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Maybe a sidetrack but this is one of my favourite quotes:

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
~ ~ Max Planck

I saw or read somewhere that congenitally blind people have a more highly developed sense of hearing that they can use as a type of "sonar" to build an image of their environment. There is a story of a blind man who first "Saw" his girlfriend in the rain, due to the echoes bounc...

Cogenitally blind people can dream in visual images, at the very least blobs. Some blind persons say they cannot, but I suspect the screen is there, just unused and underdeveloped, like how a paralyzed person has legs but can't feel them. No they can't, because they have no visual memories. Of cour...

Not to mention most species have similar brain structures, therefore their qualia would be similar. Congenitally blind people don't have visual perceptions, they don't see visual "screens" at all. Still they have a 3-dimensional conception of their near locations, necessarily different (i...

Trixie, your PC don't need a screen to proceed with the data. I don't even believe that you'd think that robots had screens inside their CPUs. Think of Roomba, the automatic vacuum cleaner. Different "species" have different qualia. The landscape we "see" is how we conceive our p...

My favorite quote from Max Planck: "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." If you've been building a fortress of your belief syst...

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Thank you cute kitty :D I have balls, she has them metaphorical... I hope to post in other forums once I find topics that pique my interests... :? I think you should check ScienceChatForum / PhilosophyChatForum (both names refer to same site). It has more philosophical and scientific content than a...

Nice to see you here, MagsJ!

The project is very important and we want our blog to become a source of philosophical disscussions where everyone will be able to share their thoughts without discrimination. Sure the project is important to you but why would the blog be important to others? You don't seem to have any philosophica...

What do you think is the kingdom of consciousness? Or if it's easier to tell, what it is not?

You are spectacularly missing the point here which is that belief has got nothing at all to do with objective truth Since if something is true then that is all that is required for it to be so. It therefore makes zero difference as to whether it is believed or not. Objective truth has always existe...

I think embodied cognition is important for the emergence of the self, but it might be a little more involved. No doubt you have been following my discussion with Wyman and Prinze's theory. We live in a world where we are continually bombarded with sensory data, and as you point out there is a need...

I don't agree. In my experience people can observe a mental object which they call self. It is an object with certain properties, which may include some relations. But as far as i realize, it is a mental object. When we say "I see the boy", I is a reference to that object. I'm sorry if I'...