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To piggyback on what others have said: philosophy (mostly) consists in reasoning to better, or more probative, questions; when answers to such questio...

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Can't say it any plainer. Your objection is fallacious on both accounts. I directed you to the link to show you what you've neglected to consider as b...

Read the link provided in "negative proof". Your post is a complete strawman / non sequitur. :roll:

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I'm ambivalent so far but pressing on. His 'political philosophy' from what I gather is a critique of how modern political systems, or ideologies, den...

So ... no need for me-of-this life to be concerned because that "next life" won't be, or affect, me-of-this life.

For. Fuck's. Sake. Here's a negative proof: 'Self-evidently, there was not an adult elephant sitting on your chest while you typed the OP.' :yawn:

Vicarious guilt (or redemption). In other words, fate – and whether one affirms or denies it, those "causal factors" afflict some yet-born life. Ok. S...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheia

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Now that's an attack, Doc! Just remember: you may have all the fake Rolexes but we've got the time. :sweat:

If you ASSume so, Doc. :smirk: What attack? I was just having a peaceful and polite concurrence with @"Tom Storm".

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@"Tom Storm" re: In the words of the immortal sage Bugs Bunny: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks", doesn't she, Doc?

Gods (re: believers). Lies (re: believers). Other minds (ergo 'theory of mind'). My death....

I'm all for the 'philosophy of psychology' (& neurophilosophy) and don't mind the primary academic sources (though I try to avoid derivative, secondar...

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I recently grasped (futilely) at this slippery fish with which I unpack a bit more in that post – just follow the link. Works for me as a stipulative ...

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What do think of the notion of the psychonaut? It's a new term to me which I'd just stumbled upon and found summarized in this wiki article. Some (may...

:ok: Gotcha, mate.

Your edibles / vapes must be high quality, @"Banno", to be so patient with so many repeated non-answers and the tendentious woo. Apparently, I'm not g...

A better, more insightful, title for this thread topic occurs to me: How to align astrology with astronomy.

Speculative, no? E.g. atoms (modes) : void (substance) :: relative : absolute. That's my jam. :wink:

:up: Smokin' one out, huh?

Okay. Carry on then with your focus on, if I may say so, (the) 'psychology of philosophy'.

Agreed, but the latter is only a catalyst (i.e. strange attractor when e.g. traumatic or sublime (re: limit-experiences)) for the former yet wholly la...

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A psychological topic for sure; not a philosophical question.

Works for me (void ~ fields), which I've speculated on:

Okay. Netwonian "action at a distance" doesn't displace classical materialism (i.e. atomism) only mechanized materialism (i.e. billard ball causality)...

I hear this quite often but not what is meant by "materialism" or what precisely invalidates it methodologically (not just metaphysically).

Nothing here for me in this discussion. You don't buy what I'm selling and likewise, frank. Another thread, another time.

Sure, an "eliminativist materialist" can be "reductive"; some are not. I'm not. I'm eliminative about "consciousness" as an thing or a state (instead ...

:smirk: Pesky thing this evidence (sufficiently corroborating facts) business, especially when it's lacking. Tougher on too-good (woo)-to-be-true wish...

If it is, explain it to me (and Tom Metzinger, et al).

If one refuses to correct a position one holds that has been validly demonstrated to contain false assumptions, fallacious arguments, vague or indefin...

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Whatever, man. :roll:

You've got me confused with someone else, frank. I'm a non-reductive physicalist and have defended the position elsewhere on this site. As for Chalmer...

It's exactly the opposite situation in philosophy (East & West), and always has been, which accounts for the prevalence of e.g. (neo)platonic / esoter...

And how does this woo-woo distinction make a factual difference? Changing words in itself almost never changes facts and usually just wallpapers over ...

Fashionable? My post history attests to my decades-old affinity for emergence (systems thinking). And if by 'music is emergent' you're implying that t...

Apologies for my typos (now corrected), I was writing on my phone while traveling in a car. And yes, btw, "the kernel topic" of your paper is, in my c...

I'm not sure what you're saying. Oh, and 'psyche-as-music' is nice, but still problematically reified.

:up: (re: German Idealism!) Good quote. I've always considered old Georg an obscurant, occulting, charlatan (must be my Schopenhauerian / Feuerbachian...

I prefer dancing as an analogy for minding to Searle's "digestion" ... ; still, as Banno points out, "disembodied dancing" doesn't make conceptual sen...

And that's most of the difference as history & experience show ... Religion : natural science :: astrology : astronomy (or alchemy : chemistry) :: jus...