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On the contrary - you are the one dualistically assuming that there must be a representation and a viewer. You don't understand that a part of the whole can represent the whole. 'Represent' begs the question. Of course everything is conscious in the hard problem sense. You seem to assume that consc...

You really don't know that whatever you experience, technically you see the inside of your head? You think you directly see what's "out there" when you see the physical world? Of course not. You see a representation of the outside world in the inside of your head. That too is a "cons...

I think you missed the point, they are different because different parts of your brain/mind look different on the inside. Or do you not know that when you think about the physical, experience the physical, you still see a part of your head on the inside? I'm afraid I do not understand what you are ...

You are doing it right now. Of course the experience of "physical" is also direct experience, it just appears completely different because it is umm viewed from outside, "shaped" through sensory organs and then a visual cortex and then it's conceptualized by another regions of t...

Of course they can be reconciled. Think of it this way, what you call "internal experience" is what the "physical" looks like on the inside. Although it's really hard to convey a nondualistic view in dualistic terms. Indeed it is; haven't you just reintroduced it by saying the '...

All 5 stances are wrong. There is no "hard problem of consciousness" either. People are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense, of course they can't do it. Remember what we assumed in the beginning? There are two things happening: consciousness and the physica...

Does believing that some thing is what happens, which to you has already been demonstrated, beyond ANY doubt, mean that you are at all open to the fact that this maybe is NOT what actually happens? If so, then great. If not, then great also. Your honest answer is all I am seeking. 'Doubt' is a psyc...

You, and others, propose things as definitive truths. You, and others, do NOT know if those things are definitely true. Therefore, what you, and others, propose are NOT, yet, definitive truths. They describe phenomena, our experiences. The description is considered 'true' if it matches other people...

But there are NO actual periodic events, so there are NO actual intervals to measure. Would you say there are any events at all? That is to say, do you ever see change? For example, you see this post. For you has this post (and all the others) always been on this thread? Or was there I time when th...

What do you mean by; Hypotheses have to be subject to potential falsification or else hypotheses are deemed 'invalid'? Isn't it rather that within science they need to be empirically falsifiable, otherwise they are not good hypotheses - because science concerns itself with what is empirically predi...

Here's what Wikipedia says about metaphysical solipsism: " As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism...

You and Socrates and Plato, however, forget one thing. It is true that you can't know reality with absolute certainty. But there is a chance, and we don't know how large or how small that chance is, that the reality we experience is the real reality. There is no way of knowing; true. But there is a...

I think the article is confused in that it equates Santa Claus with God. But Santa Claus is a saint, so he is in the ambiguous position of both being a means of intercession with God, but also a model for the way we should conduct our own lives. Bearing that in mind, the stories of him giving gifts ...

When you've sat side by side with people whose families and children have been destroyed in front of their eyes by bestial soldiers, and felt the pure evil of it, you don't have much patience with apologists for the supremacist ideology that is at the root of it. Good bye. I hope you'll see the lig...

Dear friend - what has brought you to this acrimony in your replies. You do not know what my intentions were, no one knows other minds, and many are not sure of their own, and I have never tried to obfuscate any issue. Aristotle as you well know had a disvaluing view of women - and for him their en...