Why need this one? I'm merely saying it's coherent, not that it's true or useful. Ideas of non-sports are a prime source of ambiguity anyway.
"Conscious" is something which exists in the actual world. I don't quite understand how it works, but I can rip off that.
Claiming "acasual" to be incoherent assumes casuality in the universe. Casuality may exist in the actual universe, but there is no logical necessity that it must.
To be clear, "conscious" is a label which we slap on certain types of behaviour for certain types of very large, complex machine. Similar thing with "red" - both "consciousness" and "red" are labels we slap on certain features of the universe. Neither of those things are fundamental to the universe.
Are you confusing map and territory?
I'm not sure about this, but presenting it anyway for scrutiny.
I was thinking that it doesn't matter if a concept is undefined, or even cannot be defined, if hypothetically speaking said concept can exist without any ambiguity within it then it is still a tenable concept. The implications, if this is true, would be that it would knock down Quine's argument against the analytic-synthetic distinction.
Your thoughts, Lesswrong?