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So is this a chair? https://imgur.com/a/6ykAG5m https://imgur.com/a/6ykAG5m Anyway yes I am familiar with the difficulty in defining consciousness, but you se
by codeulike 7y ago
So is this a chair?
https://imgur.com/a/6ykAG5m https://imgur.com/a/6ykAG5m
Anyway yes I am familiar with the difficulty in defining consciousness, but you seemed to be making the point that agreeing the definition should be done before any other discussion, whereas clearly some fruitful discussion is often possible even though the definition is fluid. Indeed the article in the OP is essentially trying to work out one aspect of the definition. I gather he has a book where he puts forward a definition of sorts.
- buboard 7y ago> some fruitful discussion is often possible even though the definition is fluid I 've seen too many discussions using those "fluid" definitions to be running away from them. Fluidity is usually employed as a smokescreen tactic to derail any productive argumentation by constantly shifting the goalposts
- codeulike 7y agoOh yes for sure. Maybe I should have put occasionally instead of often