Philosophical Speculations

Where we differ is that i believe that the other step of assuming the existence of unconsciousness is a similarly reasonable step to take. There are different types of apparent unconsciousness. For instance, MAL would seem to be unconscious of what is happening in the metacognitive minds of dissoci...

Hallo JustinG BK writes: "As discussed earlier, I can explain much of my own external behavior to myself by the fact that I am conscious, and so can you." Firstly there is no behavior anywhere. If we are to speak about solipsism lets stick to the solipsism. There are just feelings. In som...

I'm not sure what you mean by "objecting to the reality of un-consciousness", or who is doing this. If you're suggesting that Idealism (ie BK) begins by first rejecting materialism/physicalism - I say no it does not. Yes, Idealism (as does materialism/physicalism) does require inference(s...

The point about being familiar with at least some significant portion of BK's larger body of work is that therein he has already anticipated these kind of arguments against his model, and thus already put forth his own comprehensive defence to counter those arguments. So if BK's own defence, found ...

There is a valid point buried in here somewhere - which is that we cannot argue from anything other than our own experience. We must start with a sort of "solipsism" where we do not assume anything about other minds apart from our own. From there, however, if we reason carefully and also ...

You still are claiming material (I am using "material" from now on to mean any non-conscious process) processes give rise to "aha moment" at some point in this causal chain, and that "aha moment" is qualitative meaning, so you still have to overcome hard problem of how...

You say meaning is "just some bodily sensations accompanying workings of the brain". I think you recognize how that explanation runs smack into hard problem of qualia and cannot get beyond it, but for some reason that does not discourage you from putting it forth as an explanation. I do n...

I think you already know this, but I will state it here just in case anyone else starts thinking the above is sound argument... An unconscious neural network does not experience the meaning of "triangle" that it identifies. The meaning is the essence of the triangle. It's very weird that ...

Interesting comment. I've been lately reading and listening Stephen Wolfram, and he discusses these issues with great depth. There's a very meaningful and important difference between object oriented programming languages, and "functional programming languages". The latter can be said to ...