Hello Janus, A ‘hard problem’ in philosophy of mind is an irreconcilable problem for the metaphysical theory in question, whereas a ‘soft problem’ is ...
Hello Philosophim, Absolutely no worries my friend! I can relate to the conceptual bubbles between physicalist and idealist metaphysics (regardless of...
Hello 180 Proof, I appreciate your elaboration: let me try to understand it better and respond hopefully adequately. Although I may be misunderstandin...
Hello 180 Proof, As I already elaborated, it isn’t a form of pansychism (unless you want to clarify that you mean a vague, superficial etymological de...
Hello Philosophim, You would have to define what you mean by “observer”: I don’t use that terminology. I would say that the tree exists as a part of i...
Hello creativesoul, I appreciate your response! I agree that if the hard problem isn’t actually a hard problem then there physicalism would be a much ...
Hello schopenhauer1, I totally understand your concerns here: they perfectly valid. My response would be to note that analytic idealism is meant to ex...
Hello Fooloso4, It is true that an unsolved problem which can be theoretically solved under a metaphysical theory is not to say that it cannot be solv...
Hello Philosophim, Wonderful analysis as usually! As I think that the root of our dispute is the hard problem of consciousness, I am going to briefly ...
Hello Mww, I appreciate your response! I am familiar with what Kant said were the categories, but I have never understood the proof for it. I don't se...
Absolutely: let me explain. Pansychism, in the literature, although the word etymologically means "all" + "soul", is reserved prominently for a family...
I appreciate your response! Thank you! I really appreciate that. I am still thinking over my metaphysics and so I am interested to hear everyone's opi...
Hello Fooloso4, No; and neither does analytical idealism. The universal mind is not something we can personify: the cognition, deliberation, and meta-...
Hello Philosophim, No. The concept of “reality” is the sum total of existence (i.e., of being), just like how “substance” is the concept of a type of ...
Hello Manuel, I appreciate your response! That is why I distinguish “physicalism” from “materialism”: the former is more generally the notion that eve...
I would like to clarify that analytic idealism is not a form of pansychism: I do not hold that reality is fundamentally matter that has consciousness ...
Hello Chistoffer, I appreciate your response! I believe that is essentially the case when it comes down the micro-micro level (i.e., quantum mechanics...
Hello Fooloso4, I appreciate your response! Under analytical idealism, the entirety of reality is fundamentally mind and is thusly conscious: not just...
Good to see you again Philosophim! I really appreciate your response! As a disclaimer, I am still working through my metaphysics so I am just as curio...
Very interesting: so, to you, a moral judgment can exist without being true or false and whether it is true or false can be later provided by a will? ...
That's fair. The "mental causation" would be simply reasons that determined a choice (to some extent) whereas "physical causation" would be the intera...
Interesting. "Causality", as far as I have heard it used in the literature, is the idea of how material objects interact with each other or how mind-i...
I think this is a fair assessment of what is considered in the literature moral naturalism, but when I look at the actual metaethical theories thereof...
Hello Moliere, I apologize for the belated response! I want to clarify that my commitment to fixating upon what is of my nature is not itself an objec...
Hello Mark S, I apologize for the belated response. Because that is what (I think) “objectivity” means: a proposition whereof its truthity is will-ind...
Hello unenlightened, I apologize for the belated response. I am failing to understand the relevance of this claim, nor what “necessary” vs “objective”...
Hello unenlightened, I think you have missed the point if you are asking for an actual example (as opposed to theoretical). You claimed that society c...
Hello Moliere, I wouldn’t say it is the root of our dispute (as I don’t even think their view has any objective morality in it but I would concede it ...
Hello Unenlightened, I respect and appreciate you attempting to explain your moral realist view from my conceptual schema! If you would like, then ple...
Hello Count Timothy von Icarus, Thank you for the elaboration on Bernardo Kastrupt’s “The Idea of the World”! I cannot say I have read it, but I will ...
Hello Mark S, Thank you for the elaboration: let me try to adequately respond. The problem I have with your syllogism is that the conclusion does not ...
Hello unenlightened, I think this is false: everyone does not pretend Santa (or perhaps you meant Jesus?) exists in an analogous sense to the morality...
Hello Invicta, I appreciate your response! Interesting, I am not that familiar with hegel (as I found his books incredibly poorly written and hard to ...
Hello 0 implies everything, That is a fair assessment. I don’t really consider myself making a standard ontological argument for idealism because I am...
Hello Mark S, To me, cultural moral norms are inter-subjective: why do you think they are not inter-subjective? I see it analogous to economic value: ...
Hello enlightened, I think you may have misunderstood my counter-example or perhaps I didn’t explain it well enough: it isn’t that faking objective mo...
Hello Darkneos, To be honest, I don’t think this conversation is very productive. You aren’t actually contending with my claims at all; but I am going...
Hello Mark S, I am understanding you to be saying here that we are heavily coerced by sociological factors (i.e., “cultural moral norms” as you put it...
Hello Unenlightened, My confusion lies in the fact that you say “honesty is moral and dishonesty is immoral” because it cannot go the other way around...
Hello unenlightened, But doesn’t this fundamentally break your previously claim? Or am I misunderstanding? As far as I understood, you were claiming s...
Hello Darkneos, If by “inner life” you mean “qualia”, then you are correct—but what are you contending with in my argument? That is what I said too. A...
Hello unenlightened, Fair enough: I didn’t fully understand what was meant by “immoral realism” until now. I can see that, but I am hesitant to say th...
Hello Banno, I see. I don’t think that is a good use of the term ‘moral realism’ because it fundamentally shifts the focus from the sole purpose of me...
Hello Darkneos, I think we may need to dive into what a PZ actually is in terms of its definition. To keep it simple for now, I am going to just use t...
Hello Mark S, Thank you for your response! I suspect we may be misunderstanding each other, so let me try to explain back to you what I am understandi...
Hello Unenlightened, I am familiar with the story; however, it isn’t relevant (I would say) to the example I gave. Take our conversation right now: yo...
Hello Darkneos, I think we are misunderstanding each other, so let me try to explain in more depth (and let me know where you disagree). When I was sa...
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