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Has any philosopher written about the implications of online multiplayer games on shared consciousness?
Multiplayer online games are not an example of "shared consciousness" but of "virtual reality". The players share the same reality (even though it is a virtual one) but they do not ...
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Has any philosopher written about the implications of online multiplayer games on shared consciousness?
The answer is emphatically - YES.
It's Putnam... not Searle, but we're talking history, not philosophy. All of the Matrix movies were based on a combination of Putnam, and frank capra. And the ...
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Has any philosopher written about the implications of online multiplayer games on shared consciousness?
The thing is the simulation in the Matrix is not a dream, but a part of reality. Probably Searle got that wrong because he hadn't seen the movie, and the New York Times people didn't explain it very ...
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Has any philosopher written about the implications of online multiplayer games on shared consciousness?
This is a fascinating question. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "shared consciousness". Conventional physicalists insist that the mind somehow supervenes on the brain, however ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
Answering this question is complex, it is one of the major questions philosophy has been grappling with over the last few centuries.
First order, dualism is a much better model
If you are only looking ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
The mind is like the software of a computer, and it is obvious that the mind and the physical world are not in the same world.So, both physicalism and dualism are wrong.It is unwise to combine the ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
The mainstream view, physicalism, ie. materialistic monism, is the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties, and that the only existing ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
The title question frames the content of the OP’s question into the
dichotomy of dualism versus physicalism.
That’s not a complete disjunction. Because physicalism is only one
version of monism, such ...
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Does panpsychism imply mathematical entities are conscious?
No. In panpsychism, the fundamental stuff of the universe is matter-consciousness. Mathematical entities are immaterial. They are abstractions that can be used by conscious entities. At the ...
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Does panpsychism imply mathematical entities are conscious?
Mathematical ideas are not conscious. However there is a craving to hold on to numbers and mathematics in general. Craving gives rise to grasping. Grasping gives rise to becoming(a Mathematician). ...
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Are MUH and IIT compatible
IIT is essentially a flavor of physical monism. It presupposes that what we typically think of as the mental--consciousness--is a manifestation of a physical state. That, in itself, is not unusual. It'...
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Are MUH and IIT compatible
MUH states that the ontological representation of reality IS mathematics. IIT on the other hand accepts the traditional view that consciousness is grounded on physical matter, but instead of trying to ...
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Is the classical theory of concepts compatible with logical positivism's view on analyticity of mathematics?
No, and logical positivism died because it lacks critical insights into how humans form concept systems. Post-positivist thinking is far more productive in this arena. I'll offer you one such system.
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
The argument of Hoffman and his colleagues centers on what Hoffman calls the Fitness Beats Truth Theorem, purported to be a mathematical theorem (game-theoretic if I recall) which states roughly
that ...
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
The paper quotes several particle physicists saying "spacetime is doomed" or words to that effect. What they mean is that there probably is some kind of substructure to the spacetime ...
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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy
Nowadays we have computer programs that can play the games of chess and go at a much stronger level than human players. These programs can also be used to analyse games played by humans, and will ...
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Critique of those missing the Hard Problem?
For monists and panpsychists, there is no division between matter and consciousness. Therefore, there is no hard problem. The fundamental stuff of the universe is matter-consciousness. Consciousness ...
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
Oh boy.
I skimmed the paper, kind of expecting to hate it, but I was pleasantly surprised. The Markov chain stuff is completely over my head, which is annoying as I find qualia a particularly ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Who am I ?
I am a homo sapien.The current scientific understanding is that humans evolved from earlier hominids over millions of years through a process called natural selection. The common ancestor ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
This is easy to approach with the proper definitions.
Morals are a set of rules which improve social interactions (for multiple goals, for example, survival: it is not moral to kill because it reduces ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
If robots achieve (human-level) consciousness, we likely wouldn't have a good differentiating criteria between human and robot for ethical consideration.
On a related note, vegans argue that we don't ...
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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy
I think you are asking: is there understanding without consciousness?
We need to know what consciousness is before we can even begin to answer that question. Consciousness must be all of our current ...
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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy
It may be that nothing can exist without consciousness because it is fundamental to the universe. In the panpsychist view there is no need for emergence. The hard problem disappears. I would recommend ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
Consciousness cannot arise out of a machine.
If it could we would have seen it, even in a basic level. If on the other hand you believe that a machine can be made as having consciousness by design, ...
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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
The ability to process sensory information is an evolutionary advantage. Same as an automatic vacuum cleaner with a camera will clean a room more efficiently than one equipped with just a bumper.
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
I understand that your main question is around the issue of how and why consciousness exists. This is an unsolved problem by science, formulated in modern terms as the hard problem of consciousness.
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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy
During the period of classic physics scientists one way or another thought of the world as something totally independent of our perceptions, that was governed by some laws. Their main concern was to ...
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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
Yes, qualia cause effects, but this does not by itself produce a survival advantage, because every organism has qualia. (Although the specific type of qualia a particular organism experiences may ...
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Consciousness and Understanding of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy
There are many views on what consciousness is, if it exists at all.
Most views accept that consciousness exists in some form, even if that's just the firing of neurons in a chemical soup (reductionism)...
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Do qualia cause effects, and if so, do these effects offer survival advantages from an evolutionary standpoint?
There are many views on what consciousness is, and what its relation is to causation.
Regarding observable differences between conscious and non-conscious entities, there is the idea of philosophical ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
There is nothing special about computability . Capacity to compute , in mind and in machine , arises , changes , and vanishes.
Capacity to compute arises in a baby , who has no understanding or very ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
A point of weakness in your position is the assumption that your awareness influences whatever processes happen in your brain. To take a random example- while driving, you might see a traffic jam ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
I have not read that whole SEP page for now, but at first glance the paragraph you quoted seems quite questionable to me.
First of all, there is a big "if not, then" in there. It seems in no ...
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Is there any evidence to suggest that our conciousness regularly replaces itself?
Leaving aside dualism, we are mind/body. The body regenerates constantly. There is a difference between consciousness and identity. Consciousness is discontinuous. This does not mean that it is ...
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
Philosophical writers on theories of the mind fall into two categories, reductionist and non-reductionists. Neither camp could yet present definitive proof or a definitive way to disprove the other.
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How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
My first reason for being skeptical of this view is that it seems to me to be at odds with the idea that mental events can have a causal influence on the physical world.
After all, the operation of a ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
The following - contrary to the guidlines - reflects my own thoughts about experience :
Experience is not just a series of perceived states or events. Experience is a realization of a meaning of ...
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Is the speciousness of the specious present specious?
Continuing the SEP quote shows that we can "perceive a relation between two [successive] events" by using memory.
... a paradox in the notion of perceiving an event as
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Why am I this particular human being?
Look,feel,think etc, this is Experience. A part of this Experience is an imagined self including internal narratives about self. It is probably your brain that creates the Experience and the ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are your current Experience.
The body in that Experience can lose an arm but the Experience still occurs.
The body can sleep but there is Experience during sleep. The contents of Experience ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
I'm not going to add to the answers you already have. But you do ask for references, so I hope you find the following helpful:-
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Personal Identity
Wikipedia - ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
The I you are seeking is more synonymous with the deep sleep reference. That is to say, there is no 'I'. There is only an 'I' which can be found if you seek it using conceptual memories of past, ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
What is this 'I' that asks "what is this I?"
My background is in vision and image processing.
If you look at something, who or what sees it? You have detectors at the back of your eye that ...
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Exploring the Concept of "No Mind" in Eastern Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Implications
Your basic question seems to be:
what implications does the pursuit of no-mind have for our understanding of consciousness, selfhood, and the nature of reality?
For consciousness, we can realize ...
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Exploring the Concept of "No Mind" in Eastern Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Implications
To begin with, there is no direct conceptual analogy to 'no mind'. The tenant of Buddhist meditation is to recognise this. Once recognised it is beyond a standard understanding. It is non-conceptual.
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Exploring the Concept of "No Mind" in Eastern Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Implications
You're making a classic interpretation error in conflating 'no mind' with a 'chattering of the mind' and that Zen is aimed at quieting the mind.
'No mind' isn't just a kind of blankness of thought ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are the ultimate subject. Everything else is an object to this subject that this subject experiences or controls. Your body is the hardware and mind is the software, but neither is you. You can ...
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