RE: The Scripture Is False And The Biblical God Is Dead.
January 26, 2023 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2023 at 11:01 am by emjay.)
(January 26, 2023 at 10:43 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(January 26, 2023 at 9:03 am)emjay Wrote: That 'full'; no I don't think we can ever answer that.... that part I just have to take as is. But full in the sense of a full explanation of the processes and content of consciousness, full enough to be fully predictive, would be the fullest explanation we (or at least I) could ever dream to have of consciousness, and perfectly satisfactory, to me.
I will say though that occasionally within certain theories, and I'm guessing ast will be one of them, I get some ineffable feeling about the inevitability of qualia if not the mechanism of it... so that's when I vacillate between the aforementioned 'tantamount' and 'actual'. I know such an ineffable feeling would, could, or should not convince anyone else, such as yourself, philosophically but it's good enough for me.
True, they will all be radical in some sense... but basically the more grounding they have in observable reality, the more appealing they are to me. For instance given two theories about consciousness, one purely speculative, and one that looks at the actual structures of the brain etc, the latter will always be more compelling to me.
Speaking of Mind Chat, since we were talking about pzs earlier in this thread, once you get the chance to watch some episodes, I would suggest as your first episode the one where they interview Sean Carroll. They spend quite some time getting into some of the implications of the pz thought experiment, if you wish to explore these aspects further. Although that's not one of my favourite episodes because the panpsychist dude gets wrecked really badly by Sean Carroll ... so you might like it even more because of that.
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Can I infer from your last sentence that you're a Panpsychist? And maybe TGN is as well, or at least potentially, given his last post. That's why I love talking to you guys, you're always throwing curveballs ETA: or not... I can't keep up sometimes... I should always wait ten minutes or so after TGN's posted something, just in case any more appears lol
