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I think it should be called the Impossible Problem. Every statement of the "Hard Problem" relies on hidden premises that are causing the problem before even considering the field of possibilities in the "answer" to what follows from the premises. I am certain that a "solution" to such a...

Constance: "I am in need of a demonstration of 'the existence of both mental and non-mental states within a physicalist model'" A demonstration requires a being that makes being an issue to itself. So the demonstration would require throwing out any models (which only make sense to beings that...

Our "notion" or transparent simulation which pretends to be real evidently comes from a reality-world-generator..."matter" is just a reflection within the PSM that plays a role within the framework of recursive-world-reality-generation. The "from the outside" or "from the inside" are pointers...

Interlude: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-consciousness-pervade-the-universe/

Dennett for me helped "turn the entire study upside-down"--my favorite quote "A scholar is a library's way of creating another library." -> i.e. expanding notions after kicking down the Cartesian theatre (or circus). Metzinger's "Ego Tunnel" and "Being No-one" helped dispel other myths...I...

I cannot "have it in mind" because as my analogy indicates I am putting my mind as a pedestal/tower/barrier to help actively develop and sustain some "understanding" of the same. I can only point to something that appears to be a problem in search for the solution to itself. The "full ground"...

I meant "barriers we build in the attempt to explain ourselves" --> now that I think of it, a better analogy is "towers" which are built to help us examine the full ground below (another analogy...ground of our own being) but the tower acts as a barrier or blind spot to the very foundations...

With (a) the variance is a symptom of something much deeper. While it may be true that (a) would follow, it is not the complete picture. Within (b) lies an overstatement that orbits around the term "meaningless"--which I didn't intend. So perhaps there is a (c) that I am getting at: What I...

"Memetics is code that programs humans." Perhaps so...and also human beings may be domesticated by the result of wheat DNA (A concept expressed here: Amazon.com: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (9780062316097): Yuval Noah Harari: Books) Or nanomachines use bodies (and brains) to...

Morse code with respect to what orientation on a 2D surface? The surface of a (now ancient) compact disc will resemble "morse code" and yet not translate to anything meaningful in "morse code." NEXT!

(further comments not thrown into an "edit" because I don't want to be flagged...) Interesting...based on your selection and direction of discourse, do you think I am a "philosophical pessimist?" (off-topic: and why we are at it...why do punctuation rules in english require putting the marker...

This "thread" of discourse is at a higher level (in the sense that C++ is a higher level "language" than assembly on a particular architecture--arm, intel, sparc, mips, z80) than what I alluded to in my previous postes. Although of most interest is the proposition "humans attempt to escape...

No it was flagged because evidently I did too many edits...happens from time to time. I see the post has been cleared by the moderators now. Let me know

Laughter is a kind of vibration between a perceived or felt contradiction of some aspect of being between seemingly opposite perspectives from (1) the "figure" or (2) the "ground" ... these opposing forces showing off the entire game of consciousness suddenly erupt into the mind of the one...

You must take the short circuit that eliminates the unnecessary duality as a foundation of consciousness...or being...Descarte is a very destructive siren regarding the nature of being as ontologically seperated into mental and physical substance... the problem of course is one of unnecessarily...

"Necessarily hidden from us" --> and we are very "weirded out" by this fact, which also is predicted by a system examining it's own poignant [archaic] foundation which allows such "hidden necessities"... I think the end of the mind-body problem is pure laughter...I predict that what we call...

And I am curious as to whether they are mutually exclusive relations; i..e whether there are common components of these two definitions perhaps obscured by our attempts to delineate them

Substance is a "particular kind of matter [what is that?] with uniform properties [with respect to who?]" or a better definition might be Locke's "that for which we know not what." "Form" is another notion that cannot exist without the former confusing "particular kind...of ...matter".... We...

Phenomenal: "perceptible by the senses or through immediate experience." Physical: "relating to things perceived through the senses as opposed to the mind; tangible or concrete." There's a queer loop in those definitions....one seems to throw in an "extra" that is "not tangible"...ironic...

What's the difference? (sorry...just cracked open a bottle of Forcas-Hosten) [spoiler alert] From what I can tell both are terms used by the very generator of the terms...so unless one term is slightly less fictional than the other, then I don't see how we grok anything one way or the other.