Where the term 'cause' carries a completely different meaning to physical causation..... That is very much connected to the thesis of the book this th...
A specific characteristic of mental acts, which do not have an analogy in material objects or states, is intentionality or 'aboutness'. Intentionality...
There is of course the 'dark night of the soul', that is understood as a stage of spiritual growth, which you mention. But 'despair' also has connotat...
It seems a rather convoluted rationalisation to me. As I said, I find Deacon's writing and persona congenial, but I don't share his requirement to app...
Quite. I was composing something along those lines myself. That the ability to combine mathematical logic and hypotheses have given rise to a quite as...
Have a look at Frank and Gleiser's Bigthink page. Many interesting articles on science and philosophy. Adam Frank says he's a long-time Zen practition...
**SOON TO BE PUBLISHED AS A BOOK** The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson. April 9t...
Hi Rob, welcome to the Forum from another Aussie. Philosophy is not dead here, it's just down at the pub. Anyway, on a more serious note - there is an...
There's an undercurrent on this forum along the lines of: well, America is f***d, politics is f***d, Trump is just what you're going to get from Ameri...
Well, of course that is true, but it's a surprisingly rare insight. I suppose Freud is an obvious source for this kind of insight in modern culture, b...
The facts are not irrelevant. This is not a hypotherical, like 'the trolley problem' in undergraduate tutorials. Real politics is at stake. Only one s...
You asked: That is asserting 'moral equivalence'. That there are 'two sides', and 'one side' just happens to be the one 'I don't agree with'. Is that ...
You’re dead wrong about this moral equivalence. Only one party is supporting a leader who deliberately and demonstratedly attempted to overthrow the r...
I admire your enthusiasm, but I question your approach. There are many active debates on this forum about just these questions, so bursting onto the s...
No matter the faults of the Democratic Party, this election will be, as they say it is, a contest between democratic politics, in which anyone may hav...
My tip is, practice physical fitness of some kind. It can be anything, but it has to make you sweat and be physically taxing. Does wonders for the mor...
Gotta say the De Santis implosion was visible months ago. He’s just such a wooden, unlikeable, self-righteous prick of a guy. The sort of guy, it was ...
Ah, you mean it’s a scientific question, but our science just ain’t good enough? I will observe, your posts contain an abundance of unstated premises ...
here's how The problem here is that gravity is objectively measurable, in a way that many (or most) moral actions are not. You - or anyone - can drop ...
I’ve been reading a history of the German Romantics - Goethe, Fichte, Schelling et al, in the little university town of Jena, which at the time was a ...
Consider me abashed :yikes: When me and all my friends were around legal age to drive, one of them got a car he inherited from his granny (hence, the ...
don’t overlook the transition to electric vehicles (although I’ll own up, the car I bought is petrol.) There’s an Australian economist, Saul Griffith,...
Well, as you've asked, I should respond. As I try to explain in my Mind-Created World OP, what I believe philosophical idealism is about, or should be...
I've travelled on the high-speed rail in Japan, Tokyo=>Kyoto and return, in the 90's. Very slick. Here in Australia, they've been talking about it for...
From that interesting paper: This says a lot. Even though there's the acknowledgement of the sense in which humans 'transcend previous biology' ('whol...
He goes into it in that review I linked to but it's very long, and linked to another long piece. I think I'll steer clear of him, I don't like the vib...
That expression conveys an incomprehension of Platonism in my view. Not that I consider myself to possess any expertise in Greek philosophy beyond sel...
From which: The perceptive reader will notice the resonance with Advaita Vedanta, and indeed Bitbol acknowledges this with a reference at the beginnin...
Cognitive science and psychology are indeed ways of studying the workings of consciousness in the third person, but philosophy of mind is a different ...
From a perspective outside both, treating mind as an observed phenomena, which we can't actually do, as we're not outside it. Nothing other than an ex...
It is here. I only wanted to footnote the point about the changing use of 'substance' between those texts, and how it becomes interpreted after Descar...
It came from a remark I made in Lionino’s thread on Descartes’ Meditations, re the malign consequences of equivocating the philosophical and everyday ...
I guess. If they're stoic or zen about it, they can move on OK but I still think it would be a bitter blow. (Fantastic Shatner clip, that dude really ...
I'll piggy back this story here even thought it's not JWST - Japan’s lunar lander reaches the moon but is rapidly losing power If the solar power does...
I asked first: how is Deacon's 'incomplete nature' compatible with materialism? What role does 'matter' occupy? For that matter, just what is 'materia...
You kidding? The last presidential debate between the two was a disaster for Trump. He completely derailed the debate, talked over everyone, including...
Does it have an answer? Googling that term produces three hits, the top two being this thread, the third being what looks like a self-published manife...
Answer the first question first. On the one hand, you're accusing me of 'infinite regress'. But on the other hand, you say that 'existence is radicall...
Wayfarer is a property-owning householder with material possessions and family responsibilities. So I probably don't fit into your stereotyped image o...
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