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I have experienced that, where time is a dimension. But it raises some serious questions and invites in transcendent realities.

Yes, this is a big and long lasting change and Europe has woken up and will secure their own security and future. But with Trump gone, or muzzled the ...

In this sense we know about this domain, or arena we find ourselves in. But what is that? And is that the world, or effectively a mirror in which we s...

The mid term elections are only a few months away and Trump will only have three years left. I expect the European leaders realise this and that busin...

Yes, but firstly the child in question is either diseased, or has a disorder. So is a person with all the apparatus, but it doesn’t work properly. Ani...

An organism feels.

I’m not saying a tree is in any way conscious as we understand it to be. Which is why I suggest it may be inconceivable to us. But what we could perha...

Thanks for the link. Some interesting ideas about how beings can feel and act independent of a central nervous system.

Yes, I’m not denying that. I was emphasising the importance of mind as body and that different kinds of body have different kinds of experience, uniqu...

This is the nub of the issue, there is an entire perspective, or vista involved in experience which is missing from the objective account. “What it is...

And this Reason can tell us that we, or the animals being discussed, don’t and can’t know anything about the world. Other than what is presented to us...

I quite liked the way the thread had become a peaceful, friendly, discussion about the topic. So I went off peste about the idea of a general theory o...

Those differences don’t preclude what I’m suggesting here. Yes there are many differences even between individuals in a family. But these differences ...

It’s a bit like the idea that a fish in a fish bowl doesn’t know that it’s suspended in water. It doesn’t notice the water, the way that we don’t noti...

I don’t think this is such a big issue (although it may be a stumbling block empirically), yes it’s true that there is no way of making a direct compa...

This is what I was talking about in the other thread, (Cosmos created mind), I am interested in developing ways to break out of this straight jacket. ...

That’s not surprising because I’m in agreement with most of what physicalism says. I was narrowing down what part of existence we know. Existence as a...

(I’m not speaking for Wayfarer, rather saying it how I see it.) It’s not a claim about existence, it’s a claim about our world, the world we find ours...

You speak a lot of sense. I would add that there are likely things we are not aware of about ourselves which are with us at all times rather like the ...

What I’m getting at here is that by examining feasible possibilities, one can see the orthodox explanations in a different light. This helps to develo...

But there’s no reason to assume that it isn’t the case either. It’s a possibility, so having an understanding of what we don’t know helps us to not ma...

I see your point, you could be seeing yourself walking in your mind. But you can also be in ignorance (in the politest possible sense) in your head to...

You two should try a bit of mud wrestling for that (I’m joking). The Greek philosophers enjoyed a bit of wrestling. It seems to me that you are in agr...

Epistemic humility. For me it helps to contextualise the things I do know, by realising how partial it is. Also it helps to remain open minded. Yes, b...

You see yourself standing, walking, listening and talking in the world, don’t you? So surely you can also see yourself not knowing much in the world t...

I understand your parameters and approach to this question, which I agree with. However, what we don’t know looms large to me. And yet you are sort of...

and not knowing much about the world you find yourself in.

Yes people like NOS4A2, don’t realise that it was their involvement in Europe and other spheres around the world which gave the US it’s dominance and ...

I wasn’t referring to indigenous people living in modern civilisation. Rather indigenous peoples prior to their contact with modern civilisation. Yes,...

Universes not causally connected, could include infinite universes entirely different to ours. But which is somehow constrained by human thought. If n...

Drinking the Kool aid again, I see.

D Here’s the rub, it is the fall of man you are describing. When Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, they were leaving their instinctive behaviours ...

The White man is the savage and the Indian is morally superior. The White man has subverted the truth, twisted it around and inflated his ego. While a...

This might need tidying up a bit. You might have left a big hole there for other things to sneak in. I would define natural as everything except what ...

Not a lot. Natural might be code for what humans say about it informed by science and the world of human knowledge. Not very much really, if we are co...

Yes, I agree with your premise, but there are tendencies in our natures which appear to be there from birth for certain people to be disrupters, a ten...

Yes, agreed, which is why in religious and mystical practice this tendency is acknowledged and there is an effort to get past, or around it. Through t...

I think Trump backed down, he really didn’t want to start a war between Washington and New York. He would have lost.

We evolved on the African plains, have you watched a nature documentary about what happens there in a natural setting? Everything is competing to eat ...

Yes, I can agree with that. It does still leave quite a large gap to be filled, though. Which is I suppose what this thread is about. The idea that ph...

I’m not anti-physicalism, I just don’t see aspects of being in the same way. I won’t comment on what Wayfarer is saying about this, as I will almost c...

I don’t believe it, it’s just my preferred explanation*, I don’t hold beliefs. Yes, I am familiar with the interaction problem. I don’t see it as dual...

Yes, I see that. It’s so difficult to tease out these positions. The dualism point, for me depends on where one draws the line. It might be dualism, o...

I think there is a difficulty in depicting the mind in this way. Because the brain is a physical organ. True when it is alive and consciousness it is ...

Sounds good, I do think it’s important to bring emotions into this, which involves the endocrine system of hormones and pheromones. So to put it simpl...

Or they promised not to show the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.

Yes there are some intelligent conservatives. They don’t last long in political party’s these days, they get pushed out by the populists. So those int...

No, that’s omnimpotence.

If we had the means we would certainly create a world, a physical world. I would, wouldn’t you?

You are both describing a philosophical zombie, or a highly advanced AI robot. Neither are alive, or conscious. Where in materialism is this gap addre...