T_Clark

Yes, moderators, I agree with the others that it’s a really bad idea to delete member’s posts en masse whether or not they have requested it. Once som...

But that’s the way it works. We humans create entities with fixed boundaries while the world moves around like a swirl. Much of the thinking we do is ...

You and Kevin must know the bird shown is not a starling. Perhaps that is the substance of what Kevin is trying to show us. The bird is not a starling...

Posting weird and quirky stuff is not misbehavior, especially not in the shoutbox.

The difference is, we do know you from a bar of soap.

I didn’t know if many people would recognize my paraphrase, but I knew you would.

Is this an Aussieism? I like it. I’m no going to bring it to America if it’s not already here.

I’m not sure what you mean by “conceptual work.” If you mean I think all of the aspects of the question being studied by Damasio and others have been ...

This is from a review of a book from 2007 by Antonio Damasio, a well known neuroscientist. It’s from Vanderbilt University, but I can’t find a specifi...

Are you saying that scientificity is as easy to define and measure as speed? Isn’t that really the question on the table here? You and I disagree. I t...

I don't agree. No. We know more now than we did then. We have better technologies for investigation. I don't know enough about the practice of of mole...

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful enmity.

You wrote it was sometime in the past 1.5 million years. That doesn't make sense, as I pointed out. Then you revised your comment to make it 50,000 ye...

"Scientific" means something like this - Following a formal set of procedures to study phenomena. Those procedures, vastly simplified here, should inc...

I might buy that, but it’s not what you wrote in your previous post.

I might want to say that, I’m not really sure. I’m not sure when you say it you mean the same thing I do when I say it. Whatever, I guess I’m lost. I ...

I sort of agree with this, although rather than affective, I would say intuitive. Of course, intuition is a thorough mixture of thinking and feeling.

Everything in our minds is a blending of cognitive and non-cognitive states.

Sorry, I pushed the post button too soon before I was finished with my comment. As I was saying: Although this is not directly related, I thought you ...

Homo sapiens have only been around for about 200,000 years. Other members of the genus homo did use tools from at least 2 million years ago. Again, th...

I've stated it explicitly several times in this thread. I don't think my understanding of truth is all that different from mainstream ones. It's a que...

I think I've misled you. That statement is not central to my argument. I'm not even sure it makes sense. It's just what came to mind when I was respon...

I don’t have the authority or the ability to delete one of your posts. A moderator must’ve done it. You may deny it, but you are responsible too. it d...

About 45,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza since the start of this round of warfare. About 50% of those are women and minors. The US is complicit...

I have three problems with this 1) As I see it, "what do I do next" is the fundamental question. 2) Again, pragmatism for me isn't about truth. 3) I s...

I don't think that's true. You've inferred something I didn't imply.

Agreed. Given that, I guess I don’t see what you were trying to say in your previous post when you wrote “…once we understand the meaning and also ety...

When I was talking about method, I meant something consistent with this definition: Method - a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry emp...

I don’t know if this is where the word came from, but in olden days people sometimes had to share beds in inns.

I like it too, it's catchy. I'll think about it more but I'm not confident it will be a fruitful path to follow.

This is well expressed, and I agree with what you've written. I think another reason for the problem is that the observational sciences always deal wi...

I think you're right about how many, perhaps most, people see this. I think it's because the epistemology of physics is different, has to be different...

Yes, I think we are in agreement. Sure, although I've always thought Descartes' formulation is so limited as to be almost useless. It doesn't really t...

I'm wondering if the issues I'm discussing are still within the scope of this discussion. If they're not, I'll buzz off and bring it up somewhere else...

I was thinking more of monkeys sitting around a barrel sharing tapas and vermú which, by the way, is Spanish for vermouth.

I was imagining, not a barrel full of monkeys, but a barrel surrounded by monkeys.

I guess we're on the same page except I don't see "the reality associated with our own existence" as small or lonely. I think it's half of everything....

Here's how I think about it. Keep in mind that I don't claim any scientific truth to this. I don't know what goes on in a baby's mind. Babies when the...

First of all, I specifically asked @"Tom Storm" not to tell anybody about this. Also, I tossed this out as an impulse. I’m not at all certain I even b...

You have summarized the fundamentals of my personal metaphysics.

My argument is not so much against a commitment to materialism, but rather to any all-encompassing metaphysical system. It does seem to me that most p...

If I had to list the five beliefs that best represent my understanding of philosophy, of reality as understood by humans, this would be one of them. I...

I'll go back to my quote from Collingwood: One metaphysical position does not, can not, address all of reality. We need to use different ones in diffe...

Seems to me they were excluded for a practical reason - sounds and smells don't generate easily measurable properties. Beyond that, I guess it probabl...

I responded: I want to change that - That might only be true if physics represents a more fundamental reality than phenomena at larger scales.

To start, I'll echo what many other's here have said - really good OP. Clear, well-written, and interesting. One problem with almost all discussions o...

I thought it might be that, but I wasn’t sure. As for your post, it’s not clear to me that the discontinuity between the classical and quantum worlds ...

Don’t be opaque.

A perfect response.

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