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Frankly, I think Dennett's approach isn't about explaining consciousness at all. It's about explaining why he still calls it consciousness after he stripped it of everything subjective while consciousness is nothing else but subjective.
*Pause for Anon to rant about how Searle is stupid and Dennett is his hero.*
It's about explaining why he still calls it consciousness after he stripped it of everything subjective while consciousness is nothing else but subjective.
. . .if you include in that the metaphysical premises of modern science, then observing consciousness from a solely scientific viewpoint is an impossible task.
He just happens to be wildly wrong.
(You know ideology has trumped reason when your philosophy drives you to deny that the heart's function is to pump blood.)
In seven posts which you did not read
I carefully explained how his approach allows subjectivity to be treated.
Are you saying that physical objects have intrinsic functions? That functions aren't just assigned by conscious observers?
Am I really talking to anon, the internet philosopher who brags about being a materialist and pragmatist whenever his commitment to those ideologies instead of the truth is brought up?
No, you explained his approach to interpret verbal representations of subjective experiences provided by subjects who can use language.
But I have to admit, I'd love to read your "careful explanations" on his method to deal with entities that can't use language.
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Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
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The general trend shows that a warming climate in the southern hemisphere would transport more moisture to Antarctica, causing the interior ice sheets to grow, while calving events along the coast will increase, causing these areas to shrink. A 2006 paper derived from satellite data, measures changes in the gravity of the ice mass, suggests that the total amount of ice in Antarctica has begun decreasing in the past few years.
Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' in space more than fourteen hundred light years or eight and a half quadrillion miles away from Earth.
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