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In: Emergence  — view comment
Just a tiny notice. The terms "order/disorder" are observer depended. ITs not an intrinsic feature that a system can be "based on". The different phas...
March 01, 2023 at 07:20
This great topic demonstrates the instrumental role Philosophy should have in everyday life(reality)...but nobody seems to care about weighing in!(ans...
February 28, 2023 at 21:54
"Egalitarian cause" is an abstract concept. Abstract concepts can not fail. What fails is the process displaying the property described by the abstrac...
February 27, 2023 at 23:40
In Human Behavioral Psychology there isn't such a thing as "A" Human Nature but Human Nature has different expressions. Human behavior is affected by ...
February 27, 2023 at 22:48
That value statement lies on objective criteria. Pseudo Philosophy is: 1.Philosophy that relies on fallacious arguments to a conclusion 2. and/or reli...
February 27, 2023 at 17:45
-you stated , I quote "Philosophy and science are doing two different things." So I pointed out that its not about science vs philosophy, its Philosop...
February 26, 2023 at 18:36
When someone assumes an unobservable untestable ontology in addition to a necessary and sufficient scientific description , then the source of that on...
February 26, 2023 at 16:11
You didn't quote my argument so I am not sure you understood it correctly Correct. Science produces the most credible Epistemology while Philosophy is...
February 26, 2023 at 16:06
ok bert...........
February 26, 2023 at 13:43
-Yes that is his point and I am not saying he is not making that point. I am only saying that his objections are hugely misinformed! All Emergent prop...
February 26, 2023 at 13:42
Well the end of Philosophy came with that "why" question. There is nowhere to go from there. If we embrace the right "how/what" question there is plen...
February 26, 2023 at 02:19
No I have not, I haven't suggested any problems. I am just addressing one of the pseudo philosophical "why" questions of Chalmers's supposedly "hard p...
February 25, 2023 at 22:46
[re First of the content of a metaphysical belief(accuracy) about the nature of the world does not really play any role in our survival. Accuracy is n...
February 25, 2023 at 14:46
Way to many problems in your philosophy, but I think we are done. Thanks for your time.
February 24, 2023 at 19:27
Only the content of our experiences has a subjective quality. The process enabling our conscious experiences is biological thus it is affected by all ...
February 24, 2023 at 18:40
Well if I understand your question correctly the answer should go like this. Being able to experience your environment and what patterns, emotions and...
February 24, 2023 at 15:56
Why not letting science weigh in on this issue? Giving Up on Consciousness as the Ghost in the Machine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81...
February 24, 2023 at 15:29
Again, you are committing a Strawman and a false authority fallacy. I am NOT talking "about him". I am criticizing the obvious teleological error in h...
February 24, 2023 at 10:51
Well its true but its trivial, commonly known as a deepity. Information uses other mediums than i.e. procreation where transferring biological materia...
February 24, 2023 at 07:33
that has nothing to do with logic (or knowledge). That is mostly scientific ignorance. -....there are these things called eyes, ears and mouth which a...
February 24, 2023 at 01:27
Here is some Academic material for those who are interested in updating their philosophy on the topic. Our epistemology on Consciousness is a huge mos...
February 24, 2023 at 01:18
You did the same mistake. You didn't provide definitions! Words don't have intrinsic meaning they have common usages. You will need to define Theory a...
February 24, 2023 at 00:50
That's an argument from false authority fallacy. Reasoning doesn't really have experts . We are all experts on matters of logic as long as we are awar...
February 24, 2023 at 00:41
-Ok I get what you mean by that word, but there is a huge practical problem in that definition. You define consciousness as "awareness of intelligibil...
February 24, 2023 at 00:24
Again you are wrong. First of all I am a Methodological Naturalist. This means that I reject all metaphysical worldviews (materialism/physicalism/meta...
February 23, 2023 at 21:13
-You are wrong. You are trying to make an argument from ambiguity by using lame or specific meanings on both concepts. -" I grant that it's not always...
February 23, 2023 at 21:07
. -The issue here is that the reductionistic approach is not the only tool available to Science so people shouldn't accuse Science for failing to solv...
February 23, 2023 at 19:41
-You shouldn't because it describes an observable fact. A human being can NOT experience a Conscious state without the arousal of this specific brain ...
February 23, 2023 at 19:04
Why do you say that? The first part of my definition is descriptive. If he disagrees then he either refers to a different phenomenon or a specific sub...
February 23, 2023 at 13:28
I will try to break down every single claim in the OP(and some in your article) and ultimately try to explain why most of those "memes" in philosophy ...
February 23, 2023 at 12:45
So are you making an ontological question on the manifestation of reality? Does your argument(or better question) challenges the external source of th...
February 22, 2023 at 19:33
4% Philosophers voted in favor of Idealism. That is alarming especially when those who don't believe in an external world are the "authors" of a poll ...
February 22, 2023 at 08:38
I really don't see how blind people's experiences with sight can be helpful to this question ( whether seeing completely subjective). The answer in my...
February 22, 2023 at 08:12
Started watching your 1st video. Again, right in the beginning there is a huge error. You define your goals, but in your third point you are committin...
February 21, 2023 at 20:48
Just started watching your video(part2 I think)...and right at the beginning you start with wrong premises. You are promoting a strawman that science ...
February 21, 2023 at 20:34
I never said that I figured you out...and I don't need to be a genius to figured you out. I only have to look in the Philosophical Principles (superna...
February 21, 2023 at 20:10
Mark Solmes corrected Descartes's deepity by pointing out "I feel - therefore I am". In his latest Theory on Consciousness he explains how our conscio...
February 21, 2023 at 16:33
So your way of doing Philosophy is by putting up videos containing either pseudo scientific material or pseudo philosophical interpretations on the to...
February 21, 2023 at 16:28
You are off topic. You sound ignorant on the use of Definitions in science and philosophy and you are ignorant on what "theory" means in science. I do...
February 21, 2023 at 13:53
I will try to introduce some meaning to this discussion. You are making claims and arriving at conclusions based on Testimonies WITHOUT first providin...
February 21, 2023 at 08:46
-I should have done the same with your OP because you already decided to ignore the epistemology that really matters and instead present fringe supern...
February 21, 2023 at 08:16
Do you really believe that emotion is the best way to interpret an experience? Really? This is how we end up with stories on ghosts, goblins and UFOs....
February 20, 2023 at 21:46
No because the definition I gave for existence is used in Science. Science is our ultimate "ontological" tool. It has helped us many times to remove e...
February 20, 2023 at 17:52
your inverse view has zero epistemic or philosophical value. As Wolfgang Pauli would have pointed out, its "Not even Wrong". Whether a scientists or a...
February 20, 2023 at 16:09
In: The Self  — view comment
From the top of my head I can direct you to an Academic Mooc explains the fundamental properties of our mind. (1. Awakeness 2.Unconsious Awareness of ...
February 20, 2023 at 15:25
Our existence(self) is one of the aspects of the world we experience. -well you can not study your self without taking in to account your environment....
February 20, 2023 at 15:11
-I guess we agree on that. They shouldn't discount testimonial evidence as "not evidence". They are insufficient evidence until they are evaluated. Th...
February 20, 2023 at 15:00
The central issue ?f Philosophy is the construction of wise theoretical frameworks capable to expand our understanding on all aspects of the world.The...
February 20, 2023 at 10:36
I have to dismiss all NDEs and OBEs claims from being a credible source of knowledge. I don't believe a dying brain deprived from oxygen can be the be...
February 20, 2023 at 09:14
Solipsism is a "Not even wrong" ontological claim. Whether its true or not it doesn't change a thing in how we register and evaluate Empirical Regular...
February 20, 2023 at 08:41