Daemon

A digital computer can't understand language so that it can translate like a human. I'm a translator, I use a computer translation tool. It's excellen...

Ok, I must have missed something. Carry on.

I am not an expert on species. I do think "species" was not a good option for this discussion. I recently listened to a science podcast on this topic ...

Hi Apokrisis, I'm reading Cell Phenomenology, Olivier passed on your recommendation, so thanks for that. The idea of the self/non-self distinction ori...

Here's a rather lovely working model of a Turing Machine. https://youtu.be/E3keLeMwfHY?t=258 The whole 5 minute video is worth watching, but I've skip...

Well you have now.

This really made me laugh out loud. Have you never met anyone who was happy without being wealthy, recognised, popular or influential?

Oh wow, it's great to find somebody who thinks like me ! I've been thinking along these lines for ages. It's why I say a robot/computer isn't an entit...

A robot, a dead man and a blindsighted nun are lying next to you on a sunny beach. Describe the different effects of the sunlight on each of them. Do ...

I think you're getting things back to front. The room is set up to replicate the way a computer works, the kinds of rules it works with. It's not tryi...

Like memory, consciousness itself is simply some brain mechanism. Why are we conscious, what purpose does it serve? Well as has just been said above:

I don't believe a robot can detect red light in the way a human can, because a robot is not an entity in the way a human is. Can a dead person detect ...

You seemed (to me) to be implying that there was no such distinction, so I was looking for clarification.

Doesn't blindsight for example suggest a distinction between perception and experience?

William Dalrymple The Anarchy Historian writes about the British East India Company, which acted like a State, conquering and (mis)governing parts of ...

Hi Benj, I agree with the first part but not the second. Of course those in a position to express their expectations for you expect (or hope) that you...

I found this a very interesting read: https://www.academia.edu/42985813/The_Idea_of_the_Brain_A_History_By_Matthew_Cobb Our latest theories allow us t...

Hello Isaac, I'm new here and I've never heard of model-dependent realism, so I'd be interested in a concise description of it, and some indication of...

Hi Hypericin, This is a favourite topic of mine, for various reasons. It seems that the received wisdom nowadays is that digital computers are or coul...

We've been questioning fundamental assumptions throughout and will continue to do so. In my view Searle has solved the mind/body problem, it's Chalmer...

This is from Frankish's article published in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23 (11-12), 2016, pp. 11-39, later reprinted in K. Frankish (ed.) Illus...

On the astonishing and accelerating progress we have recently made in neuroscience. As we're able to see and understand more and more my hope is that ...

I'm a light user of commas. I was wondering if you were saying something interesting.

I'm not really following Bongo.

That sounds like Libet: there's still a lot of controversy about these experiments, their findings, their interpretation.

I'm not a neuroscientist but I would suggest that the differentiation takes place during processing in the different areas of the brain. I vaguely rem...

Are you able to say what the Illusionists believe we infer from the existence of qualia, and/or what we think about them, Kid? I could also live happi...

I'm trying to apply the Principle of Charity by taking Frankish's arguments in their strongest form. Trying to understand what he's trying to say rath...

Hello Everybody, Thanks for the link and the discussion so far. 1. It's not clear to me what it is that Frankish is claiming to be an illusion. My und...