[ExI] Can philosophers produce scientific knowledge?

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:06 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> For example, can any one give me any examples of ANY peer reviewed "philosophy of mind" claims which are falsifiable?
> That is other than what we are describing in our "Consciousness: Not a hard problem, just a color problem".
> Basically, all the supporters of "Representational Qualia theory", and all sub camps, are predicting that if experimentalists can discover and demonstrate which of all our descriptions of stuff in the brain is a description of redness, only one camp can remain standing, only the one making the correct prediction about the nature of qualia, all others being falsified by such a demonstration.  Stathis, even functionalists must agree with this, right?  In other words, if someone could demonstrate that nobody could ever experience redness if, and only if that redness was glutamate reacting in the correct set of computationally bound synapses, and that if no neuro substitution of any kind, or anything else, could produce even a pixel of conscious redness experience...
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> In other words, what we have is theoretical physical science, each competing camp describing the experiments required to falsify the camps they support.  Doing the actual experiments is now up to the experimentalists, right?
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> With my Ether earnings, I could now afford to fund some significant experimental research to discover this.  Does anyone have any idea of how I might go about funding such experimental work?  Maybe we could help fund some of the work going on at Neuralink or something, along this direction?  Elon once was involved in this list, right?  Any idea how I could propose putting a few $ million towards something like this to Neuralink, or any other neuroscience experimental institutions?

Why not simply read or even just skim the paper? They give examples of
papers from different sciences.

Regards,

Dan