spirit-salamander

First of all, regarding your argument, one must keep in mind that it "can be linked with a realist view of God only via platonic metaphysics, which ta...

@"Bartricks" If it's of interest to you, here's a debate between an idealist (Kastrup) and a panpsychist (Goff): Consciousness Live! S3 Ep 17 -Discuss...

If you know Spanish, there seems to be a full translation at least in the 2014 publication. (2011) Filosofía de la redención (Antología). Santiago: Fo...

@"Bartricks" Since you are an idealist, how would you answer the following tweeted questions from panpsychist Philip Goff? "where do distinct subjects...

I do not believe that two ontologically completely different things can causally interact with each other. When two things causally interact, one must...

Maybe I can explain it now. I think I am assuming that for both the organic (life) and the inorganic (death) the principle applies that the parts are ...

I was inspired by the Shakespeare quote: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." And Spinoza and Nietzsche say something simi...

Lange mentioned the passage I quoted as the overall conclusion of his book at the beginning. That is, his whole book revolves, so to speak, around the...

I think you're right here. When I finished my post and got a lot of feedback, I was wondering which well-known philosopher or even scientist could be ...

I have not yet been able to justify it properly. Here I have tried. It is still half-baked. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/540768 I...

Which is less insane for you: eliminativism (eliminative materialism) or panpsychism? Some say that eliminativism is the most consistent and proper ma...

That would no longer be materialism. I wanted to start as a working hypothesis merely from materialism, which can represent in the end actually a wron...

@"Bartricks" It must also be said that panpsychist discussion and reasoning is still in an early stage of development. Therefore, there may be some tr...

Now I understand you better. You reject materialism in general. And if you are not argumentatively convinced by the rescue attempt of materialism with...

Good question. I don't know. I recommend you google Philip Goff, who does a good job of explaining panpsychism. I was just concerned with the basic id...

Not sure about your first sentence. That's why I had quoted Nietzsche in my original post: "Let us beware of saying that death is opposed to life. The...

Thank you for the appreciation. My intention was to present Mainländer as a legitimate possibility of thought, because he is completely disregarded by...

To the first sentence. In terms of cultural history, people were initially animists. Therefore, one cannot say that panpsychism is counter-intuitive. ...

This is exactly what I want to say: "radical" or "brute" emergence in nature is prima facie a theoretical metaphysical or epistemic problem. Although ...

I can't explain it much better than that. Maybe I can bring the problem closer to you by asking you when you believe that consciousness in the sense o...

It is the consciousness problem, not the mind-body problem. If I believe in materialism, then I assume that I myself am a complex matter entity that h...

@"tim wood" @"TonesInDeepFreeze" @"SophistiCat" @"TheMadFool" Here again is a clarification to my original post. I was first concerned with an ideal s...

Okay, I've realized that I'm wrong here. Thank you very much for all your comments. This is undoubtedly true for humans, I have now come to realize th...

What would that look like exactly?

How would you philosophically explain and describe the probability 1/6 in the dice rolls. What is the 1 here, what is the 6 and what / and how do they...

Why? I actually wanted to say that the probabilities after the first throw change steadily and minimally. So if I rolled 6 on the first roll, the prob...

Any long streak of luck would always be thought of in the context of a larger sequence of rolls. Maybe I roll the 6 a thousand times in a row, but in ...

Is this way off? You can try it yourself at home. Roll the dice 600 times and write down the results. There will be an approximately even distribution...

I find the concept of infinity problematic with the idea of probability. The idea is that at infinity all the numbers on a die have fallen equally. Bu...

But probability cannot completely exclude surety. After all, the surety consists in a certain probability. Let's take the 1/6 probability of rolling a...

Now that I read your distinction and question, I have to think about it again.

I agree with you, and two quotes come to mind: "68. “I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable....

You can also bring in the fringe science here, and say that both always operate within a morphogenetic field (Rupert Sheldrake) that provides unificat...

I like the perspectives of intellectual outsiders. But they often make the mistake of absolutizing their insights, of looking at them monocausally or ...

Good difficult question. Maybe not. Basically, the retina itself is like a small brain and the brain by itself is like a sense that can respond to sti...

Phylogenetically you are right, but ontogentically, concerning humans, maybe not.

I think both the optic nerve and the neurons of the brain belong to the total nervous system of the organism. Because the optic nerve, like the sense ...

This reminds me of the following passage: "It's beginning to look as if everything is made of one substance-call it "quantumstuff"-which combines part...

Okay, from a practical, pragmatic or realpolitik point of view, it doesn't matter how philosophy is taught. The main thing is that real results are ac...

That may be. But nevertheless there are physicists who think so. In any case, there is a controversial discussion about it: From the above linked pape...

Okay, you're right. I was going by what I assumed was a consensus that may have existed in philosophy since Aristotle. In fact, I think if a survey we...

It doesn't have to be seen that way. I have only indirect voices of physicists about the nature of wave fields via the work of the German philosopher ...

I agree with you. My non-existence before my conception was certainly not bad as such, but an eternal state of absolute agony seems really bad to me. ...

Oppy at least made a distinction between methodological and ontological naturalism. The latter could also be called naturism. And the former scientism...

I think it is probably explained in Calvinism that if you have faith and show it or are willing to have it, then you are one of the called ones, some ...

Such statements by Greene as these are philosophically irritating: "If space is now infinite, then it always was infinite. Even at the Big Bang. A fin...

Thanks for the reply, it seems to me then that Brian Greene explanations are very misleading.

Thanks for the clarification. Brian Greene didn't mention that. So if you could create a spaceship that is faster than the expansion of the universe, ...

Nothing wrong, but I think my definition is more accurate.

Only with the addition that those entities can causally act on all other existing entities, and in turn can themselves be acted upon by all others. I ...