creativesoul

Reducible? No. Supervene on, perhaps, if that means that all experience emerge in part at least, as a result of brains being part of what it takes. I'...

So, I've heard about 'shrooms. More and more, I personally find myself liking life much better with the natural chemical cocktails that the body makes...

That perception of apples is required in order to later have hallucinations thereof. Therefore, they are not the same thing. What is the difference be...

Fungus huh? :lol:

If hallucination of an apple amounts to the biological machinery doing the same thing it has done in past, while looking at an apple, then it becomes ...

According to the account you're arguing for/from. Is hallucination of an apple possible if one has never ever seen an apple, if one is completely unaw...

Well, whether or not something follows from one's terms is established by one's meaning, not the others'. If cake molecules entering the body and inte...

In evolutionary progression terms... I cannot make sense of hallucination unless compared to non-hallucinatory experience. Non hallucinatory experienc...

So, I'm curious and I've circled around some questions I'd like you to answer. I've hinted, I guess is one way to put it. Now, I'm going to directly a...

That's when one's initial basic worldview is forming. One is acquiring and accruing belief about themselves and the world around them. Prior to doubti...

Reminiscent of Kant's Noumena. The whole denial that I know that the heater grate to my right is what I'm seeing. I know what it's made of. I know whe...

The end. :wink:

We're in agreement. There's semantic hijacking going on in here concerning what counts as direct realism/perception. Earlier fdrake posted some SEP st...

I almost quoted that paragraph, crossed that part out, and agreed. That part caused me pause as well.

Do you really believe that the question of whether or not we're hallucinating(whether or not the tree is really there) comes before belief? All doubt ...

A good spinach salad tastes better using chopsticks. Couldn't be more physically direct contact. Could be less links in the chain. Light directly ente...

We know a lot about how bodies respond to stimulation. Some of it was inferred, hypothesized, tested and verified. The half second delay between seein...

We have names for all the different parts of biological machinery that facilitates our perception of grates. Light directly enters the eye. The grate ...

"Redundant" is n interesting choice of terms. So, do we agree that belief is necessary for seeing the tree in the front yard?? It goes without saying ...

The heater grate to my right is not a mental representation. It is a distal object. It's made of metal. It has a certain shape. It consists of approxi...

Ah, don't feel bad. Humans have been doing that forever. Road signs. Language. Landmarks.

Malfunctioning biological machinery.

I think what I'm offering here is relevant.

So, what I see is not a constituent of my experience or the heater grate is not a distal object?

None to me. I'm trying to make sense of the conclusion that the heater grate six feet to my left is not what I see. I'm still dyslexic... it's actuall...

Okay. So then are distal objects mental constituents of experience?

Physical constituent then?

Okay. I'm currently drinking coffee. Kona coffee to be precise. I'm also talking to you, thinking about what you're writing, and listening to the soun...

It follows that no constituent of experience extends beyond the body. Is that about right as well?

I look out into the distance and see a tree in the yard. There's a squirrel running around the tree, doing its thing. You're claiming that the squirre...

I see the tree in the yard but do not believe it's there.

Are you saying that distal objects are unnecessary for the response?

Thanks for the engagement. I agree that some knowledge(that a thing exists; is there) does not require forming propositional belief about that thing. ...

That's the death knell of Cartesian doubt.

Until one becomes aware of their own human fallibility; until one no longer believes their own eyes; until one begins the endeavor of metacognition wi...

Believing another's words is one species of belief; one way to draw correlations; one way to make connections; one way to attribute meaning(in this ca...

Hey Jeep. I thought that the causal closure of the material world and the immaterial world drove the need to explain how it was that minds could effec...

I think that you've given indirect realism too much credit. I see no reason to think that if colors are not inherent properties of distal objects that...

Cheers. I'd rather be encouraging than discouraging. Enacting morality and all. :wink: You're often good at that.

Thanks for that. Interesting take on truth. Could you explain it a bit more while applying it to the context?

Meaning is not equivalent to behaviors. The identity of indiscernibles shows that nicely. As I just said to Janus, you and I are in near complete agre...

The term intention has very different uses, particularly between laypeople and philosophers. I'm guessing you know this already. Just thought it worth...

I appreciate ya, bruddah. Aloha! A hui ho.

That's just not true, despite the fact that you've been charging me with it for years now. You've a clever little quip about first misunderstanding a ...

Sure, that's one way of using the terms. It's odd though, in that some language less creatures are capable of both; believing and knowing that a mouse...

Oh, I completely agree. There are an abundance of them.

It's probably worth saying that one need not be aware of their own beliefs. Beliefs come first, then awareness of them. That is to draw a distinction ...

Yup, that's what I'm keeping in mind. What are the pitfalls you warn of?

No doubt. "In that" is not how I would put it. It's that mimicry presupposes at the very least, that the mimicker believe they are mimicking. It's not...

Well, in my defense, those words left your keyboard, not mine. "Evolutionary progression" implies process over time. But yes, it's complicated.