Weidong Lee

Consciousness research Advocate of reductionism and physicalism

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A beautiful sight

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@JylkkaJussi Partly true. Just like we can’t cross the same river twice. But there must be something not unique, so that we can perceive the same “blue”.

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@JylkkaJussi A process is more than atoms, static atoms and dynamic atoms are not identical.

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@JylkkaJussi There are a thousand panpsychisms in a thousand panpsychists's eyes. So are the other '-isms'. May be there is no misconception, just opinions about some of them.

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A question for panpsychist and materialist: If A punched B in the face, is there 'SOMETHING' happened/existed beside A and B? Should this SOMETHING be the fundamental feature of the universe? or be matter?

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@JylkkaJussi When does consciousness start? same question again!

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@JylkkaJussi It CAN be true, but not necessary, just like ether in physics, it can't help in understanding consciousness.

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@JylkkaJussi Yes! more precisely, consciousness is process of energy exchange.

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Consciousness is similar to wind in some ways. Does the wind exist? yes. Is the wind simply equal to (air) molecules? not exactly(consider wind and air). Does the wind always exist? no, it's temporary.

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@JylkkaJussi Atoms are somewhat different with experiences, since experience comes and goes, but atom seems to be always there.

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@JylkkaJussi I think it would be "existence".

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@JylkkaJussi I think the question should be asked like this: mental is made of what kind of existence? Then, existence can be classified into what kinds, matter? fields? processes of doing work? If these are the all alternatives, I would pick up the third.

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@JylkkaJussi Take electric current(a process of energy exchange) for example, it's charge particles flow in electrostatic field, current is a kind of existence that distinguish from charge particles(another kind of existence, called "matter")

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@_aukai_ @JylkkaJussi I totally agree with you, and follow Searle's definition "Those who believe that consciousness is reducible to matter are called materialist(why I am not a property dualist)"

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When you failed to convey your ideas exactly, you may feel like the narrator of The Little Prince when he showed his first drawing to the grown-ups, and got the reply " Why should any one be frightened by a hat?".

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I would like to thank Google Translate, Baidu Translate, Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary, Oxford Collocations Dictionary, without them, I cannot finish the English writing.

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A reductionistic and physicalistic understanding concerning consciousness - An explanatory framework

https://t.co/T9I4YkWNOK

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My first preprint on @PsyArXiv "A reductionistic and physicalistic understanding concerning consciousness - An explanatory framework".
Any comments would be very appreciated!
https://t.co/2pR0nUmFBK 来自 @OSFramework

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@JylkkaJussi In my opinion, a zombie can be considered as a simulation of a conscious organism, the zombie would "know" nothing and even no "I" in it, but the conscious organism it simulates just like everyone of us.