RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 12:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2017 at 12:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote:Asking the question over and over again won't make any answer you've already been given, or the wide field of study you know exists...... disappear.
(February 16, 2017 at 11:31 am)Khemikal Wrote: Probably a -bit- of an overstatement there, on your part.Okay. How does it work, and why is it there?
Quote:So-- brute fact?An explanation by brute fact would be to say "why does it exist" - because it exists"....which, ofc, isn't what I said, so? I gave you a mechanism which is know to exist, and known to be capable of actualizing what is possible. I thought you'd appreciate it. Personally, I think the question is malformed....I'm just trying to meet you in the middle.
Quote:You're not really addressing the question. Given that you are not asserting that qualia adds something to a physical system, then why does it exist rather than not existing?Correction, you disagree with the manner in which I address the question. If you're intent on nothing but repeating the question what can I do but repeat my answer? I;m not looking to get you to agree with any answer I might propose. Just trying to help you winnow down your objections and statements to those that would, at least, be cogent. Less of the can't, less of the known unknowns, less of the no one answers...and more of I don't think that it does, there are some things we we don't know, and I don't agree with all of the answers we do have. Doesn't that strike you as a more reasonable, and less grandstandish way to approach the subject?
Neo-Scholastic Wrote:If so, then why should I read and respond to your posts? Why do you write them? What's the point?All questions that have no bearing on the truth value of the proposition to which you responded. -but hey...why do you, what -is- the point? In your estimation, ofc?
Quote:For that matter, is it rational to believe that any of your thoughts and feelings no correspondence with external reality?I'm reading that as "have no correspondence with external reality"..personally, I'd say no, but I didn't see anyone make such a claim?
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