don’t think it even starts to hear or enjoy it. But aren'...

Yes.

And how did this change your opinions? What more focused questions will you be bringing to your interrogation of the “live specimens” that you have lo...

:up:

Science has moved beyond the simplistic everyday notion of “matter” is what you should be saying. They know that this notion is simplistic folk physic...

Cyclic cosmology does seem to fit with the current science. But isn't that because time has yet to be brought properly within its models? Quantum phys...

The Timaeus sort of gets it. The basic idea is that rather imagining the Cosmos as either a sudden creation event or as an eternal existence, it arise...

I think if the site has a value, it is to encourage critical thinking. Philosophy is not about establishing answers as much as learning how to think a...

Perhaps not as astonishing as you finding yourself as always its heliocentric centre. The mass around which it revolves. The reason it runs. :wink:

Is it really? Or are you just – as usual – always questioning and never listening?

I’m arguing not for pre-set material conditions but for Platonic strength structural necessity. The argument is that reality can only exist with a cer...

The way I handle this is seeing habit and attention as complementary spatiotemporal scales of “being aware”. Habits are developed slowly over time and...

I did interact with him a lot. And no he wasn’t in the same league. I’m not contesting your decision, just speaking up for Harry in terms of my experi...

I must say that personally I would take no offence at all to that response. It’s probably even fair. But then I’m guilty of enjoying the knockabout ch...

Nope. I was making the point that a hallmark of “consciousness” is that it is embodied and agential. And we know how that is so from having studied th...

It’s defined by the three constants, c,G,h. And there is a reason why Newtonian physics has been evolving towards a theory of quantum gravity by succe...

True. :up:

Because that was the point I was making.

And why do you too ignore the Planck energy density that came with the radius? And then also the Heat Death that inverts the deal so the Big Bang beco...

It is indeed the opposite of what I said. Which nicely summarises what I have been saying. Except I would still call it recognising what is familiar a...

Well if you paid more attention to the key Planckscale fact that I mentioned - such as how the Big Bang was both the smallest smallness and the hottes...

The fact that it is a standard symptom of schizophrenia ought give pause for thought.

I think you need to quit using AI to rewrite your arguments. AI can amplify our human capacities, but what you are doing is using it to make a bad arg...

You have missed the point. The enactive view opposed the Cartesian representational one. So yes, there is something like an internal workspace. But th...