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  • How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?


    The "it" you refer to can be something that combines matter and qualia. The "it" can be matter as well as quale.
  • Best way to study philosophy
    The true philosopher wants to know the truth. So the real philosophers are journalists and scientists. So every student in philosophy should study science, journalism, and the truths they have found first.
  • Infinites outside of math?
    Infinite means in-finito, not finished, never to be finished. What in life never finishes? The finish line can be pulled away from you indefinitely. Indefinitely=infinitely? On can tell a never ending story, play infinite games. The universe goes on forever, as life in it. It never ends. Infinite!
  • To What Extent are Mind and Brain Identical?


    Still, legs have no mind. They are coupled to it, but don't experience mind related stuff. Well, they can hurt or feel a massage, or feel the ground they walk on. Hot soil feels different from cold steel. They need the mind to perform their complex motions. But they are different from it. You can map there motions to brain processes as they need structured processes to perform their motions. Legs can't make their complex motions without a brain attached. And while legs can perform a huge variety of motions, there is no such motion visible in brains. While the legs are performing a wìde variety of motions, the brain stays stationary while on that stationary structure a huge variety of patterned electric pulses can run. The running of these patterns on the static structure can indeed be compared with legs moving in a statìc physical space on which other processes take place with which the legs, or the whole body, can interact. Confining your attention to legs is like confining the brain to motor function of the legs only.
  • How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?


    Dennet is a computer guy. I'm not interested in computers. I know what he tries to do. He projects computational processes on an area where they don't apply. Humans. Well, humans calculate, off course. But not like computers. What do you think qualia are?
  • How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?
    an intentionalist would more accurately say that one sees it as a cup.Banno

    This implies a dualism. "It" and "the cup". What means "one sees"? Already in saying "one sees" are qualia involved. What do you even mean by qualia and saying that they are silly? Do you live in an extra-quale reality of objective, solid material, existing in an extramundane world, seen from which they are silly stuff while you unconsciously use them too when looking at the world from a high tower made of some stuff inaccessible to qualia?

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