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If you read my article, you will see that I did so. "Analogous" is a logical classification of meaning. It means that a term is predicated in a way th...

I am neither Kant, nor a Kantian. I think his approach is fundamentally wrong. I am an Aristotelian. For Aristotle, the object informing the subject i...

These are not the basis of the arguments made in my article. You will find no theology there. One person can think on many topics. I think about scien...

I do not think this is an either or question. There are different ways of conceptualizing the world. In one, the bird is circumscribed and interacts w...

Aristotle was a biologist. So, I think he came to his understanding of organic wholes from observation.

We need to remember that mechanism does not contradict teleology. It merely rearranges its constituents. Mechanically, initial states and the laws of ...

Of course. Not quite. It is a structure able to interact in what was an adaptive way in its native environment. Whether its species will survive depen...

This confirms that many atheists are not open to rational discourse -- even when the subject is not theological.

My argument is based on the premises laid down -- none of which are theological. So, to reject my argument you need to show either that my premises ar...

Of course! God is the ultimate cause of reality. Darwin recognized that when he wrote of his belief in "designed laws." Still, being the Ultimate Caus...

I am not quite sure what you are asking, but I will comment. First, the idea of differential drives is simply wrongheaded. We desire food, water and a...

No, I am not. I am not saying they are separate, only that they are real because if they were not real, we could neither discover nor describe them, a...

Excellent question.

Thank you.

You misunderstand the definition. I mean the "ability to be aware" in operation. I add "of intelligibility," because we are never aware without being ...

No, it only illustrates the difficulty humans have in letting go of preconceptions. Non sequitur. It only shows that there is a dependence (which I af...

Dualism does not mean that there is more than one way of thinking about reality. No, even "staying the same" requires a cause -- first, because physic...

I read a lot of history of philosophy -- Copleston's and others as well as articles in various dictionaries, compendia and companions. German philosop...

I think we can react emotionally to intellectual discord, but I think the perception of discord comes first.

A reasonable point. I would say that "otherness" depends on how you conceptualize things. If you think of a rock as a unity, you can say it is attract...

I have heard of it, but not read Hegel, or been inclined to. I do not see him as an influence.

I agree, but quick acceptance is a sign that the reviewers found merit in it. This does not militate against anything I said. Since the brain process ...

I think it is a distillation of experience. There are things that we could know, but do not (so they are intelligible), and when we come to know them ...

I've found that being challenged helps me clarify my ideas.

I'm pretty ignorant of 19th c. German philosophy.

How can what is intrinsic not be co-extensive with what it is intrinsic to? If it was in one place and time, and what it is intrinsic to were in anoth...

Unfortunately, "consciousness" is an analogous term, and using this definition, when I define consciousness differently (as "awareness of intelligibli...

As one trained in mathematical physics, the use of equations in analogies grates on me. So, I have to put aside my distaste for the medium to find the...

Seeing knowing in as an essential characteristic allows me to connect to a rich tradition of epistemological reflection and bring new unity to the iss...

I am starting with the experience of knowing, in which things and thinking are united. The Fundamental Abstraction takes this unity, divides it, and f...

I look forward to your comments.

Thank you. Exactly. Nothing in the proposed paradigm places any restriction on scientific work. I only seek to re-contextualize it. As you pointed out...

Thank you. I wanted to connect all the points I made because they build one upon another. The reviewers had no problem with that, accepting the paper ...

First, the laws of nature are not "outside." They are intrinsic -- coextensive with what they control. Second, the existence of alternate opinions is ...

The laws of physics are such descriptions. Still, if there were not some reality (the laws of nature) making matter behave that way, the descriptions ...

I said what I wanted to say in my article: One and the same reality must be the source of both the subject and predicate concepts for the judgement to...

If there were no laws of nature in reality to describe, then the descriptions of physics (call them "the laws of physics") would be fictions. Further,...

The source of the concepts <This rock> and <hard>.

I am not denying that it is a predication, only your reading of what is identical.

Thank you. I look forward to your further comments. I am glad we are of like mind. I see some problems here. First, matter is not self-organizing. It ...

Ethically, each thief is required to return what was stolen, if it was taken unjustly. So, there is no paradox. Thinking that there is a paradox impli...

Sure. Let me know.

This misunderstands the "religious mindset." Recent scholarship has shown that the medieval church, not merely tolerated, but actively encouraged, sci...

Thank You

My article is now published. Polis, D. F., "The Hard Problem of Consciousness & the Fundamental Abstraction," Journal of Consciousness Exploration & R...

To quote from my paper: First, I agree that the information we are conscious of is neurally encoded, and so concepts are inseparable from neural repre...

Christopher, Yes, although the idea of conceptual spaces and subspaces is not limited to science and religion. I'd say that cognitive biases are embod...

Wayfarer, Quoting from my paper: A conceptual space is the set of ideas onto which we normally project experience. The Fundamental Abstraction is a ge...

I have a paper coming out shortly in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, "The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Fundamental Abstr...

NOS4A2, Thanks for the mention. Yes, my degree is in theoretical physics, but I have published more in philosophy. A new paper was recently accepted: ...