Wayfarer

What kind of 'something'? That's the rub. I'm sure the majority view is expressed by Janus here: The notion is - mind is the product of the brain, whi...

You might find this a useful resource: Nonduality, David Loy, a .pdf copy of his book by that name, based on his PhD. You can find more about him on d...

Again - my claim is that due to the form that Cartesian dualism assumed, that there is a kind of widespread, implicit dualism of mind and body or spir...

His target is, explicitly, Cartesian dualism of mind and body. That's the starting point of his book Concept of Mind. Ryle's solution to it is basical...

Descartes' dualism is the origin of Ryle's 'ghost in the machine', surely. 'Analytic philosophy' is not a school of thought, but the English-language ...

Consider this passage from Thomas Nagel "Mind and Cosmos": Notice the implicit division between the objective and measurable, and the subjective and i...

Those are the kinds of questions that Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia put to Descartes (here.) It seems Descartes didn't really have very good answers. ...

You can't compress a random sequence of characters or a random collection of objects, you can only describe it, and that description will be 1:1. Wher...

There's an article on the IEP, 17th Century Theories of Substance, which says: I think the background to this 'degrees of reality' was the 'scala natu...

Point taken, and an important distinction. Nevertheless the depiction of the 'thinking thing' is very much the residue of his philosophy in popular cu...

You could, but I don’t think that’s what the op is interested in. (In fact on further reflection it’s pretty hard to work out what it is asking.)

No, I hadn't heard of him, although looked up his Wikipedia entry now you've mentioned him. But in some ways, what you're point to is the way dialecti...

There's a very good reason, which is that a considerable proportion of its activities are sub- and unconscious.

Frege refers to real numbers as 'primitive concepts' i.e. cannot be reduced to, or explained in terms of, another concept. I wonder if basic concepts ...

Thanks! Interesting, although I had to call on Google Translate as I'm not fluent in French *As noted previously, I think 'immaterial subject' conveys...

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My take is that Descartes, qua 'the first modern', introduces the individual as the arbiter of reality. It's not co-incidental that he is categorised ...

I've been meaning to look at Parfit but, you know, too many books.... :fear:

I see what you're getting at, and have entertained much of the same kind of idea. But recall in the original Latin, the phrase is 'cogito ergo sum', w...

Wouldn't that be 'a view from nowhere'? An idealised objectivity?

Quite right. But there are different kinds of knowing, as spelled out in the Analogy of the Divided Line. And the specific kind of knowledge that char...

Christians believe that this happened already, with the Incarnation.

It's sometimes mentioned that Augustine anticipated Descartes by centuries: I think the commonly-held view, that this entails solipsism, is unnecessar...

Replied here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/894970

The relationship of logical necessity and physical causation is a deep topic and one of interest to me. It is fundamental to Hume’s ‘Treatise’ where h...

Hey, I've quoted your response to me in the Abiogenesis thread to here, as it's more relevant to this topic, and as we're discussing Terrence Deacon i...

It occurs to me that maybe you could say that Deacon is trying to establish the linkage between physical and logical causation. Ran it by ChatGPT, it ...

it’s being typed out by a million monkeys even as we speak ;-)

Don't worry about it! It's turning out to be a very interesting discussion.

Might as well be this one. A passage from Book 7, 517b ff. This comes directly after the Allegory of the Cave, when Socrates and Glaucon are discussin...

Of course he doesn't! What I'm saying is, Henry's description of 'barbarism' applies to, is exemplified by, Daniel Dennett's 'eliminative materialism'...

Agree that physicalism is the presiding and destructive myth of modernity, but not in the least that idealism is merely a 'counterpart' to, or dialect...

Did Shannon ever write or say anything about 'mental information'? And have you read the origin of how Shannon came to start using the term 'entropy' ...

Thank you. I shall persist with Deacon, I petered out in his polemical section contra ID, although I'm more drawn to Kastrup's analytical idealism.

spot on. This resonates strongly with Krishnamurti, who's books I read ardently in my twenties. One of them is called 'The Ending of Time' and it's a ...

This is something meditators, yogis and even some philosophers understand thoroughly, of course.

I’ve said this before, but I’ll try again - there’s no such thing as ‘generic information’. Information is always specific. References to information ...

As often, because there is no direct equivalent for many terms in the Buddhist lexicon, and vice versa. There are no direct translations for karma, dh...

‘Emptiness’ is the English translation. The actual term is sunnata (??nyat?).

She says: Who is ‘we’? Who sees it like this? And how does ‘the relation of Knower and Known’ figure in the account?

Recall how important thought-experiments were to Einstein in devising his theory. Lumpen materialism ;)

The zeitgeist. The emergence of 'the individual' as the arbiter of truth and the mathematical sciences as the royal road to certainty.

Oh. I thought that was what you meant by But, never mind. I was only trying to discover some common ground between phenomenology and Buddhist Studies....

It means falling short or not reaching the goal. It is said to be the etymological origin of the word 'sin' (although that is contested.) Nevertheless...

Is it, though? What I took from it, was the sense of ‘misunderstanding the point of being alive.’ It works as a religious metaphor but also as a philo...

100%. I guess I didn't explain myself very well. What I was getting at is the issue of treating information as if it is a reduction base, in the way t...

Can't help but notice your categorisation of 'religious' with 'irrational' and 'fanciful' there. That is a value judgement, no?

I'm reading his Demon in the Machine at the moment, and I've been reading Deacon. But I'm still dubious that 'information' has fundamental explanatory...

I know you've already discussed this, but I wanted to draw out a point. This is the view that physics is paradigmatic for science generally, and by ex...