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What is the conscious mental experience that I have every day and every waking moment of my life? Exactly what qualia are you referring to? Is obscuri...

Well, as above shows nicely, you've just contradicted yourself. I'm not sure what you're claiming. Perhaps it's better to take this slowly. Our respec...

Hey Janus. It is a foundational unprovable assumption/premiss, resting its laurels on terminological consistency(coherence) and/or 'logical' possibili...

Cannot be done. Noumena are untenable. In order to know that what appears is not the way things are(the thing in itself), one must have access to both...

Without appeal to obscurity, reductive physicalist approaches can account for qualia at least as well as any other position. I would argue better than...

Could you put the "hard problem" in question form please? The question needs to have an acceptable answer, by my lights. So, if you could formulate a ...

The evolutionary advantages of human conscious experience are plentiful. Perhaps they can be summed up as a tremendous increase in human adaptability.

Hello Bob, What struck me immediately was that the OP presupposes that the purportedly "'Hard Problem' of Consciousness" refers to an actual problem, ...

Thank you for that! Cheers!

They're not done... There's more than the public at large will ever be able to know. Trump was and is compromised.

Thanks Jeep!

Somebody link the Mueller Report please...

Gotta link my friend?

Brilliantly put! Cheers.

This was one of the aspects that I thought could be further unpacked and explained in terms of how it applies to Gettier. Another was the equivalence ...

Professor Chomsky: Hello! Welcome to the forum. Many of us are very happy to have you. Given that your expertise spans many different fields of study,...

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:rofl: That's the funniest thing I've seen in quite some time. I probably should not be promoting it, but damn... that was funny. I momentarily lost c...

Afraid I won't be of much help.

Thanks for the invite. Not sure how much I can help, or whether or not I can add anything of substantive value to the discussion. Interesting OP. I ma...

The United States has never been a democracy. It's always been a republic with democratic traditions. The logistical 'problems' mentioned in the OP ar...

Thanks for the explanation. In what little spare time available I've been watching Chomsky. There's an abundance of interviews old and new. It seems y...

Well, I find that there are examples of both. I mean, "practice makes perfect" holds good fairly often in my experience. I've done fairly well in publ...

There is an interesting consequence of Chomsky's temporal/causal rearrangement of grammar and language. As it was traditionally held, performance gene...

I suppose that I was thrown as a result of you saying that no one would know it's meaning. I should have asked if you believed that the statement has ...

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So, would "The Eiffel Tower is located in France" still be be meaningful if all of humanity were suddenly wiped out, but it could not be true or false...

Okay. Would "The Eiffel Tower is located in France" be true if all of humanity were suddenly wiped out?

Would the thing that we've named the "Eiffel Tower" be located in the place that we've named "Paris" if all of humanity were suddenly wiped out?

:rofl: Yup.

Chomsky very recently characterized chatGPT as glorified plagiarism, or words to that effect.

I never said otherwise. I criticized the presupposition that sensation and mind are completely distinct 'things'. Seems to me that the former are part...

There are currently all sorts of offline activities that are more productive for me, practically speaking. I agree with the frustrations that can come...

I've called it the worldly fingerprint placed upon each of us by virtue of natural language acquisition/adoption. That's another matter in its own rig...

Yeah, I should probably not continue here. My own position rejects both direct and indirect realism as it's currently defined. That is due to the star...

Is that directed at me, in response to my last reply???

A group of people can watch the same set of events unfolding in real time and walk away with completely different opinions about what happened. One re...

Could you rephrase this question by dropping "facts" and "external world" out of it?

Is there no distinction to be drawn and maintained between a direct realist and a naive one? :yikes:

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Reactivated neural pathways in spite of no longer being complete. A consequence of the largely autonomous central nervous system simply doing it's thi...

There are a multitude of places where philosophy 'went wrong'! Many have been pointed out by later philosophers throughout history. Here's one that ha...

Good luck in the absence of red things outside the head to play a role.

"Electromagnetic radiation stimulating the photoreceptors can cause someone to see red for the first time" is a gross oversimplification.

You used "activation". I think it's better put as a "reactivation". The difference is one of evolutionary explanation of seeing red. There's no way to...

The evolution of seeing red...

Okay. Then seeing red does require things outside the head.

The position you're arguing for seems to completely neglect all the events that lead up to the ability to reactivate the biological machinery.

Of course it does. Phantom limb pain requires once having had a limb. The limb is outside the head. As is any prior object that caused injury to the l...