So a claim for what cannot be named is at the same time claim for what can? Nope, ain’t buyin’ it. The first is quite obviously true insofar as that w...
So the senses pass physical information that can be used as input, presumably for mental content, which the dictionary (sigh) terms “perception”. As w...
I understand all that. I’m not begrudging your definitions. Still, granting that the senses aren’t used in your system of mental content, what part do...
Thinking as mental content...ok; Thinking of time as mental content....ok; Thinking of time perception as mental content....not ok. Because thinking o...
Agreed. Can’t have an answer consistent with a very specific question, without a proper ground being given for it. Always best to separate the sophist...
Why didn’t you just say for what we CANNOT perceive and for what we cannot conceptualize, we don’t have a name. No one can beat that horse beyond its ...
By the creation of an object of desire or inclination, from practical reason, by which the subjective condition explains itself to itself. I may have ...
No, technically, we do not; we compute duration or succession, and represent such computations with everything from clocks to scratches on a wall. Flo...
I see I misspoke: you said mechanistic but I wrote deterministic. Sorry....not paying proper attention. Anyway, agreed, mechanical systems need no gui...
I’m aware of but not well-versed in Descartes’ science, having more interest in his metaphysics. I shall have to take your word for it, that he regard...
It can make sense to avoid the dichotomy, insofar as rational/irrational implies logical judgements based on reason, whereas emotions imply aesthetic ...
In modern parlance.....the quest for the unconditioned? The irreducible. The absolute certainty. From which the possibility of knowledge itself is giv...
Objection noted, and agreeable in principle. A definition is the complete representation of the conception, which always arises spontaneously from the...
Is it the same to define a term, as it is to declare how it is meant to be understood? Descartes tells us what he means by the use of a term, e.g., P....
Be all that as it may, it remains that it is humans doing the work, therefore it is impossible to get beyond the metaphysical/empirical dichotomy with...
How can it go beyond that dichotomy, when the proposition that asks about it obtains its meaning from them? Given that understanding itself is metaphy...
I’ll cop to that. I reject that we perceive time in the first place, so don’t bother with talking about how we do it. That, and I reject that missiles...
Not in my case; I understand mental content as instantiated non-physical. And neurons are just neurons in any case. True, we don’t normally consider n...
No, not with any legitimacy. I can philosophize all day long over it, but that would never be any more than making inferences based on my understandin...
I don’t think Descartes meant to infer his own existence, with the predicate “...therefore I am”. I don’t think Descartes needed an ontological proof ...
With respect to Kant at least, there’s no philosophical laughing, but there is a basic refutation..... “...The "I think" is, as has been already state...
Yep. Sounds about right. Or you could walk around with one of those new-dangled machines strapped to your head, with a platoon of geeky lab-coated pen...
Then it may be more proper to say it is those changes that is the experience, not time itself. What is rhythm but an event in succession to a similar ...
You’re a member of a rather large crowd. There's a metaphysical argument which posits mind as a logical causality. Yeah.....unfortunate that speculati...
Not necessarily, I suppose. Perhaps the brush I’m painting with is too broad. Just seems to me, that which is singular represents nothing other than i...
That doesn’t seem to solve anything, when I elect to treat you as a big fat ugly slob simply because I wish not to be treated as such. Hell, I could j...
Nahhh....long-time communications specialist in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club, back when it was a whole lot more fun.....and risky.....being a hippie than a ...
Antennas are fascinating. I’ve worked on transmitters from .25w UHF to 2Mw VLF, where inserting a fluorescent stick bulb in the radiation field lights...
And you don’t see the inherent nonsense in that? You may very well have no issue in treating me as a big fat ugly slob, under the assumption such is m...
If I read that as....does the brain use a kind of instantiated non-physical evidence, such as time....then I would say, yes it does. Thing is, though,...
True enough; the observed changes in Nature became known as global warming, when the information contained by those changes became understood. Some ar...
How does the physical matter of neurons instantiate the non-physical content of future perception? Sounds an awful lot like epiphenomenalism, doesn’t ...
Maybe, but I would treat pluralism as a singular conception in itself. Pluralism is still different than the myriad of separate -isms contained in it....
A hint, maybe: misplaced concreteness. The treatment of general conceptions, in this case, information, as an actual thing. Information, in and of its...
I’m pretty much ok with that. All -isms are concerned only with the affirmation or negation of the essential root conception, right? The intrinsic hum...
The problem of seemings is in people generally, not Kant specifically. For Kantian idealism to deal with seemings, or, which for all intents and purpo...
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