Ok fine, if you really want, matter combines itself into consciousness. What is your point? It still doesn't make matter itself conscious, like a carb...
No "matter inherently has the power to give itself" is not accurate, or at least it's a very strange way of putting it. Matter is the building block, ...
No, this doesn't follow. And the whole argument is based on this really. You seem to think that it is proven logically or something, 1) everything is ...
But even if it is merely a question pertaining to causation, then it isn't always a legitimate question either, because causation only makes sense in ...
Because a why-question pertains to purposes and meaning, and as far as we know only biological life develops purposes and meaning. So to ask why matte...
Why isn't always a legitimate question. Just because you can ask the question, doesn't mean there is an answer to it. If say the universe is just mate...
Yeah let's leave radical scepticism out of the discussion for now. I have no problem admitting that there is no way of proving 1) that an external wor...
But if we know how something moves, we know its configuration right? So if we figure out what configurations of matter produce consciousness, then you...
He's a strong proponent of Hume, as he has alluded to many times. If he believes in a mathematical universe, he comes at it like an empiricist rather ...
Physicalism is just a basic common sense notion taken to an extreme... maybe somewhat to it's detriment. We invented words like real and to exist for ...
Where is the explanation or proof though? All I see is a statement that consciousness cannot arise from matter. There are many things we can't mathema...
Yeah, I was going to make that exact same point, but though it was a bit of a tangent :-). But good catch just the same. Law of physics are descriptiv...
Consciousness comes from matter being configured in a certain way. And no, i'm not going to tell you how that exactly works, because nobody really can...
This assumes consciousness is something fundamentally different that the stuff the rest of the universe is made of. Consider this, a universe devoid o...
This is going to be about my interpretation of the Tao, and not necessarily what is or was meant with it traditionally…. and I’m coming at this from a...
If - and maybe that's a big if - you view morality as social contractarian, then rights as you describe here could make sense in morality too.... i.e....
I agreed with you. It also think some kind of perspective-taking is baked into the concept of emergence. That's not to say there not something there r...
Why try following the stoic way though? Epictetus was a slave, and let's just say it shines through in his philosophy. If you have no choice, which is...
When we talk about emergence, aren't we talking about something more general than only emergent forms? From the earlier posted Chalmers definition : "...
I don't disagree. But rather than reasons or arguments, I think the appeal is predominatly an aesthetic of extreme tribalism, which speaks not necessa...
Vacuum is never really nothing right? There's always the vacuum-energy and fluctuations, and so there is something "physical" going on which is why I ...
Yeah I've started reading the intro of the book too. Like Schopenhauer1, I not entirely sure I'll buy into it, but it looks interesting. And I remembe...
Problem is i'm not so sure there is something like strong emergence. From what i've gathered, part of the problem here is i'm no scientist, at least a...
Alright, what is a level disconnected from our cognition and use? What do you exactly mean with the word 'to exist' entirely separated from any kind o...
I'm not sure what is meant by something moving from one level to another. but I think I agree that emergence implies a viewer, because it seems like i...
Stoicism is more going the therapeutic/acceptance route, which can probably work to some extend I suppose. I'd suggest you first look for a possible s...
So to answer your question, you're an anarchist and don't believe in legitimacy right? Well I don't think they ever really deserve it either... they s...
I was just trying to answer your post and it had me think of the last speech of Nicolae Ceausescu where people finally started booing him, eventhough ...
I don't think you should in a moral sense... but there likely will be consequences, so that does seem like an answer to the question of compulsory par...
My point is you or I do not know what the real reasons are. Doesn't it seems strange to you to judge something you only have partial knowledge about a...
Because they have the power and you have not, is the short of it. Why should they let you live there if they could just take your property? History ha...
See I'd like to have this conversation, but I think you are asking the wrong question... and I just can't get past that because i think it skews the d...
Ok, let me specify that I don't think it does anything philosophically. I don't think you get there by referring back to the concept of justification ...
Hey Hippy, contrary to what you'd probably rather hear, this was not meant to discourage trying to know. Just that we probably should have some humili...
I was under the impression that you were advocating overthrowing plutocracy because of it's lack of legitimacy.... and so the solution was some sort o...
I don't think this is a matter of lack of imagination. There are plenty of alternatives in imagination. I think this is an empirical question. And i'v...
The things is, there never has been a "legitimate" legitimatization. It's not as if Gods or lineage where anything other than a story some people told...
Like I said, because it follows market and geopolitical logic. Countries and large companies need to invest into this because otherwise the become eco...
Sure some may have it wrong, but most are probably well aware of the dangers... and take a pragmatic attitude on it : It's not one or even a group of ...
The reason the ant analogy doesn't really work is because we have language and so can build up knowledge and pass it on to next generations. Some thin...
The point is what you state in 2), it give us more control over our environment. We don't know with any kind of certainty that the logical outcome is ...
No probably not. When you are young you have a lot of energy, and little experience of how the world works. Adding to that you are, just by virtue of ...
I want to say I certainly applaud these efforts, just to make that clear. But, and this is maybe more nitpicking than anything else, I don't think the...
Maybe this question is born out of ignorance, but what is the attempt at scientific-style objectivity here? I wonder if "we can't not" because we have...
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