Harry Hindu

So instead of addressing the point, you would rather engage in ad hominems. :roll: Look who's talking. It seems to me that if we can't agree on whethe...

I think you just posted examples of how we imagine what is beyond our little fishbowl of experience. What distinguishes imaginings from reality is the...

It seems to me that one can do these things and not have a mystical experience. So, what makes these experiences mystical for one and not another? In ...

Which origin are you referring too? The origin of self-replicating molecules, the origin of sex and males and females, the origin of warm-blood over c...

Sure. What else would you need other than a rational interpretation of other beings and their behaviors and their relationship to you? It seems to me ...

But that was my point, and your point in step 3. - that we aren't reaching a consensus. If you make the claim that we are communicating, and I dispute...

I was hoping that some great examples of mystical experiences that are as natural as the sky or the sun would follow such a grandiose claim.

What is "unnatural"? Life itself doesn't seem to be a common feature of the universe. Does that mean that life is unnatural? How do you know that we d...

If I dispute the factuality (btw, what's the difference between factuality and fact?) of 1, then how do we know we are talking about the same thing - ...

So when you explain your experience as a deactivation of your neural default mode network, is that the insight/knowledge about you that you are talkin...

So your argument is, we can only talk about our opinions and our opinions are about whatever it is we are talking about? Whoah, that one made me dizzy...

I'm open about sex with the people I have sex with, and not so open about it with those I don't have sex with. Who talks the same way about sex with t...

Say praxis obtained some insight into himself (obtained knowledge about himself) using mysticism as a means (whatever that really means we'll ignore f...

If this is the way that you want to put it, then there are more or less accurate maps of the territory. If your map contradicts mine, then what do we ...

Mysticism is being talking about as a kind of knowledge, or as a means of obtaining it. Is it a means of obtaining knowledge or happiness?

Being happy is one thing. Being knowledgeable is something else. It bothers me when someone confuses one with the other and expects me to have the sam...

People are looking for answers to questions that science just hasn't been able to answer yet. Some questions have been answered by science and many pe...

Thanks for your opinion of your opinion of opinions. But according to the other statement you asserted, someone else only has access to their opinion ...

Did you re-read your post where you said that all we can ever do is talk about our opinions? Is your entire post an opinion or fact about systems theo...

That's your opinion. So is this Gilbert Harman's opinion of logic, or is he getting at what logic actually is? The problem is that if we can only ever...

The problem is that MadFool was talking about mysticism, not his opinion of it. Maybe people are confusing the two, or are they the same thing - is my...

If you are looking for others to disagree with your idea so that you can "refine the accuracy of my own perspective by relating to the differences bet...

Then why are you even here trying to put it into words? Why are you even trying to express something that you say is inexpressible? I don't see how no...

I find it interesting that you think that information only comes in the form of images, data, words, and symbols. What about neural firings? Is that i...

No, I mean he view from your head. Would you agree that the information in your "brain" includes objects' location relative to your brain, and not you...

How can you say that you understand it if it can't be worded, unless the problem is that you don't have the vocabulary for wording it. Sometimes new i...

You seem to have a difficult time answering my questions. Come back after you've taken the time to think out your idea in a way that makes sense and c...

I don't know. Is your goal to feel better about yourself, or to obtain knowledge? Ideas that make one feel better about themselves at the expense of o...

Is this a truth?

This is a great example of the misuse of language being used as philosophy. This is a contradiction. Your first sentence is a description of the natur...

Is the nature of truth is that it is a conception only? Is it true that you typed the previous post? If we both agree that you did, how is it that we ...

But why would you even conclude that what you think would be useful to me if we weren't similar in some way in the way we think already, or that we li...

You didn't answer my question. My question was about your idea, not my idea, which I haven't even provided for you yet. I'm simply asking a question a...

I'm asking you what scribble you are using to refer to the form the information about the world relative to your eyes takes. If you don't want to use ...

Just replace every instance of "mysticism" with "god" in your OP and you are explaining the same problem. If the meaning of the word is subjective, wh...

You tell me. Were you certain when you stated that the starting point is uncertain?

You're mis-representing my position. Please quote the post where I said brains contain images. I believe that I said that minds contain images of brai...

I don't get this at all. So we're not suppose to believe anything you say?

I gave my explanation in my reply to SophistiCat on the first page. In a sense 'objective truth' is a redundant statement. It's equivalent to saying '...

It seems to me that your are starting from a place in certainty when asserting that all starting points are inherently uncertain.

You seem to be contradicting yourself. In speaking with me, you say that we can't know the truth - you can't even assert that what you said is true, y...

Why? Is it a stupid or difficult question? Would you say that dreams have images? If so, where do the images come from? If you had a dream about a bra...

Oh, no. I expected the same result. My post wasnt for you, but for reasonable readers to see how unreasonable you are being.

Exactly, what is the relationship between the film show and the neurons if not a relationship of representation? If I asked you to draw a picture of n...

It seems like we are saying the same thing - that you are un-afflicted and I am. What would I be afflicted with if you say that what I'm afflicted wit...

Absolutely. The reason being your inability to answer a direct question. I asked you what philosophical view is well established. I'll go easy on you ...

Then this is the result one would expect when a non-p-zombie attempts to communicate the concept of "mind" to a p-zombie. You are a p-zombie and I am ...

Then it's true that this is a perceived limitation of the perspective from which you are asking the question, and that is the case whether I agree or ...

Then nerve firings are a kind of film show? I don't get it. Both of what? Why did you use the term "film show" to refer to something that supposedly d...