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Right. It's the rigorous argument part that makes physicalism difficult, and I erased many paragraphs which had all the caveats expressed because I wa...

A thought in support of physicalism with respect to the mind-body problem: there are physical processes which relate with mind, at least with respect ...

:monkey: ;) While I agree with I wouldn't go that far. The perspective I think of Hegel from is Kant -- I think he's attempting to respond to Kantian ...

005 Super interesting interpretation of the Christian story through Hegel: the notion that Jesus was real, and his death is the second coming that bri...

I think this too clean. I'm uncertain about essential rocks, properties of universal -isms, and processes by which we come to think of universals. Sci...

Ahhhh, my people! May the nerds forever be seen.

I'm interested. My habits are https://discord.com/ based, and I think it might be easier to facilitate with that than Teams. Teams is good for organiz...

The true philosopher-kings: the editors of wikipedia! More seriously I'm not surprised. Philosophy attempts to tie concepts together pretty frequently...

It's cool that he's starting with The Science of Logic because that's where I dropped off last time I seriously pursued reading Hegel. It was just a s...

Got through episode 4 tonight, on true infinity. This is great. He has a clear passion for Hegel and an admirable humility.

These are my usual criteria for selecting philosophers to read ;) I've now listened to episode 1. This should be good to listen to when I'm feeling th...

If the worldview of Scientism dismisses metaphysical reasoning as groundless then I'd say that physicalism is groundless, since physicalism is a belie...

:D Was I physical yesterday? I'm not a committed physicalist, though it's in the territory of my thinking, but I believe if I am physical today then I...

:love: :D I had the same thought at first The one unequivocally beautiful thing in the plains is the sky. I've enjoyed reading the imagery here becaus...

Yes, that's the correct grammar.

We both are. No worries. You can say it -- but I disagree on the basis that yesterday the mountains are as physical as today. So if they are physical ...

I agree here. So we're at least equally confused. I disagree that physical matter is its physical presence. But I also agree with: I hope nothing I've...

We have direct access to the present. In the present I pick up a history book which tells me something about the past. Was JFK physically assassinated...

Heh. Those are some of the choices. Presentism does work. So do the others. How do we decide?

Eh. Only if you're a presentist. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/

The movement Trump is a part of is not finished. It existed prior to Trump incarnating himself as their messiah and is better organized due to his inf...

I certainly fear it, though I don't know what to expect. I was surprised when Trump won. I have no doubt that he could win again, and I have no doubt ...

Time is a great topic. I began to notice differences in conceptions in time when I started getting into historiography. As you note there are many mod...

Time seems as independent as anything else in empirical reality, but if we're talking about transcendental idealism, for instance, then it seems the a...

And so World War 1 does not physically exist?

Fair. No need for argument, and if I'm missing the fundamentals then I have homework to do. Any suggestions on that front? No promises... too many int...

Hopefully more than a word problem, though that's possible. Fossils are a good example. Did they just happen to form, or are they present because they...

I was hoping "moment" wouldn't come under question :D -- purposefully ambiguous, at this point, though inspired by Hegel. Moments have a structure -- ...

I have had many thoughts on this, and it seems to come down to how we want to parse a logic of time. I want to say that the ordered set of events does...

I think we can always resort to "I don't know" or "I am uncertain" or some other sort of negation while simultaneously admitting our strongest beliefs...

I agree the ability to imagine pictures in one's mind is not an exception to physicalism. It's the "I don't have any idea how it's done" part that rai...

No catch -- just self report. Some people report not being able to imagine things. Aldous Huxley mentions it in his The Doors of Perception -- that me...

It'd be interesting if there was some causal correlate to this, and other, abilities or tendencies, wouldn't it? That might constitute a argument for ...

I, personally, can do this -- but not everyone can, though they understand the words.

Right, that's how I understand supervenience. "The plate" is the object with A-level properties, and "Chemical structure", including relative position...

:D -- that's when we're digging into the good stuff, in terms of a conversation at least. I gave it a thought and I can't do so -- but I can imagine t...

I wouldn't commit to that statement. It could be both a way of thinking and a thing in the world. Though I think if causation is real it would be a re...

Short version: Not only can we count on past observations, we can't not think in terms of causation by our very nature. Quote from Hume: But any more ...

I agree -- I don't think scientists are prone to claim this, or that it's necessary for scientific knowledge. Even if the laws remained the same forev...

Cool. Another way to read him is to say that if both Hume is right and science works, then science must not proceed by induction. I don't think he's g...

Notice the difference between "smoking causes cancer" and "The assassination of Franz Ferdinand caused World War I" What is the same between these suc...

Read the words of Hume and awake from your slumbers! You have nothing to lose but your chains! :D Supposing science uses cause, that does not then in ...

I think that it's the generally desired path, but that in terms of science texts that relationship is still being worked out. Not that it's an unreaso...

I agree nothing is lost. Though I want to highlight the possibility of eliminative materialism. This is where the use of texts will become a little tr...

That was a hesitation for myself as well, so upon understanding that we're including those (and, I'm guessing, others like it) that works as a place t...

Oh, no, I wouldn't say it's clear. It seems to me that there are materialisms, even though there's a theme that runs through them. So instead of evolu...

That seems to me to be a uniting theme on materialism -- something, be it qualia, intentionality, mind, or spiritual things, is somehow reduced to or ...

No worries, it's a weird idea to wrap your head around. The economic form was different then so reality was different then. The part that gets weird i...

This notion of the mind not have effects, of the spiritual being reduced to cash-exchanges -- that's what makes this a kind of materialism, I think. M...

Or the other way to read it would be more Marxist -- that you moving to Alaska to be a hunter-gatherer changes nothing about the economic form that al...