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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Sep 20

Gödel showed that all formal system's will have true statements without proofs. Another formal system may have a proof for what the statement represents. And even then it doesn't show the limits of a system only that each system will have one. We cannot know what we cannot know.

Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

@jessiemunton.bsky.social If whimsy strikes I think you'd like this. It supports your position that we visually perceive modal properties. Apologies for @ing you. I'm looking around for philosophers thinking along the same lines. If you do read it, I'd love your thoughts.

Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Sep 5

Have you ever heard something so dumb it made you feel batter about your own intelligence? My paper could be that thing. Give it a read. Worst thing that happens is I convince you I'm right.

#HardProblem #Philosophy #Consciousness

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Adam Files, Consciousness through Correlation - PhilPapers

We approach our explanation of consciousness by focusing on an underlying issue: how information is imbued with meaning. We focus on how mechanisms in evolving minds could solve the symbol grounding ....

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thinking about this more. I think I can say this better. If you consider anything coming from outside a consciousness a "sensation". I don't think consciousness is possible without it. Consciousness only examining itself is a closed loop. Consciousness needs something to be conscious of.

Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 29

IMO. Phenomenal C (subjectivity) creates the axioms for mapping reality. Access C uses those axioms to create maps. Agency is navigating. The first 2 are pointing to parts of the process. And they overlap. Agency is the result of the process, not really part of it. But definitions are fuzzy here.

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 28

I should have said "schmink" here

Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 27

Putting aside what I'd consider cheating: Creating a thinker with a pre-stocked "library". It seems to me any thinking would require some sort of external stimuli. There may be a way around this, but I can't wrap my brain around it. Ha. The *extremely* hard problem of consciousness.

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 27

If a thinker can be created artificially, it won't necessarily think the way we do. But we may be able to prove it "thinks". It doesn't seem to me it would be any more of a stretch to call a received text prompt a "sensation".

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 27

I agree. Sort of. Sensory information is no different to the brain than other kinds of information. Sensation as we understand it is not necessary. But the thinking process cannot depend only on itself. And any method by which information is gleaned from what is extrinsic could be called a "sense".

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 25

I think I solved the hard problem of consciousness: Roast me
#HardProblem #Philosophy #Consciousness
But seriously I'd like to try to publish this in a journal. Any advice to that end is greatly appreciated.

philpapers.org/rec/FILCTC

Adam Files, Consciousness through Correlation - PhilPapers

We approach our explanation of consciousness by focusing on an underlying issue: how information is imbued with meaning. We focus on how mechanisms in evolving minds could solve the symbol grounding ....

philpapers.org

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 24

Panpsychism isn't. 7% of philosophers find it a compelling theory. Dualism isn't. Something like 20% of philosophers accept it.

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 23

I've written a journal article. Followed formatting rules. Cited sources. But I'm sure I'm missing something necessary. Would any published philosopher be interested in giving notes? I know there's a lot of unfalsifiable theories about this. Mine is not.
#hardproblem #philosophy #philsky

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Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Aug 2

I've written a Journal article, but have no affiliations with any academic institutions. Followed guidelines. Formatting. Citing sources. But I'm sure I must be missing something given my outsider's perspective. Are there any resources for getting corrections outside these institutions? #philosophy

Adam Files @adamfiles.bsky.social · Dec 4

Thanks for this!

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