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Fisrt up I want to talk about one role philosophy has in the progress of science - with a view to discovering others. My general position is the dicho...

I'm loathe to fess up to this right now, but I am in fact a bot agorithm so I'm probably not the best one to answer this. More seriously, I need to th...

@"Baden", @"fdrake". Ok, I've made my final attempt in the Philosophy of Science section. Hope it reads ok now. Cheers then.

Yeah, too much brevity can easily sound flippant.

Thanks The next question is function. Should this, or else my former @"name" techinique, alert the named person that there is a message for them?

@"javra" Even as a physicalist I'm not sure either. I can speak from experience that the meditational practices are often difficult and psychologicall...

@"Baden" Ok the full story is that I attempted to initiate this debate in 2 forum categories. One was Science, the other was the Philosophy of Science...

Hi Hey Steve, I agree with half of this physicalist view: Yes for the illusion part. No for its irrelevancy. An illusion? Well, a convenient fiction a...

Hi @"Baden", did you get a chance to read the above post? (the one just above yours there)

To clarify, I think Descartes has to shoulder much of the blame for the confusion. In an extreme bout of scepticism he asserted "I think therefore I, ...

Yeah, what he said! Or at least tentatively.

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines just then. I suppose if one really opts to thouroughly deny the dichotomies of mind and matter, self and world ...

Snowleaopard, Lol, I was a hippie back in the Paleolithic. It wasn't till those yuppy Greeks showed up in the forum that all the arguing started.

Hey snowleopard, While you were replying I just edited that last post and Hippied it up a little more.

I can't say either of you have provided the pat answer I asked for (it's for a T-shirt). But I certainly enjoy your rants.

Now I've been outed as Monist I should really fess up an confess I think the distinction of categories like mind and matter, subject and object are ul...

Hey Wayfarer, I think there are more noble reasons than those to employ a scientific paradigm. If nothing else, I can pave my road to Hell with good i...

Thanks guys, especially @"fdrake". I'm probably only about half as cranky as you think I am. There's certainly no indifference here towards the censor...

Ok I'll look elsewhere answers. Thanks for your time.

Thanks for reply fdrake. I'd still like to know how black holes can exhibit gravity while simultaneously having an escape velocity that exceeds the li...

Hi again jkg20, Just thought over that analogy I gave you. It's no good. The descriptions of both the software and hardware are both external descript...

Hi jkg20 I hesitate to use computing analogies because i don't want to infer that brains operate just like computers. Anyway, if you wanted to sell me...

Wow, this has a few replies already. So is information physical? I find it helpful sometimes to dumb things down. The simplest example of information ...

Hi jkg20, I agree, and don't in fact think there are two realms. Rather, I have some kind of materialist view. You may have mistaken my position from ...

Hi again Wayfarer, The wiki entry on Dennett describes him as one of the 'The Four Horsemen of Athiesm' along with Dawkins etc. - lol. Thanks for outl...

Hey there @Metaphysician Undercover, That was actually me quoting Chalmers there. Sorry about the poor formatting of my post - I really need to learn ...

Hey good people. Any recommendations of online sources of easy access (read cheap) and comprehensive collections of philo articles? I've been out of t...

Hi @Cuthbert, That was 25 years ago. I interpeted this as a slight against my hypocrisy actually. I was pretty young and making some ineffectual ado o...

Thanks @"Wayfarer", I'll try and track that one down with its counter arguments.

Hi Wayfarer, In short I've argued for "what is consciousness" as being merely the activity of multiple processors in constant communion to continually...

Hi there Crank. Well I'm doing what I can while I'm waiting for the big brains to gind they way towards 42. Where the Whys and Hows I've offered up ar...