Chers Collègues, J'ai le plus grand plaisir de vous envoyer le fichier PDF du numéro 04 de la revue ! Bonne lecture ! Hamdi Mlika Université de Kairouan ...
Dear Colleagues,  Two International conferences and two Special Issues of AL-MUKHATABAT Journal http://mukhatabat.unblog.fr/ calls for papers  1. What...
Physicalist: it is identical to access consciousness or any other kind Dualist: phen. C. cannot be explained by neuroscience but it can explain access. C. ...
[conversing about Dennett's conception of subjective experience] ... He's confusing some things, and drawing some hefty conclusions and making unnecessary...
Is Dennett eliminativist with respect to "qualia"? So, does he think that neuroscientists will figure out everything about subjective experience, but this will...
Dear Colleagues, J'ai le plus grand plaisir de vous envoyer en fichier joint la version PDF du numéro 03 de la Revue Al-Mukhatabat, en ligne sur le site...
Peter: I hope you slept well ;o) Thanks for providing opportunity. Firstly, maybe you (and many others) think it's silly to debate over a two sentence...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10902 http://www.naturalism.org/reviews.htm#Drescher Good and Real *Demystifying Paradoxes from...
Here you go PDJ, andy and other creationist clowns http://www.simulation-argument.com/ Now, I suppose you agree with this argument right? It fulfills all your ...
IF the conclusion of Knowledge Argument is correct, i.e. there is something non-physical about experience (admittedly a very stupid conclusion), then, HOW can...
KA has already been refuted n times, but this is another way to do it. When we ask, how come that Mary knows she is seeing a color for the first time when she...
There seems to be a weasel word use in KA just like in CR (with "semantics", "understanding"). Jackson seems to misuse the word "knowledge" to mean two very...
Walter Horn present a compelling thought experiment showing that the conclusion of the original KA is absurd. ... From: walto <calhorn@...> Date: Mon, Aug...
[On the necessity of a logical description of consciousness] ... From: Eray Ozkural <examachine@...> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM Subject: Re:...
[on reducing "money"] On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Peter Brawley ... That's how I would measure. You can't really get an agent to use money without first...
[on reducing ontological irreducibility to property/substance dualism] ... Not so sure about the last but I do think Christianity and Scientology would be...
I believe I had posted this before, but due to the selective amnesia of posters related to simple scientific disproofs of dualist ideas, it may have been...
For instance, when we're reverse engineering the contents of the visual cortex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVL8GrUs_-E This is a very coarse method, but it...
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:22 PM, larry_tapper_2 < ... Please don't make this a moving target. We were talking about the difference between two "qualia". Since...
... It's not a Cartesian Theatre, it's just part of the distributed memory state, you're missing the point. GWT is not necessarily invoked, though GWT isn't a...
If EM field is the body of experience, the information content of the body of experience is the length of the shortest program that describes the field. For...
A friend (Victor) asked this question on the facebook AI Phi. group. Who are some of the contemporary prominent/significant/creative physicalist philosophers...
... You're just muddying the waters. It's well known what it is. It's the theory that the "observer"; isn't accounted by brain mechanism. Otherwise, Minksy has...
The information theoretic argument I gave before is unnecessary. Predicate dualism will be true iff "singular"; (simple) *irreducible* unary predicates are...
A theory of mind that admits a Cartesian Theater is scientifically implausible / conceptually naive. All variations of dualism discussed, like substance,...
