A homunculi watching moving pictures in its head. In color, with sound. — Marchesk
Oh, I get it. You come to expose the illusionists, not to praise? — bongo fury
A homunculi watching moving pictures in its head. In color, with sound. — Marchesk
Is this your position or your proposed reading of theirs? — bongo fury
Neither. It's a response to the idea of pictures in the head. — Marchesk
An appearance of something which isn't there. — Marchesk
I don't know. What does it mean for something to be material as opposed to information? Why not just say the mind is made of matter? If you only know about matter by how it is represented in the mind as concepts, then what exactly is the nature of matter and how does it interact with mind if the mind is not matter as well? Is there any difference in how matter and information behave, or interact causally?Materialism is wrong, it's information. — Marchesk
If by "panpsychist", you mean that I believe everything from atoms to the universe is conscious, then no. I think we should clarify the distinctions between qualia, thoughts, experiences, and consciousness, and determine if any one is a fundamental building block of another.So you're a panpsychist informationist. — Marchesk
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