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This quote is from @"Pie"'s thread "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer." I was going to post my response, the attach...

Jamal does so many terrible things here on the forum and, I assume, in his life outside, it seems pointless to whine about something so trivial.

I don't know if you are aware, but there is a thread on the front page - "Currently Reading." If you post book recommendations there, more people will...

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I think, therefore my thought exists (Is that right?) If my thought exists, I exist Cogito ergo sum Cogito ergo sum If a person with Cotard's syndrome...

I'm not sure anyone can do better than "I think therefore I am." I'll take a shot at something more in line with my way of thinking. This is Stephen M...

It's fine. I just thought you'd enjoy it more if I whined a little.

Ahem...

I love paper books, but now I find myself tapping on words I want to know the definitions of or get more information on. Turns out that doesn't work. ...

Here's my linden tree philosophy of science story. In a funny way it's changed the way I think about the world and the way we know it. It's one of the...

I think dogwoods are pretty easy. My wife planted one in our yard and it's grown well for decades with little maintenance required. I don't know anyth...

I love dogwoods. Great flowers and nice looking tree. Lindens, also called lime trees. No flowers, but their leaves are dark green and the heads are v...

I hope this is relevant. I once started a thread called "You don't need to read philosophy to be a philosopher." Turns out I was at least partly wrong...

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Perhaps some preacher somewhere said that, but I doubt it is the position of any conservative church. For them, I think homosexuality is a sin, not a ...

I guess if you've never had it, you never know you don't. I'll ask her.

Yes then, Pinker is a "rationalist" in the sense you are describing. He believes "knowledge is part innate and part experience." You don't believe tha...

Yes, she sees fine, but her memory and imagination do not include visual images.

I think our late friend Streetlight would disagree with you about where that is located.

This is a bit of a non-sequitur, so feel free not to respond. I have a friend who has no minds eye. She does not see visual mental images. She didn't ...

I had a similar response, especially because the sources I referenced focused on mental processes with a limited range, not a full explication of huma...

That doesn't seem true to me from what he wrote in "The Language Instinct." He quoted William James' "What is an Instinct." James defines instinct as ...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

To start, I want to make it clear you are doing exactly what I asked for in the OP. As I wrote: That's what you're doing and I appreciate it. "The Lan...

Well, I've read your post three times and still don't know what to make of it. It's not all that unusual when I'm dealing with you. The main problem i...

I'm pretty sure you know what I'm asking.

@"Jamal" I got one of my every-so-often emails from our friend Marco trying to get me to help him open an account. I see that an "invitation code" is ...

I don't think there was any conflict, or even much overlap, between the ideas of Pinker and Damasio that I wrote about. Pinker didn't really talk abou...

Thank you.

@"fdrake" @"Baden" See the last few posts. I have asked @"Enrique" several times to stop posting his unsupported theories that are inconsistent with t...

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As far as I could see, you do not provide any specific scientific references for the information you provided in the posts you linked. I am highly ske...

As I wrote in the OP:

This is Apokrisis' whole quote. I think I have some idea what he's talking about, but I didn't dig in to it in my response to him. I have to admit I'm...

A couple of years ago I made a similar search for a connection between Taoism and Kant. I found a, not very good, paper called "Kant's Thing in itself...

Pinker says something similar about Neanderthals. Apparently their larynx and related organs were not as well developed for speech as modern homo sapi...

If you have specific, credible, referenced, scientific information that describes or explains mental processes, please post it. That's what this threa...

No.

I read them when I was an impressionable youth. I think they probably had an effect on my current understanding of the nature of reality. So, true or ...

It was completely my fault, not Enrique's or yours. I was clear. This is a discussion about mind from a scientific point of view, so there is no door ...

It would be silly for me to claim that language doesn't have anything to do with thought. I don't know if you read what Apokrisis wrote in an earlier ...

I just realized I hadn't responded to this. Well, I am an engineer, which may have something to do with the differences between your and my ways of lo...

Thank you. I think this is what Damasio meant when he was talking about the proto-self. I guess this part is more about what Apokrisis was writing abo...

I think that feeling you have is a common one and it's probably a big reason it's so hard to get people to agree on this issue. For what it's worth, I...

Funny you should mention Kant, whom I have never liked and sometimes disparaged. I recently watched an interview on Kant between Brian Magee and Geoff...

I just wanted to paint a picture for myself so I could see what it looks like. I don't necessarily think this has any philosophical consequences or br...

A Baysian brain is one set up to deal with uncertainty in a way consistent with Baysian statistics. So - the brain's function is as an optimally effec...

But this is exactly what the people I have referenced are doing successfully. They are using standard scientific methods to study the "basic building ...

Pinker writes: The idea that thought is the same thing as language is an example of what can be called a conventional absurdity: a statement that goes...