In a way, the 'hard problem' is IMO a form of a more general problem that arises when it is assumed that one can have a complete knowledge of anything...
I believe that d'Espagnat brillantly explains how we can understand an epistemic interpretation of QM (and how such an interpretation is compatible, i...
I do not deny that the interaction ends the isolation of the system. But such loss of isolation doesn't remove superposition. So, my question is: in y...
I do not think that anyone is proposing an ontological difference between the device and the system. Both are physical/natural. But this is exactly th...
I always wondered why people seem to miss this point. Experimental devices, computers and so on aren't different from, say, a mechanical calculator. A...
Well, I agree with Kant that knowledge in mathematics and logic is 'a priori'. In fact, I would even say that some knowledge of those domains is a pre...
Ok, yes, I agree with that. Logical and mathematical knowledge are of a different kind of, say, empirical knowledge. But even in mathematics, we can h...
Fair enough. But I believe that, perhaps, the fact that our knowledge is 'contingent', as you say, means it is incomplete. In a sense, we know nothing...
To make an analogy in physics. No measurement device is 'perfect' but we know that all of them are imperfect and we also know that some are more or le...
Ok, but for me unless it is 'proven' that we can't know, we should seek. YMMV Right! However, to philosophy's credit, in a sense, it is less easy to k...
I see two unexplained assertions here: that there is a 'given' and that such a 'given' can be arranged. Now, it is one thing to say that we might not ...
Here you are assuming that space is mind-independent. There is no need to do that for a 'realist' IMO. To make a crude analogy... think about the Matr...
OK. IMO they share a lot in common, but you are right. Interesting. But isn't this a form of 'transcendental realism', though? I mean, if we can disti...
Yes, I agree. This might explain intersubjectivity. But IMO this is only part of the story. I believe that we are in good agreement that the 'phenomen...
Well, if the structure of our cognitive faculties share a lot of properties, then the structure of pur experience is similar. But it is a bit of a str...
Interesting, will read! Perhaps. I know that there are some technical difficulties for de Broglie Bohm's extensions to QFT but I am not competent enou...
Ok, but IMO the classical analogy you propose misses the fact that the there is a change in the 'state' of the system by not detecting it. This is qui...
Sorry for the delay! Been busy! For me the problem with this 'variant' of Kantianism is that it can only explain the form of appearances, not that the...
There are also Interaction-free measurement, which IIRC do not seem to require a direct interaction between the system and the measurement apparatus a...
Thanks for the Bitbol reminder! In any case, as I said, I believe the great merit of epistemic idealism (of whatever form) is to remind us that the mi...
Yeah, I agree. That's one of his weak points. But I would also say that his 'immaterialism' by no means implies nominalism. In fact, I would even say ...
One might ask, however, how one that endorses an 'idealist' position that flatly denies the existence of some kind of material substratum can explain ...
It is not surprising IMO. Logical positivists actually are the result of a tradition that goes back to the Empiricists in the Enlightenment, especiall...
I agree! I would add that then those ideas are also present in the minds of humans (and other created spirits) when the latter percieve the former. An...
In many contexts physical and material are synonyms. Asserting that a mental content is 'physical' can be potentially misleading. I do understand why ...
Yes, I agree that Berkeley's target were secular materialists of his day. But IMO he used the empiricists' arguments (e.g. Locke) to show that phenome...
Agreed. Wheeler, Bohr, Dirac etc were all ambiguos. One feels like they didn't want to assign mind a role but it is not too difficult to see it as an ...
When one begins to say that 'measurement' is not a name for 'any physical interaction' (like RQM for instance does) but to mean something more complex...
IIRC John Wheeler is a good example of how sometimes physicists themselves provide writings that can be difficult exercises of exegesis, so to speak. ...
The problem is if you claim that the reality beyond/prior to phenomena is completely unknowable you have either to accept (i) that the activity of the...
Yes, according to Berkeley phenomena are mere appearances. There is nothing 'more' than 'what appears' to the mind. But notice that Berkeley explained...
Yes, I agree. I was questioning if with NDEs we get the same degree of agreement that we can, confidently, assume that people witness the same 'experi...
IMO not just for that reason, but also because he had to explain how 'classicality' arises. Ok. I thought that he said that a thing can't measure itse...
@"Sam26", I also find NDEs fascinating and I am interested in your research. Quick question... NDE reports show a remarkable convergence of 'themes' a...
No worries, as I myself said it is a quite secondary issue. Even if there is a counter-intuitive increase of number of 'bases' it is not a problem, I ...
Ok, I see thanks for the clarification. To me, however, all this means that Nietzsche believed in some 'objective' morality of some sorts. If there ar...
Yeah, I was just wondering if their magnitude is small 'enough' after measurement/interaction. Some years ago, I read that there was some debate on th...
Well, sort of what you say about Schopenhauer. By 'voluntarism', I mean a position that gives prominence to the will. So, for instance, the mere abili...
Yes, I think so. Probably it is because also I am muddlying the waters lol. Anyway, my contention is that if the interference terms are too significan...
Also, for the 'voluntaristic' part, I disagree but I admit that his voluntarism is quite strange as he questions the existence of the 'agents' that wi...
Or perhaps... it shows that it is approximately true. As I said, I think we have to just agree to disagree here. For me it is OK to say that some unde...
Right. But what is the 'basis' of the 'better' or the 'worse'? Here's what, for instance, Nietzsche said in Beyond Good and Evil, 259: So, it seems to...
Ironically, in a sense the problem is the opposite, i.e. he still 'reifies' too much things and leans toward a physicalism that is not very compatible...
Thanks for the clarification. This is a questionable premise. Scientific evidence, in fact, suggest that life 'in general' will end. But I am open to ...
Ok! Ok. But notice that religions that accept samsara generally posit some kind of transcendence of the transitoriness, suffering, death present in it...
I feel that we are going to have to agree to disagree here. Perhaps there are no isolated systems but the law of conservation of energy had been incre...
Yes. In order to get definite outcomes without interference you need that axiom (or some modifications of the mathematical apparatus of QM as in dBB) ...
Also, if death means the definitive separation between people that are dear to us, the rational way to process the separation is with grief. Because b...
Yeah, I see that I also went on to comment excessively on Nietzsche's philosophy. Anyway, in the first paragraph of my response I pointed out that, in...
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