As I said, we are talking about science. In science there is not defeatist or non defeatist, optimism or non optimism. Science is made by scientific p...
Science is not made by respect or value. It doesn't matter how famous or respectable these people are. Science is made by experimental evidence, clari...
The question is very simple: 1) either such a definition does not exist 2) or it does not exist. If 1) then I am right, if 2) then I would like to kno...
It is a complete nonsense that science is doing all over the world, for the following reasons: a full and complete definition or concept of consciousn...
You are mixing scientific understanding and philosophical understanding. Science is based on experimental evidence and is never ultimate, philosophica...
We get the very idea of being evolved from its very properties and mechanics from the very fact of being inside our being evolved from its very proper...
That's exactly the reason why we cannot trust our understanding. The very concept of "understanding" is undermined by the fact that we try to understa...
It is because, by saying it, we put us as a reference point to understand the universe: by saying that the universe has intelligence, the reference po...
It seems to me that in the background of this discussion there is the idea that intelligence and consciousness are extremely important elements of the...
Actually it is quite problematic. Some years ago I think I discovered a paradox I called Angelo Cannata’s paradox, since I haven’t found it anywhere e...
I agree that we cannot get rid of categories and ideas based on objectivity. It is just impossible. The problem is how to make a fruitful relation bet...
A consequence of what I said is that it is impossible not only to understand how it is being like a bat, but actually it is impossible to me to unders...
We shouldn’t confuse enhanced perception with the basic phenomenon of subjectivity. Of course perception can be enhanced by knowledge. For example, if...
They don’t have the slightest idea of what they are talking about. From a scientific point of view, there is nothing to explain, everything is already...
Wow! At this point, the only thing I can do is to bow to the immense wisdom of those high level people. As they say in an Italian comedy “with my face...
That’s why the problem of evil is not a metaphysical one: you cannot prove metaphysically that either good or evil exist, because they depend entirely...
The historical - cultural context of the biblical text you quoted has nothing to do with metaphysics. In that context the relationship with God was pe...
I think what you quoted is still different from what I mean. It seems to me that Evan Thompson deals with phenomenology and emotions by using an analy...
Yes, that is actually the core question, I think. My perception is that philosophy today is going to be stuck either in being a copycat of science, or...
Of course they are subjective: are you able to think of them without automatically conditioning them with your brain? In other words: are you able to ...
The contradiction is not in me, it is in the idea of truth. My reasoning starts from adopting the idea that truth exists and then I show that this ado...
I don’t think so. Establishing that the purpose of philosophy is establishing truths and knowledge means that these reference points will be treated a...
I think that one of the hardest difficulties that both philosophy and science have met in their history is when they said “Of course!” about anything....
I think the OP has nothing to do with any religious or spiritual doctrine about karma; I think it is rather a very philosophical question, but it crea...
Whatever happens in pragmatism is always interpreted by us. When you see that a watch works, you can predict its behaviour and you can build more watc...
Yes, I was a bit surprised by this question: didn’t the very term “metaphysics” come from the name they gave to some Aristotle’s books sorted after th...
A lot of topics would distract from my main point. Let's say that I am interpreting Heidegger my way, or I am drawing some consequences from his philo...
This doesn't change the validity of my criticism. What you said is "I am not talking about my interpretation of the universe, but about the universe i...
I think you are mistaking the map for the territory. The universe is not “set up” in any way. It is us who interpret the universe as universe and buil...
Let’s consider some things. Let’s imagine that you were the only person with blonde hair in the world and in history. Would this make you “the unique ...
You have just built a self interpreting system. As such, it cannot fail, because it is closed. It is a frequent mistake in philosophy. This way you ca...
I agree. When I talk about harsh criticism, I don’t mean interpreting art and heart by science. I mean a kind of serious criticism that can come from ...
There is an essential, potential or actual, mistake, that I have seen made in several stories, videos, accounts, books talking about these things. It ...
I think you have just described, with non technical words, what Heidegger described with more technical ones, by saying that death is the possibility ...
The problem with your reasoning is that you are using the same method used to solve the problem of theodicy. A common answer to the problem of theodic...
You assumed the concept of something, that is free will, for which we have absolutely no evidence, and then you tried to find it in structures and fun...
I am afraid the topic will become too wide now, but maybe it is worth it. Just some notes. I have studied the Bible in the past and now I know that no...
It is not bullshit at all; quite the opposite, it is intention to be serious, academic, scientific. If you ever tried to seriously translate something...
As I said, philosophy wants to go to the roots, to the universal, but in this research philosophy cannot avoid to see that actually it is limited, bec...
Your questions and the fact that this a philosophy forum made me think that you were talking about freewill. But now I can't understand what kind of a...
You seem contradictory: you said that "freedom clearly exists", but you also wrote "Is our liberty the product or effect of causes we don’t control?" ...
From an objective point of view, freedom is impossible to prove. From a subjective perspective we have, as humans, a perception, a feeling like if we ...
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