(January 11, 2017 at 9:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote: IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GAME, I'm not sitting in the chair.Haven't we already been down the context road? You're sitting in the chair, even in the context of you playing a video game. Your avatar might be "doing something" on the board, a few feet in front of you, but you didn't ask me about your avatar. Not that you've managed to describe that accurately either, which is why I don't think that we're even going to approach anything resembling a cogent thought from this angle.
Quote:That's because the game has its own rules and representations, and I buy (for the moment) into that context.Games actually don't have their own rules, again you're equivocating. There are no special rules that make a video game function. They're a novel application of all the same rules.
Quote:And before you continue to mock me, you are doing just the same. Unless you are constantly thinking "I'm a cloud of ambiguous wave functions in a virtual space," you are experiencing a representation of something that may or may not even be there, and whatever it is, you don't know what it is any more than I do. And even if you ARE thinking that, you're not able to fully comprehend it anyway, because nobody can.How might you manage to form some statement about whatever that is that can pass the criteria of the system to which you are appealing if that's the case, if it's somehow incomprehensible? This isn't much of an objection to my thoughts on the matter, I'm comfortable with the possibility that this is the case, that doesn't change the status of your comments to that effect. They're still failing to satisfy basic conditions of a true statement.
Quote:You can hit yourself on the head and say, "Rock feel hard, rock must be reality" but no matter how convincing that feels to you, it's not the rational conclusion that you seem to think it is.I personally doubt that our perception is arrived at rationally, which is why, again, I don't use the same terms for experience, evidence, and truth.........? Nevertheless, it does seem to be the case that the contents of our experience can be rationally assessed in order to arrive at truth. That's kind of the point of logic, of philosphy, in the first place.
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