Manuel

I have to say, your post-quality ratio is truly impressive. Nearly every post you make is full of extremely interesting, well thought out information.

It wouldn't be philosophy otherwise.

True, I use experience so to avoid saying "consciousness", and to a lesser extent "awareness", as they are used too frequently. I think technically, w...

I can go along with attributing a form of DID to everyone. But not to nature. We don't know if nature is intrinsically like or unlike experience, so i...

As you can probably tell, Dennett is pretty divisive. Personally, I don't think he makes sense. So I'll skip commenting on him, don't want to ad-homin...

Aha. Now we are getting each other. His is a very interesting case. He makes some good points, I mean, it is true that in terms of acquaintance, we ar...

No, I mean, I personally don't have too much issues with "qualia", but it seems to me *some* people here start arguing about the term, which I don't s...

Most problems in understanding the world are "hard problems". Anyone can use whatever vocabulary they see fit, I'm thinking qualia here is just a very...

It's basically a sensory overload in which we are tricked into believing these things have shape, colours, speed and the like. Combine that with adren...

No killing intended, messenger or OPs. However, if rollercoasters are immune to the status of illusory entities, then I say we have a problem, because...

Perhaps. But then what isn't?

What's unreal about time? I suppose we could speculate on the whole "time before the Big Bang" topic, if that even makes sense. But that aside, I don'...

We are wayyy too far from understanding the brain to be able to say that we have an explanation for consciousness. If the behavior of a particle is gi...

Damn. That's a lot, significantly more than my family, and we live pretty comfortably. I mean, Marx is simply just very well known, there's also the w...

Nearly finished with Locke's Essay. This last bit is taxing, as he gets quite repetitive towards the end. But, having said that, damn, what an impress...

We can't escape outside of our bodies to see what's out there. And even if we could, by some miracle, do so, it wouldn't change what we would consider...

Yeah, I remember reading about that, big woops. Well, they're as prepared as can be. The die's been cast. At least it'll be halfway to L2 in three day...

:up: That's a lot. But, given how much they've tested it, I doubt they'll have significant problems. So far, so good.

"Is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influ...

:ok:

"Our knowledge being so narrow, as I have shown, it will perhaps give us some light into the present state of our minds if we look a little into the d...

What's the technically most difficult part, is it this deployment or is it something upcoming? Good to see the mission going as planned.

It's what we are most intimately acquainted with out of all phenomena, but is most difficult to say anything which is not trivial or obvious. Being st...

It's interesting. I mean, if anyone take some gas or drug that makes them feel like they're having a deep experience, does that make it any less signi...

The question would be, if these experiences actually tell you something deep about the world or something deep about the mind, which is a part of the ...

It can be a difficult topic. I don't have a problem with the notion of objectivity, namely giving reasons or looking for causes that can be found in n...

Sure, it's not as if denying a personal experience or even a kind of bias in philosophical orientation, will help you see things more accurately. I me...

I don't know. Maybe. Then again, it might also be the case that in simply having a perspective, intelligent species cannot, as it were, get out of a p...

In the empirical world, there are no guarantees in regard to final evidence, much less to "ultimate statements or judgments" about the nature of the w...

It's true, it seems defining free will causes some people to think one is going against the laws of nature. As if we knew that much about them to rule...

Ethics would be kind of pointless if free will is not accepted (in some form). Law would dish out punishment or reward, but the reasons given wouldn't...

I agree. And those who deny it assume we do have some form of it. Otherwise, why argue to make a point? There's no reason to, there are only causes. I...

I think so too. Why accept reasons though? There's no reason a person was killed, there's no reason to judge, it just happens. If you remove free will...

I suspect that despite your comments to the contrary, the existence of free will, will (no pun) arise. But, putting that aside, and assuming there isn...

Well, it kind of depends on what dualism one espouses. This article argues that some people are what are called substance dualists: there are two kind...

How is identifying as a Democrat equal to CNN being left? They always endorse the "centrist candidate", Obama, Clinton, Biden etc., which would be cal...

CNN leaning left is a bit like saying The Washington Post attacks Bezos frequently.

Yes that's true. Though as you suggest, we don't know if it's something specifically beautiful about the faces or some other factor. Babies might have...

Aesthetics is really hard. My initial idea is that the "beautiful", either a human face, a song or a painting is related more intimately with somethin...

I don't understand, why is it that we have to be able to see both sides of the limit, to know you're reaching (or have reached) a limit? I don't think...

Alternating between: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke New Essays on Human Understanding by G.W. Leibniz And, of course, fiction: ...

Very, very cool. Everything perfect so far. Good thing we don't have to wait too long to get some data, some 6 months or so, which is not bad in terms...

I think smoking a lot of weed made me a Heideggerian for a while Deeper experiences with shrooms and the like suggested to me that they could be used ...

Concentration of power, probably. You should probably include the threat of nuclear war to that list.

Yes. It's how it feels like to be a subject of experience, which is the only real clue we have of this idea, which we then attribute to other people. ...

Galen Strawson goes over this in his own philosophical thought, as well as proposing a good (edit) interpretation (edit) to Locke's thought. He distin...

Ah, then I misread the OP, I thought you were asking if we thought that phenomenology was merely introspecting into one's mind, not to evaluate Dennet...

Oh yeah, there's plenty of exciting new technology around the corner.

Well, it's kind of like saying eyes are required for vision, and vision requires eyes. How do we know that the eye isn't the puppet that keeps our sig...

A brain is necessary for experience, if you remove the brain, you can't have experience. People may claim that brain activity has ceased, but if peopl...