Hello, I want to make this place a relatively safe and fun place to talk about philosophy of mind. If you know interested people, send me their email addresses...
Below is what I started as an explanation for pain and other mental states (!)...it is just the beginning for an explanation not the explanation itself.. Of...
... Invited how_to_fly, cool email :) ... Of course this doesn't explain why pain experience is unpleasant (note that is the core problem of any theory that...
Thanks for inviting me to this group. I will post some messages as soon as I get some time. I am involved in an interesting discussion on the Yahoo group...
First of all I don't like quote-reply things just in general I would like to hear your idea and your interpretation what I said. And I do not like one to one...
Steven Pinker asks in 'How the Mind Works' "What if we took [a brain simulation computer] program and trained a large number of people, say, the population of ...
Hi all, thank you for inviting me for participating in this group. I'm a frequent lurker, doesn't have a lot to say and am very, very interested in ai and...
Hi Discrete, What I said was quite clear. At any rate, let us start with a positive discourse in which I will state those parts of your post I agree with: 1....
Hi Eray, Thanks for the invite. Um, I don't really have much to say these days. I think the last several months on c.a.p. pretty much did it for me, and I'm ...
Greetings fellow philosophers, Galeon web browser had a very nice shortcut that allowed me to erase my reply to Jochen's excellent post. Before rewriting my...
Greetings [*], In application of digital philosophy approach to philosophy of mind, I have more or less been able to describe an extension of monism (and *not*...
I liked your view on Pain. Your explanation of pain in short sounds like: a necessary state of mind to make one change his/her unpleasant situation to a...
... Kisses, huh? Let me ask this: One gets kissed: - By a hottie - By an ugly person - By someone unseen in total darkness, whose beauty you can only guess at ...
... sounds ... In summary, discrete has reduced pain to "not pleasure" and "action to move out of not pleasing state". Hence, the theory is not a theory of...
I was looking in my doc/articles directory and I saw this post which I wrote on comp.ai and comp.ai.philosophy a long time ago after I reviewed Minsky's talk...
Hello guys, I was thinking of what ozge had told me in person. Can we make a great argument that shows, without flaw, the circularity in behaviorist's ...
Even if behaviorism was true, people probably wouldn't accept it purely on emotional grounds, because if love could be reduced that way, life wouldn't be worth...
Suppose someone, secure in the magnificence of his own expertise, comes up with the theory that anyone who disagrees with him must be stupid. Furthermore,...
... great ... behaviorist's ... subject is ... the naivete ... language long ... assumption. ... Finally, they ... I don't agree. Although Skinner was out of...
... I think there is a plausible emotional ground other than admitting a system of values based on emotions. That is simply the existence of emotional, ...
... I appreciate the motivation but it has quickly degenerated into an "impenetrable" and in my opinion very counter-intellectual dogma as you have explained. ...
My point was to highlight the difference between truth and what people need to believe in order to function. Even if truth has no limit, belief does. Say I...
... Just to be clear: I'm not talking about the traditional psychological difficulties people have had with new discoveries (like the Church with Galileo). I'm...
Your suggestion that I argue Quine's views took me by surprise, and when I read your academic challenge to explain Quine, my mind went characteristically...
Greetings, Is not existence mostly a subjective concept? I suspect a good deal of our metaphysics rests on defining existence in one convenient aspect among...
For what's it worth, what I find difficult in the matter of existence is that we could posit existence as consciousness, but if we treat consciousness as a...
This question is (surprise?) addressed by researchers working on brain-computer interfaces. Last night I've seen such an interface in action (on TV, of...
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