I read it, and I have some familiarity with a few of your references. However, being steeped in Enlightenment cognitive metaphysics, I’m in no positio...
....all of which reduces to Descartes’ cogito. So where does that other guy’s “more right on certainty” lay? In “thinking occurs”, which is just about...
With all that, beginning with that double-damned double slit, it’s easy to see where human consciousness could be deemed responsible for the actions o...
Thanks. I wonder though, did Wigner actually come right and declare explicitly that consciousness causes collapse, or did somebody take his “....consc...
Oh. Sorry....guess I wasn’t understanding what you were saying....about why the special point regarding QM. Are you, sorta rhetorically, just saying t...
I think the special point with respect to QM is direct experience, and the habitual proclivity of human intelligence to mandate empirical knowledge on...
Thanks. I had a feeling it would be Feynman, from your statement on fields being real, which Feynman declared by “...By a field, you remember, we mean...
Can you supply an accessible reference for that colored light/boogie double slit experiment? Accessible meaning free.....I’m a YankeeVirgoBabyboomer, ...
True enough, but what experiment can be set up, and by association, what experimental setup can there be, that doesn’t have a conscious agency for its...
Tegmark, 2000, “Importance of Quantum Decoherence......” in refutation of Orch-OR, Penrose/Hameroff, 1994. Unless you’re talking about something else,...
How does one reason to the ground of all existence, when such ground is excluded from that which is within the “grasp” of reason? It appears to be not...
If the notion of human experience is justifiable, then empiricism must be valid, in order to serve as the ground for knowledge of real, physical thing...
Lots of good stuff in there, but I’ll limit myself in return. The second is fine; whatever reason there may be to fuss over the division between sense...
So you say, which is fine. I would say cognition requires one to understand, and experience is that which he remembers as having been observed in part...
Perhaps. For me, everything in its place: sound sensation is hearing, tactile sensation is feeling, olfactory sensation is smelling.....sight sensatio...
No, but from the text, I gather noumena would be representations of things in the world, arrived at by rationalities with means other than the intuiti...
Inherent in? No. Consequential to, certainly, with respect to time. Judgement presupposes that which is to be judged, either a posteriori perception o...
We trust reason over observation because reason is conditioned by itself, whereas observation is conditioned by Nature. Observation, being a strictly ...
“...Categories are conceptions which prescribe laws a priori to phenomena, consequently to nature as the complex of all phenomena (natura materialiter...
Hmmmm.....what are Y and Z going to do, tell X he didn’t make an observation? Better not, lest the gedankenexperiment immediately contract itself. A s...
That’s the way I see it. Humans have this propensity for “what if...”, for no apparent reason, other than some arbitrary question simply presents itse...
No one else tossed in a nickel here, so allow me......for whatever my nickel’s worth: It isn’t a question of believing. There are things, our knowledg...
It is traditional, it doesn’t play a part in the Copernican turn, as you call it, admissibility aside. The real dichotomy on Kantian metaphysics, is b...
The pure empiricists don’t, holding with the assertions that the physical world is primary, as opposed to the rationalists who hold with subjectivity ...
Don’t we need to distinguish between rejecting synthetic propositions, and a priori synthetic propositions? I agree the rejection of the a priori woul...
Ok. So you think that because Kant gave a synopsis of the differences between analytic and synthetic judgements, truths...whatever...that he is respon...
Kant didn’t innovate the analytic/synthetic dichotomy, those having been in philosophical existence for millennia, and to which he paid little mind. A...
That is a falsification of Kantian theoretical conditions. The thing of the thing-in-itself is a real physical object, the affect on our sensibility g...
Granted, in as much as the logical proof of the possibility of synthetic a priori conditions justified the metaphysical leap from objects being necess...
Neither one are that important, the one merely sets the stage for what Kant needed to logically prove, that Hume was wrong....or at least incomplete.....
First I’ve heard of it. Analytic/synthetic distinction has to do with judgement or cognitions, in the form of logical propositions, in which the conce...
I read as much as the preview would allow, from your “reason transcends nature” link. Overall, the guy does a very good job of highlighting modernity’...
Ya know.....there is a standing argument where existence cannot be the predicate of a proposition. The logical error, in this case at least, is that j...
Oh. Ok. I was going for the irreducible, in order to not affirm the consequent, that is to say, that which is both necessary and sufficient, rather th...
There is no fault, there is only dialectical disagreement. Faith and rationality are certainly not simple concepts; there is a clear distinction betwe...
These are two distinct propositions. The second is given; the first, because it is qualified by consciousness, is not. At least not so much. If you’d ...
Yeah, that’s been done, much to the chagrin of continental philosophy, by Quine** mostly, insofar as the principle of necessity has no business being ...
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