Philosophical Speculations

Bergson prefers term "psychic states" with qualitative multiplicity, that seems preferable to semantically vague but formally singular "consciousness". Regardless, this refining of the meaning of consciousness doesn't make it any less a reduction to being an uncaused and irreduc...

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:29 pm This is supposed to answer the question about the bird?

I honestly failed to understand the question, or it's relevance. What is the mental image of a bird and it's reflection supposed to argue?

We can say in Finnish: 'Koetaan." Speaking ' experiencing ' relational, multi-perspectival asubjective, without any subject or object. Which is not conscious??? For if it is, how is this not reducing to an OP of consciousness, while still requiring an explication of the apparency of subjectifi...

That is the mystical/animist approach. I don't think you are sharing a communicative meaning for either of those words. Nagarjuna was not a "mystic", as BK said, he was the Gödel of his age who deconstructed rationalistic logicism and logicism case for substance metaphysics with tools of ...

if his approach is actually that of Nagarjuna, then I am criticizing them both. Rovelli is not misinterpreting Nagarjuna, so to steelman you should try to criricize both. The OP is a rational deduction in BK framework from the fact that qualia of experience does not occur without Ground of experien...

The above is just waving the white flag and surrendering to modern age of materialist form-obsession and spiritualist escapism, two sides of the same nihilist coin. Your explanation for the first-person Self experiencing and remembering is no different than a physicalist would use to dismiss the tr...

Regarding my original comment on the isomorphic relationship ships between an experience of reality and the interpretation/model of the thing experienced. But it gets more complicated than this because even a model is partly defned by the experience, so perhaps it doesn't work in this way. Yes, let...

So I think the simplest approach to this issue is the one Cleric already tried, but I don't think you responded. When you went on the moon trip and felt your "I" dissolve, your "I" was still existing and experiencing but "helplessly spread out". Otherwise, how could yo...

Squidgers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:08 am not everything that is modeled is experienced.

What do you mean by that?

The fourier transform is a good example of isomorphism

Agreed. Would you agree that Fourier transform is not a simple repetition or simple nesting, but somekind of mixture of those?

I'm using the word "representation" colloquially, not referencing "representation theory" OK. You expressed "interpreted" as a close synonym with "represented". Interpretation is a process I'm familiar with, it's a transformation of a sort. In my comprehensio...