There is some evidence that supports previous lives, but I don't know how strong it is because I haven't studied it as closely as NDEs. In terms of nu...
I'm afraid I have to disagree with the dominant view. The mind as I use it is, for all practical purposes, is synonymous with consciousness. Although ...
I'll answer this question first. I've written a lot about why I think NDEs give us good testimonial evidence, and why they're different from hallucina...
An interesting take on the argument of materialism vs idealism by Bernardo Kastrup. Bernardo Kastrup | Refuting Materialism: full lecture https://www....
An interesting podcast on consciousness. Two AI's Discuss: The Quantum Physics of Consciousness - Roger Penrose Deep Dive Podcast https://www.youtube....
Clearly, you haven't understood a thing I've said. I question your ability to interpret not only what I've communicated over and over again, but your ...
It's not at all a leap in the dark, no more than accepting the Earth is more than 100 years old is a leap in the dark, or that I have hands is a leap ...
To say that hinges are justified in any epistemic sense is to miss the main thrust of OC. It would be to "...grant you all the rest (OC 1)." Hinge pro...
My interpretation of Wittgenstein and hinge propositions is that hinges are neither true nor false, i.e., hinges have a role similar to the rules of a...
We're never going to come to a consensus on OC, that's clear. There will always be some interpretation that someone has that you'll disagree with. Wha...
My view is that Moore's assertion, "I know this is a hand," amounts to an expression of subjective certainty, i.e., akin to a conviction (which Witt p...
Yes, if what you mean by anti-foundationalism, is traditional foundationalism. His presentation of a foundation is nothing like traditional foundation...
It's interesting to note that different language games reflect different endpoints. However, it seems to me that some endpoints are not really hinges,...
I agree with you that our actions are an important part of all this, they reflect something very important. We cannot forget about what we do! Our for...
"Doesn't this mean: I shall proceed according to this belief unconditionally, and not let anything confuse me? "But it isn't just that I believe in th...
Yes, but there is a sense where we are also forced into a foundational position if we want to play the game, whatever that game may be. However, this ...
So, the analogy I use over and over again is to think of foundational in the same way that the rules of chess, the board, and the pieces are foundatio...
:grin: No, it's a concept that has various uses in different contexts. I don't see how anyone can read OC and not see a foundational component to what...
Well, as you know I do read a kind of foundationalism into OC, but it's nothing like traditional foundationalism. Also, I don't view much of what I'm ...
In some passages, Witt seems to compare Moore's statement about knowing this is a hand to someone's conviction of a particular belief. In other words,...
My thinking on OC is that Witt's biggest contribution is the idea that certain basic beliefs are the endpoints that form the bedrock of epistemologica...
I do want to comment on what I was saying about hinges in relation to Godel's proofs. All I was trying to say is that instead of looking at certain ax...
I agree. Although I make a distinction between subjective certainty and objective certainty, the latter being akin to knowledge. I think Witt made thi...
This is important because OC is not a finished work so we don't know what the editing process would have looked like, i.e., what passages would have b...
I don't see Witt as saying hinges are like Kant's a priori statements, i.e., outside experience. Just the opposite, they are the experiences or belief...
I assume this is directed toward me, so I'll respond. We know that much of what Witt was saying was directed at Moore's propositions in his papers Pro...
It may be questionable for you but not me. If you want to interpret it another way that's fine, but I think it goes against Wittgenstein's general thi...
It does not matter how many times Wittgenstein refers to this kind of proposition as "hinge," most philosophers use the term to refer to this kind of ...
I’ll try to re-word my point to make it clearer. First, a summary of Godel’s incompleteness theorems. The first theorem states that in any formal syst...
Hinges provide a way of understanding Godel’s theorems without the need to justify certain basic beliefs within the system. I prefer to call these bas...
Wittgenstein’s Hinge Propositions and Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem I’ve been thinking for quite some time now that there might be a novel framework ...
My theory of consciousness is similar in some ways to Donald Hoffman's. There are differences, for example, I’m not sure that you can use a mathematic...
That is a good question, and I believe part of the answer can be seen in good detective work. If all you have to work with is the testimony of a perso...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07EYacr3rBg&t=3347s I came back to my original argument because of a debate I saw between Dr. Sean Carroll and Dr. Ste...
You can't go on YouTube and read a few testimonials and come to a decent conclusion. I've studied and read over 5000 testimonials, and many others hav...
Your mind is made up, why bother? You seem to think the question is settled, but It's far from settled, not even close. Your dogma is just as bad, if ...
It depends on what you're looking for and what your questions are. In some contexts, it may not add anything, in other contexts, it may extend our ide...
I'm not quite saying that the "world is simply too complex to simply have formed," i.e., it's logically possible for the world to have simply come abo...
I think this is a good conversation between Dr. Tour and Dr. Cronin about some of the complexity involved in creating life naturalistically. I'm not p...
The following is a straightforward version of the teleological argument as outlined in Dr. Bitar’s book Classical Christian Wisdom (pp. 99-115). After...
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