I think the problem with this argument has been pointed out to you before: I could make the same case for the pistol shrimp and say that it is an onto...
I'm really surprised to hear you say that, I've seen you explicitly invoke obviousness several times to defend your views. Here is a very clear exampl...
Rather than fear of religion or the cultural hegemony of materialism, I think your biggest problem is that you think that your view is obvious. I thin...
This isn't obvious to me at all. I see doubt only as a kind of abstract epistemological "move", similar to a move in chess. It isn't something inheren...
Why is that? I know the term "doubt" is sometimes used to refer to an emotional state, but here I think it just means demanding justification for a pr...
That seems like an over-interpretation, all the cogito says is that in order to doubt you have to think and in order to think you have to be real, thu...
This would surprise me, I believe that as AI develops and we continue to be confronted with the counterintuitive strengths and weaknesses of its vario...
Intelligence is and always has been an anthropocentric concept, it is really just an arbitrary cluster of abilities which have strong correlation in n...
It sounds like what you're looking for is a poetry circle. The point of a philosophy forum is solving philosophical problems through cooperative effor...
Everyone has a preference for parsimony, until it's their turn to put something on the chopping block. I'm starting to suspect you're not taking me en...
At the very least, no qualitative experience. I think only the Churchlands would be brutal enough to propose we get rid of the concept of experience i...
A preference that can't be justified has no place in a discussion. In this case the justification for eliminativism would be parsimony. But of course....
But this is exactly what I mean, harsh words to cover up the lack up substance in the reply. There is no need to argue anything if you can just insist...
I can't speak for other people but I found it quite provocative at first glance, and to his credit @"Wayfarer" still gives substantial responses to ot...
There is nothing arrogant about advancing clear arguments. And I ever said his approach was humble, I said his claim was humble. Meaning: trivial, unc...
I'm sure that's true, but it isn't obvious to me from the OP or from what I've read in your other posts. The proposition that "reality is created by t...
The way I see it conceptualization per se is not even an ability or a behavior, it's an abstraction that only makes sense in a particular context. It'...
I can't imagine why anyone would want to deny animals even a minimal amount of intelligence. I have to stress I don't believe that conceptualization i...
But isn't that a form of metaphysical realism? And is this "collective consciousness" how you conceptualize reality? If so, what does it signify? Is i...
Well it's impossible to give you a specific example of pre-conceptual reality, because that itself would involve conceptualization. But I think it is ...
I think that is a very strange claim, why are the use of concepts necessary for perception? I would not invoke conceptualization for any reason other ...
So are you just making the trivial claim that reality can be observed and conceptualized in different ways, or for that matter observed without being ...
Thank you, I'm sorry for leaping in without due diligence. Is there any term you would accept as referring to what we observe prior to generating prop...
Maybe you would have better luck if you were to say that all animals observe the same reality instead of saying they observe the same "things", since ...
It doesn't surprise me to hear you say that! My entire problem with your view as on philosophy is that it makes discourse pointless. To make progress,...
That is strange, because asking that question involves a lot of presuppositions, chiefly that there are better and worse ways of living. So it seems a...
I'm sorry for implying that, it's just how I've personally always seen it. Philosophy is of course an activity, people might have different goals in d...
Yes sorry, I didn't see that at the time. What matters to me though is that it's a reasonable question to ask. In other words the believer and the dou...
In this case a more innocent framing would perhaps be that Janus is asking questions because he doesn't understand what you mean? The way I see it, wh...
To me he very clearly implies it, but I guess I can't insist on my own interpretation. This is such a strange way of framing what you're doing. Of cou...
Well here is a critical difference in what Conze is saying and what Plato is saying: Whatever happened to the "rare and unordinary faculty" of perenni...
Thank you, but does the additional context modify the meaning of the quote in any relevant way? Well I'd like to discuss his text, so let's not put hi...
I'm having a really hard time telling if this is your interpretation of Conzes text or just you laying out your own opinions. I think Conze makes it v...
Ok, well, I understand now that is what you believe, but it really is not what I think Edward Conze is saying in the text you quoted. He is talking ab...
This is not at all what I took Conze to be saying in your quoted text, the so-called sages here are not "teachers", they can't teach you the truth any...
Yes there is clearly a problem with putting so much faith in a "charismatic" authority, but aside from that it's possibly the bleakest thing I've ever...
The analogy holds, any contest or hierarchy we've ever used to put ourselves above other beings has also been of our own invention. To my mind it's re...
It seems a bit self-congratulatory to invent a concept (like "value", "meaning", whatever) and then pat ourselves on the back for being the only anima...
Obviously when a guy like Dawkins denies "design in nature" (if he ever did), he is talking specifically about biological lifeforms, even if technical...
What is "these sorts" referring to here? Eliminativists do not reject 2+2=4 or other mathematical a priori stuff, that sort of thing is not in doubt h...
I didn't realize the bar was set so high, so then all it takes is for someone to claim that they can conceive of something being false, and it ceases ...
I'm not sure exactly how you make the distinction between "basic/core" and "regular" (historical popularity maybe?), but those ideas of space and moti...
The problems of phenomenal consciousness are to begin with the result of tension between different intuitions. It's like you have a bunch of witnesses...
In my opinion, your thinking here is the result of rationalizing (as opposed to explaining) animal behavior in comfortable terms. The mechanisms of fe...
Conceptually at least, it seems we could not be further apart on the issue of perception. I believe we can only perceive the world as it is and argued...
Maybe not but it's helpful that you brought it up explicitly. Reading this thread I really felt like I was missing the point of what people were discu...
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