Wayfarer

Ain't that the truth.

Actually I do have that book. I had started it, but I was irritated by the fact that many of the chapters are simply re-published essays from his blog...

Well, for what it's worth, I think there's no end to things that can be discovered. We're more aware of that now than ever before, I would have though...

I don't know. The fact you think it's a religious argument says something. I've gotten hold of the ebook and will peruse it. :rage:

And has been pointed out, ‘information’ is the logical master metaphor for our day, as ‘mechanism’ was previously.

It's from a channel now called Verisatium, although under an earlier name. The original video wasn't cited until the top of page 2, you can review it ...

Regrettably I can't vote for any of the options. From the jacket copy of the attached book: I don't much like the use of 'mechanism' as it's a hangove...

I don't know for certain, but I'm sure that 'saved' does mean something. (That's what puts me on the religious side of the ledger. I had a kind of ana...

I'm sorry about the quality of my previous reply, it was off the cuff and not well thought out. I'll retrace my steps. We were talking about Bernardo ...

These are all pretty subversive ideas from a western cultural viewpoint. Not for nothing was Timothy Leary's first book called The Politics of Ecstacy...

Thanks for the clarification, but still not quite the point I'm seeking to make. Tables, or any objects, can be subjects of a sentence, or subjects of...

I don't identify as Christian, but I don't believe that is a fair characterisation of their principles. There's a diversity of views. Some denominatio...

Some exegetical points: Nature of the Higher Realm: Plato describes a transcendent realm that is "colourless, utterly formless, intangible" and access...

Obviously the Christian response is to say that, well, that is what the Bible is, including the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible is the revealed word...

How so? Subjects are invariably sentient beings are they not? Tables and chairs and billiard balls are objects, but how are they subjects of experienc...

I will add, two of my direct family owe their health and well-being to neuroscience. I’m not at all sceptical about its medical and therapeutic benefi...

Don’t you think that is just a tad ‘scientistic’? Have you ever read anything about the well-known book The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience,...

What I get from this, is that this is something that can only be known first-person, as it were. Not that it’s personal in any sense, but (as Buddhist...

All I said was, she acknowledges it. The point being, to gesture towards ‘the atom’ as a purported physical fundamental unit fails to recognize the in...

Yes - at one point Lawson asks her what her interests are, aside from her ‘very successful YouTube career’ to which she demurs. She says she’s interes...

Terrific post, thanks Count. I think that covers a lot of points that I have been struggling with, I’m on the road at the moment but will come back to...

It's a fact. I listened to Hillary Lawson interview Sabine Hossenfelder yesterday, and she says her main research interest, aside from her very succes...

atoms which have no definite existence until they're observed, what's more.

The article I linked to mentions perdurance. That has to do with anything - and it doesn't have to be a being - maintaining identity through time even...

And that sure sounds like a Hard Problem ;-)

But it's emphatically also not nihilism, that idea that nothing is real, which is always rejected as one of the 'extreme views' (and even though many ...

For it to fear death, it would have to be alive. It would have to be a being, not a simulcrum. But then you'd have to consider its rights as a being. ...

But if a child's alleged memories of a previous life can be validated against documentary records and witness testimony, that amounts to some form of ...

Right. But the error I think the Verasatium presentation makes is then to equate non-compressibility with information - that a completely random strin...

:lol:

Oh, sorry, I re-quoted a question originally posed by @"180 Proof" (but it doesn't change my response, such as it is.)

Oh yes, I perfectly agree. I'm a staunch advocate for one or another form of idealism on this forum, see The Mind-Created World which I think I posted...

The first of the Towards a Science of Consciousness, a bi-annual spielfest held at Uni of Arizona Tucson (next one is this month!). If you zoom in on ...

Does it mean, something has to matter to it? Humans and other creatures are driven by basic needs, but also by desires, plans, intentions and goals. I...

I have read that Kant was infuriated by those critics of his first edition who accused him of basically re-cycling Berkeley's idealism, to which end h...

:lol: This review just came up in my feed for anyone interested https://physicsworld.com/a/entangled-entities-bohr-einstein-and-the-battle-over-quantu...

(Apologies for the delay in responding, I only just noticed the question from 15 days ago.) Science construed as dealing solely with objective phenome...

https://metaphysicist.com/problems/persistence/

Stevenson's research on children who remember their past lives might be of interest. Of course it's wildly controversial and a taboo subject but he as...

True - but that said, it is remarkable that the equations of general relativity can be captured on a single piece of paper. I don't think Thomas Nagel...

From here. I will try and respond to this here because it is more relevant to this thread than to the one from which it originated. I think what you m...

I'll add, I think these subjects *are* very difficult to fathom, as the Buddha's quote. After all, those who sought to fathom them often gave away eve...

In the early Buddhist texts, speculation about 'what it must be like' is discouraged. In later Buddhist texts, like the Diamond Sutra, whether Nirv??a...

Incidentally I read an Aeon essay some time back from a philosopher who is interested in dialetheism, Graham Priest, on Buddhist logical paradoxes, yo...

N?g?rjuna's philosophy posits that the ultimate truth is not a separate, higher realm of reality but is instead the real nature of the conventional wo...

I haven't read Loy's book in full, either, but I would be surprised if he doesn't cover this. But the epistemology of non-dualism is a very subtle and...

Ain’t that the truth

Meanwhile Trump is holding a press conference on Election Integrity on Friday, some he’s said to ‘care deeply about’ :vomit:

amen :pray:

From which: (Incidentally just prior to this passage, Hadot says Descartes and Spinoza remained faithful to philosophy as 'the practice of wisdom'. Sp...