Stephen
@folkphilosophy6.bsky.social
Amateur philosopher. Pesterer of professional philosophers. Philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
To create the illusion of a full head of hair.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
To create the illusion of a full head of hair.
The emergence of experience is equally mysterious under illusionism.
August 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The emergence of experience is equally mysterious under illusionism.
Please define conceptual.
August 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Please define conceptual.
Because experience is an experience not a conception.
It’s not that hard to just experience without conceptualising.
It’s not that hard to just experience without conceptualising.
August 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Because experience is an experience not a conception.
It’s not that hard to just experience without conceptualising.
It’s not that hard to just experience without conceptualising.
I’m presenting an idealist VR analogy.
August 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’m presenting an idealist VR analogy.
Using VR just as an analogy, it can be constituted solely of consciousness.
August 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Using VR just as an analogy, it can be constituted solely of consciousness.
What if the RPCs are each being played by separate conscious individuals but the NPCs are behaving according to an AGI algorithm created by the conscious programmer of the virtual reality?
August 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What if the RPCs are each being played by separate conscious individuals but the NPCs are behaving according to an AGI algorithm created by the conscious programmer of the virtual reality?
How could we have NPCs and RPCs in a virtual reality?
August 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
How could we have NPCs and RPCs in a virtual reality?
No surprise there. Illusionism is the end of the road for all physicalists, its reductio ad absurdum.
August 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No surprise there. Illusionism is the end of the road for all physicalists, its reductio ad absurdum.
As physical ontology is a concept, then all physicalists are really saying the content of consciousness, and all of reality, is a concept.
August 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As physical ontology is a concept, then all physicalists are really saying the content of consciousness, and all of reality, is a concept.
All talk of the content of consciousness may be conceptual but consciousness itself is not. The elevation of concept over reality is the curse of analytic philosophy.
August 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
All talk of the content of consciousness may be conceptual but consciousness itself is not. The elevation of concept over reality is the curse of analytic philosophy.
He is a very nice and generous soul ;)
August 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
He is a very nice and generous soul ;)
What if the relevant experts have a tendency to believe in one particular metaphysics?
August 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What if the relevant experts have a tendency to believe in one particular metaphysics?
I don’t think physicalism or property dualism would predict the evidence of near-death experiences. Substance dualism and forms of idealism would.
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I don’t think physicalism or property dualism would predict the evidence of near-death experiences. Substance dualism and forms of idealism would.
Actually, that works as a great description of the error of physicalism 😃
August 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Actually, that works as a great description of the error of physicalism 😃
It has everything to do with it.
August 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It has everything to do with it.
In this critical respect, illusionism fails in the exact same way as all physicalist ‘explanations’ fail.
August 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In this critical respect, illusionism fails in the exact same way as all physicalist ‘explanations’ fail.
Case in point: illusionism. It can’t explain why the existence of experience that isn’t denied by illusionism, has to accompany how illusionism describes what experience really is, and couldn’t exist exactly as they describe it but without the experience which they don’t deny exists.
August 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Case in point: illusionism. It can’t explain why the existence of experience that isn’t denied by illusionism, has to accompany how illusionism describes what experience really is, and couldn’t exist exactly as they describe it but without the experience which they don’t deny exists.
None of them can and none of them have made any progress in doing that.
August 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
None of them can and none of them have made any progress in doing that.
Give me one that explains how the objective description has to be accompanied by subjective experience and couldn’t possibly exist as it is without it.
August 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Give me one that explains how the objective description has to be accompanied by subjective experience and couldn’t possibly exist as it is without it.
Except there is no explanation of how objective reality could give rise to subjectivity.
August 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Except there is no explanation of how objective reality could give rise to subjectivity.
The big error: granting ontology to objective descriptions of subjective experiences.
August 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The big error: granting ontology to objective descriptions of subjective experiences.
