This is a significant change in argument. The OP, to which I responded, addresses evolution as explanation for consciousness - not biology. There's a ...
I've missed our agreed upon definition of consciousness. By common standard, it can be deemed equivelent to awareness, hence to a first person point o...
What you provide is not an explanation of how consciousness comes about via the mechanisms of biological evolution - in brief, natural selection actin...
To be clear, my question was that of “how does biological evolution explain how consciousness comes about, this when biological evolution (as theory w...
You're not mentioning philosophy, which I think is of greater importance than the disciplines you've mentioned. The cogito comes to mind on one side o...
Maybe I'm misinterpreting or else missing something. So I'll ask: How can the mechanics of biological evolution explain how consciousness comes about ...
Assuming that a dolphin has firsthand experience of its species-specific senses, what is it like for the dolphin to perceive its surroundings via echo...
As something different from the answers already provided, that biological evolution has taken place in no way specifies what does, and does not, have ...
Thanks. :smile: To my mind, there is such a thing as the delayed gratification of profiting more from long-term investments. Which requires more foret...
also To be clear, I acknowledge the often occurring commonalities between mysticism and madness so far presented. That said, do you have a working the...
Alright. Got it. Thanks for the clarification. It's a conclusion that materialists are likely to make ... if not the only logically necessitated concl...
I’ve done my fair share of research into psychology and psychiatry. What you and express are nothing novel to me. I could probably further stoke this ...
To clarify my just asked question by example: A Buddhist mystic with insight into Nirvana will neither talk to Nirvana nor have Nirvana talk back to h...
I said that I’m not getting it and that it’s OK by me, and I stand by that. But in speaking to someone aiming for the mental health professions, where...
I don't want to bicker on the details of how things work; it's not a field I deem myself to be sufficiently knowledgeable about. But I am curious to k...
If some cars are linked to some red things - but we grant that not all cars are linked to all red things - there is still a link, an analyzable link, ...
Since this is a philosophy forum, what I take to be commonsense reasoning: That some X’s are Y’s and some Y’s are X’s does not imply that all X’s are ...
I know you're using shorthand in the statement "profit over everything" but to try to spell out what I find to be pivotal to this: profit for whom? I ...
(I should have articulated "an uncreated cosmic computer that feeds off itself" rather than simply say "computer ..."; it's what I intended at any rat...
Cheers, mate. Interesting: can a computer that feeds off itself - reminiscent to me of the Ouroboros symbol's significance - not be conceived of as or...
Conclusion: The cosmos is not like a machine but like an uncreated being. Of course, this would welcome in concepts of pantheism and panentheism as Go...
Not that I find your reply addressed my questions in regard to truth, good, and beauty/fairness (I'm living with it just fine), but OK. Yup, monkeys (...
I can work with your appraisal. How would you respond to the claim that “even primordial sentience needs to be innately aware of truths (conformities ...
I kind of want to ask, though a bit off topic: a property of liquid water (not ice or steam) is that it's wet. I can sort of see the argument that wet...
No doubt. But here there is a logically invalid conflation of these concepts in their absolute form - Truth with a capital “T”, and so forth - with no...
This might make a little more sense if interpreted along the lines of: 1. (Complete) Conformity to that which is real = (Complete) Gratification of li...
A psychotherapist ... Cool. If the book's theme intrigues you, see is you can do anything with the musing that "depression is nature's way of telling ...
How libertarian / laissez faire / anti-government control of our human liberties the current conservative SCOTUS is!!!* * sarcasm, if I need to spell ...
No, there is no mathematically strict dichotomy to this transformation. Agreed. This can be likened to the questions such as that of "when does the co...
Neglected the question of what our reason for trusting reason is, else what our logic for trusting logic is. Yes, reason is rationally baseless - foun...
Question: For the principle that “a claim about X cannot both be true and false at the same time and in the same respect” to hold (given that “true” i...
instinct: A natural or inherent impulse or behavior. I think that, in a nutshell, what you say here conveys the pivotal issue. And I believe that it i...
Exactly, and Hume classifies these as instincts (as "instinct" was understood back in his times rather than our own, in our times being interpreted as...
And I say: Not if one hangs around the forum for a long-enough period of time. :razz: (The forum's mostly about philosophical bickering, where we thin...
:rofl: Oh, man, that gave me a good laugh. As a member of this category of weak and unworthy humans, can anyone provide me one example of someone who ...
To whoever cares to read, some thoughts while passing through: The meme that “life begins with conception” stands contra the most rudimentary of human...
My readings of Hume have been I think more charitable - tending to view the Kantian interpretation of Hume as a misinterpretation of what Hume argued ...
:smile: Hard for me to conceive of any faculty of mind that isn’t in some way interconnected with some other. To take this into the left field a bit, ...
Ah. Thanks for that. Much to agree with. Where I’m still iffy: Having read Hume a long time ago, but as also affirmed in the SEP quote: Hume terms the...
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