T_Clark

It's not clear to me if you want to discuss whether Sartre's idea of bad faith is a good way at looking at freedom and responsibility (Hint - no, it's...

Yes, exactly.

Perhaps he'll come and set me straight.

Have you seen "My Dinner with Andre?" Two guys talking for an hour and a half. It's a movie I enjoyed, although the philosophy discussed is a little g...

Is that the definition of "definition" - what is included in a dictionary? Would definition of "definition" be included in a dictionary? Apokrisis the...

When I said "objects of cognition", I was quoting Wayfarer incorrectly. He meant it the way you do. I'd never head of it. I'll take a look.

The boiling point of water was determined empirically. I'm not sure if it can be determined by theory. I looked on the web and couldn't find a definit...

Thank you Kojak.

I didn't respond to this in my previous response. Ah, now I see the problem. When I quoted Wayfarer I misunderstood "objects of cognition" as "objects...

No, the opposite. Or did I say it wrong? Or did I misunderstand what you wrote? To clarify what I'm trying to say, I think reality is the result of th...

I don't think this is true, although I admit I'm not sure what it means. What does it mean for a theory to specify what conditions necessitate conscio...

That's probably true in Minnesota.

This makes sense to me.

An interesting thought. I'd never thought of it that way.

As I see it, it is reasonable to believe our cognitive functions result from the development of biological/neurological structures resulting from biol...

This is not a valid argument. Not really even an argument at all. All you've done is call my idea names (post-modern) and complain how it is causing t...

I don't think physicalists deny the existence of experience nor do they say that experience must accompany cognitive functions. Or have I misunderstoo...

Eleven minutes of microwave time every two weeks probably isn't the main cause. Does that make me a climate change denier?

The idea there is an underlying "objective reality" is also the product of our cognitive faculties. So is the idea of "truth." So are beliefs, ideas, ...

Yes, well, I'm not really worried about energy-efficiency with my spaghetti. I just want it to cook al dente and not burn or turn to paste, even when ...

Yes, well, @"Tom Storm" did say it's a fun argument.

Physicalism is a metaphysical position. It's a presupposition, an assumption you make to allow you to make sense of what you know about the world. It'...

I read the Wikipedia article you linked. Interesting. After extensive research, reexamination of my understanding of evolution and cognitive science, ...

I bought a microwave pasta cooker. It's just a little plastic box. Add water and linguini, put the box in the microwave, set the timer for 11 minutes,...

I think all of this is philosophy - metaphysics - and people use these metaphysical positions to draw positive factual conclusions about the world, e....

It's not. Is a living organism caused by/realized by/identical with the functions of complex chemical systems? No. Who says they can't? Just because t...

David Chalmers, who coined the phrase “hard problem of consciousness,” wrote this: “. . .even when we have explained the performance of all the cognit...

As @"Wayfarer" can attest, I find the fact that the "hard problem" of consciousness takes up so much attention infuriating. Yes, I know many disagree....

I recommend "Someday All This Will Be Yours" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I think it touched on similar issues, if not plausibly, at least with verisimilitu...

I'm taking "self-blame" as a synonym for "guilt." I've read through the responses to your OP (original post). People have discussed ethical, social, a...

I think this issue highlights the fact that few events have a single important cause that we can isolate from the background rough and tumble of the w...

To quote noted popular culture critic Joel Hodgson - "If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, just repeat to yourself 'i...

Agreed, and that's one of the arguments against causation. From the perspective you describe, every event has an almost infinite number of causes. If ...

Or then we could dispense with the idea of causation completely except at scales where we humans live. If I punch you in the face and your nose bleeds...

I don't think you need to consider the quantum realm to find indeterminism. Reality is equally indeterminate at classical scales. People have been arg...

I hadn't heard of Hoffman before this thread, so I looked him up. Sounds like what you are describing is multimodal user interface theory, which makes...

We don't cotton to your gol'darned metric "scepticism" here in the USofA. We'll stick with our good old American customary units skepticism.

Truth only applies to propositions. Most of what we perceive and know about reality doesn't fit comfortably into propositions. If I have 1,000 data po...

I assumed that the writeup was provided by the author or publisher. If so, it is consistent with the provocative language in the title. I'm ok with th...

Of all the metaphysical entities, I think Truth is the most misleading. It takes up too much of philosophers's attention and distracts from issues I s...

A pragmatist might also argue that truth is irrelevant, maybe even meaningless. All that's needed is to know what to do next.(T Clark)

My comment wasn't clear. I wasn't questioning your characterization of Hoffman's position. I was offering an alternative I think is more consistent wi...

Maybe not fitness beats truth. Maybe fitness shows us the truth. Or at least that there is a truth to be shown.

Yes. I'm in the middle of the Lorenz book and it's having a big effect on my views in this area. I definitely need to think more on the subject.

Lorenz explicitly connects his views with Kant. As I noted, the title of the paper I linked is "Kant's Doctrine Of The A Priori In The Light Of Contem...

Yes. After I wrote my post and then read some of the other comments, I started to come to the same conclusion. But it was a set up job - I was framed....

I think the whole "what is reality?" question is insoluble because all the answers aren't really answers at all, they're definitions. We can define re...

As I was telling Bertrand Russell, my only quirk is that I'm quirkless.

I haven't watched movies much for the last 15 or 20 years, either in person or at home. I just lost interest and found most of them unsatisfying. I su...

I subscribe to the Criterion Channel. That's an artsy-fartsy streaming service in the US. It has a lot of these available.