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I'm starting to think the best way to get the most out of Wittgenstein is to approach a set of philosophical problems with the approach used in the Tr...

Yeah and how about that theory? How does it "arise"? "What" is it that is "arisen"? That's only one form of dualism and even that is not entailed in p...

Well we are having a philosophical discussion, so paying attention to these distinctions matter in the dialectic and debates at hand. So you said: Wel...

I mean what I said ha. But if you are asking me to explain more.. You said, "...physical processes that enable an observer to make distinctions". Phys...

So one possible problem with Kripke's "essentialism" is that it relies on a causal chain of events to "rigidly designate" an entity. That is to say, a...

The problem isn't entertaining both but replacing one with the other without explanation. You said: "embodied in the physical processes that enable an...

I think you are making the hidden dualism mistake here. Check the OP of this thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14569/hidden-dualism/p1...

So I just don't get why this is a philosophical problem outside any problem where there is no observer... So let's take something like an ameoba... It...

Please provide more examples. I see the glass ball universe one.. So that is two glass balls that are positioned in a way that you can't tell that the...

Perhaps it can be attributed to what I'll call "naive materialism". That is to say, if you were to never consider the hard problem, and you go about y...

Then indeed this is just another name for a form of panpsychism. If that is the case, then this poster was right:

Didn't Kant try to answer this kind of thing by proposing the noumena? What I don't get is, how does the principle of indiscernability create any more...

This just restates the problem that is supposed to be revealed. And let's not dwell on Mary, I just mean the implications of any of these thought expe...

It is the “it” that is the hard problem. Generates is also problematic.

I think you are confusing judgements and understanding in Kant. Kant used synthetic a priori judgements to prove that the understanding (categories of...

And failed. You can't tackle that one without the other side...Mexico. So did Neville Chamberlain. Flirting with tyrants and appealing to their narcis...

I don't think we even have to go as far as QAnon and all that. Rather, it might be your average Republican who basically sees the Dems as just libs. I...

Can the majority of Republican support for Trump at this point be considered a cult? The case is strong. Let me say though, not nearly to the extent o...

:clap: There’s a difference between hedonic pain and pleasure versus the deeper dissatisfaction that Eastern philosophies and Schopenhauer often discu...

I think Schop’s “egoism” is an apt term that has less of a judgmental connotation. It’s not malice. It’s not compassionate acts of altruism. It’s our ...

Good place to start @"Angelo Cannata" He’s a great writer. Very clear. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Basis_of_Morality/Part_I

I don’t think Schop believed he had access to peoples inner character but I believe he had examples that I could find for you.

It could be, I can't speak for you about yourself :smile:. I guess I can add though that indeed, I think a theme lately with my posts is the utilitari...

I think Schopenhauer would directly disagree with this sentiment of selfishness. He thought it was completely a matter of character-inward stance towa...

Cool stuff, but anytime I see "Buddhist economics" I laugh a little. As I said above, the problem isn't economic at its root. https://thephilosophyfor...

That's part of it. However, it's a much deeper kind of pessimism about production I am talking about. Look at this, as I type on a keyboard with a bri...

Perhaps it is the case that there is something flawed in the hubbub of human production in general. You say that there is more than wanting. The whole...

In a way…YES!!!

The problem is that we use energy not for free and we make waste. You want people not to be burdened with this, at least be a situational antinatalist...

Exactly. And that's basically what I have been saying. It's a main factor in the inertia.

Yeah one problem is the idea of separation between production and consumption. These issues of regulation affect the owners of manufacturing and agric...

I'm not saying people don't want to do something about climate change (well, some don't but..), it's just that to get that takes sacrifices that are t...

That was a crisis people perceived could immediately harm them or their relatives- as in hospitalization or death. And even then, in some countries pe...

I thought I was directly discussing climate change- specifically, the general mechanism for the inertia you are seeing.

Hey we all care about something. You are railing publicly and I am answering publicly about an issue that affects the wider public.

People want cheap things. Adding costs to manufacturers to try to have cleaner emissions or greener processes will not make the consumer happy, lower ...

People barely get involved with local politics unless it quite literally immediately affects them (and then not even most of the time). How do you exp...

I think this I wrote in another thread might be of relevance in this discussion:

I mean this argument parallels the OP of this discussion no? How can you refer to something that is inherently ineffable? I need to designate the conc...

Ha wild reaction man. If you want to correct me, go ahead.

You actually seem to make a hidden dualism error here. Part 1: thoughts, ideas, concepts (and possibly qualia) would have their neural correlates. Par...

Good finds. They are glaring. It's even weirder when you can literally predict the next move, call it out before they do it, and then they do it anywa...

This reminds me of the problems of emergentism and notions of "downward causation". How does a higher level influence a lower level, if the higher lev...

That's a really interesting section. This almost directly addresses the OP here: It definitely mirrors gnostic/neoplatonic (and similar) notions of th...

I mean do you want to explain how you want to use Ryle? He’s an early eliminitavist who seems to skirt the hard problem by way of saying that red is a...

You seem confused. That is the view from nowhere. Meaning there is a somewhere (materially ontologically speaking) but with no view of it. This doesn’...

Hence I said "I see them...". It's precisely because I don't know what they "think or feel" as I said. Well enough I guess. But to the claim you made ...

Um, that's what I mean it's the view from nowhere, not the view of nowhere. But that part was not about idealist views, and I explicitly said that.

Without biasing the metaphysics, what would a non-idealist Schopenhauer look like in your estimation? At the end of the day, philosophy-of-mind is eit...

I don't pretend to speak on behalf of other animal species. If they eventually evolve into self-aware beings who can deliberate, they too can decide t...