Even an autonomous biological machine is all dark inside. All of its processes and states can happen just as efficiently if not moreso nonconsciously...
But how can there be an inside view of the brain at all? It is afterall a purely physical blob of cells and neurons and blood vessels and connective...
A seemingly innocent enough purple patch in a nighttime sky. But weird enough to provoke suspicion and angst from an observant eyewitness.....
In anticipation of the claim of identity theory, that mental states are identical to physical states of the brain, I submit the following objection...
“You must collect moments. Those will be the true wealth of your soul.” --Liviu C. Tudose [img]
Just to reiterate the OP, the idea that the mind can effect physical events, as in causing one's arm to raise up, is a problem in that the mind is...
Do you view the process of thinking as causing the motor command or only seeming to?
I suppose. But it complicates the issue of mental causation. Do you think you raising your arm is hallucinated as well?
“There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a...
One thing that bewilders me about any sort of synaptic reductionism to explain mental events is how what seems to be the same unit (synapses and...
Bright object in the sky was observed standing still for 10 minutes over Melbourne Australia. Then it took off and flew away out of camera frame....
Let's suppose that instead of intentionally raising your arm you experience a sudden myoclonic spasm which causes your arm to raise up. Supposedly...
You have to look really hard to see this. But once you do, it pretty much rocks your world. [MEDIA]
Suppose I decide to raise arm. I do so and the arm is raised. But how is that even possible? How can the mental event of intending to move one's arm...
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I came across this short article on quantum indeterminacy which argues that it is a real indeterminate property of reality and not just due to our...
“You have re-remembered that happiness has something to do with simplicity. And so, by slow degrees, you regain a sense of harmony with everything...
“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.” ―...
What is the basis for quantum indeterminacy and does it refute the claims of causal determinism? Causal determinism: "Causal determinism is,...
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