Fermions & bosons. OTOH, the (modern) specularive ontology of matter has been designated "an idea" (Berkeley), "a phenomenon" (Kant) or "res extensa" ...
You tell me. Epicurus' "Riddle" (linked above) suggests some essential "prerequisites. Whatever they are, they should make the entity worthy of being ...
Wonder in spite of "fear" – the shock of 'appearing and disappearing' – may spark deliberative reflections; absent wonder, however, I think "fear" its...
:roll: I can think of several significant cognitive neuroscientists who have plenty to say which is informed by observational data on this topic, unli...
:roll: Walking is what legs do just as minding (i.e. "consciousness") is what a sufficiently intact & self-reflexive CNS interacting with its dynamic ...
Walking (or running) gets bodies from place to place, maIntains / improves cardovascular fitness and strengthens legs, so the activity is not epipheno...
No we're not. We as a species made those "rules". What do you think our scientific progress (i.e. paradigm shifts) consists in? We govern ourselves – ...
If existence (e.g. "energy") has a Meaning / Purpose that we haven't created, then we are nothing but prostrate slaves before that alien Meaning/Purpo...
Whatever "meaning" or "purpose" you find in X is the result of whatever you bring to X (e.g. just like logic or programming GIGO). Energy is used by u...
Alrighty. :up: Well according to my parsimonious 'two types', I cop to philosophical naturalism (i.e. prioritizing ontological immanence over ontologi...
Yeah, in the largest scope and longest run, "energy" (as you describe it, Ben) seems quite meaningless and purposeless since it cannot not do what it'...
Maybe I should put the two types this way: naturalist (re: immanence) and non-naturalist (re: non-immanence). Anyway, as an aside, I think concepts li...
A fool who know s/he's a fool or a fool who doesn't know? – that is the question. :smirk: Two faces of every drachma: naturalist (i.e. reality) or non...
Quite right, but the OP asks for arguments for ontological, not epistemological, idealism. Are you objecting to "ideality" as prior to – independent o...
Well perhaps, except that "consciousness" is no more mysteriously "emergent from matter" than walking is emergent from legs or respiration is emergent...
I don't grok your objections but I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on how non-anthropocentric 'the post-Singulaity era' will be. Anyway, ba...
:up: It seems to me that 'ontological idealism' entails absolute (i.e. "divine") solipsism, which – though conceptually unparsimonious – is, in practi...
I don't assume that. "Other worlds" themselves are not "vital resources" to spacefaring thinking machines, but are only repositories of indigenous rem...
The way I see it: the you is the music, the brain is the orchestra; when the orchestra stops playing and disbands, the music is over, that is, you cea...
None in particular that I'm aware of; certainly not a psychoanalytic "theory". Maybe a Spinozist conatus-inspired hybrid of Iris Murdoch's (platonic) ...
FWIW, maybe (wishful thinking), in order to bait-n-switch radicalized MAGA morons, Criminal Defendent-1 will be arraigned and read the list of ("36" I...
Why would they need that? When our civilization can detect them, it'll be because we're post-Singularity, the signal to ETIM that Sol 3's maker-specie...
I did not state or imply that I've decided anything about "orga-mecha harmony" ... Anyway, I don't think we can intelligently speculate or predict the...
You took this (sloppy word choice) out of context. Previously I had written and then repeated again for emphasis Again, AI engineers will not build A³...
Maybe as a concession to the analytical style I differentiate between "ego" and self, investigating techniques (e.g. hermeneutics, ethics, physics, co...
Define your terms (how you intend for us to use them for the sake of this discussion): mental, non-mental, interaction, ontological idealism. This mig...
Where have I ever explicitly or implicitly expressed being "upset" about any topic on TPF? More specifically, T Clark, where have I either objected to...
So you've forgotten about or have not yet read Witty's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (especially propositions 1-2) or, more sadly, you just read it a...
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