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No. Those frequencies are reflected/emitted prior to our looking at it. We need not look at it in order for it to reflect/emit those frequencies. We n...

I don't think that we're too far apart here. Regarding the temporal order of emergence, elemental constituency, and thus existential dependency, I sus...

What do you make of my claims today regarding that? Seems contentious by my lights. Wrong even.

Ok. I agree. So, do you reject redness as a quale(property of conscious experience) as well?

That all depends upon the refinement of one's language use and/or understanding of how our eyes work. What difference does that make here? In both cas...

I don't know about Andrew. We call those frequencies "red". It's the properties, features, and/or characteristics of red things interacting with light...

The will is not free from influence. That's all that needs to be known. Our will to act is influenced. The closest thing we have to free will is recog...

Talking about apples 'seeming to be' and/or 'appearing' red is based upon doubting one's own physiological sensory perception. Doubting one's own phys...

Red apples reflect certain light frequencies(interact with light) regardless of whether or not it is under direct observation, and regardless of wheth...

Much is explained, I think, by looking at the comparison per capita that the US government spends on public education per year, and for incarceration.

Experience our consciousness... Muddle.

And plainly false. :roll:

Perhaps, but we've no other choice. We make due with what's available. We look to statements of thought and belief for starters. We set out what they ...

Ah. Thanks for clearing that up. Not sure how helpful that distinction is given the task, but at least I better understand what it means.

It speaks to the part that recollection plays.

One finger cannot point at itself.

Used him for the tool that he is.

Well, I picked up Kant far too early, in the beginning of my interest in philosophy, along with Spinoza, Witt, and Russell. So, undoubtedly I did not ...

What would such pre-linguistic reason consist of?

Solipsism is fucking rubbish! Solipsism is a philosophical position. All philosophical positions require language use. All language use requires share...

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Solipsism is proof of the distinction between coherency and correspondence(meaning and truth).

Glad to know I'm not the only one who pays such close attention to stuff like that. It's cool looking.

I think Dennett has done a fine job of quining the notion of "qualia". That's tremendous progress on my view, and I'm not a physicalist or dualist, or...

The problem is a consequence of not understanding our own thought and belief, what it consists of, how it emerges, evolves, what it gives rise to, and...

You gotta quit reading so much Kant. :wink:

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Not enough of the likes of Betrand Russell...

Quality is not the sort of thing that takes place. It is a standard borne of comparison/contrast. And evidently forget where we've already been. You i...

My last reply concerning subjectivity still stands, unmolested and strong.

Denying the usefulness of the subjective/objective dichotomy is to deny one particular accounting practice. One's own life is much more than an accoun...

It's not the senses that are the problem here. It's the accounting malpractice thereof.

The consequences of having been named "Michael". Even moreso if one's middle name is "Gabriel". Baby, I'm no angel... I just try my best to treat peop...

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Yeah. Time to retire for the night.

I've no issue with that aside from the "in our mind" part. Ad homs aren't very compelling.

The discussion is about Dennett's paper, in which he is targeting a certain criterion, description, and/or characterization of qualia. Which of the tw...

Guilty as charged on the first count. Innocent on the second. I grant subjectivity in it's entirety. All things ever thought, believed, spoken, writte...

I'm by no means denying my senses. I grant them as necessary elemental constituents of all conscious experience. Which satisfies Dennett's criterion?

Are those my only choices? :brow:

We do not drink tea each and every day, all day long, for our entire lives. There is no continuous experience of what it's like to drink tea unless we...

What else could what it's like to drink tea consist of if not each and every instance? What's missing?

One without language can most certainly see the red cup. One without color vision can most certainly see the red cup. Neither can see the cup as red.

Not on my view, but perhaps on yours it may. What counts as consisting of quality?

About whether or not there is an entirely private, immediate, and directly apprehensible conscious experience in some basic form? Sure. It does not co...

Or it's laughed off, and immediately forgotten about.

"What it's like" to drink tea is determined by virtue of each and every instance of tea drinking. That is a plurality of tea drinking instances. If ea...

Such intimate conversations will always go awry when "qualia" rears it's ugly head.

Can a language-less creature offer us a self report? No. Of course not. Can they have some sort of basic, rudimentary, and/or fundamental form of thou...

You did a fine job.