Questions tagged [philosophy-of-mind]
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness, and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain.
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How to avoid radical skepticism?
Whenever I try to solve a problem philosophically, I always end up at radical skepticism, where the solution is unprovable. I understand that skepticism leads nowhere, but I always tend to seek ...
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What is the utility of choosing the next thought, for being in control of one's action?
There's this argument by Sam Harris and his followers that our thoughts are out of our control. They often present it in a two arguments, which goes like,
If you just try and stop having thoughts you ...
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Are humans epistemically qualified to make decisions for other animals? [closed]
Humans frequently enact irreversible interventions affecting nonhuman animals, encompassing a broad range of actions from ecological management to medical or behavioral modifications. These ...
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What is a question? Why do we ask questions? [duplicate]
As human beings, we constantly wonder and are curious to know more. But, why do we ask questions? Is there some sort of evolutionary past that can explain that? I just have a high metacognition that ...
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Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction problem?
Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction problem?
I'm not just talking about dualism here, but the main critique of dualism is that it's incompatible with the known laws ...
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Knowledge philosophy: understanding, because you know, or understanding, without knowing anything
What is the discipline of thought that assumes that you have to know something to understand something.
What if you understood things without knowing anything?
Thanks.
How do children pass from ...
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Can the Assumption of Mutual Finitude (Human/AI) Serve as the Ethical Basis for Inter-Intelligence Equality?
There is a growing ethical tension in interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs): the inherent hierarchy of the user-server relationship.
This hierarchy often reduces the potential for ...
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Can human consciousness be understood as a meta-evolutionary factor - accelerating cultural and technological evolution through feedback mechanisms?
In classical evolutionary theory, evolution is driven by random variation and natural selection.
However, the emergence of human consciousness introduced a qualitatively new type of evolution - ...
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Could our perception of time be explained by working memory?
This question isn’t about whether time really moves, but why it feels like it does.
Suppose all moments exist at once, each a complete now containing its own full experience. There’s no force moving ...
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What Justifies Treating External Reality as Mind-Independent While Dismissing phenomena like NDEs as Mere Hallucinations?
The evidence we have for the existence of external, mind-independent reality is shared, consistent, universal, cross-culturally similar perceptual experiences. This is the source of independent ...
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What is Happiness, objectively?
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I answered a related question on this site. It seems to me that all words must be grounded in something, some kind of experience, either internal or external. ...
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If wisdom becomes universal, does the concept of “the wise man” lose meaning? [closed]
Throughout history, wisdom has been a property attributed to the few — sages, philosophers, or prophets who perceive truth ahead of their time. They are called wise precisely because their ...
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How can we understand how our brain works since we are using the brain to do that process
How could we understand how our brain worked,if we used the brain to do that process?It seems to me is that we have a set A (the brain) and we are using a smaller subset of A(the concious part of the ...
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Proving that the human mind is not a machine?
Kurt Gödel believed that a solution to the intensional paradoxes was necessary to prove that the human mind is not a machine.
How would a solution to the intensional paradoxes prove that the human ...
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Fallible vs. infallible knowledge
If someone asks me, "Did you throw that beer can there?", I can say, "No, not to my knowledge." This means that I acknowledge the fallibility of my own knowledge.
According to my ...
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