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What would constitute a reasonable expectation of privacy?
To some degree this is presumably a legal question, but my question is really trying to ask about the principle here.
I guess the core question is about what expectations a "reasonable" agent might ...
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Are the experiences of the “flow of time” and of “cause and effect” qualia?
Physics and biology has no answer about why or how we personally experience the color red and we say that the experience of the color red is a quale. Physics also has no answer about why or how we ...
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What makes something 'better'? [closed]
How is Shakespeare's work superior to Twilight? How is String Theory superior to some random dude's "theory of everything"? How is a Van Gogh better than what is termed 'kitsch'.
An answer that I do ...
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Massive Modularity and Qualia
I read Pinker's How the Mind Works a few years back, and a thought occurred to me that I couldn't find in the two serious reviews (Fodor and somebody else, I forget)I dredged up afterwards.
If one's ...
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How can you support the idea of qualia as distinct from neuronal firing when you only experience one thing?
Physicalists are people who equate brain states with mental states. There are people in this category; and yet there are many people who do not hold this view. Such people hold that there is an ...
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How is subjective experience of color mapped to the visible spectrum?
Kevin Warwick had a sonar sense implanted and could sense whether an object was close or far. Evidence is accumulating that our brains can make sense of "foreign" information like sonar (consider the ...
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Modern research on the subjectivity of sense-impressions, species, and Aristotelian conceptions of the world?
In my research on the Philosophy of Data, I've found some remarkable similarities between some peoples' conceptions of data and the Aristotelian idea of Species, the particles of ...
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Which signs indicate consciousness in other beings?
There are arguments confirming and denying that animals have consciousness. Some arguments say that not even all humans have consciousness, e.g. small babies.
Which observable signs do exist that ...
