Philosophical Speculations

Then what perceives the copy? (This is the old homunculus problem). Ah I see, I think you got me there. I still have a few more questions to make sure I'm fully understanding though It is there. It just is not made up of mindless matter. It is made up of perceptions. So what exactly is there? By th...

I've been through plenty of these arguments in the old forum and find it is pretty much fruitless trying to persuade anybody out of what they already believe. In most cases I’d agree, where people debate to be right. I am debating to be wrong, (fingers crossed) and I’m slowly becoming more skeptica...

It is a leap, but is it any smaller a leap than that which the materialist takes, namely, how purely non-conscious activity can somehow produce conscious activity? So the question becomes: which leap is the more rational to make? Well I would argue the leap to materialism is not that large. It's no...

Well of course I still have plenty yet to read I'm sure so I may still well be convinced. The specific area in which I'm struggling with, is the step (or leap, as it currently feels) from consciousness as what I know to be true as an experience of being me, seeing, smelling, tasting etc, to consciou...

Firstly I want to apologize because I haven't read properly through this forum, so a post of this nature may likely be boring and old to you by now, but hopefully that only means you will have more experience in knowing how to deal with me. I want to say that I have done my best to understand Ideali...