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I am not conflating it. I am using the methods described by a philosophical position as a point of reference/comparison to what goes on in my own head. Ah. I see. You drew correlations between the philosophical notion of phenomenology and your own mental ongoings and you did so without language... ...

Any ability to adapt requires persistence/updating of information in your nervous system. Otherwise your behavior is necessarily deterministic/static. Read-only firmware. Same input will always produce the same output. Talk of input and output is utterly inadequate for taking proper account of thou...

The algorithm you're employing as a means to respond to what I've written is quite loose.

Having practiced phenomenology since the age of 5 and to this day - i am telling you that it doesn't require language. Only spatial memory. My head is a real-time 3D animation. It is only expressed in language because - communication barrier. You're conflating the name of a philosophical position w...

So. Memory? I don't know if I'd call it memory. Memory requires drawing the same correlations again, and that can include drawing correlations consisting of prior correlations, but I'm undecided as of yet about how to sensibly situate memory. Any ability to adapt requires persistence/updating of in...

Disagree. Phenomenology is a mental activity not a linguistic one. Your agreement isn't necessary. Phenomenology is a philosophical notion which describes mental activity and it uses language to do so. Having practiced phenomenology since the age of 5 and to this day - i am telling you that it does...

Right. The key difference, of course, is that with Santa you do not determine what counts as Santa. Why not? It's an idea that has grown organically through society. In some countries Santa wears green. In other - he wears red. Slavic cultures have Ded Moroz ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moro...

So rudimentary thought/belief formation is different from "thinking"? Yes. Thinking would consist of correlations consisting of prior correlations. So. Memory? I don't know if I'd call it memory. Memory requires drawing the same correlations again, and that can include drawing correlation...

Phenomenologists are people who use language in a very specific way as a means to think about thought/belief. Disagree. Phenomenology is a mental activity not a linguistic one. Your agreement isn't necessary. Phenomenology is a philosophical notion which describes mental activity and it uses langua...

If you thought of anything other than some pre-existing notion of Santa, then you were thinking about something other than Santa. Fat guy in a red suit. Brings gifts to children during Christmas. Tomorrow never exists in it's entirety. Your thoughts of tomorrow do. Santa doesn't exist in its entire...

Agreed. Is this sufficient criterion for you to call it "thinking"? No. It is adequate for simple rudimentary thought/belief formation. So rudimentary thought/belief formation is different from "thinking"? Yes. Thinking would consist of correlations consisting of prior correlati...

On a very basic level with the simplest of correlational content, worms can draw correlations between different things. Agreed. Is this sufficient criterion for you to call it "thinking"? No. It is adequate for simple rudimentary thought/belief formation. Well given the lack of argument, ...

It is impossible to do without language, and that is quite simply not something that is up to either one of us. We do not determine that. It's a matter of existential dependency. Thinking about one's own thought/belief requires having thought/belief and the capability to isolate and subsequently ta...

It is impossible to do without language, and that is quite simply not something that is up to either one of us. We do not determine that. It's a matter of existential dependency. Thinking about one's own thought/belief requires having thought/belief and the capability to isolate and subsequently ta...

You'll have to do better than this. Non-sequitur. My thoughts of Santa were not Santa either, so you have clearly shifted the goalposts here. I am thinking of tomorrow BEFORE tomorrow "exists in its entirety". It does not follow from the fact that you've not grasped the argument being off...