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As an example, if an advantage is being able to reject the panpsychist consequence of two spatially separated electrons being conscious, how many electrons before it's vague? Or assuming i know for certain that i am conscious, exactly how many of my neurons must stop functioning before it's vague?
October 5, 2023 at 3:25 PM
As an example, if an advantage is being able to reject the panpsychist consequence of two spatially separated electrons being conscious, how many electrons before it's vague? Or assuming i know for certain that i am conscious, exactly how many of my neurons must stop functioning before it's vague?
Im wondering about how to respond to the argument that this view has its own version of saltation, and similar problems to the ones mentioned. Is the line between definitely conscious and indeterminately conscious sharp? Is it sharp at the lower bound, between non-conscious and sorta-conscious?
October 5, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Im wondering about how to respond to the argument that this view has its own version of saltation, and similar problems to the ones mentioned. Is the line between definitely conscious and indeterminately conscious sharp? Is it sharp at the lower bound, between non-conscious and sorta-conscious?
It's a great read! Even if familiar with the views in the quadrilemma your way of presenting them makes the deep level problems and paradoxes even more clear. And the analogies showing how inconcievability of vagueness doesn't mean incoherence helped a lot as well.
October 5, 2023 at 3:18 PM
It's a great read! Even if familiar with the views in the quadrilemma your way of presenting them makes the deep level problems and paradoxes even more clear. And the analogies showing how inconcievability of vagueness doesn't mean incoherence helped a lot as well.
It's an interesting observation. I wonder how much of it is due to people labeling things and what are deeper discrepancies between words and action? If DIY values would be mentioned more when prompted with words like duty instead of ethics, but thought of as important similarly to ethical concepts.
October 5, 2023 at 10:10 AM
It's an interesting observation. I wonder how much of it is due to people labeling things and what are deeper discrepancies between words and action? If DIY values would be mentioned more when prompted with words like duty instead of ethics, but thought of as important similarly to ethical concepts.