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To the first question: I think thought is material, but perhaps not in the sense that each thought can be found somewhere in the brain. What we think as thought is a process in the brain, the process of thinking, what our memories store are sensations, links, groups, semantics, not...

It seems like i did misunderstand you, i agree with your response.

Good argument, a similar discussion was posed by a character in the phylosophical movie "Waking Life". "The ultimate question is what causes the system to be transformed from state A to state B (firing of the fork dropping neuron)." My resonse, first, the two theories you mention are both...

Actually your thought experiment falls appart right here: "The 'translator' has no understanding of Chinese, but everyone on the outside is confident that the guy is fluent in Chinese." What makes you think that i could not assume that there is a translating system in the room and thus...

I don't agree, take a baby, would you be able to have a discussion with the baby about consciousness? According to you you would because consciousness is not effected by external stimuli. Yet, in reality we know that you can't have a discussion with a baby on consciousness because of many...

It seems to me that you equate life with consciousness, which is false. Life starts at the creation of the first cell, eg, sperm and egg meet. Consciousness (self-consciousness) starts after birth, and is not something which just "clicks" in place as soon as you exit your mothers womb. It is a...

Would someone who is autistic be similar to the general definition of a zombie? "A rare syndrome, appearing in childhood, characterized by a withdrawn state, a lack of social responsiveness or interest in others, serious communicative and linguistic impairments, and a failure to develop...

I have seen arguments on this topic which side with physical explanations of the conscious and arguments which side with the metaphysical explanation of consciousness (and everything in between) I think these arguments boil down to arguments of the parts defining the whole or the...

"To that I say, for anything of substance to be exactly the same as something else, they not only have to share all properties and aspects, but must inhabit the same place at the same time, meaning that a single consciousness cannot inhabit two bodies. Aside from this, the likeliness that two...

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Good example, i have experienced New Immigrant Phenomena myself, when i first immigrated to Canada, I was sometimes lost when i woke up, forgetting where i was, but of course after a few dazed seconds memory kicks in and one is able to transpond expectations of old world reality to expectations...

"Sense-experiences do not live in isolation.Show me an example where they do." Well, depends, here memory leaps into help. Let's say one is not able to experience anything but one stimuli. he will know what that is because he has experienced it in the past, or not and he will be able to...

"Perhaps we shouldn't boil vegetables." That's ok, we do not associate feelings or pain to things we do not visibly see responding to us. So, in theory you could boil a paraplegic blind mute person without having any remorse... except that it has a physical resemblance to humans and thus...

That is the craziest theory if i ever did see saw a crazy theory. Hmm, I think current science has a few things to argue against your theory. First, we don't know that the brain, or anything, creates samaller particles than the currently discovered ones, so you seem to be speculating a lot, and...