What Chalmers thinks Experience Is Chalmers says “It is widely agreed that experience arises from a physical basis”. This is true. Chalmers speaks for...
Working on it - getting to grips with my own thoughts about consciousness and relating them to those of Chalmers is certainly a hard problem for this ...
Yes, yes, yes. The naming of something—anything at all—the describing it, the identification of it, the indication of it, the characterisation of it—i...
What’s theological about “Atoms and the void”? Your “following the explananda wherever they lead” sounds like “following the Lord wherever He leads”. ...
It's not that I want to be confrontational, but I can't help but come at all this from the opposite direction from you. I think the philosophical purs...
Reply to the OP: For an ontological idealist (not a Kantian): not only is Space ideal, but substance/bodies/atoms/matter are too. So Space isn’t any l...
What the Realist (Realist about a World independent of Mind) believes is that the existence of the moon is independent of the mind or of consciousness...
I think the answer to the question of the OP is—trees, houses, cars, animals, people, the stars, the planets, etc.. I mean I think this first answer, ...
As regards Philosophy vs. Science, I’m on your side, but lunatic fringe hawkish. It’s a love triangle to be sure. It hadn’t occurred to me that Scienc...
Thanks a lot. I'm sure you're right about Platonism. I was thinking of that strain of Idealism that says there are only such things as abstract ideas....
Physicalism and Idealism are really to be understood as traditions. Physicalism is the inheritor of Materialism. Materialism is the man-in-the-street ...
I missed out a lot more than that… But thanks for introducing me to Bergson. I’ve just read the Wikipedia article, and yes, there are a lot of resonan...
Thank you for your comments and I am very sorry to be so long in replying. I am not repelled because of the Catholic origin. But tell me what you mean...
Your Theory: So you think, presumably, Reality proceeds (conceptually) from Apeiron, via a process of dichotomy, into Multiplicity. Is that right? Is ...
Having read through some of that thread “Living with the Noumenon” I shall give that word a wide berth from now on. No it’s not. And no I don’t know t...
Spiritual enlightenment and arguing about the nature of Reality seem to be, for me, different worlds. That of course shouldn’t be. My life should info...
I concede that many of the things I say are mere statements of position. You are interpreting them through a Peircian (or Kantian) lens, and are in th...
You have genuine insight into my philosophical stance and into what has been my philosophical project. Perhaps you can advise me further. “The difficu...
I feel that this thread––if it is my input that determines it––is either coming to an end or is changing direction. You and Wayfarer both have a hand ...
I enjoyed that link you posted. I think you have much more support than you realise. I certainly agree with you. Other replies on this thread have too...
I agree with this. People think there is a world beyond their experience 1. Because they fear that there is and 2. Because they hope that there is. Th...
Fair point. I should have warned the reader that I begin from a place of extreme scepticism. This tendency is not common out there in the world, but a...
I am not familiar with Putnam and I am not sure that I understand what you are saying (not that that is your fault). Perhaps if I, rather boringly, re...
I am grateful for your analysis of my thinking. Your thoughts are well-articulated, educational and clear. And they gave me a lot to think about. 1. “...
Not quite sure of the connection between your remark and your quote. To take them separately: Do you mean that because I use the word “experience” and...
Just to be Clear: People’s responses have prompted me to try to defend solipsism. I am not however a solipsist. A solipsist is someone who believes on...
Solipsism is an extreme philosophical position. It is as far removed from everyone’s everyday working picture of existence as a philosophical position...
The point you make is a good one, and one I hadn't thought of. But I don't say experience is a complex state. I say it is not many things, and so not ...
People asking about solipsism: mcdoodle, Bassplayer, Terrapin Station and Barry Etheridge: You’ve taken me by surprise: you ask about solipsism as if ...
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