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Your claim of an indivisible-consciousness is merely hypothesis which is unverified and justified [unpolished] to be credible and objective. You merely assumed it exists [hypothetically] without proving it is really-real [not absolutely but relatively] based a reality-FS in the first place. I have ...

Your claim of an indivisible-consciousness is merely hypothesis which is unverified and justified [unpolished] to be credible and objective. You merely assumed it exists [hypothetically] without proving it is really-real [not absolutely but relatively] based a reality-FS in the first place. I have ...

you might want to write down, in simple form also, what your actual thesis is, exactly, now, as well, especially considering that you want to claim that 'your arguments' prove 'your thesis'. My thesis is clearly written at the very beginning of my initial post. I have already discussed my arguments...

Age wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 6:33 pm

Show 'us' if, and how, what you claim here is even actually True.

My arguments prove my thesis. read carefully my initial post and try to understand it.

Best regards,

Atla wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 4:11 pm
If I don't use Occam's razor then I have an infinite amount of explanations for anything, and any argument has 0% chance of being correct.

I'll give you some advice: try to analyze the arguments using reason and logic.

Best regards

Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements. In fact, when we define a...

fragmentary structure of brain processes What did you mean by this by the way? How are brain processes fragmentary? Some people have fragmented minds but that's probably not what you meant. I mean that what we call a "brain process" consists of many parallel sequences of elementary physic...

The brain is a set of arbitrarily chosen particles; this is an indisputable fact. I dispute this nonsense on the basis that you abuse the word "arbitrary". I do not abuse the word "arbitrary"; arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible, for exam...

That is only the case if you have chosen to restrict yourself conceptually to epic physicalist minimalism. As that very thing is what you are opposing, I find the choice strange. Everything has levels of description that apply to it. This is your fundamental mistake. The levels of descriptions are ...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 4:22 am
Are you a theist?

I am a Christian. However, the arguments have provided against physicalism are independent of my religious beliefs.

The point is that complexes are only subjective cognitive constructs and do not exist as mind-independ entities. At a fundamental physical level, there is no brain, or heart, or higher level sets, but only fundamental quantum particles individually interacting with each other; the brain, as well as...

Bishop Berkeley was interesting... do you assume the existence of God? according to Berkeley, all the physical world is part of God... do you likewise assume the existential separation of consciousness and ideas from the physical world? (I am not sure that mental activity exists outside the physica...

So, does this mean that all, some, or only human, animals have 'consciousness'? I have already defined consciousness as any kind of mental experience such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, etc. Each of us only knows our own personal mental experience and therefore we cannot know whether or not ani...

Is there anything to say that 'the foundations of 'our' scientific knowledge' is even irrefutable anyway? I have never said that the foundations of our scientific knowledge are irrefutable; my thesis is simply that physicalism is incompatible with the scientific paradigm. But how could 'your argume...

brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit Nope. Brain processes not being a sufficient condition for the existence of [phenomenal, Hard p...