Possibility

The object’s sentimental value is still a property of the relation, not of the actual object itself. Is the prize awarded to the artist or to the soap...

Well, we CAN separate the object from our feelings - but we are so accustomed to Cartesian dualism that we don’t know how, and often don’t want to. At...

I do agree that apperception is necessary for an aesthetic experience - but the aesthetic experience is not necessarily contingent upon actual existen...

Thanks for pointing this out - I think it’s more purposiveness or intentionality, rather than a specific, definable purpose. This relates to Kant. We ...

I’m an Arts major and marketing writer - occupational hazard. My aim here was to give a sense of the overall six-dimensional geometry, as I understand...

A book I read a couple of years ago by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner was called ‘Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness’. If you already ...

First of all, speculation is not ‘guessing without much thought’. It is theorising about possible answers to a question without sufficient information...

Is there a specific reason why you wouldn’t?

Yes, that’s all this discussion can be at this stage. But isn’t that what philosophy is, for the most part? The aim is to reframe the question so that...

That’s because it’s pure speculation. How would one even begin to test such a theory?

Manifest energy events appear to occupy the brain AND/OR nervous system, but that is NOT mind. I think the issue may be that we are trying to define m...

Not debate: more dialectics. The aim is not for one side or another to win or be conclusive, but to arrive at a relatively shared sense of reality. To...

The cup doesn’t care about its own properties set, either. But as humans, we do care about the environment’s effect on those aspects of the environmen...

The way I see it, any possibility of increasing awareness, connection and collaboration, in relation to ignorance, isolation and exclusion, would be s...

There is no reason to assume that the mind, understood as energy, is confined to the material of the brain. We attribute properties to conceptual ‘obj...

Here is an illegitimate substitute for thought: discrediting the being of an entire region of individuals (“being a middle-easterner” as “a disease of...

Suffering: the awareness that a system is insufficiently resourced to fulfill its predicted/expected energy (effort and attention) requirements.

The aesthetical experience itself is inclusive of ‘intellectual’ and ‘spiritual’ connection, not distinct from it. Phenomenology’s focus on the object...

Rhetoric as qualitative information is necessary for positioning quantitative information in relation to the system. In the ancient Aristotlean sense ...

It is the experience of aesthetics in particular which demonstrates transcending the unity of categories that subsume phenomena. Having universally va...

Sure, but based on any such interaction, one identifies either with the perpetrators or with those suffering. Perceived potential and value in an inte...

Moral importance, NOT responsibility - we correct past and current injustices not by standing with the perpetrators, but by standing against them, reg...

Putting aside the strawman of pre-arranged marriages...again...There seems to be a misunderstanding in relation to Kant, that aesthetic judgements are...

I’m with you there on the skepticism. The concept of a ‘soul in the body’ need not be a case of substance dualism. We tend to conceptualise reality as...

I’m not a scientist (at all), so my articulation here may not be very clear, but as far as I understand, there is a marked difference between descript...

‘Place’ meaning its various complex relations with all of existence, rather than any privileged location of a 3D ‘object’ - otherwise, I’m afraid we’r...

I don’t think it can be - not without reduction to a statement of definition, which kind of defeats the purpose. So, no. To be honest, I think it’s an...

Normally I have avoided referring to other dimensional relations as ‘spatial’ because of this confusion. Many qualitative chemical and temporal relati...

The reference to dimensional structure is part of a metaphysical theory I’ve been working on, but the examples come directly from Google’s dictionary ...

I think it helps to begin with a dictionary definition of the term as a determined judgement, claiming the concepts or rules under which particular us...

I’ll start with the dictionary’s mathematical definition, because I think it covers most other definitions in some way. Space: a mathematical concept ...

I think it only seems subordinate or de-emphasised in relation to the importance you appear to attribute to it. The ‘aesthetic object’ is an arbitrary...

That depends on what you mean by ‘being’ outside of the body. I think it’s possible for the mind to conceptualise itself relationally outside of the b...

No. The body cannot contain the mind, because the spatial aspect of the mind need not be confined to the body. The spatial location of the mind is a ‘...

For me, the concept of ‘mind’ refers to the fifth and sixth dimensional aspects of existence in relation to my interoceptive network. In that sense, i...

What if this asymmetry is only assumed, rather than ‘built in’? If equal quantities of matter and anti-matter are produced, it only takes an initial e...

Kant’s argument is against Cartesian dualism - I get that, which is why I referred to it as a hurdle. Both theories are forms of metaphysical dualism,...

Give me some time to get my head around Kant’s Critique of the Faculty of Judgement, and I’ll get back to you. But a couple of very quick points about...

This, as far as I can see, was the first use of the term ‘power’ in our discussion (emphasis mine).

Not always love. Love is meaningful relations regardless of value, time, object, connection or distance - so, no, most of us don’t really know what lo...

Kindle has ‘The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) for AUS $9 ISBN: 0253207215 if you want to go hard copy. This ...

:clap: Agree wholeheartedly. Awareness, connection and collaboration in the face of fear...

I’ll start by pointing out that my worldview supports process philosophy, and Rovelli’s description of the universe in physics as a collection of inte...

If I suggest skepticism about ‘feeling’ attracted to someone, this might be interpreted as advising them not to take a risk based on unreliable inform...

Something potentially exists; Something experiences this potential and exists in relation to it. Everything else is a relational construct derived fro...

The presence of pattern implies a process of pattern generation, which I imagine is what you’re referring to in ‘generator’ as a mathematical term, ra...

I think the idea that Eros pertains to one gender identity and Logos to the other is yet another attempt to simplify into a binary system what is a co...

If it were possible for you to exist forever, then how would that change what matters?

As much as you seem keen to extend these archetypes to masculine-feminine concepts in general, Mars and Venus isn’t about physical attraction or chemi...

Nietzsche on nihilism, from Wikipedia: It isn’t so much that life has no meaning, but that life’s meaning is not determined for us, nor beyond our cap...