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Where is objective truth in science, engineering, philosophy, common sense? Scientific laws change through history. Some philosophers of science say t...

Do you perhaps mean experiencing when you refer to Process and truth when you refer to Product? You are more drawn to experiences than to some ideal o...

You know what my point of view on mental illnesses is, even if you don't agree with it. I don't believe you are disabled for life, and I don't believe...

That's certainly possible, there is an element of subjectivity in justice, you can get different results with different lawyers. I think your mother a...

Why doesn't the following persuade the judge to give your mother a favorable share?

Sure if you want, but maybe I should get my thoughts together and expose my point of view in a more systematic way, comparing it with other mainstream...

I think I would have to write a treatise to get across what I try to get across here, but then is it worth it, would anyone read it? Though no one wil...

I agree, thanks for the reference, I will check it out. Yes, this is why I am posting in this thread ;) It seems to me that in the idea of transcendin...

Thanks for the link, I have read the quotes you cited here but I will read the whole thing. I agree that not all physicists are rude or not open-minde...

If there are only minds, then there is no mind-independent 'here' or 'world' that our minds are in. In that view it is wrong to attempt to imagine min...

No, that's not the post you quoted. Looks like we are not sharing the same reality?

That's why I didn't want to use the word 'mind', because the word is imbued with the idea that the mind is part of an external world, but what word co...

I gave some reasons in that post https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/298936 , you might have missed it. Sure, although the philosophical...

Indeed. Personally I have mostly encountered intellectually incurious realists, who believe they are right and everyone else is wrong, who ridicule an...

Sure, and then when others model these people as they experience them, and they find that their model doesn't match that of Alice, then they have a pr...

I thought I had made clear that we don't perceive the same objects. That when we refer to an object, we don't actually refer to the same perception/ex...

We don't experience the same world, there are a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. There are obvious differences in the way we feel, in wha...

If we stop assuming that our senses give us access to some reality "out there" independent of us then we don't have to deal with this conundrum. All w...

It is just a how, how is it that physical entities that make up our body can give rise to experiences. It is not a why in the sense why is there somet...

No, again this would be like watching a movie, and concluding from correlations found within the movie that the physical processes involved in bringin...

If one assumes there is an objective reality in which there are constraints, how could one believe in anything else than deterministic or indeterminis...

He mentioned he's giving up posting on the internet altogether, so I doubt he will see our messages, unless he changes his mind. But he is probably al...

That's all fine and dandy, but where in there is it explained how photons of a given wavelength give rise to the perception of a color at all? Saying ...

I do not get the impression at all that he was patronizing you or gaslighting you, I saw him as an individual who expressed sincerely how he felt. The...

I never claimed it was, I said feeling bad + delusions is enough to be labeled as schizophrenic. In the example where the label of schizophrenic stems...

Sure, but if your mind is physical and follows indeterministic laws, then it doesn't have the ability to choose anything. There is a given probability...

She isn't modeling herself nor the people she encounters, she is modeling her experiences of herself and of the people she encounters. From her perspe...

Ok, so in that view both minds and things that aren't mind are part of a world, and both are constrained in how they can behave. Even if you're not a ...

There are a few things to clarify here otherwise we will just keep talking past each other. Do you agree with the idea that in a mind-independent worl...

How would you respond to someone who would claim they know innately that the world is not mind-independent? Are you saying the mind can choose to not ...

Then how did you arrive at this conclusion? I realize that words can be interpreted in many different ways. By mind-independent world I mean a world t...

You're saying the world is clearly mind-independent?

But then such a world is not mind-independent, it is not objective, which is my point.

I just used your term, I wouldn't call it a man in the first place, that would prevent the infinite regress. More like there is some element to us tha...

There is an implicit assumption in there, the assumption there is such a thing as facts and events existing independently of experience. But how did w...

Precisely because that world would not depend on you? Let's take my original argument: 1. Assume we belong to a mind-independent world 2. Then that wo...

Sure I do Wallows, here are the criteria again, just need to know the meaning of the words mentioned https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/tabl...

I gave an example for geology, saying how the desires of living beings can have an influence on it. If these desires are shaped in part by what these ...

I can imagine what it would be like, you were the one who seemed to not be able to imagine how we could include the observer in the natural sciences (...

That's hard to say, maybe it is possible and we just haven't found out how? If we acknowledge that our minds change the world and that a mind might ch...

I don't, but that some things are harder to get or some desires are harder to change does not imply that we cannot change what we desire. I have some ...

How would we know that a mind cannot change what it desires? But if "the cat is on the mat" is reality, why does the cat care about what you say and l...

But if you call the cat for a feed, and in doing that you're saying you use your mind to change the way the world is, then what does it mean to say th...

But if my mind controls my body, and my body is part of the mind-independent world, then my mind controls a part of the world, so that world is not mi...

Sure, but if the world is mind-independent then it is not minds that move things around in it, it is the environment that acts on bodies which automat...

Physicists do not neglect what they experience when they build their models of reality, but they neglect the fact that they experience, and that's a h...

I haven't ignored stuff, you just haven't understood how what I said addressed what you believe i ignored. If you don't see the difference I don't bel...

I explained that in the second paragraph. "Lived experience" can refer to "the fact that you experience", while experience refers to "an experience yo...

It is precisely because you want to always focus on one thing at a time that you fail to see the connection. Sure an experience was necessarily lived....

I clarified it in the rest of the post, but I can't clarify it to you if you don't read what I say. As succinctly as I can, the physicist neglects the...