pcalau12i
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- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 2 days ago:
The brain is a physical object. Saying the brain playing a role in what we perceive somehow proves we don’t directly perceive reality as it really it from our point of view makes about as much sense as saying a painter can paint a painting of a fire so accurately that the painting it will suddenly burst into flames… no arrangement of a medium can transcend the medium.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 5 days ago:
What I mean by subjective experience is what you might refer to as what reality looks like from a specific viewpoint or what it appears like when observed.
So… reality? Why are you calling reality subjective? Yes, you have a viewpoint within reality, but that’s because reality is relative. It’s nothing inherent to conscious subjects. There is no such thing as a viewpoint-less reality. Go make a game in Unity and try to populate the game with objects without ever assigning coordinates to any of the objects or speeds to any of the object’s motion, and see how far you can go… you can’t, you won’t be able to populate the game with objects at all. You have to choose a coordinate system in order to populate the world with anything at all, and those coordinates are arbitrary based on an arbitrarily chosen viewpoint.
If you claim that the physical world doesn’t exist independently of observation, and is thus nothing beyond the totality of observed appearances
No such thing as “appearances.” As Kant himself said: “though we cannot know these objects as things in themselves, we must yet be in a position at least to think them as things in themselves; otherwise we should be landed in the absurd conclusion that there can be appearance without anything that appears,” i.e. speaking of “appearances” makes no sense unless you believe there also exists an unobserved thing that is the cause of the appearances.
But there is neither an unobserved thing causing the appearances, nor is what we observe an appearance. What we observe just is reality. We don’t observe the “appearance” of objects. We observe objects.
If there is no object being observed
Opposite of what I said.
and the fact it it apparent from multiple perspectives is simply a consequence of the coherence of observation
What we call the object is certain symmetries that are maintained over different perspectives, but there is no object independently of the perspectives.
where do the qualities of those appearances originate from? How come things don’t cease to exist when they’re not being observed?
They cease to exist in one viewpoint but they continue to exist in others.
If you claim that the appearances don’t exist independently of the physical world being observed
I am claiming appearances don’t exist at all.
why does the world appear different from different perspectives?
Reality is just perspectival. It just is what it is.
How do you explain things like hallucinations (there is no physical object being observed, but still some appearance is present)?
If they perceive a hallucinated tree and believe it is the same as a non-hallucinated tree, this is a failure of interpretation, not of “appearance.” They still indeed perceived something and that something is real, it reflects something real in the physical world. If they correctly interpret it as a different category of objects than a non-hallucinated tree then there is no issue.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 6 days ago:
There’s no such thing as “subjective experience,” again the argument for this is derived from a claim that reality is entirely independent of one’s point of view within it, which is just a wild claim and absolutely wrong. Our experience doesn’t “contain” the physical world, experience is just a synonym for observation, and the physical sciences are driven entirely by observation, i.e. what we observe is the physical world. I also never claimed “the experience of redness is the same thing as some pattern of neurons firing in the brain,” no idea where you are getting that from. Don’t know why you are singling out “redness” either. What about the experience of a cat vs an actual cat?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
There is no “hard problem.” It’s made up. Nagel’s paper that Chalmers bases all his premises on is just awful and assumes for no reason at all that physical reality is something that exists entirely independently of one’s point of view within it, never justifies this bizarre claim and builds all of his arguments on top of it which then Chalmers cites as if they’re proven.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
I feel like this is no different practically speaking than just saying its behavior is random, but anthropomorphizing it for some reason.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
If there is an agent who is deciding it then that would show up in the statistics. Unless you’re saying there exists an agent who decides the outcomes but always just so happens to very conveniently decide they should be entirely random. lol