Gregory

You seemed to be objecting to a post because of materialism but Spinoza wasn't a materialist. He thought you and the world were God's mind. Do you hav...

Time can be a very hard thing for people because we only have so much of it. If we want everything to be perfect, we have to accept that for every mis...

Haven't you espoused Spinoza's philosophy in the past? Just saying

I am under the impression that Kant believed thing in itself or noumena was required for phenomena to appear. Remember, it was Gottlob Schulze who wro...

Thanks for the paper. In modern quantum theory they make as fine distinctions as scolastics of old. How many angels can fit in a quark, so to speak. T...

I get it now: when scientists say the world is not locally real they mean superposition and maybe something like "many worlds" (?), and so non-local w...

I am familar somewhat with Roger Penrose's ideas on the subject. I've never been clear about the distinction between local and non-local however. Are ...

Thanks for the support and kind words. I enjoy the discussions on this forum very much and although I don't always know where they are leading, there ...

Yes a comparison between Kant and Descartes provokes many thoughts. What comes to mind for me is that the argument of the Third Meditation could, or m...

Well he did have his Passions of the Mind which tries to work out how the mind works. But that it is a substance, well yes i've read the Meditations a...

Will they ever be able to say "the firing of this specific number of these neurons in this part of the brain will produce this specific intensity of t...

Since I'm not afraid to put ideas out there as my own, I would say that Absoluteness is nothing and there is nothing more final than nothing. So philo...

Some ideas: Emergent consciousness is certainly a fact psychologically. We develope in stages thru life. The philosophical aspect is different for me....

Are you saying the self is a substance or not? You seem to be taking the self in a more than pragmatic self but the the world in simply a pragmatic se...

Very interesting. One can accept the Gospels to an extent while rejecting Paul. Neitszche thought of Jesus as a pacifist, full of love but not willing...

Yes because the "act/fact" for Fichte is freedom. Descartes and Kant had a priori structures and innate ideas as the source of consciousness while Fic...

Here is my commentary on the Stanford Encyclopedia's article on Fichte. First to note, Fichte famously did away with the thing-in-itself early in his ...

This is how Fichte interpreted Kant. Kant's book on the metaphysical foundations of science has him constructing nature from intelligence in link with...

I beg to differ. "he causal factors he saw were those known to natural science. Nothing at all about 'higher powers' in his reckoning": I guess you ob...

The subject of predication is the object of awareness, so subject and object are the same in that context. The conscious synthetic subject will analyz...

Today I finished The Theory of Mind as Pure Act by Giovanni Gentile ("design and setting by Alpha Editions" 2020). It's an incredible book. The spirit...

If what you say is true then I would have to conclude that matter is not pure extension (Cartesian) and so adopt some other philosophical stance

The paradox of perception in the context of this discussion is perplexing. Mathematics obviously would seem to apply to matter. Take your childhood bi...

You talk in completely different language than I do. Example: Huh? A subject in the philosophy I read is a conscious observer. You are saying that the...

Your quote on Graham Harmon’s is very interesting. It sounds like a philosophical answer to Zeno's paradoxes instead of the mathematical one. In fact,...

George Berkeley, author of The Analyst, was one philosopher who thought Zeno's paradoxes proved idealism, as Zeno intended. Likewise William of Ockham...

You need to distinguish between parts as understood philosophically and parts of an object seen as geometry. In the latter an object has infinite part...

I was raised traditional Catholic. I don't believe in Christianity anymore. Anyway, as a materialist what do you think of Einstein's religious beliefs...

Maybe when you think of spiritual you aren't really having spiritual content in your mind. When it is experienced one recognizes that it's different f...

What about matter creating the spiritual? There is an esoteric word for that but I've forgotten it. Hegel has the world coming from Spirit but even mo...

Well Einstein himself thought everything was eternal (block universe, B time). Entropy is like the physical equivalent of Will. Maybe philosophy is co...

Jumping in, Parmenides pointed out that nothingness cannot be talked about or indicated. He's right in a way, in an ancient Greek way. Being is the un...

"Such seems to me, for instance, the after-effect of Schopenhauer on the most modern Germany: by his unintelligent rage against Hegel, he has succeede...

It seems the Eastern Catholics and Orthodox may be more explicit in this than the West, with their insistance on seeing God's energies. If i remember ...

Would Aristotle agree with you that we may not see reality as it is?

My familiarity with the word "ontic" is completely from Heidegger. I always assumed he meant -that which we perceive with our senses, the substance we...

What prompted me to start this thread was actually this video: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=physics+sabrine+did+science+prove+...

When you say existence is a state of affairs, do you mean an "event" as in Process and Reality (Whitehead)"? I struggle to process "process philosophy...

Do you still believe you see the world as it is? Hegel says properties are universals as well, while the object is an "indifferent immediate" (extende...

To me the question is whether what we exprience as "matter" is purely material and nothing else. Aristotle doesn't believe forms are purely abstractio...

They still are "forms" according to Aristotle, spiritual instantiations. It seems important to me to that with our eyes we see and recognize matter as...

Why can't we just choose to say the set of all sets that do not contains themselves is the highest in order and so is not included in itself? What in ...

Oh so youre including the barber in "all". So this is just Russell's paradox in a simple form.? All that is needed to solve it is more information it ...

Your premise 1 is oddly stated. There is no "if he does.. then he doesn't". He just doesn't shave himself because he shaves only those who do NOT shav...

Matthew 20:1-16

If the barber shaves those and only those and all those who do not shave themselves then he doesnt shave himself because of the "not shave themselves"...

If he says "i always lie" and he is being untruthful because he had once told the truth then his lie is now and his truth was once. "This sentence is ...

Wouldn't you agree we must assume a liar to be a liar most of the time, or is redemption possible in this logic game?

When L says he is lying, he hasn't specified what he is lying about. It's like the barber paradox. Not enough information is given so we must assume h...

If a liar says he is lying, his utterance does need to be compared to the substance of the utterance, to the lying-ness of the speaker. The "claim" of...