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- Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense - Video
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1832
Re: The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense - Video
I don't see how materialism (brain produces consciousness) is compatible with qualia. Specifically, if every experience can be described with an equation, or set of equations, there is no need for the word 'qualia' . . . that is, using phrase 'qualia' adds no additional value. IOW, once the material...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:49 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense - Video
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1832
Re: The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense - Video
If I were to take a shot at this: If consciousness ends at death, that is because consciousness is a product of the brain. Brain death = end of consciousness. The implication of the brain as source of consciousness is that every experience, thought, image, emotion, etc, is a product of your brain - ...
- Thu May 06, 2021 11:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The hard problem of conscious experience
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2094
Re: The hard problem of conscious experience
I'm not sure if I'm properly following the discussion above - what I would offer is that according to Idealism - ideas, conscious experience, mind and what we call matter, all arise together. They can not arise from each other - they are the same 'substance'. According to Idealism, this 'substance' ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:07 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Consciousness is all there is
- Replies: 87
- Views: 8746
Re: Consciousness is all there is
Here is even a shorter essay . . .
Point to something/anything outside consciousness.
Point to something/anything outside consciousness.
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:04 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Is necessitarianism true under idealism?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 428
Re: Is necessitarianism true under idealism?
I'd answer your question, but then I'd have to kill you.
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:43 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What is a belief? Who is believing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1977
Re: What is a belief? Who is believing?
A belief is a thought that at the moment of consideration, we find pleasing or satisfying, it doesn't necessarily mean anything more than that. Interesting question re WHO is the believer, because we can find thoughts such as 'I believe such and such , , , ', but can we find a believer independent o...
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:37 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Falsification of Scientific Theories of Consciousness
- Replies: 77
- Views: 7321
Re: Falsification of Scientific Theories of Consciousness
At the moment there are no scientific theories of consciousness, how matter becomes conscious; not any half-assed hunches or wild untested crazy ideas . . . so considering whether falsification of any theories is a bit premature.
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:41 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Rupert Spira "The Ashes of Love"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 767
Re: Rupert Spira "The Ashes of Love"
must be out of print - selling on Amazon now for about $800
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:40 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11318
Re: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
If I have to choose (and I don't think one has to choose between two options), a shared external world seems like a simpler explanation since it doesn't require any inference about a mind at large which I know nothing about. I can infer a rock but I don't have any means of inferring a mind at large...
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:55 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11318
Re: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
As a starting point, both idealism and materialism are beliefs. The existence of the rock as something external to experience is an inference. We can see and touch the rock, but we never find 'the rock', there is only the seeing and touching. We could also infer the shared nature of experience - we ...