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Let me suggest a different approach to the question “What can we be 100% sure of?”. It regards mathematics. Suppose you put two coins to the table in ...

Because in his outmoded language he calls it "morality".

As “substance” in Kant's system is one of the categories, there is no connection whatsoever to the “noumenon”. Please refer to the paragraph on “The A...

To be able to communicate in English about Kant's philosophy, I started reading the Critique in an English translation. As my mother tongue is German ...

This would not help us very much, we could even regard advanced forms of AI as something like a homunculus. Awaiting an answer to the question of pers...

I would even say quite the contrary. The possibility and the limits of metaphysics follow from his exposition concerning time, space and consciousness...

Nobody would contradict this and the close connection between brain and consciousness. Nevertheless we would have to find the "ego-neuron" so to speak...

So where in the brain is it located? Kant's argument against materialism was, that we cannot find "unity" in the material world as matter as such is a...

I was impressed by his writings on logic ("Wissenschaft der Logik"). Staring from nothingness ("Nichts") to find that being ("Seyn") without any attri...

This would lead us to a different type of discussion regarding determinism, causality and personal responsibility (ability to have a choice). Maybe I ...

Thank You for Your comment, it might lead to some clarification about what is at stake here. I have to admit my statement (“ there is no way AI could ...

Sadly enough You are right and many a dictator even nowadays proves it. That is why, in democratic systems at least, not a single person alone can mak...

The actual hype regarding AI does not take into account, that it is totally dependent on the type and quality of data fed into it. As the links You pr...

I agree with You. I even think that most of Hegel's writings is not just idle but pompous word tinkle. Nevertheless I find his basic assumption of dyn...

Sorry, if I did that! But still, I suppose that even today's AI can easily do what Alex is able to do. If these are the criteria for intelligence and ...

Of course it is not that simple. But this is just the interesting point about our discussion (for me at least). To come back to the parrot. There have...

AI is comparable to a sophisticated parrot being able to say more than "Hello" and "Good morning". But in the end it just mindlessly spews out what ha...

I am no anti-materialist at all, but I cannot see how we can maintain, that consciousness is not a mere by-product of occurrences in the physical worl...

But just think of the film "Matrix". In principle we could connect a computer to all the nerves of a human brain and thus simulate a "real" world. Vir...

This really is quite close to the ideas presented by Kant in his Critique!

Of course You are right! It was meant to be a bit provocative. I could re-formulate my question into: How can You convince someone, who thinks that ph...

And this is not required at all. On the contrary, adherence to a specific philosopher or type of philosophy might even be regarded as an obstacle to t...

But take the signal traveling through the optical nerve for instance. Besides the fact, that it is heavily pre-processed by the retina: where is the "...

Of course in a forum like this it would be surprising, if anyone would admit that he's talking rubbish himself. The lack of esteem in much of the rest...

But why is it nonsense? Maybe You can explain it to me. Otherwise I can take it only as subjective opinion and further discussing nonsense does not in...

What do You mean by "really existent things"? That term is exactly what is at stake here. Not many people would earnestly doubt the real objective exi...

Interesting objection indeed. Would You not say a dream is of Your own making? And as long as You dream is it absurd to say You live in that dream?

If You can omit the notion "atom" at all, I am quite familiar with Your idea. An oxygen atom, for instance, is then only a bundle of laws, or as I wou...

The formulation for this discussion has been chosen to be a bit provocative on purpose. The question which laws are meant has not even been touched. T...

But should laws not refer to something? Law itself being nature sounds, for me at least, a bit inconceivable.

I quite agree to Your interesting contribution. In the German language "to invent" translates into "erfinden". "Finden" i.e. "to find" is actually par...

I am glad You mentioned this. It might be considered weird, that someone describing his philosophy as “transcendental idealism” writes a paragraph cal...

Sorry, if my remarks have led You to think I am antirealist. If being a realist means to believe in the objective reality of the world surrounding us,...

Indeed, that is the case. But philosophy might be considered as an attempt to understand why we can know what will happen (if at all). Newton's laws o...

Just imagine someone living in the Middle Ages, believing the earth was the center of the universe. Such a person lived actually in a different world ...

Sorry, that You can see these questions as mere 'maundering'. I am interested in serious discussion, so, if You can, come up with something less idle ...

The expression was chosen deliberately, I could have used 'obey' as well. The implicit question here is: what is the difference between the so-called ...

I am pretty sure that almost all of us will agree to the assertion that a concept (model) referring to a thing (phenomenon) is not this thing (phenome...

This is exactly the question. To Bertrand Russell we owe a nice bon mot regarding causality: The farmer's wife calls her chicken every day 'put, put, ...