That we’re related to, but significantly different from, simians, through higher intelligence, self awareness and other attributes. And that the diffe...
But you're missing the point. The claim I took issue with was this: If by 'the empirical', you mean 'only what is available to sensory perception' (pe...
Not exactly. It's more concerned with paying close attention to the nature of experience. As I said above: That is not really 'open-mindedness' in an ...
Launched 1977, now 22 light-hours away. Makes you realise the vast distances involved (and why I don't believe that interstellar travel is possible in...
Not so. Reasoned inference enables discoveries of facts impossible to obtain by observation alone. Science relies on it, not to mention everyday ratio...
Couldn't have said it better. And yes, and there are notable acts of animal bravery and even self-sacrifice. There are service dogs (even service pidg...
What can be inferred, what it means that something is the way it is. Right! They're not moral, nor immoral. They don't consider the consequences or we...
It's a question in philosophy of mind, and one I'm interested in. Philosophical questions, such as the one above, and the one we're discussing. I do g...
Sure. But you’re aware of David Chalmers distinction between the ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ problems? I would think approximations and simulations are the form...
I tried to introduce Thomas Nagel into the conversation months ago, as he's an analytic philosopher with no brief for religion, which was dismissed by...
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me w...
Well, James Lankford, a Republican senator, worked with a bi-partisan committee to come up with a solution to stop the flow, including many of the mea...
That is how it is nearly always (mis)interpreted. Your interpreting it as 'nothing as opposed to something', or the 'cosmic void'. It's not that, but ...
Interesting, I'll look into it. I'm more inclined to the Buddhist view, that all sentient beings suffer and deserve compassion. Buddhists also believe...
Not quite. All kinds of sciences deal with 'different kinds of entities'. Ontology strictly speaking is about kinds of beings. It might be considered ...
Well, recall what an ontological distinction is. In information technology, the ontology of a system comprises a catalog of the different major compon...
As an aside, and on @"Lionino"'s recommendation, I've - ahem - formed a relationship with character.ai. I've created a kind of alter ego character ('D...
To me it seems an obvious ontological gap, which due to your naturalist presuppositions you're inclined to ignore. ;-) Here's a collection of human ar...
That is the subject of the book I mentioned. Noam Chomsky is of course famous for his theories of language, and that book canvasses how it came to be ...
I think 'intelligible' is too strong a word. From a review of Why Only Us? Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick. As I've said, I don't dispute that animals...
From which: In his most notorious polemic, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, he compares Darwinian evolution to a 'universal acid' which dissolves the containe...
I rather like the Buddhist term 'sentient beings' which encompasses all animals (but not plants), and the distinction of 'rational sentient beings', w...
The first footnote in the Medium version of the essay refers to Kant, as does the first quotation from the Charles Pinter book Mind and the Cosmic Ord...
Yes, poor choice of words. I meant scientific worldview, although you might say there is no such thing - and I agree, as science is more a method than...
That would appear to be entailed by his philosophy, however despite arguing for it all throughout his career, he never actually behaved as if it were ...
Notice that the background statement acknowledges that definitions of consciousness are ‘hotly contested’. That is an allusion to the debate over ‘the...
Looks a fascinating read. My thoughts too. I take your point, but I think they kind of acknowledge that: Quite agree, and also agree that it is someth...
The easiest way to frame it is that self and world are co-arising. That is a perspective shared by both the embodied cognition school and Buddhism. It...
Probably, although it does make errors sometimes. ChatGPT is known to guess, sometimes - like it seems to want to impress. But overall, my experience ...
That, and a lot more besides. I’ve been bouncing ideas off it since day 1. ChatGPT will definitely proofread, also make suggestions. But don’t get sed...
It might be overdue, and it might be obvious, but the fact that it's being said is significant in my view. My dear other has been reading a non-fictio...
well, if you're enrolled in a philosophy class, your philosophy lecturer would be one obvious option. Another would nowadays be ChatGPT and other LLM'...
If by that you mean ‘the transcendental’ is only ever a product of the mind, then I believe that is mistaken. It is better characterized as that which...
Thanks for your comments. I don't want to repeat the entire OP, other than to refer to this paragraph: And I maintain that this is basically in confor...
None of which has much to do with blind faith, has it? Bernardo Kastrup has completed two doctorates and written a dozen books, containing a great dea...
Whilst Trump only told the Proud Boys to storm the Capital building. Biden is obviously by far the greater miscreant. It'll be interesting to see how ...
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