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Regarding the idea... What would it take to even be able to physically reconfigure a normal human observer? All the necessary parts. What do all norma...

Hume's influence on the academic/philosophical/scientific community at the time caused Kant to awaken from dogmatic slumber. He said as much himself i...

Kant did.

I think he plays, purposefully for the sake of playing... an agent provocateur. He cannot believe everything he writes.

How do you get from "given that our scientific theories entail the eventual formation of an exceptionally large number of Boltzmann brains with experi...

Proudly. I'm stating the case. If you reject the brute fact that we are normal observers, then all bets are off.

Thanks for that. I'll take your word for that. I shouldn't get involved in some of this, I've neither the time nor the knowledge to be said to "know e...

Given politics, the power of the spoken/written word seems rather important.

This also seems to rely on disembodied cognition as a logical possibility. Logical possibility alone does not warrant belief/assent. What about all of...

The probability of our being a normal observer is 100%. Here we are. I'm not sure how (6) follows from (3) and (4). The Big Freeze has not happened. I...

Chomsky called it glorified plagiarism, or words to that effect/affect.

Who said that? Never a good sign when one neglects to address what was written in lieu of something that was not.

I am.

Solipsism is a philosophical idea. It is a language construct. Language constructs are existentially dependent upon shared meaning; shared meaning... ...

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It's odd to me when one exclaims that they are more likely to be a philosophical tool for thinking than a human whose thinking and/or using the tool. ...

It is impossible for a human to not be a human.

All discussion is existentially dependent upon language use. Language use requires shared meaning. Shared meaning is existentially dependent upon a pl...

Hey Mww. Care to pick this back up? :cool:

Go there! It's more interesting than most stuff on here currently.

Yep. The autonomous workings of the mind are often neglected here in this forum, as are considerations/accounts of how simple thought begins and compl...

Evidence can be examined in terms of relevance and adequacy. Sometimes the evidence is inadequate for concluding that that is John or not.

Speaking of the 'border problems' being peddled...

Unpacking the complications of the situation requires a paradigmatic shift regarding what constitutes belief. A very large portion of the 'problem' Ge...

Spot on. The republicans in congress have not supported border policy put forth after Trump voiced his opposition to it. Prior to that they were prepa...

Rather... A 3-hour riot interrupted the peaceful transfer of power. Trump was personally directing Pence to publicly place the election results in que...

The investigations into the events of Jan. 6 began in 2021, long before Trump was a presidential candidate. The same is true of Georgia election inter...

I do not know what transcending a language construct could possibly mean. If you reject the subjective/objective dichotomy the hard problem looks very...

Yeah, I understand that that's how you talk about this stuff. I understand that I'm in the minority as well. So, sure... they are perfectly intelligib...

I saw that. I tend to agree with the general thrust. We can discuss that in greater detail if you want to. Originally, I became interested in this thr...

Sounds about right to me. I'm neither a fan of object-oriented frameworks, nor of the object/subject distinction. I also find very little sensible use...

Many well-read participants here will read one or two statements from another and be reminded of some historical position or another simply by the app...

By virtue of drawing meaningful correlations between different things, some of which are not "internal to your mind".

Trump's grievances (regarding 2020 election results) have been heard and found to be unwarranted, groundless, and unjustifiable as a result of having ...

Bolding mine I agree with the overall sentiment of this post. If emergence is a naturally occurring process, then it all boils down to the elemental c...

For my part it's not that a purely physical explanation ought be, or is, preferred, but rather that the explanation and the entities referred to withi...

On my view, there are no purely immaterial things(although I may be able to be pursuaded to see things otherwise). On your view there is. It's a matte...

We're working from very different linguistic frameworks. For one, you're drawing a distinction between minds and the world in such a way that minds ar...

They did get him for what he did do that was illegal. They are also going to get him for what he did not do; keep his oath of office. He could not do ...

As if all emergence results from a tipping point between an old meaning and a new one.

On my view emergence makes the most sense when used to refer to a naturally occurring(evolutionary) process that began long before language use emerge...

Nah. Just me overstating more than a decade of time between my first reading of Wayfarer's posts. :blush: Not plural.

Nah. The problem - here and now - is that I have someone whom I've respected for decades attempting to tell me what my viewpoint is, and they're dead ...

Yeah, no surprise. In order for it to make sense, one must be thinking about what it would take in order for consciousness to be an emergent result of...

Seconded. It seems to me that methodological approach deserves attention. Earlier, perhaps your first post in this thread, you set out much the same r...

Greetings Christoffer! Your contributions to this thread have been interesting. They've captured my attention. It seems to me that not only are mind a...

If the 'subjective quality' of experience(or experience if you prefer) emerges, then a lack of experience within or regarding the more basic elemental...

If monism and evolution are true, emergence must happen.

Emergence is.