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Is it possible for some people to be conscious of their own free will, while others are not conscious of theirs?
The SEP entry on the epistemology of modality mentions perceptual theories, where there are true claims like, "Cynthia perceived that it was possible for her to defy gravity," or, "...
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“Is there Nothing in your hand?” – The Transparent Box Experiment [closed]
Thought Experiment:
Imagine placing your hand inside a completely transparent box. For the sake of the experiment, everything else is removed, leaving only your hand and the space around it. At first ...
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Attention and the "hard problem"
Attention, I'm inclined to say, is the gate and gatekeeper of consciousness. It may be possible to doubt this, but it seems at least a reasonable assumption that there can be no consciousness (say as ...
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Could our perception of time be explained by working memory?
This question isn’t about whether time really moves, but why it feels like it does.
Suppose all moments exist at once, each a complete now containing its own full experience. There’s no force moving ...
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Esse est percipi
For Berkeley, to be is to be perceived. In other words existence depended on perception. So if I don't perceive x then x doesn't exist.
The concept of perception though seems to suggest a thing that ...
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Are some of (most of?) what we describe as "mistakes of our senses/perception", mistakes of our reasoning process?
Often in response to the claim: "I have a direct experience of X — and therefore this experience must be taken seriously" the default reply is: what about the flat Earth? What about ...
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Is “Life” an Observer-Relative Concept? [closed]
Very few people fully grasp this idea, so I’ll lay it out as plainly and briskly as possible.
Start with determinism. Every neuron fires because of what happened just before it. What we feel as “...
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Does our sub-conscious Mind hold the Structure of Conscious Mind? [closed]
I am starting from couple of my Beliefs :). My Beliefs are
We Experience "thought" and neither Mind nor Belief.
Thoughts get converted into Beliefs.
Beliefs shape your Mind
Thought is ...
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Isn't Consciousness or Feeling = Pattern-ID + Metadata{unsafe-value, ..., }? [closed]
Ask the following to AI:
I think, feeling is so valuable, because it is so varied that its entirety constitutes as 'experience'. Whereas, it is just a different combinations of signals reaching the ...
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Does Meinong’s theory of perception fall into “the Myth of the Given”?
I’m trying to understand whether Meinong’s account of perception — with its distinction between act, content, and object — implies a kind of non-conceptual, foundational given, or whether it avoids ...
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How does perceptual experience give rise to belief in the continued existence of unperceived objects?
I’m writing a BA-level essay on the question:
“Do we infer the unperceived existence of what we perceive from the nature of our experience?”
Rather than take a strictly Humean or Kantian approach, I’m ...
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What is a complete and consistent Epistemology? [closed]
I have decided awareness and knowledge are different. That allows me to reduce my 5 axioms of Epistemology to three.
Axioms of Epistemology
Axiom 1: For any reasoning agent R, and any concept C: if R ...
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Why are Kant’s views on space and time considered profound in philosophy when they were never shown to be correct? [closed]
According to Immanuel Kant, space and time are not objective realities, but rather "forms of intuition" that are inherent to our minds, meaning they are necessary preconditions for us to ...
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How does Husserl explain the common perception of an object?
Husserl considers that the intentional term, the noema, is within the immanence of intentional consciousness. (Here, I will not distinguish between noema and object, as some Fregean readings do.) In ...
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How can the Troxler effect be interpreted phenomenologically?
The Troxler effect, also known as Troxler fading, is a visual illusion that influences our perceptual experience. If one fixes their gaze on a specific point for a brief period, stimuli that remain ...
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