... must ... feel me? ... a month apartment ... flats, where I met Lions and ... Yah, I feel you, dog. Are your issues related to the storm? That was truly...
... Not at all! In epiphenomenalism, a thought in the soul (mind) is an epiphenomenon of a brain process. I would not hold that. I say they are both equal,...
... OK. I grant that it is not epi-x then. Let's look at what remains. If it is not identity theory, and if they are materially independent you are (it seems)...
... No, nothing like that. It's just that I am feeling some added pressure - self-imposed - to complete a certain piece of code ASAP. The reason is that ...
... OK darling, I look forward to seeing you. Don't dilly dally too long over the tickets and be sure to eat your vegetables and wash behind your ears. Mom...
... explanation. ... theory. ... do ... 1. Neuroscientists examining the central nervous system see no soul (mind). They see no need for a soul (mind). This is...
Ray: Was this an accurate description of what you're suggesting? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy/message/3202 You never commented when I posed the...
... I think anyone who contemplates existence should be aware that in western philosophy alone, since at least Parmenides, we have an incredible written...
... Ray: Please keep in mind that I presented those comments as my best effort to describe, what I thought, you were describing. The important aspects of that...
... There is a disconnect here--a disconnect between disconnects. You wrote at one time: It's simply along for the ride but it doesn't know it can't interact. ...
... [snip] ... Question, did JJG or Ray Scanlon make these suggestions? Go back to messages 2675 by Ray Scanlon and 2676 by JJG. This is where I suggest that...
... Go back to ... which I ... I ... of ... it ... This is CRAP. I make statements all the time. I will defend them, or admit that they are stupid. I am not...
... I have and do make statements on my own (all my own). I also try to ascertain the statements of others (even ones such as you). Certainly I have no ability...
... reconsider ... Good enough! This will do for starters. ... you? If ... "aware"? Aware: By "aware", I mean to be conscious of, to experience qualia. When a...
Ray: So basically, if I now understand what you're saying then the soul is nothing more and nothing less than qualia. It seems to me more accurate to say the...
... soul is ... qualia. We speak here only by analogy. That is all we can do when we speak of that which cannot be spoken of The soul (mind) experiences the...
... This doesn't make sense. Neuroscientists find no mind? No visual experience? You probably do not know that we can read the sensory experience off the...
... Ray: This is no good, no good at all. Why say the soul "experiences" (or is aware of) the qualia? Why not say "experience" is just another quale no...
Ray: When I read your posts, I get the impression that you speak as if your views are representative of neuroscience. While I'm sure there is some percentage...
... Hmmm...I don't believe in an immortal soul, per se. But you're mistaken about something your final two phrases imply: SOMETHING is damned necessary....
... A couple of papers you might find of interest: "Recurrent Bayesian Network for the Recognition of Human Behaviors from Video". I don't have a URL handy,...
... In trichromatic primates (including humans) the spectral sensitivity functions of the M (green) cones and the L (red) cones strongly overlap. This would...
... I had suggested that some less hardwired kind of a probability distribution might play an essential role in determining basic color terms in a language ...
... What on earth are you talking about? All we can "read off" a neuron is an axonal pulse. The notion that axonal pulses encode a message is for people who...
... Given my current aspirations (to build the world's best little bionformatic software company) I particularly liked this blurb at the bottom of the page: ...
Another factor is that relative spectral strengths will depend on the spectrum of the ambient illumination, which varies when the sun is lower or higher in the...
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