Because that is one of the goals of the developments of AI, so of course questions about consciousness are going to rise. I didn't say that AI is goin...
Well, there is historically a hard problem of motion, that was made worse when Newton discovered gravity, which to his dismay made no sense to him. I ...
Gravity for one. If we didn't have gravity, we would not have neuroscience, compute science, philosophy, etc. Electromagnetism too, if we didn't have ...
I wouldn't like - at this moment anyway - to repeat what I've said too many times before. I don't believe that the "hard problem", should be considere...
It would be very general, and the semantic issue can't be completely taken away. But it would be something like there is at bottom, one kind of stuff ...
My usual spiel, physicalism (a version of materialism) doesn't really have a good definition anymore, because there's nothing which can sensible be ma...
That's fair enough. Nevertheless, keep in mind that the best theory we have in physics, quantum mechanics, suggests probability, not determinism, unle...
Wait what? The freedom to phase through a wall? That's not freedom, it's a fact about wat physics says can or can't be done, but either way it's not a...
Yes, me too on the Nordic angle, have seen a few decent documentaries on YouTube, heard stories from reliable sources, but I'm sure there are books on...
That's fair enough, though I do not see how to proceed. This now becomes speculative metaphysics which, to be sure, is fun, but more often than not do...
I mean, sure I can read Sapolsky but I prefer to see your arguments, reading we do in our own time this place is to discuss ideas. That's fine - yet I...
No spatial dimension? That's not entirely clear. If something has no spatial dimension, how can we say it exists in the world (as opposed to how we co...
Sure, we change our minds all the time, we thought we knew X and discovered something we didn't know, and now we believe Y. The deeper a belief is ent...
If you don't have metaphysical freedom, the freedom to move an arm or choose to get up now and read a book or not or any other trivial thing, how can ...
That's an interesting take, perhaps correct. Then let' say the simplest object has one property, this property aligns with the simplest possible thing...
It's an extension of freedom of the will. If you are in a war zone, your freedom is severely hampered. Sure, one could say that people have a choice t...
I find this rather puzzling. Yes, it's true, having a doctorate may make me seem to be "higher in the ladder", but all that means is that I had the ti...
For sure. I don't recall how I felt about Skinner and his skin, I read him in high school. Looking back though, it's just so incredibly poor. But find...
I don't know enough about the history to say. I suspect not, I don't think most phycologists as psychologists, believe this. It's not even useful at a...
Quite so. Or very close, as I see it. To (most) of those who don't bother with understanding a bit of modern physics, there is no problem, they are aw...
Do they? Do they have the freedom not to get killed? There's no evidence for this. How is this even contentious? @"180 Proof" :ok: I can't believe I'm...
Philosophically, I think Gilbert Ryle may have been one the modern precursors in trying to get rid of ideas. Hence "the ghost in the machine". But mor...
You didn't include universals in your OP. The list you provide is quite good, but I think an option of "other" without qualifications would've been us...
I mean if spirits exist, they are metaphysically possible and so would be logical too. We may even be more constrained in logic than in metaphysics, f...
If it's logically possible, it is metaphysically possible too. I don't believe we could postulate something logically which could, in principle, be im...
Very much so, it's just crazy all over. Those last 150 pages or so, were very, very tough and I probably missed over 60-70% of the references, but, st...
I think so too, she starts, iirc, speaking about how Kant is an empirical realist but also a transcendental idealist, that he is both and that there i...
Mmm. It's not super, super easy, but, much easier than the Critique, Lucy Allais' Manifest Reality is sublime. Try that one out. Then read his (Kant's...
I don't think it's of much difference to other issues like freedom of the will, or matter thinking, personal identity and so on. You get off whenever ...
It's not doubting that there is an external world, Hume never doubts this, what he is pointing out as problematic is in having an idea of external exi...
Well, I'm still stuck with Hume's "Skepticism with Regard to the Senses." The thought experiment consists in looking at objects to attempt to get the ...
It's pretty damn rough to read. It's one a the very few cases in which I recommend secondary literature before reading the book, there's plenty of it....
I have probably written here more than once, but, I like the question, so I will reply again. The hard problem of consciousness seems to hard, because...
But your example of the Earth being round has less immediately perceivable proofs, than the argument that the Earth is flat. The latter is much easier...
It's rather the opposite, funnily enough. The world looks and feels flat, but there is much more evidence to support the claim that it is round, but m...
Because it is more coherent and is better supported than the alternative of nothing existing absent us. There is more to evidence than continuous perc...
So, what's the plan? Starve everybody? Just had an acquaintance from Gaza confirm his cousins were killed yesterday, parents and children, just like t...
Depends on what aspect of philosophy is what interests you the most. If it's ethics you may want to start with an introduction to ethics book, such as...
Well, there is a verbal resemblance between idea and ideology, though I do not know if they have share a common root meaning. What is stupid? Well, de...
We are beginning to speak about different things now. As you ask, yes, I think determinism is one thing, mechanical is another. My impression was that...
Apologies for the insertion. I initially said that the mechanistic picture of the world was proven false by Newton, and I believe this is true, based ...
The vast majority of physicists think the world is a machine? What? That's news to me. Sure, he was superstitious, but on gravity he was quite serious...
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