In my opinion, this is an emergence. You can also draw (too short) lines that do NOT form a triangle. So the triangle depends on the configuration, ju...
Let's take an example. X = triangle, Y = lines. If a triangle emerged from lines, then the triangle must exist separate from the lines. That doesn't m...
That is true, but it does not disprove the possibility that consciousness may have already existed in a preliminary form. It may have been “asleep” in...
No one needs to explain all this in detail. Are you saying that thermodynamics is not reductionist because you can't predict the weather exactly one y...
I doubt that. I can roughly imagine how chemical interactions give rise to life, and much of this (DNA, RNA, neurotransmitters) has already been resea...
Atoms have electric fields and can therefore move in a group. Not a good example. I'll give a better one: One line cannot form a triangle, but three l...
I have been following the discussion for some time now and I have no problem whatsoever understanding the OP. Why don't we just use the terms 'easy co...
What would be the point of planning if you only ever live for a heartbeat? I don't think you believe NC yourself, so why would you respond in this thr...
No, there is a hard problem. If you were to assemble a human being piece by piece from its (unconscious) parts, why would an inner perspective emerge ...
I don't see physics as wrong, but rather as incomplete. I think it's mysterious that even with knowledge of all the laws of physics, it seems impossib...
Perhaps I don't fully understand the concept of “no continuity”. I think you mean that you only have a relationship with yourself through the memory o...
If you are standing at a fork in the road and I ask you which path you will take, you don't answer A or B. You say that after you have walked the path...
It is not possible to refute, because you can define it as always true, but it is incomplete. It doesn't answer who you will be after being transporte...
Excuse me, but I don't think you understand your own question. That's not an answer. Cryonics costs many thousands of dollars. You expect to see the w...
Why not expand the thread with cryonics? That's much more feasible than the transporter. If I have myself frozen, will I wake up in a hundred years, o...
That's not something you experience when you get into the transporter. Incidentally, the illusion is also confusing in the “Total Recall” scenario. If...
Of course, I'm interested in the first-person perspective; the third-person perspective is well-known and boring. You go into the transporter. Please ...
From the perspective of the beaming person, there are two possibilities: either (version plus) they see the destination after beaming, or (version min...
No, they don't. I'm now going to talk about the Star Trek transporter. The question is whether you would allow yourself to be beamed and whether you w...
I don't think this is a sensible position: whose illusion? On the contrary, my subjective experience and its continuity are the only certainties in th...
There would already be a solution that determines whether you are the target person or not. I call this concept “self-particle”. If this particle is i...
We would have to take into consideration all things that we otherwise consider inanimate. We would have to know what would be pleasant or unpleasant f...
Suppose Icarus writes the number of the step on a piece of paper with each step, erasing the previous number. What number will be on the paper at the ...
Icarus reaches an infinitely distant location after one minute. This place can be named with a number with an infinite number of digits before the dec...
You can be sure that the expected value for the other envelope is 5/4 of that of the one you have. The math is completely OK. But the experiment canno...
That is not true. A rock absorbs sunlight, heats up on this side and processes this information through heat conduction. How do you know it doesn't fe...
From the logic there is no experiment to separate subjective from objective. We only have a "similarity principle", which says that what is objectivel...
If you want to explain the hard problem to John Doe, just ask him which animals and which plants feel something. Obviously, it's not a bogus problem b...
It is part of the "hard problem" whether animals have sentience or not. So much would be easier if they didn't have any. And if human political oppone...
"The hard problem" is not only a real problem, but even extremely important. If you see animals as non-sentient machines, there is no reason at all fo...
The assumption that something is conscious or not is based solely on the idea of being an entity. You can probably imagine yourself to be another huma...
There is no contradiction between potential and jump point. The potential for superconductivity results from the material, below a certain temperature...
If I have nothing in my wallet, then there are zero dollars. That's not a limit, that's a fact. If one has no consciousness, then the objective time r...
Either the awareness is there or it is not. Consciousness is also present in a dampened state. It is like numbers, a number is either zero or not zero...
However, essential questions are not answered. What does panpsychism say about the consciousness of plants? What about subsets of consciousness, e.g. ...
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