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I reckon one could give a decent defence of scientific realism as an outcome of instrumentalism; where realism is just holding that sentences about el...

Boring, maybe, but also pretty decisive. So the snake is... and here I'm trying to work out what it is Hoffman would say... some sort of community of ...

That's not a paradox. The equations of QM are very clear, and certainly not contradictor. You cannot use them as an example of accomodating a paradox....

In which case conscious agents are just the trees and rocks an Homo Erectus of which we already talk, and his theory amounts to little more than a mat...

My cynical self says that the editor rubbed their hands in glee. A perusal of the clientele even of this forum shows a huge market for scientism, and ...

If evolution is only a part of the "headset", how is it that it can explain that we are evolved conscious agents?

That's why I laughed at the piece I quoted earlier, his use of Wittgenstein: Why not say "Well, what would a rock have looked like if the rock had bee...

Hoffman defines consciousness in terms of PDA loops. But further, it's not this or that thing that is conscious, but that consciousness "builds" this ...

A similar, but more extensive, critique is found in https://philpapers.org/archive/ALLHCR.pdf Also mentioned above.

The Tallis article has already been the subject of discussion in this thread: Tallis' argument is clear. Hoffman claims on the one hand that "There ar...

Roughly, yes.

Ah, thought you was referring to the book. That'd explain it. Past my bed time. :yawn: Anyone else watching the Renée Geyer Memorial?

So there are three aspects to the account: 1. Fitness beats truth 2. The interface theory of perception 3. Conscious realism Fitness beats truth is th...

Yeah, Perhaps one of the folk who claim to understand it will do so.

Hmm. Don't see it. Penguin paperback? The looping consciousnesses are what is real... Yeah, stretches credulity.

Well, what was Kant's noumena? There's not much agreement there. But Hoffman explicitly rejects comparison between his views and noumena, in that he c...

Hmm. From Communism to environmentalism. Noice.

The index is a bit shit. I recall reading that, but now can't find it. Page? I thought it was followed by a back-tracking towards idealism.

Yeah, sorry it's not clearer. So Conscious Realism takes as fundamental some entity - he posits a particular quantum wave in some places - that can "a...

@"Wayfarer", @"Tom Storm" So I read the book. Still processing what seems to be a bit of a mess – which may be down to my still piecing it together. T...

Too complex. But thanks. Thanks - a bit of a shame. Anyway, thought I'd ask.

Is there a way to change the size of a linked image? Can I make this smaller... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263704213/figure/fig7/AS:2715...

The answer might be found in Philosophical Investigations, §201: It's what we do.

On the third day he rose again...

Half way through the book, and still not confident about what it is he is claiming. I can't decide if the vacillation is rhetorical or if he really do...

Don't misunderstand: I'm offering this as a clarification, a proscription, of the use of "antirealist", by way of bypassing the "contentious and unset...

You have the option of not following the laws of physics?

Actually I am explicitly differentiating these. I have pointed out that truth is a unary predicate, taking a statement, while both belief and knowledg...

It's all your posts deserve. Bye.

Hang on. The fact changed? So the fact was that the Sun went around the earth, and now the Earth goes around the sun? I put it to you that the Earth h...

I didn't just make assertions. i pointed out that The cosmological argument is that the world depends on something else for it's creation, usually a t...

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Rather I am trying to have you see the difference between saying how something is and saying how it ought be. Physics is about how things are. It is s...

Perhaps. But the use to which you put it in your theory does no work. Look, Ben, you attempted to argue that the universe exists because energy exists...

:confused: You give an explicit insult after three posts. Brief, even for you. The point is simply that not all imagined possibilities are worthy of c...

...and while I am quoting Mr Adams, here's one for :

As is

You are right, idealism must posit something like a universal mind in order to achieve coherence. But instead of credulity, better to treat this as a ...

So you are saying that the Sun used to go around the Earth, and now the Earth goes around the sun?

Interesting. So on a rough line, which approach, which perspective, comes closer to the interests you express here - Bunge's "real man" approach, deci...

And if evolution is nothing more than our perceptions, then it didn't really occur. The view still undermines itself.

You seem to imply that the intellect has little to do with ethics and politics...

Just for clarity, here's a way one might understand the justified true belief account. For simplicity let's use a fairly direct example. The cup has o...

I don't think folk can provide a definition of truth, at least not one beyond the simple T-sentence: "P" is true IFF P. This is so because of the spec...

Let me help. This is your comment with which I took issue, way back. The problems I see: First, there is a sense in which knowledge is observer-relati...

Hate the way 'merkins do April Fool's on 2nd April.

Thanks for the link. Sure, philosophy, like plumbing, can be done very badly. And when it is done badly, it is smelly and messy. Is the answer to not ...

"Just-no" stories are honest? They admit "I don't know". All you have done is replace notions of spirt with energy, making a pseudo-physics.

I've lost track of this discussion. By way of trying to pick it back up, I'll point out that what you are doing in the post linked is already engaging...

Sure. Then we ask how "objective" plays out. In realist/antirealist discussions, the fraught notion of objectivity gives way to a tighter discussion o...