On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 3:25:44 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
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>>> On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 2:04:31 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote:
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>>>> Consciousness. Red is red.
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>>>> On Friday, 26 April 2019 10:03:26 UTC+3, [email protected] wrote:
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>>>>> What specific ontological entity or entities of any science in 2019
>>>>> does one claim as* final* - i.e., *that *ontology is the "true" one?
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> On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 11:25:15 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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>> On 26 Apr 2019, at 10:09, [email protected] wrote:
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>> That is a good point.
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>> And that is the basic framework of Strawsonian panpsychism:
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>> *Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.*
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>> https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html
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>> Yes, the believer in Ontological Matter can get that crazy. When they
>> don’t eliminate consciousness, they identify it with matter, but then I
>> have no more any idea what they mean by consciousness, nor matter. It like
>> saying that apple are oranges, or that dogs are cats, or that music are
>> black spot.
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>> To be sure, I have not read the text in the link, but I doubt it could
>> clarify anything like that. Matter and consciousness are typically very
>> different things. Consciousness is ascribed to person, matter is ascribed
>> to their (local) bodies. Both exist phenomenologically, with digital
>> mechanism, but one is far more general than the other, and once
>> (consciousness) is responsible from creating, in some sense, the other
>> (matter).
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>> Consciousness needs only small numbers, matter needs the full invariance
>> of consciousness on all “similar enough” computations, and use infinities
>> (phenomenologically, as the ontology has not infinities). Matter obeys to
>> the laws of physics, but consciousness obeys to the laws of mind (the laws
>> of Boole and the laws of Boolos, as I sum up sometimes, that is classical
>> logic + the laws of self-reference).
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>> Bruno
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> Matter - in the panpsychist view - obeys "the laws of physics", but those
> "laws" are are an incomplete theory of matter.
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> There is a physical and psychical aspect to any complete theory of matter
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> There may be an immaterialist science, and the pro-"matter" people may
> have some 'splainin' to do, but in the panpsychist context, matter is both
> physical and psychical.
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> @philipthrift
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Final answer (What is matter?):
*Matter is the result of mixing arithmetic and experience.*
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