I don't intend to summarize Rovelli's book about 'reality is not what it seems' . Suffice to say, since 'all is in flux', including the status of atom...
Well we can keep going round in circles here. Neuroscientists claim words like 'consciousness' are too nebulous to deal with. That claim is made on th...
Then we agree to differ. I refer you to my opening post involving statements about physicists that 'things' are merely 'interaction events'. Physicali...
In terms of the relativist thesis, 'minds' exist insofar that 'mind' is a useful concept in human interactions. So 'existence' is a word associated wi...
I take on board your interest in embodiment, and I admit that I was over generalizing with my comment 'all religions are nonsense' (I should have said...
Yes. I did know about the Buddhist connection but I put that down to the holistic, 'self ' dissipation ethos surrounding autopoiesis. BTW. I don't thi...
Not obvious to me! On the contrary, just looking at this forum, many threads appear to me to be little more than a bit of 'intellectual dancing'. Cyni...
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by 'mind is existence'. For me 'mind' and 'existence' are two words that have meanings in other contexts but not whe...
I don't agree that 'reason is sovereign'....'Life' is. What we call 'reason' facilitates that aspect of human life concerned with 'prediction and cont...
To All, Thankyou for your thoughts over night (UK) My question still stands...are we witnessing 'the demise of philosophy as we know it' ? Or to put i...
I see your point about 'existential anxiety', but is that any more significant than an atheist (like me) saying 'all religions are nonsense'? As for '...
Yes. I agree with Rorty on that 'supercedence'...that 'philosophy' has nothing authoritative to say about epistemology(Philosophy and the Mirror of Na...
Hmm..the issue raised by neurophilosophy is what constitutes 'the problem', rather than 'the solution'. That is why they reject Chalmers' 'hard proble...
Everything does have a function..that is what 'thinghood' boils down to. Properties of 'things' are expectancies of potential functional interaction w...
The claim that 'thought is not a behavior' implies that 'being animate' is not a necessary condition for thought. 'Thought involves 'brain activity' w...
I disagree. We 'know' what 'a behavior X' is, if we understand the function of X, and the essential components of X which contribute to that function....
Nah, its nothing to do with physics. We can all 'turn the sound off in our mind's eye'. The 'observation' has still been made. There is no way we cann...
Again, you miss the point. What we call 'conscious experience' tends to be a nebulous hotchpotch involving language, images, and sense data. In our cu...
Good points of course. It is my experience that religious preachers and proselytizers are here to reinforce their own 'rationalities'. Its another asp...
It is not clear cut that the Churchlands were conventional 'reductionists' since they advocated eliminativism. In short, for eliminativists, concepts ...
I don't think Feser quotes Russell accurately, Russell being focussed on the symmetry of equations in which no 'time directionality' is involved. This...
I suggest three directions in which your thinking on this might develop. 1. From a linguistic pov, language is infinitely generative in terms of its s...
I have no idea about Chinese concepts. Its origins as a place marker symbol in a number system I think dates back to the Sumerians 3rd Century BC. Thi...
If what you mean by 'sensation' is the extrapolation of the 'causal thinking' which is a ubiquitous aspect of human behavior, to those aspects of our ...
The digit 'zero' and the concept of 'zero' are two different ball games. The first, like negative numbers, is merely a place marker on an axis denotin...
.....because 'events'; are relative to 'observers' who note their 'repetition' using their memories, and define what constitutes 'the event window'. N...
Sorry no. All this assumes a representalist view of language. The nonrepresentalist view takes 'languaging' to be a behavior in which the meaning of w...
No. I'm advocating deletion because you are a hypocrite. All you do is preach intolerance of mainstream belief systems without which you would have no...
The assumption of several posters here is that neuroscience is 'reductionist' In the sense of 'explainable in terms of causal mechanisms'. The Churchl...
To all. Okay, I'm semi sceptical myself, but the cross species research implies that if 'philosophy' is contingent on human language, there is a funda...
The fact that the 'gas laws' also involve 'proportionality' is the only salient point above as neither physical situation, (predicting gas behaviour, ...
Faulty logic I'm afraid, and nothing to do with the answer. If I define the 'nerd' as the 'physical property' of apples per person, then you will get ...
Why you should think what you said above is 'an answer' beats me ! :smile: But you are correct about this 'not being philosophy'. Its about specific m...
No it doesn't ! It implies that people know the derived equation. That is not 'Ohm's Law' which specifies the concept 'proportionality' and naming 'th...
Nobody seems to have mentioned Ohm's Law which states that ... Current flowing in a conductor is DIRECTLY PRORTIONAL to potential difference across it...
Unless you are a 'naive realist', existence of anything, from electrons, through rocks, to gods, stands or falls on the utility of that concept for hu...
Macrosoft Try this ! https://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Philosophy/Philosophers/Heidegger-Podcast/24272 I found it excellent. (Skip the in...
The reason is that 'truth' implies a concept of a 'reality' independent of the needs of observers. That independence is questioned by post-Kantian dev...
No. The word 'truth' is not applicable. The word 'truth' is meaningful in Sherlock's 'crime/courtroom secenario, but not 'science' A paradigm shift gi...
Hmm...that wasn't expressed very well. I am trying to capture the semantic inevitability of an essential 'tension' between 'chatter' on the one hand, ...
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