Wayfarer

I think a better word that 'conscious' might be 'sentient'. Sentience refers to the capacity to perceive and experience sensations or feelings, such a...

But the Republican Party has a lot to answer for, doesn't it? After the January 6th atrocity, if the Senate had confirmed the impeachment, Trump's pol...

Hyperbolic. Note I said 'in spirit' - the demonising of a section of the populaton, 'Liberals' and 'the Deep State' along with bomb threats. It is fas...

Who says it didn't? 139 current members of Congress voted not to certify the election result. They're still there doing Trump's bidding. The Jan 6th c...

I often bring up the famous rhetorical question that Albert Einstein asked his friend on an afternoon walk (I think it was Abraham Pais): 'Does the mo...

Very many deep questions here. Again a large part of scientific method is in the reduction of observables to their measurable attributes, and the inte...

You're being too nice. What you're actually referring to is close to what Adorno and Horkheimer describe in the dialectics of the Enlightenment: the s...

I’ve read up on Kant’s criticism of Berkeley, but I’m finding it hard to see how it connects to what I wrote in the post you responded to. I don’t den...

Let’s not forget that only yesterday, in support of Trump’s claim for immunity, his own lawyer argued, in a Federal Court of Appeals, that Trump shoul...

The coup is ongoing. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 139 current members of Congress voted not to certify the last election result.

But what is the probability wave, other than a distribution of probabilities? The answer to the question ‘where is the particle’ just IS the equation,...

Trump/MAGA is unashamedly fascist. He’s openly boasted that he thinks the constitution should be suspended, the public service purged, and his enemies...

As you know, the 'wave-particle duality' is one of the fundamental oddities of quantum mechanics. Bohr said, as I understand it, that you can't see wh...

The 'thing in itself' is not anything, by definition. In order for it to be Something, it would have to appear. ding-an-sich serves as a placeholder i...

A lot of people try to wave away the perpexities sorrounding quantum physics. I'm not a physicist, but I've discussed it with physicists, including po...

I'm not talking about the limits of knowledge. There is no end of things to discover. I'm talking about the limitations of objectivity as a mode of kn...

That's new to me! The philosophy I'm interested in recognises the empirical reality of past events, the pre-history of life before man and so on. But ...

I stand corrected.... :yikes: I guess the guy that told it to me wasn't a mathematician.

There's an old joke. A University Chancellor was going through budget requests with the board of directors. 'The physics department!' he says, throwin...

Have another look at Mind and the Cosmic Order. It is a book that has quite a lot to say about just this point.

:up:

You mean M. Scott Peck? I did read Road Less Travelled in the 90's, one of my favourites.

Sorry, I thought you were referring to the post I responded to. We'll see.

Incidentally, something came out of the reporting on the hearing on Trump's claims for immunity from prosecution. Trump is arguing that, as he wasn't ...

I don't think it was too long. I made that remark in a different context where I felt it appropriate.

If, by 'laws of reality' you mean 'natural law' or 'scientific law', are these themselves physical? I think that is questionable. The standard model o...

I recall a quote from a philosopher of science along the lines of facts being constructed like ships in bottles, carefully made to appear as if the bo...

RIght, there was a long discussion years back about whether Trump falls into Harry Frankfurter's designation of a bullshitter - answer is resounding y...

If you mean, scientific discoveries are made, then the answer is, of course! But the philosophical point about the inherent limitation of objectivity ...

If you waste any time listening to Trump's stream-of-consciousness ramblings, you will quickly discern that it contains a multitude of contradictions,...

The other screaming irony is that Trump stood at the campaign podium two days ago and swore that when elected, he would 'indict Joe Biden for acts com...

Hence the mind-created world.

I think it's the unconscious desire (and pardon the irony) to avoid the burden of existence. As I've noted, this conditions a lot of what you write. H...

Thank you Thales, very much appreciate the feedback :pray:

Settle down folks, much more squabbling and this thread will be locked for cool-off.

The passage I quoted from you began:

They were civil disobedience. And I don't accept that there is a 'moral equivalence' between those protests, and the Trump insurrection. That is part ...

Sure. Who is saying that riots and civil disorder is a good thing? Comparing the BLM protests to the attack on the US Capital aimed at over-turning th...

No, but outright lies are irksome, and Trump's narrative is constructed almost entirely from them. Take this for example: Five people died as a direct...

I think Kastrup is on the mark. Remember, he has PhD's in both computer engineering and philosophy of mind, he knows that of which he speaks. Yet char...

So far, it's an 'if'. Searching for Fani Willis and Nathan Wade turns up many previous mentions. And note the caveats about the absence of any documen...

'Smart' as in 'cunning', and he's undoubtedly that. This piece illustrates the sense in which Trump is personality cult. Grisham speaks from the persp...

Yeah my bad. I was trying to argue against the assertion of neuro-science as kind of a pre-requisite for insight but it was a digression.

The point is that physics is based on the quantitative analysis of physical particulars - spin, vector, velocity, and so on. The whole genius of Galil...

I understand what you're saying, but I don't agree with it. The point is, however, that we speak the same language and can convey ideas through text. ...

Note this thread Is 'Information' Physical where this idea was dragged over the coals discussed at length some time ago. I don't know if you've encoun...

Of course. In each transition, the physical constituents of the information change and also the underlying media. It's translated between electrical p...

I don’t believe the substance of this exchange can be explained in physical terms. If I say something that affects you it might increase your blood pr...

From which: However,there is also such a thing as top-down causation which mitigates against purely physicalist explanations of consciousness. This co...

In other words, then, there are no good arguments for physicalism, insofar as it is presumed to be a monistic explanation (i.e. that everything that e...