Harry Hindu

Then the concept that I have of your mind is identical to your mind, and your internet post and the following replies are a concept that originated in...

The problem with philosophy lately (at least on this forum) is philosophy's abandonment of its most fundamental field - logic - and embracing religiou...

I'm quoting from the link in the OP: I think the great divide between metaphysics and natural philosophy was the result of Descartes' dualism. This se...

yes, that is something that has been on the rise on these forms lately - people performing mental gymnastics in order to create evidence for a supreme...

It depends on who you ask and even then you will get contradictory answers from the same person who claim to be offended by the word, yet they use it ...

Then he should use that term instead of "first cause" because his intent to act isnt the first cause of his action.

And like I said, we act in response to causes that exist prior our intent to act. So our intent to act can't be the first cause. Why do we act? Becaus...

This is all wrong. Change does not have its origin in the will, nor does the will have its origin in the memory. Change can occur as a result of the w...

Time is change and what is the fundamental essence of change? How are you aware of change? The fact that you keep using concepts to refer to other con...

What would limited agency look like vs. the illusion of agency? In other words, how would God know that his agency isn't an illusion, and just limited...

Are you an internet bot, or a human being?

How do you distinguish anything in awareness? What are the fundamental distinctions?

In other words, "unity" and "difference" take the form of words, which are colors and shapes or sounds, that you learned through perception. These scr...

Then how do you know that you have a concept in your mind? What form does a concept take for you to be aware of it and communicate it?

Concepts are formed from perceptions. Perceptions are prior to conceptions. Perceptions are brute and vivid, while conceptions are recalled by the wil...

They are not one and the same just as effects are not the same as their causes. Concepts are about objects and their aboutness comes from the causal r...

If intentionality isnt a necessary component of mind, then if God's mind lacks intentionality, how is that any different from a physical universe that...

But how do you know anything if you aren't a mind? If agency is irrelevant then that is no different than saying that reality is unintentional which i...

So you are saying that none of us have a mind including God? That would just be a mindless state of affairs no different than how science describes re...

How can I be a figment of god's imagination if I have a mind? If my experiences are not my mind, then what is a mind?

But I don't know that I'm really an avatar posing as god, therefore god can't be omniscient. All I know is that I have a mind, and if solipsism is tru...

If God is a solipsist, then I'm the God/solipsist, as I know that I have a mind, and you all only exist as internet posts when I read them. None of yo...

all sounds and visuals carry meaning, which is what caused them. Words mean the idea the user intended to convey.

It's the other wait around. Language is composed of words and words are just sounds and scribbles - sensory impressions - empirical.

How can so many people even understand, or know about, the idea of causation, without causation? How did you come to know about and understand causati...

What exactly is the difference between material and mental phenomena to say that one cannot consist of or emerge from the other? How is science extrem...

Humans aren't the only conscious beings. Any animal with a central nervous system can be considered as having the potential for consciousness. The rea...

Is this just another judgment, or are you actually explaining what is the case - that the doctor is making a judgment? You end up with an infinite reg...

So were you talking past Banno here: If we were talking past each other, then how can we say that we are disagreeing? A disagreement is about the same...

I already explained how saying something has a specific property does not mean that the thing has that property. Like I said, "The apple is red" is ma...

In what other case would your proposition not be the case? It seems to me that you would simply be talking about something else entirely (a different ...

You seem to be telling me that the string of symbols, "disagreeing", has a meaning independent of how I feel about it, and if I feel differently then ...

Then you are referring to your view of the thing and not the thing itself. In this instance you wouldnt be disagreeing with someone, you would be talk...

Subjective statements are category errors where one projects mental properties onto non-mental objects. Objective statements are implied to be about t...

So, what are you saying - that there are no such things as properties - only judgments? Judgments about what? It seems to me that a judgment is a prop...

Why isnt a quantity of evidence not equal to conclusive evidence? You keep avoiding the question. What would proof of causation look like if it doesnt...

It depends upon the property. The apple's redness is not a property of the apple alone. It is a property of an interaction between the apple, light, a...

but it isnt just me. One bit of evidence by itself isnt much, but an amalgam of evidence can be considered proof. Again I ask you, what would proof of...

Then wouldnt you say that the usefulness of the idea of causation is evidence that the idea is accurate?

Why would god have created a universe where we could conflate its existence with delusions, or where delusions of any kind exist?

How could anyone think that this universe is "fine tuned" for humans when 99.9999% of the universe is hostile to humans? We could end up being extinct...

This is the same thing that someone else said in another thread. We observe causation all the time - even participate in it ourselves. How do you expl...

What does it mean to be useful if it doesn't carry some degree of accuracy?

Priorities. Don't you have to ensure that you are surviving in order to even contemplate other goals? How can you achieve other goals if you haven't e...

There are no such things as non-existent entities. Is that not what it means to be non-existent? Non-existent entities cannot form causal relationship...

There are alternatives to dualism, which is what I was arguing for - monism. This sounds like indirect realism. How is Kantian idealism different from...

What exists is what causal power. Fairies exist as ideas and ideas have causal power. Square trianges are impossible to even imagine and therefore onl...

But that is what I was saying - that it doesnt help in using those terms to answer those types of questions. Minds are different in what sort of way? ...

If these abstract principles don't exist in the "material" world, then how did they make their way into your post for me to see and read? Is an intern...

You skipped over the most important question in my post. Again, what would proof of causation look like? What reasons do we have to argue for causatio...