Gregory

You're being scrupulous. Why would time change anything, especially a second. You're in direct experience with something. A tiny time lag has no meani...

The clusters directly understand the tree as well as the soul that is united with it. They have dual action on an object A second latter doesn't mean ...

Hegel, following Schelling, had a philosopher of nature. He believed the world was real, not a simulation. The real world comes from the spiritual Abs...

The 1792 writing by G.E.L. Schulze entitled "Aenesidemus" brought a Humean critique to Kant's work. Hume didn't doubt that matter was real because he ...

I'm also not sure I understand what you mean by seeing things in your head that is not outside. That sounds like some psychological thing. If you see ...

Is phenominalism different from phenomenology? My understanding of the later is that we take first person perspective first and work in theories so th...

Mind is awareness which is a feeling. How can we know if AI has it since it's "biology" is so different from ours? People say they might demonstrate r...

Feeling of mind

Well you are God to your thoughts

The difference between an accidentally infinity and an essential one is pertinent. A mind conceiving an essential infinity recurs back upon truth when...

Do you doubt that you doubt?

Hegel says in his Greater Logic: "This only perhaps can be remarked, that hitherto the determination of quantity has been made to precede quality and ...

He means you have to be certain of something, because when you TRY to doubt EVERYTHING then you can't doubt anything

What about phenomenology?

Wittgenstein in his book On Certainty: "If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself pr...

Formal logic is a part of philosophy, which defines truth. You couldn't think at all without the concept of truth. As for colors, they change is relat...

I would also add that Hoffman rejects our natural sense of shape of body. For him everything spatial is an illusion, as with Kant. If science says som...

He starts with physicalism

I would say instead that the mind is infinite intelligence and that Hoffman is coming from this from a materialist scientific frame of mind instead of...

Also, how can they map the terrain and compare with storage capacity if there is no terrain?

They will never to able to say how much information a brain can process because it is first person experience alone that knows how it processes inform...

But with what first principle do you start with. Descartes argues there must exist something that is at least as great as all our ideas. This he calls...

My problem with Hoffman is that you can't encode at a very basic level the idea of "seeing reality in itself" and "seeing only an appearance" into gam...

It seems to me that the problem of "something rather than nothing" only has force if matter is real. If all that exists is thought sensations, I don't...

Referring to Schelling, "On his account, we have to think of reality as an original unity (ursprüngliche Einheit) or a primordial totality (uranfängli...

I don't see how modern versions of idealism like Hoffman can be reconciled with type of realism that is opposed to nominalism (that of Anselm of Cante...

Maybe a segment loops around on itself in self creation as if I go North all the way until I arrive from where I started

It is dangerous to desire knowledge too strongly. To say the reality consists merely in our thinking is fantastic poetry because it is so fantastical....

Language is mysterious for me. How does a child learn to connect words to actions and objects. If i point to a vase and say "vase", how does the child...

This is not exacyly true. Hegel rejects Kant's noumena as fiction and says Spirit, which is us, is noumena "even among the most committed absolute ide...

I recently found Neville Goddard and how all is one in God. It seems true, and listening to hours of Gregorian (sic) chants confirm it for me. I never...

To put it bluntly, Hoffman is misusing science. To set up his model he has to have preconceived notions of what is real and what isn't. Not only does ...

I think you essentially understand Heidegger. To reject objectivity and subjectivity is to side with subjectivity

I tentatively agree with the ethical indeterminancy you mention in that everyone has to follow their conscience. Not everyone will agree on those. But...

There is also a connection to the world. We can make some sound judgment about what animals and bugs are, right? Confusing one's imagination might be ...

Is it for Heidegger that he wanted to see existence purely by leaving to the side "objectivity and subjectivity" and perceiving life raw and apart fro...

I can show time by speaking of my life. I know surely that these events happen. Some people doubt this philosophically and say the world could have st...

Hegel in the first chapter of his Phenomenology also says that the present cannot be settled. I don't know what he means by this. I see time as if a p...

Is this related to Kant?

What we deserve before others is different from what we deserve before the universe. As Chesterton wrote somewhere, a healthy mind can accept a parado...

They don't deserve harm but rather need "harm" (trials) to grow

Yes and no. He deserves respect from humans but the universe can test him

A baby is not guilty. But it has to go through trials like we and even animals apparently have to go through. Arguing that we shouldn't reproduce is j...

What if life is a place to learn something in order to find the meaning of life? I mean you haven't found the meaning of life if you are arguing that ...

Your OP isn't complicated

Are you arguing from a purely materialistic paradigm? The argument won't work with a Christian for example

The discussion was about political policies

To not derail the thread, feel free to have the last word

Philosophy of Mind, paragraph 405

In his uniquely dialectical fashion, Hegel writes, "In the ordinary course of nature the condition of the child in its mother's womb is a condition ne...