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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | A question long argued in the philosophy of science is the demarcation problem. How to we distinguish science from non-science? Karl Popper famously proposed falsifiability as a criteria. To be science, a theory must make predictions that could turn out to be wrong. It must be falsifiable. Theories that are amorphous or flexible enough to... | |
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axispraxis.wordpress.com
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| | | | | This is the first in a planned series of posts on Terrence Deacon's book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter. I'm calling it the Deactionary, since Deacon is fond of coining new terms and redefining old ones. Deacon outlines an ambitious goal: understanding the emergence of consciousness from insensate matter. Of course, not everyone... | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | Both physics and philosophy are jargon-ridden. So let's first define some key concepts. Both "consciousness" and "physical" are contested terms. Accurately if inelegantly, consciousness may be described following Nagel ("What is it like to be a bat?") as the subjective what-it's-like-ness of experience. Academic philosophers term such self-intimating "raw feels" "qualia" - whether macro-qualia... | |
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| | | The hole argument in general relativity is formally analogous to the inverted qualia problem in philosophy. Like how spacetime points have no existence beyond gauge freedom, qualias have no existence beyond their geometric-functional roles, thus dissolving the hard problem of consciousness. | ||
