Pantagruel

Continuing on, Chalmers does pursue this fine line of division between the phenomenal and the psychological by way of refuting Dennett, who says that ...

Any number of ways. Perhaps the zombie argument can yield the correct result if the conclusion-begging premise is better analyzed. This is the directi...

But it is still possible to come to the right conclusion for the wrong reason. I've been thinking along these lines. One difference must be that the a...

Is this a role that philosophy assigns to itself? Many social philosophers explicitly state that, for various reasons, modern culture has evolved away...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

:up: Love me some Doug Adams.

Re-reading The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers I see it has a chapter on naturalistic dualism, which came up in a thread recently and relates to the ...

Naturalism as I understand it embraces the idea that the comprehensive experience of cognition/thought is a feature of the universe, versus any kind o...

Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead

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Listening to music, writing and recording music. I started running again this summer after a three year layoff, I'll keep it up as long as my knees la...

Jurgen Habermas views constitutions as transformational documents aimed at addressing and redressing the most significant defects and deficiencies in ...

Just crossed paths with this one. To me, it seems more forceful if you drop the final, "from his fear": he who fears suffering already suffers.... It ...

...things are sensed through the understanding, understood through the senses. p. 1257

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This isn't a poem, strictly speaking. However it is some of the most lyrical prose that I have ever read. More so in that the lyricism survives or tra...

Late-night/Early-morning Restless resolutions steal my safe, considered self away Dislodging what I think I feel to make it possible today. No mysteri...

He who does not live at all for others hardly lives at all for himself p. 1138

I am loath even to have thoughts which I cannot publish. p. 953 Now there's a standard

Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead

I thought philosophy was kind of the boon that the self-recognition of creative thought conferred on itself? Like the worst day being a philosopher is...

Hmm. I do you think it is a linear progression over time though? Or are we all not simply creatures of the world into which we have been born? I have ...

Metaphysical poetry is based on the conceit of juxtaposing the sublime and the mundane. Isn't that the challenge of metaphysics itself? Trying to expr...

:up: ...there is no more reliable witness than each man is to himself. p. 711 Since men are not intelligent enough to be adequately paid in good coin ...

I have a saying I came to from sad experience: treat each person the way you will wish you had when they are gone,

"A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave....I am now ready to leave, regretting nothing except life itself....Death is the or...

"A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave....I am now ready to leave, regretting nothing except life itself....Death is the or...

Yes, that's probably true, it looks....dense.

"Teleology is only mechanism turned upside down" Collingwood's description of Bergson's metaphysics of creative evolution.

Nice, me too. :up:

The Complete Essays of Michel De Montaigne this is going to take a while, studying the nature of human thought through self-exposition...

There are also neural networks that simulate brain function at a neuro-chemical level (which would be analog-equivalent, I guess), however they are le...

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...a scientist who has never philosophized about his science can never be more than a second-hand, imitative, journeyman scientist. A man who has neve...

The Idea of Nature by R.G. Collingwood Looks "phenomenal"..... :)

For the guy doing the torturing?

I can only surmise that, qua conscious beings, we are composed of experiences and beliefs. So perhaps experiencing the magnificent uncertainty of deat...

Gilgamesh joins the immortal pantheon after he dies....kind of fits with something I've recently been toying with, are we spiritual beings "in-trainin...

The Epic of Gilgamesh - the most ancient recorded story For anyone who enjoys Dickens or Victorian literature or just a good fiction, The Eustace Diam...

The scope of that evidence is tiny indeed, compared with the vast expanses of space and time of which we are aware.

Yes, unless neutrinos in create some kind of disruption in the fabric of spacetime that the being can perceive as its own "mirror-image". It's a good ...

I like the idea a lot. Nothing really current to offer at the moment....

Actually, I'm not sure the mirror test is all that definitive. Passing the mirror test arguably does demonstrate self-awareness. But failing to recogn...

Interesting to me in that I just started reading Brentano's Descriptive Psychology. His position is that psychognosy. the study of purely mental state...

Probably not. But equally I'm sure not a lot of humans wonder what it is like to be a dog. :)

Well, you don't actually know what it is like "to be a dog," to paraphrase Nagel's famous thought-experiment on the limitations of reductionism.

Isn't there a difference in kind between these two types of recognition though? Allorecognition really just seems equivalent to saying that the organi...

Descriptive Psychology by Franz Brentano

If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him.

Just because most people are hypocrites doesn't mean this doesn't hold true for those whose practices are authentic.