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Yet if another didn't have "inner experiences" but acted or spoke as if she did, you wouldn't – couldn't – know. It seems to me, Jack, that's not a re...

Tell me how do you know that any other human being than yourself has "inner experiences". None of the concepts in the OP make clear how you (or anyone...

Equivocating non sequitur. :roll: The article offers a further reading reference, not an argument. I gave an example of how 'a whole greater than the ...

So tell us what you think ...

Why do you belieeve "emergence is a mystery"? What's "mysterious" in the wiki article I linked above?

Just as this sentence consisting of individually meaningless letters conveys meaning. :roll: Emergence.

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If I have a favorite Beatles' song ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uZjeeOcQo "You Never Give Me Your Money" (4:03) Abbey Road, 1969 writers Lennon...

wut ... "into this world we're thrown" (Heidegger)

IMO, religion is for mystifying answers (i.e. placebos, snakeoil) whereas philosophy is for clarifying questions (i.e. medicine, surgery). Believers s...

I don't think so. 'Future self' is 'present self's' handiwork (or wreckage). Insofar as there's a "blueprint", it's the 'past self' that both enables ...

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Well, aren't facts (non-tautologous) truth-makers? Btw, "transcendent" being indistinguishable from imaginary or fictional, I agree there are no such ...

The graph represents the continuous propagation of discrete electrons (i.e. electricity). Ever look at a Seurat painting from a distance and then up c...

There's no good reason to think 'suffering' is not a moral fact? There's no good reason to think 'a natural person knows what makes natural persons su...

Or a five-sided triangle. :smirk:

Well I was referring only to philosophical puzzles (per the OP). Otherwise, I suspect neither QFT or GR are "solved" (i.e. complete) theories which ma...

What about "Ten Favorite TV Series" (maybe another thread)?

Your rambling has lost me again. ... moksha :fire:

Isn't each one of us simultaneously and fluidly a 'past-self, present-self, future-self' imbedded in, or enabled and constrained by, some 'past-popula...

Kant's idea is that phenomena – representations – "conform to" categories of reason (not "things" & "thoughts", respectively). If you understand it, i...

:rofl: :clap: :smirk: :100: If by "democracy" you also mean economic democracy, then I agree. :up:

A puzzle solved fits some other puzzle.

"Fake it till ya make it." :pray:

Yes, that's Iris Murdoch's position too. She was quite political as well as sociable in her day.

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She has been a significant influence for me, especially The Sovereignty of Good, as I've briefly discussed ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussi...

I suspect there are other less stringent – rigorous – forms of non-cognitivism for those inclined to it which probably accounts for the general neglec...

Maybe I've asked this of you before (if I have pardon me), but are you familiar with Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good and, if so, what do think ...

A far far less shallow read on the relation of speculative history to contemporary physics (c1993), IIRC, is The God Particle: If the Universe Is the ...

:lol: Too much woo for me.

:up: :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXGwBFU-R4o "We shall take care of them." "Eminently practical." "And we shall serve them. And you will be h...

In ethics, I think 'X is less harmful than Y' (or 'X is least harmful of all') is much less vague or arbitrary, therefore more reliably actionable, th...

So how do you mean "modern" whereby Hobbes and Spinoza, Descartes and Leibniz are not modern philosophers?

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IIRC, Zoroastrianism is the belief that two gods are eternally at war with one another (light vs darkness). NB: "Pandeism" is my jam. :smirk:

Are Descartes, Hobbes & Leibniz modern? :fire:

:100: We are real beings inseparable from reality – the same reason fish are able to understand the sea.

Well, though I'm something of a Spinozist, I don't recommend Spinoza (who is actually an acosmist, not pantheist) for 'philosophy of mind' or contempo...

I think they are outmoded, folk notions. Committed to an embodied philosophy, my speculative bias is decidedly anti-supernatural / anti-idealist; ther...

Autopoiesis : "Enformy" :: 2001 : Star Wars, no? :nerd: So Wiccan / Zoroastrian mystagogy ... :sparkle:

Of course.

I can't "unpack" any more than I have already. You misread me out of context (or superficially) and thereby see "contradictions" where there aren't an...

I consider us escape artists (à la Witty's "flybottle" ... Epicurus' "tetrapharmakos" ... Plato's "cave" ... the Upanishad's "moksha" ...) :smirk:

We're only talking past each other. Let's not ... :confused:

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Complementary properties are definitely not "mutually cancelling", Smith. Read the wiki article I linked. Are mind/body ... male/female (organisms) .....

You've lost me.

I'm sure I've pointed out to you what's wrong with that interpretation. The dao is an analogue for what western philosophers term "dialectical monism"...