You can still read selections at the website philosophyofhumanism.com without a download if you want an alternative, its got almost all the same mater...
A good start is the application of quantum mechanics to consciousness theory, in particular an explanation of qualia, the basic elements of qualitativ...
Many of the posts I make at this forum are short excerpts from my book or summaries to get some entertaining informal discussion going. They're presen...
Anyone who would like to read my book, its not quite finished, and a couple sections of the almost final copy are only available at wordpress.com. Cli...
Isn't optimizing willpower, the range of opportunity available to human selves, the means to produce healthy individuals capable of quality, actualize...
The fact is that birds are subjectively experiencing in relatively intention-rich ways - anyone who has closely observed nature absolutely can't deny ...
I'll break up this little shindig and say that I've come to think the solution lies in an analysis of the past, giving objectivity a cogent historical...
I side more with Harry Hindu regarding the basics of logic. I think a chimpanzee's ability to make logiclike differentiations amongst perceptions isn'...
I wrote an essay which touched upon what basically amounts to instrumentalization in the medical field, something I have all too much familiarity with...
I know, intellectuality in mainstream culture these days is battle rapping with multiple accents. Nothing at all wrong with that, just sayin' everyone...
I've reflected some more since then, and came up with a theory that I posted as the OP of this thread: Categories of Human Thought. It's not the full ...
The way I see it, Nietzsche essentially viewed nihilism as a naturalistic phenomenon, not inherently good, evil, or bad, merely a fact of the modern w...
In this schema, matter is equilibrated or not relative to what surrounds it, and the structural context of substance as such is essentially nonlocal i...
The biosemiosis perspective is similar to mine because it is based on the same empirical evidence. The slight difference is that I view this underlyin...
The ion channels are nodes with sizable gaps between them. Sodium and potassium ions are a trigger, not the full mechanism of signal transduction. Mol...
The Nietzschean in me can't get out of the view that information is a conditional content of the mind. We mold the world to our perspective, and all o...
The Danish Neils Bohr and German Max Planck, along with contributions from many additional scientists, successfully theorized matter as a duality appe...
Wave/particle duality? I acknowledge that nature does not at all mirror the double slit experiment, but matter has intrinsic wavelength as far as I kn...
Maybe instead of panpsychism, this paradigm can be thought of as something like transpsychism, meaning that mind transcends organic matter. Coinage of...
I'll give some brief detail about the science behind this model and see what you think. It seems that quantum phenomena of biochemistry are exceedingl...
You seem to have substantial knowledge about this nanoscale range of molecular behavior, so I'm curious how you see it fitting with the following mode...
Those are cool theoretical ideas, and I'll give some criticism. Information/entropy might very well provide a viable model of quantum fundamentals to ...
If you guys would like some reading material on this topic, I've outlined the essentials of how consciousness evolved and posted the theoretical frame...
To step in and quickly clarify the science of panpsychism, I've got a theory as to how it probably works that I posted as a brief essay on this site, ...
I'll give you an additional front of queerness to grapple with. All of the following can mean "Bob ought to throw the ball": "Bob is a big dick" (heck...
Damn, that's harsh, bullied into herd submission before we even got started lol I think intersection of ethics and language is a really effective way ...
I think pure ethics is not based on what you feel, experience, believe or agree with, but what you want and need, with needs prioritized over wants. I...
I believe I have a very plausible theory posted awhile back on this site as a brief essay. You can read it at this thread: Qualia and Quantum Mechanic...
But you can collaborate such that progress is achieved mutually, improving both your perspectives on charity and as a consequence the practical approa...
I'll quote my book also for the sake of some discussion, a rather psychologistic viewpoint. An excerpt from Standards for Behavioral Commitments: Phil...
As long as we're getting into some detail and wow, substantive thinking!, I'd be interested in your analysis of corruption, which ties in with the acc...
Cultural conditioning is a broad and difficult topic, not like I'm an expert, but I would basically argue that the human mind radically acclimates to ...
Got to account for the effects of legal systems, education, conditioning, which you started to touch upon when mentioning memetics I think. Human valu...
Maybe you need to include a cultural dimension also. Reading this, I began to consider that what binds human behavior isn't simply the desire for plea...
Does anyone even value privacy anymore? It sure doesn't seem like it sometimes. Maybe you must be a multimillionaire to even have a chance at protecti...
Who's doing the suing, is it class actions for online security breaches, sole individuals against information distribution companies, corporations for...
We're going to need a lot of badass brainscan technology to save the star-crossed mice. Anyone know what glial cells do? Could probably be lots of int...
Quantum entanglement has been found in photosynthetic reaction centers, tunneling has been suggested by multiple experiments as a mechanism for active...
Putting philosophy at the center is interesting. If you plucked it out, the entire cultural framework still has lots of structural symmetry, a kind of...
A possible explanation. The foundation of organic consciousness can be termed "phenomenality" and is divided into features internal or external to the...
The issue at the height of Western political religiosity during the Middle Ages was its fomentation of mob mentality that undermined activist solidari...
Because science is so inextricably bound to the modernizing of medicine and augmenting of recreation, maybe many have a notion that its advancement in...
Maybe the colors of external objects and color perception are both color in some realist sense, but different types. The colors of objects are just as...
I suppose I'm ideally looking for a partial synopsis of what recent philosophy has argued, some kind of brief reference to current consensus or demarc...
Not sure where to even begin, which is why I stated the issue in such a nonspecific way. I guess to hone in on the crux of the matter: how do we defin...
I'm not sure that this is an explicitly designated thesis/antithesis situation, but basically phenomenology is an expansion of Kantian Idealism or the...
He's a synthesis of the Hegelian dialectical history paradigm with phenomenology. Gets into psychology of behavior and the nature of cognition, also d...
Not that knowledgeable in "schools of thought" kinds of considerations, but a guy I recently found who might be of interest to you is Maurice Merleau-...
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