Don Salmon
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Very interesting, many fascinating points, but also much misunderstanding of the nature of IQ tests and their relationship to the question of "intelligence."
As a clinical psychologist (full disclosure - with an IQ above the one mentioned in the post) who has administered over two thousand IQ tests, AND conducted research on various topics, I can tell you, the one thing for certain (apart from the near-universal replicability crisis in psychology) is that psychologists to date have no conception as well, obviously, no way of measuring any kind of 'general" intelligence (no, the "g" factor does NOT represent general intelligence)
IQ does, however, measure a certain kind of "intelligence," which one might refer to... (read more)
One could write this entire essay and substitute the word "physical" and it would actually mean something.
On the other hand, as used by the writer, "Magic" has no meaning.
In striking contrast to using "magic" in a meaningless way," and using "physical" as physicalists use it - which is more than meaningless but rather, a statement of pure, blind belief - without consciousness there would be no writer no net, no universe - at least, no knowledge of it.
Do you have a definition of the word "physical" as used in physicalism?
I arrived at your page because I was looking for a way to talk to people about the difficulty of knowing if you’re awake or dreaming. Almost everyone assumes it’s quite obvious - dreams are, well, dreamy, details aren’t filled in, etc. It seems to me that none of the arguments I hear against solipsism would be helpful in the solipsistic state of false awakenings.
It seems that most people are not familiar with the experience of repeated false awakenings (that is, you “wake up” and assume you’re awake, but something odd happens and you realize you were still dreaming; in a series of such false awakenings, it may happen 4, 5 or... (read more)