ACTUAL
CONSCIOUSNESS ON TWITTER
Philosophy = more concentration than science's on
logic of ordinary intelligence: clarity, consistency & validity,
completeness, generality. http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/
1 Is disagreement about
what consciousness is largely owed to talking about different things? Ch 1 of http://tinyurl.com/pqxxbjp
2 Do you fail to get one question
identified from five leading ideas of consciousness? Yup. Ch 2 of http://tinyurl.com/pqxxbjp
3 Do those ideas and other sources
issue in a database about ordinary consciousness? You bet. Ch 3 of http://tinyurl.com/pqxxbjp
4 The summary of the database: our
being conscious is something's being actual? Trust that metaphor. Also Ch 3.
1
Philosophers in hope of rising above themselves tend to repeat themselves. I do
it one more time.
2 Your being
conscious in perception right now is not something that is ABOUT anything,
including a world.
3 It IS a
subjective physical world out there, dependent on the objective physical world
and you neurally. http://tinyurl.com/mzpcxy8
1 The Actualism theory
of perceptual consciousness sure isn’t Naive or Direct Realism, which also
leaves out blasted inner images.
2 Actualism doesn’t
leave perceptual consciousness a mystery. It works to explain the relation with
the objective physical world.
1 A subjective but
physical world, to go back to the other day, isn’t a world in any head.
2 Yours is a transient
world out there, spatial and causal, etc, dependent on both you neurally and
the objective physical world.
3 There being such a
world, subjectively really physical, not any representation of it, is what it
is for you to be conscious in perception.
1 Both these very words
partly about tigers and your thinking via the words are about something –
representative.
2 What is it for
something to be representative? With ‘tigers’ is the short story that it is
caused by tigers? Or, better, evolutionarily caused by tigers?
3 Still a modish theory
with tinge of science. But like much such, hopeless? For a start,
unrepresentative things are evolutionarily caused.
9 What is actual with your perceptual
consciousness now is probably a room out there, nothing else. No
philosopher-stuff at all. Ch 7.
10 Its being actual is,
literally, its being subjectively physical. Characterisics related but
different to those of the objectively physical world. Ch 8.
11 What's actual with
cognitive & affective consciousness is, yes, representations. But not just
representations such as lines of type.
Ch 9
12 Their being actual
is their being differently subjectively physical. That makes them conscious. Ch
10.
13 Upshot. Lovely
literal theory. Criteria met. Dawn broken. Forget Descartes, Dennett, Burge. Be
an actualist. Join the future. Ch 11.
1 The mind-body problem: How can
apparently unphysical consciousness be
effect or correlate of the
physical brain?
2 I bravely say, as some have
before me, that that problem is now
solved. Along with problem of how consciousness has physical effects.
3 Actual consciousness, apparently
unphysical, is really physical but subjectively physical. No mind-body problem.
http://tinyurl.com/pw3g9un
4 Actual consciousness a response
too to Chomsky's challenge about the very idea of the physical and science. http://tinyurl.com/pqxxbjp
5 And to the hopelessness of McGinn, in a way recanted, and the prior
deep pessimism of Tom Nagel. http://tinyurl.com/o3qa5kz
6 And a real end to the doubt or
pessimism about consciousness being a subject for science as well as
philosophy. http://tinyurl.com/pw3g9un
1 Sharp Celia says a string of
numbered propositions some days ago about Actual Consciousness wasn't dead
clear. True. Try again.
2 There's objective physicality,
say the room, and subjective physicality, a room. Counterpart characteristics,
including being outside you.
3 A room more rather than less real
in several senses than the room. Myriad of subjective worlds doesn't make them
phantom worlds.
4 To be is to be perceived? No! The
other way on. Berkeley was wrong. Being perceptually conscious is something's
being out there.
5 Still not dead clear? Try the
book, published this very day. http://tinyurl.com/pqxxbjp
OUP waited 24 years for it.
6 Stuff proved therein? No, only
well judged. That is as much as philosophy as concentration on ordinary logic
allows.
7 So scientists and philosophers if
different are both like judges. Also samely different from judges. Judges have
policemen. Wish I had.
actual consciousness = (0) by
definition something's being actual. I.e. (8) below. Other 11 propositions
below contingent. New. True? Maybe.
actual consciousness = (1)
consciousness in the primary ordinary sense, the core sense, as indicated in a
good dictionary.
actual consciousness = (2) what can
also have an adequate initial clarification, make for one clear question, real
disagreement, not bumble.
actual consciousness = (3) the real
thing, what exists, the genuine article, not as often theorized, say as in
cognitive science.
actual consciousness = (4) what is
current, existing now, occurring there in time.
actual consciousness = (5) what is
real, not as in mind-body dualism back then & abstract functionalism now,
two peas in a hopeless pod.
actual consciousness = (6) what
there is data on, a database, not just apercus or old ideas or all of what
somehow explains behaviour.
actual consciousness = (7) what
science and philosophy can converge on, what is both fact and logic, both fact
and thinking about fact.
actual consciousness = (8)
figuratively speaking in a certain summation of the database: something's being
actual. What? Actuality?
actual consciousness = (9)
literally speaking, analysed, in the best theory: being subjectively physical. http://tinyurl.com/pgas22p
actual consciousness = (10) with
perceptual consciousness, an external fact, a subjective physical world out
there, often a room.
actual consciousness = (11) with cognitive & affective consciousness,
representations-with-attitude, internal, differently subjectively physical.
actual consciousness = (12) theory
that satisfies inevitable criteria, such as the falsehood of epiphenomenalism http://tinyurl.com/kmznsd6
actual consciousness = (13)
a right subject, among others maybe the only absolutely necessary one http://tinyurl.com/pgas22p
The mind-body problem: A careless
or confused name for the problem of how consciousness, not the rest of
mentality, is related to the brain?
The mind-body problem: If you
clarify being conscious, its relation to the brain is boring -- lawful
connection? http://tinyurl.com/pgas22p
Lawful connection: At
bottom a set of conditions, whatever else us happening, still accompanied by
something else. http://tinyurl.com/numwsay
1 Philosophical method like the
scientific method includes transition from the metaphorical to the literal. htthttp://tinyurl.com/odnd7cmp
2 Your being conscious in the core
ordinary sense, to sum up a metaphorical database, is something’s being actual
– actual consciousness.
3 Physicality, the objective
physical world, has specifiable general characteristics, including spatiality,
lawfulness, being in science.
4 Actualism, the literal theory or
analysis of actual consciousness, is that it has different but counterpart
characteristics.
5 Actual consciousness is thus
subjectively physical – consciousness in perception is the existence of a
subjective external physical world.
6 Thinking and wanting, cognitive
and affective consciousness, are internal -- subjectively physical
representations with attitudes.
7 Actualism uniquely satisfies
criteria for an adequate theory, including fully explaining the reality and
subjectivity of consciousness.
Your actual perceptual consciousness of the room? It's
a room out there being subjectively physical. http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ACsumMainWebsiteHTML1.html