It is my opinion that, if my mind were constrained in the way you describe, I would not be capable of having the fundamental experience of consciousne...
I'd agree entirely, we are born into a context. But it is my opinion, based on the sum total of my reading and experience, that with time, knowledge, ...
Again, I am effecting a definition of the domain which for which this assertion is fundamental. Consistent with the reality that most people, includin...
I think the subject of the thread says it all. A reasoned opinion is exactly that, an opinion, for which one has reasons. The opinion should be able t...
It's Descartes. I assumed it would require no elaboration. Transcendental argument: If A does x, A must be free to do X. Asserting A is not free to do...
I can't fathom how anyone can believe that you could do something, and not be free to do it? It's a fundamental transcendental argument. I guess I tho...
Boy, that's a whole lot of criticism without much substance. Pot meet kettle. For, to take an example, if I consider the faculty of understanding whic...
LOL! I'm pretty sure Heidegger talks about a 'community of rational beings' who participate in the project of textual creation of meaning 'outside of ...
Just to muddy the waters even further....doesn't hermeneutics describe in some detail why ongoing interpretations actually contribute to the meaning o...
Agree with this 100% This is an excellent pragmatic approach, and I am fundamentally a pragmatist. Ultimately, if I act with epistemic irresponsibilit...
As I mentioned, there are a wide variety of explanatory frameworks. The discipline of intertheoretic reduction explores various ways in which these di...
So what you are saying is your explanatory framework has no correlate for "whatever links subjectivity and objectivity". That's fine. My framework doe...
I am not denying the reality of physical mechanisms, far from it. But what you are doing is denying the reality of subjectivity because you cannot exp...
Information is non-physical. The exact same information can be embedded in completely different physical forms. But information is the sense or meanin...
If consciousness does anything at all, it must be because it is free to have done so, otherwise it would not be responsible for what it had done. As f...
"This is patently false. If you believe you have free will, but you don't, you were caused to believe that you have free will. There is no magic about...
"I figured you’d say that. You still haven’t chosen not to exist in the initial situation - you’ve chosen to take steps to not continue to live from t...
Free will certainly equates with free choice, as Possibility started out. Sartre gives the compelling example (I think) of the attempt to compel someo...
I don't know if it relates but there is lots of evidence of the effects of quantum tunneling in biological systems, including higher animals, helping ...
Yes, it doesn't explain exactly how that behaviour was happening, but presumably a similar set of brain mechanisms to other behaviours, and aligned wi...
Flocking behaviour can be simulated pretty easily using the principles of alignment, cohesion, and separation. Since brains do function computationall...
Ultimately, this is really just a question of how you choose to define it. Cognitive science can demonstrate experimentally that even phenomena like c...
Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with human actions. Usually inquiries like this differentiate between hedonism (pleasure), eudaimonism (...
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the...
Sure. And if I may be allowed my final say. The definition of altruism is "the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the wel...
But isn't belief itself the ultimate imbuer of value? If a person chooses to believe in something, presumably they commit to the enaction of that beli...
Ok, so lets look at it like this. Normative ethics is what people ought to do, which implies and entails that people have a choice in that action. Now...
Well it is a disagreement about what evidence means, which I would say is the same thing. Clearly, there is lots of evidence for altruism. It seems th...
Ultimately this is a question of a fundamental belief. Either you think people can only act in a self-serving manner, or you believe that people have ...
The only reason to outright reject a theory is that it is not coherent, or that it disagrees with established facts. It is an established fact that ma...
Well, you are essentially espousing psychological egoism, which is the belief that human beings are so constructed as to always act in a way which is ...
Ethics, in the sense that it is most often employed, "normative" ethics, is the study what people "ought" to do. What is "right," what is "wrong." Usu...
I understand, you have a unique perspective. But there are aspects of reality which are common, and it is our misconceptions about these which need to...
Well, a prejudice could be accurate or valid in the sense that you prejudge something and it turns out to be correct. In general though, the terms "pr...
Agree wholeheartedly with the limitations of scientific theory. Science operates specifically by restricting an inquiry to a specific domain or subset...
How is a language expression not a real-world phenomenon? The essence of ostensive definition is language binding itself to the real world. If I utter...
Ironically, some of the most well-educated people can have the biggest blind spots. Subject-matter experts can become siloed in their specialties and ...
If you are asking whether much of our cognitive processing is "pre-formatted" then the answer is most certainly yes. Presumably the goal of things lik...
Very different cultures attach very different values to certain ideas or concepts. Death in many eastern cultures is viewed quite differently from tho...
I guess we can ask, is the meaning of "philosophy" the same now as it has always been? As our knowledge of external reality has exploded, the nature o...
I wouldn't necessarily, just noting that was essentially Mach's principle. In a more abstract sense, however, things always exist in contexts, and con...
That would be Mach's Principle. It's a compelling view. Things enjoy discrete identity within specific spatio-temporal contexts and scales. Radically ...
Is the question about the existence of God, or the nature of God? If you ask, are there things which are Real which I am not able to imagine, the answ...
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