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What is the basis of reality: matter or consciousness? Why?
My answer on Quora I. What is the basis of reality? A. Is it Matter? 1. Matter is thought to emerge from fundamental physical forces. a. The strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism, and gravity...
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Is the brain the receiver of mind and consciousness, or their generator?
My answer on Quora The receiver model of consciousness need not be taken so literally as to presume that mind is exactly like an electromagnetic broadcast. Arguing for a receiver-like role for the...
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Speculating on Time as Nested Experience
If we compare two sense modalities, such as seeing vs hearing, we can get a hint of what it might mean for spacetime to be orthogonal to experiential time. Think of the primordial nature of time not as...
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IIT 3.0 Central Axioms
From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0 The recent publication of new details for Tononi & Koch’s Integrated Information Theory includes the...
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Gödel of the Gaps
So much of our attention in logic and math is focused on using processes to turn specific inputs into even more specific binary outputs. Very little attention is paid to what inputs and outputs are or...
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Asperger’s, Autism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
This test was also originally devised by Wellman and Estes, and involves asking the child what the brain is for. They found that normal 3-4 year olds already know that the brain has a set of mental...
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Signs and Consciousness
Consciousness or awareness or sense is the concrete and direct aesthetic encounter which defines all possible phenomena. Data or information is an accumulation and communication of signs, which...
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Why do people believe in the mind body problem?
“Why do people believe in the mind body problem? I thought this was solved long ago” My answer on Quora: Here are a few reasons I can think of: Our imagination seems immaterial. There is no imaginary...
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Zooming in on Reductionism and Extremely Gendered Brains
One of the greatest obstacles to understanding the hard problem of consciousness and the explanatory gap between function and qualia is that we are psychologically conditioned to overlook the...
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The Autistic-Psychotic Spectrum of Metaphysical Ontology
My recent interest in the autism theories of Simon Baron-Cohen, Crespi and Badcock has given me a new way of describing what I call the Multisense Continuum. My interest in the autism work is not so...
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Consciousness and Evolution
My answer to Quora question “If consciousness has no evolutionary advantage, doesn’t that imply that it is an emergent property?“ While human consciousness has certainly been shaped by evolution, that...
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Notes on Rorty
A friend wanted me to take a look at Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida, so here’s what I think: On the first page, Rorty introduces two options for thinking about physics, 1) The...
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Sun, Earth, and Understanding Idealism
No description of the relation between the Sun and Earth is complete without including the geocentric view as well as the heliocentric view. This is not to suggest that the archaic views of astronomy...
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Russellian Monism
We shall seek to construct a metaphysics of matter which shall make the gulf between physics and perception as small, and the inferences involved in the causal theory of perception as little dubious,...
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Envisioning the General and Local Aesthetic
Aesthetics: late 18th century (in the sense ‘relating to perception by the senses’): from Greek aisthētikos, from aisthēta ‘perceptible things,’ from aisthesthai ‘perceive.’ The sense ‘concerned with...
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How to Tell if Your p-Zombie has Blindsight, Falling in a Chinese Forest
In order to make the question of philosophical zombiehood more palatable, it is a good idea to first reduce the scope of the question from consciousness in general to a particular kind of awareness,...
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Shell Cosmogony
Adapted from http://ismailignosis.com/2014/03/15/an-ismaili-muslim-reconciliation-of-creation-and-evolution/
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The Holo-solo-meta-sema-graphic Principle
Think of the multisense continuum as a clarification of the holographic principle. What people often mean by holographic when ascribing it to the universe as a whole is something like ‘The Universe is...
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Strawson on the Primacy of Panpsychism
My apologies to Galen Strawson for this article, which is based on my thoughts on his 2015 essay “Mind and being: the primacy of panpsychism“. I am not so much critiquing his position as using it to...
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Introducing the Aumwelt
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans.html This is worth the 20 minutes IMO, as Eagleman lays out the contemporary view of sense. Where he leaves off is...
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