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December 13, 2021 at 01:58
HA!!! No. Wait. Are you serious? I can’t tell.
December 13, 2021 at 01:55
It is so odd, that the precursor to the human cognitive system, the mere transformation of one kind of energy into another, in a measly five modes of ...
December 13, 2021 at 01:44
I understand all that, but isn’t what I want to know. Isn’t what I’m asking.
December 12, 2021 at 19:30
Like Michael Corleone, “just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in!!!!” Different senses have different kinds of receptors, so what name covers t...
December 12, 2021 at 18:18
Oh. Ya know.....I’m in agreement pretty much down the line, these last few pages, with minor adjustments maybe. But this.....too far out for me. It es...
December 12, 2021 at 17:19
If perception organizes, what does the brain do? If vision data goes here, olfactory data goes there, is that not organization of data, relatively lon...
December 12, 2021 at 11:57
Dupe. Deleted.
December 11, 2021 at 21:12
Not necessarily. Depends on who’s advocating. Dennett, 1991 holds with this, but I think it the most restrictive and the least justified. The literatu...
December 11, 2021 at 20:18
Introduction. I hope I didn’t mistranslated. The idea is that an object cannot be referenced in any way, shape or form, without it first being subject...
December 11, 2021 at 19:13
Oh. I didn’t get that from the statement. I take KK to be very far from an idealist, so I guess that’s why I didn’t make that connection. Even so, as ...
December 11, 2021 at 17:07
Ya know.....if reference to an object is the experience, or the possible experience, then qualia is itself a prepending, which was the ground of the n...
December 11, 2021 at 15:21
Is there some benefit for you, in the shorthand over the experience? What does the shorthand do, that the experience hasn’t already done?
December 11, 2021 at 13:05
None..... ....iff we accuse our faculty of sensibility of proper physiological function, which is passive indifference to its input. The cognitive fac...
December 11, 2021 at 12:58
Qualia: what’s done when the good stuff has already been done.
December 10, 2021 at 20:31
Ehhhh......think I’ll leave it to the audience from here on out. Assuming there is one. Let them be the judge.
December 10, 2021 at 19:34
Yes, my point exactly. Yours is predicated on education, the qualifications above listed being more attributable to experience than mere education. On...
December 10, 2021 at 14:05
True enough, if one accepts that biases are innate. I don’t think I’d go that far, and apparently, neither do you, because you said, “inclined toward ...
December 09, 2021 at 20:42
No fair. If I’m transported to a time not my own, I should be classed accordingly. If a mere paysan I might grab a seat, if I’m a Rousseau/Voltaire-ty...
December 09, 2021 at 12:40
My education sucks. I have this bias, this predisposed inclination, to detest beheadings that I haven’t learned to over-rule.
December 08, 2021 at 16:47
There ya go. Now the parameters are set for the assertion of pros and cons.
December 08, 2021 at 15:10
I agree thoughts and emotions are different, and I agree with your statement on thoughts. To complete, all that’s needed is an exposition for what emo...
December 08, 2021 at 14:23
Good, but incomplete, in that “thought” is the subject in both parts of the proposition. In a discussion of differences, a congruent proposition is ne...
December 08, 2021 at 13:08
Sure, but within that dualism the necessary brain/mind distinction is given, from which some relative primacy follows.......so why the question in the...
December 08, 2021 at 12:50
Under the assumption that doing philosophy is not the same as philosophizing, at the most fundamental level, as individuals, the consequence of the in...
December 08, 2021 at 12:26
Seems necessarily so. No brain, no conscious thought, right? Maybe there isn’t a need to stitch together that which is inseparable..... .....sorta jus...
December 07, 2021 at 15:03
What sense of fitness?
December 06, 2021 at 17:59
Interesting. (i) asks the same as the original, insofar as there is no good reason to ask about knowledge in other creatures when a human isn’t even c...
December 06, 2021 at 17:48
I honor reason, without which there wouldn’t even be a language game. Which just shows reason isn’t perfect.
December 06, 2021 at 14:45
Sorry. I didn’t mean to come off as pejorative. I was just paying more attention to the keyword “speculative”, then the subject “holographic universe”...
December 06, 2021 at 13:27
Could be. Some have likened “The Allegory of the Cave” as a forerunner, and that was certainly a serious thing, at least philosophically, in that thin...
December 06, 2021 at 12:56
I wasn’t invited, but I’m taking a seat on the affirmative side of the bandwagon anyway. You know.......”Copernican Revolution” and all.
December 06, 2021 at 12:46
HA!! Exactly right. Toss this....ok, still know stuff. Toss this....ok, still good. Toss this...still here. Toss..... Hmmmm. You’d end up tossing the ...
December 06, 2021 at 12:37
Oh absolutely. We can’t say what the limit of knowledge is, but we can still say what the limit of knowledgeable things is. This isn’t so much a limit...
December 06, 2021 at 00:11
This is correct, as far as framing perception. But perception is not representation, it is sensation, and that fully empirical. Some representations a...
December 05, 2021 at 23:38
Best is irrelevant if it’s the only. I hear of other system methodologies, but I don’t understand them well enough to qualify their respective values....
December 05, 2021 at 21:44
Maybe, but I for one won’t be stepping off the curb in front of a sufficiently massive fast-mover to test a mere possibility.
December 05, 2021 at 20:43
Given a certain set of initial conditions it is. Different conditions, different theory, different predictions/conclusions/possibilities, right?
December 05, 2021 at 19:22
As in Wittgenstein? I’m not sure, and he may not have been either. But under the assumption that a hinge proposition is a proposition immune from skep...
December 05, 2021 at 16:33
True enough, but causality is given, insofar as it resides in the categories as a concept, but speculation on the noumenal, in departing from Kant, re...
December 05, 2021 at 15:38
In humans, knowledge is not of things but of representations of things. I think obviously. And furthermore, predicated solely on incident physiology. ...
December 05, 2021 at 14:33
It’s modernized. Therefore it’s mistaken. Hanover is the closest without mentioning Kant specifically. The footprint and the flower are Hume, not Kant...
December 05, 2021 at 00:15
You fight a worthy battle.
December 03, 2021 at 14:32
Because the thread title capitalizes the e in Enlightenment, I infer from “what is it to be Enlightened?” to indicate adherence to the conditions give...
December 03, 2021 at 14:09
Who am “I”. ....which reduces to nothing more than a metaphysical object querying itself. I can say that, express it objectively, because “I” thought ...
December 01, 2021 at 12:13
As a way of grounding I take to mean the basis of, or, what comes first. The start. The given. It may not need to be the first thing said; the world I...
November 29, 2021 at 13:28
This is exactly right. The world I find myself in is the world as it is, preemptive of my considerations of it. This is also why Kant doesn’t bother w...
November 28, 2021 at 21:20
Yes, but pre-dating computers by a couple centuries. Such system may not hold as much sway as it did, but it is still around, and in its strictest sen...
November 28, 2021 at 18:43
Technically, I’m arguing from a point where words are irrelevant. To feel and to think is not to speak. To speak is to convey, or report, feeling and ...
November 28, 2021 at 16:34
Sure. I can imagine a person void of emotion but still able to reason, make rational judgements. I wouldn’t expect a hearty “Howdy, neighbor!” from hi...
November 27, 2021 at 21:45