Because Dennett’s quote references organic molecules, and Varela’s references ‘simple agents’. If ‘simple agents’ are e.g. cellular, then they’re alre...
I’ve found one, at least, which starts with a discussion of Thompson’s latest book, The Blind Spot. I started a thread on the precursor article to the...
There's a passage I quote frequently from this paper, which has always seemed significant to me, but mostly elicits shrugs: It is also central to Aqui...
There's a deep conversation here between Vervaeke and an Elizabeth Oldfield about Vervaeke's thoughts on God, religion and everything. https://www.the...
'Early' Buddhism certainly saw existence as a malaise, a woeful condition to be escaped by the renunciation of the world. However the 'new' Buddhism -...
Thanks, well said. I will consider that in my ongoing readings. But I still see Dennett and Dawkins as representing the cause of the meaning crisis, n...
I will add, ‘cosmos’ means ‘ordered whole’. According to Alexander Koyré, philosopher of science, the advent of modern science put an end to that sens...
And I’ll correct something I said above - Descartes himself, of course, would never accept that ‘the real universe’ comprised only the physical. But t...
I will add that the entire picture of molecules which 'do things', and create the only 'sense of agency' that meaningfully exists in the Universe, is ...
I take Dennett as a textbook example of scientific materialism, which I think is impossible to reconcile with any 'sense of the sacred' (and which is ...
Anatta (no-self) is major theme in Buddhism. The passage that @"Joshs" provides is a good example. 1 As it happens, this was also the subject of my MA...
Thanks for the affirmation! on both counts. I keep saying I will, but then, as Michael Corleone put it.... And that project you're working on sound fa...
'Objective' always tends to mean 'mind independent'. 'Subjective' tends to mean 'in the mind, mind dependent.' It seems natural to depict it this way ...
I don't think Aristotle is wrong about that, either. I understand much of his actual science is outmoded - no surprise there - but elements of the met...
One of them started Apple Computer.. And I think that's a very small-minded way of looking at it. Vervaeke’s opus is nearer my interests than most of ...
I don't know where you sourced that quote. As explained in the OP: John Vernaeke is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He current...
It’s worth recalling the origin of ‘enlightenment’. It was used by the Pali Text Society to translate ‘bodhi’ from the Buddhist texts. Elsewhere that ...
While I agree, recall that modern culture is generally nominalist and empiricist. There are still advocates of scholastic realism and hylomorphism but...
Incidentally I happened upon a good definition of teleology in a video by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, which defines it as 'an explanation of ...
Agree with you. If you re-frame the innate ideas as innate capacities then much of the problem goes away. Humans may not be born with an innate grasp ...
It’s the double-aspect point of one’s own body - that on the one hand it’s an object to us but on the other it’s the only thing we’re subjectively awa...
This was a cartoon of Thomas Nagel post publication of Mind and Cosmos and its critique of neo-Darwinist orthodoxy https://maverickphilosopher.typepad...
All his works are freely available online. Granted, a fair amount of reading, but the World as Will and Representation Vol 1 is a good start. In respe...
But (and forgive my fragmentary knowledge of the text) I had rather thought that the final sections of the Tractatus (from about 6.371 on) were conclu...
Hey Sam - this current mini-documentary came up in my feed today. I follow this channel, he produces a lot of first-rate content on technology and bus...
I get that. Speaking as one whose musings are often deprecated or ignored by analytic philosophers, I don't feel a sense of resentment or exclusion on...
My only activities in philosophy have been online since I discovered forums around 2009 (aside from 2 years of under-graduate studies back in the day)...
I think key to the 'noumena' issue is Kant's criticism of the rationalists including Liebniz and Descartes, both of whom believed the existence of God...
It's well-known that Schopenhauer despised Hegel (and didn't hold too many of the other German philosophers of his day in high regard either.) I agree...
The book I'm currently reading points to the origin of metaphysics, with Parmenides 'prose-poem', saying that after the introductory section, written ...
I've posted a number of threads there over the years. They're a much tougher bunch of reviewers than here, and it's very strictly moderated. The idea ...
I recently watched a lecture on evolutionary neuroscience, which included a striking slide at 7:13 defining teleology as 'the explanation of phenomena...
Thanks for your elucidations, they're helpful. See this blog post. It's not directly about Schopenhauer, but some of his near-contemporaries, grapplin...
I provided a link to the .pdf of that book (which incidentally is out of print and was very expensive when available.) As the title of the book is Thi...
But the basis of traditional metaphysics was 'the identity of thinking and being' (per Eric D. Perl, Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in th...
Wittgenstein's significance is at least in part a sign of the times. In the olden days, there was a relatively unified worldview or set of shared beli...
As you can probably guess, my approach is very much shaped by 'history of ideas' as much as philosophy per se. I'm interested in the dialectics of mod...
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