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It isn't about whether I know what is happening in China, it is about the aspect of any 'seeing' (by anyone, anywhere) that can be called a fact. Lets just focus on this one thing. Do you think that it is a fact whether, in someone other than yourself, some kind of seeing occurred? I am at this poi...

... but those experiences are not external objects to me in the sense that their bodies might be... Even though they are not external objects to you in the sense that their bodies might be their experiencing is a external to your mind and is a fact, right? If someone sees red in China you might not...

... I do not think we can use it in the other direction, (not without begging the question by first turning the mind into an external object like the brain). All minds are external objects to my mind save my mind. If someone sees red in China in some room where no one sees him. And if he subsequent...

Doesn't saying ... imply that your mind has some sort of normal state, a state in which it is unaffected, and to which it will (hopefully) return after the alcohol has been processed? It's a very difficult issue and has to do with not just what we say but the grammar itself - verb vs noun so to spe...

Justintruth, is this from me what you are rebutting: I was taught criteria for evaluation of scholarly texts as follows: 1. Is the work itself peer reviewed? 2. Does it include an index? 3. Does it include a bibliography of peer reviewed works? 4. Has the work sufficient literary merit? The above a...

You didn't explain what your objection is. Whinging is not an objection. My objection is not to whether it is valid acedemically. Look at Aristotle's work, or Heidegger's, or Nietzsche's. Not just valid but great. But none of them are clinical scientific documents and while I persinally believe the...

The main reason for my impatience with the title was the frequency with which consciousness is discussed in these pages as if consciousness were nothing other than mystical or at least utterly mysterious, and with no reference to the usage of 'consciousness' in its practical scientific or clinical ...

... this descriptivity provides all the explanation we are ever going to get.... That is true of course but there is a flaw in it still. It turns out we can have very different experiences of the fact of the lack of explanation. And these experiences of the lack of explanation - the mystery if you ...

Is reality a set? If so, is reality necessarily a set? Also if reality is a set, does the axiom of choice apply to reality? Is materialism the axiom of choice applied to the set of reality?

Perhaps i sould have asked whether the reference of the term reality is a set?

Of course we are already going faster than that relative to some imaginary point moving at twice the speed of light but... If special relativity is right then you can't do it. If not who knows. But...if you want to see why relativity says you can't. ... ..you look at a two dimensional space time dra...

Can you point out any mistakes? Mistake#1: it is a story that explains the world. Mistake#2: In the beginning there was nothing,. Mistake#3: Nothing perceived what was,. Mistake#4: Nothing saw that it was no longer nothing. Mistake#5: God came to be after much time. Mistake#6: Nothing became the Un...

Deplorable? Oh we are not remotely to the meaning of that bitter fruit. You have to go to the last scene in the movie Easy Rider and ask why the man was shot to know what will come if they are not stopped. These people are motivated by ideas which lead to violence and domination. They are not just t...

The term sense needs to be disambiguated. First there are the phenomenological types of experiencing. Then there is the physical pathways that connect the matter that causes the experiencing to the external world. Now the latter is fairly easy to answer as the instruments that we are continually dev...

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/u599/gachchy/self_and_I_zps9a17501b.jpg?t=1385137614 The Pictures can have no independence existence without the Black board Our Body and Mind can have no Independence existence without Consciousness/Awareness The 'I' arises in Awareness. Awareness is always the ...