Qualia have the wrong epistemic and ontological properties to be physics. Namely, they -do- go away when you stop believing in it.
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Replying to @Alrenous @smudgie_buggler and
uh i tried it and they were still there
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Replying to @Alrenous @smudgie_buggler and
right except they totally were
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Replying to @chaosprime @Alrenous and
mine, obviously, fuck knows whether all you lying zombies have them
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Replying to @chaosprime @smudgie_buggler and
You're denying the obvious at this point. If you stop believing the Earth is flat, then the belief the Earth is flat no longer exists. And vice versa. If you stop imaging a cube and start imagining orange, then the cube ceases to exist.
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Replying to @Alrenous @smudgie_buggler and
sure, and the fact that i'm experiencing things depends on neither my believing i am doing so nor me imagining myself to do so
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Replying to @chaosprime @smudgie_buggler and
Contradicted by the fact you sleep.
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Replying to @Alrenous @chaosprime and
If experience isn’t occurring while asleep, who’s doing the sleeping? Not “me” - I’m necessarily conscious.
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Replying to @smudgie_buggler @Alrenous and
experience is happening, you just don't remember it very well, and some of us learned object permanence but didn't generalize
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this is one of the ways you can tell that your memory is sited in your cognition, not your consciousness, incidentally, if that needed demonstration
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