Hello Tom Storm, Analytic Idealists, like any other world view, can become dogmatic: some of the things that Kastrup says about physicalism I disregar...
Hello Mww, Which three? Principle of non-contradiction, excluded middle, and identity? Representation are within our heads: they are perceptions; but,...
Hello Fooloso4, I apologize: that was a typo—it was supposed to say “so of course we should not...”. I was meaning to agree with you on that. I agree ...
Hello Mww, Correct. I consider it a neo-schopenhauerian view. Schopenhauer claimed that there are four modes of the PSR: mathematical, motive, reason,...
Hello Tom Storm, Good question: I think it would be a ‘mind-at-large of the gaps’ iff it was a soft problem for physicalism. However, since it is prov...
Hello Alkis Piskas, I apologize Alkis! If you would like, then perhaps asking me questions about it might help further the conversation. I will do my ...
Hello Foolos4, I think we will have to just agree to disagree at this point, as I don’t see how to further the discussion without circling back around...
Hello Mww, Sure thing. To put it briefly: Analytic Idealism is the idea that reality is a mind-at-large (i.e., a universal mind) and that is the brute...
Hello Tom Storm, I think that it is a good hypothesis for explaining the soft problem of decomposition, but I don’t think there is enough evidence to ...
Hello Alkis Piskas, You said: Which implies (unless I am misunderstanding) that you think that my term ‘mind-independence’ refers to an existence of t...
Hello Fooloso4, Correct. This doesn’t negate the fact that one can explain the whole by reduction to its parts and the relationship between those part...
Hello creativesoul, How is any of that word salad? Can you give an example? By ‘organ’, I am referring to the physical, biological, functional part of...
Hello Mww, I am not afraid of being wrong. I would rather understand everyone’s perspectives even if it negates my own. Analytic idealism is neo-schop...
Hello CreativeSoul, Fair enough, let me try to elaborate on those terms. From an analytic idealist’s perspective, one’s organs that correspond to thos...
Hello Alkis Piskas, I mean that it is independent of any mind, not just ours. I mean that if the world is mind-independent, then there is a hard probl...
Hello Fooloso4, I think you are forgetting or misunderstanding that the parts themselves don’t completely constitute the reductive explanation. When o...
Hello Mww, I really appreciate your elaboration, as it appears I may not have understood Kant as well as I originally thought I did. Let me pick your ...
Hello Fooloso4, I don’t see how this helps your case that physicalism doesn’t dissolve into reductive physicalism. The pile of parts of an engine does...
Hello Alkis Piskas, There is an external world that my mind is representing: either that world is mind-dependent or mind-independent. If it is the lat...
Hello Mww, But under Kantianism the mind is producing space and time (being synthetic a priori), is it not? Perhaps you have a neo-kantian view, but I...
Hello Sime, “perception”, under analytic idealism, is an evolved faculty of higher conscious life forms: it is the ability for a life form to represen...
Hello Manuel, I see. Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism would postulate that we are truly one mind but we only have phenomenal access to our own mentally bec...
Hello Fooloso4, I outlined an argument for why I do know this. I am unsure as to why you said this: it is unproductive. I already addressed this in th...
Hello Fooloso4, I fear as though we may be slightly speaking past each other, so I am going to try and slow things down. When I claim that reductive p...
Hello Alkis Piskas, I am unsure as to whether the fact that plants retain memories, to some extent, qualifies them as perceptive. If that does qualify...
Hello Mww, Thank you for the elaboration! Space and time is the aspect of every theory that I find unsatisfying (and so I am still working through how...
Hello Alkis Piskas, Thank you! I will take a look! I apologize: I wasn’t trying to scrutinize your view but, rather, provide clarification in relation...
Hello TheMadMan, I believe I followed: essentially the eternal and formless mind is expressed within the forms of space and time, correct? If so, then...
Hello Fooloso4, I apologize: I didn’t understand what you were asking. I didn’t really have a problem with what Chalmer’s was saying because I was int...
Hello Janus, I see. Let me try to clarify a bit. The idea is not that we know of the thing-in-itself from an intellectual seeming (i.e., intuition) bu...
Hello creativesoul, It is the subjective perceptions that collectively makeup your life. It is your feelings (e.g., feeling pain), tastes (e.g., the s...
Hello creativesoul, Where is the contradiction in the quotes of mine you mentioned? They both claim that physicalism cannot account for qualia. I am c...
Hello creativesoul, I disagree: it can’t account for it at all. The fact that the brain interprets the world mechanically in this manner and that thos...
Hello Mww, I just mean what is the case for it? What do you mean by it being an internal affirmative logical consistency? I don’t think it is necessar...
Hello TheMadMan, I see. Although I am not sure I entirely understood your post yet, let me try to adequately respond. Although I am not entirely sold ...
Hello Alkis Piskas, I am not sure I am familiar with a term that means a hybrid view of rationalism and empiricism; but, then again, I would need you ...
Hello Janus, Good question: no. I agree that there is a reality which transcends your and my mind (i.e., our experience as conscious beings), but that...
Hello Foolos4, I didn’t find anything I disagree with in the quote from Chalmers you made: was there something in it you thought is a problem for my v...
Hello Fooloso4, What you described here is a purported soft problem of consciousness, which would, indeed, be expected (under physicalism) to be expla...
Hello Mww, I am just hesitant to say that our minds interpret the mentality in hypothetical judgments. I am not saying it is wrong, I just don’t see w...
Hello Alkis Piskas, Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I see: are you an idealist? This is fair: idealism’s weak point prima facea is that it doesn’...
Hello TheMadMan, I agree that metaphysics is meant as an good general theory, and not absolute truth. I don’t think our mind works materialistic: I th...
Hello Sime, I appreciate your response! I had a hard time understanding what you were conveying, as I think we just use terminology differently, so le...
Hello Janus, If I am understanding you correctly, then I would answer that they are ‘connected’ in the sense that they are perceiving the same objecti...
Hello Creativesoul, Fair enough my friend! To formulate the question in a manner to avoid any anticipated misunderstandings, I would like to clarify s...
Hello Alkis Piskas, I appreciate your response! I suspect most people on this forum are physicalists or at least not idealists (; Any thoughts you may...
Hello Fooloso4, I am unsure as to what you mean here: could you please elaborate? The hard problem of consciousness is absolutely a metaphysical probl...
Hello Mww, To be honest, I still can’t say confidently that I see how those are the categories of ones mind (in the sense that it produces phenomenal ...
Hello Christoffer, Firstly, I wanted to thank you for the wonderful post! I can tell you put a lot of thought and effort into it: I respect that and a...
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