Wayfarer

We both were members of the predecessor forum to this one, and possibly the one before that. But you’re right, none of us know each other personally, ...

That is a good question and I will come back to it. I tend towards dismissing your arguments in the same spirit that you trend to dismiss a vast range...

But the problem is, you’re still regarding ‘it’ as a phenomena, as something that exists. But consciousness is not ‘something that exists’, it is the ...

I don't intend to. I intend to keep posting facts about the case.

Sure. This part: Very true. The reason I answered with that piece by Harold Stewart was just to point to the broader social context in which Zen/Ch'an...

I totally get that.

Sorry, but this makes no sense. Again, a very, very long post, which unfortunately shows no insight into the fundamental plight of existence, which is...

That is an authoritarian political philosophy.

Let's also not forget that Latin was the language of the educated classes until well into the early modern age. This has had particular impact on the ...

With respect to emergent properties - the emergent qualities of substances like glass or water as analogies do not really provide the basis of explana...

A NOTE ON TRUMP DISINFORMATION As this election year hits full stride, Trump's backers are putting serious money, through PACs and sympathetic media o...

Let's see about that. Today Trump is saying that 'his people' on the SCOTUS bench ought to play nice, or else there will be trouble. So now threatenin...

This post contains a number of lies, and I have both flagged it and reported it to the other mods. It beats me why we put up with a constant stream of...

I'm tempted to say that 'other universes' is an incoherent idea. The point of the six constraints is that they must be as they are for matter to form,...

You once said to me: I think I know why you say that - I think it's because Western culture has abandoned or rejected ways of thinking that provide an...

that guy is one of the best instructional designers on the planet. I often watch his presentations. The video does explain that.

I've got that book. Rather a dull read, I will say, but the philosophical implications are very interesting. The point of the six numbers is not that ...

The problem with that is, that physicalism is supposed to be true of everything that is real. Even idealism acknowledges that physical objects exist, ...

Zahavi's critique of speculative realism can be found online here. I'm familiar with that 'koan'. In reality Zen/Ch'an is highly regimented and discip...

I take it you have to meet him first.

How so?

The US Supreme Court has scheduled the first oral arguments over the 14th Amendment bans on Trump’s candidacy for Feb 8th. But again I ask, how could ...

They’re known as sa?skara or sankhara in Indian disciplines: Direct insight into sa?skara is obtainable through insight meditation (vipasyana) and oth...

I seem to recall a very critical chapter about o-o realism in one of Zahavi’s books - https://philpapers.org/rec/ZAHTEO-2 I see the hubris as theirs, ...

Although you’re right, he did say ‘surge the border’ in a Democratic debate. Not a smart thing to say, I agree.

Hence the tectonic shift in modern philosophy toward scepticism and relativism.

Yes, a huge amount of attention. They know if they get into American jurisdiction that they will be assigned a place in the system for the duration of...

I think, maybe, it’s because we retained the elements of Platonism that are useful for science and engineering (book of nature written in math) but di...

I have no fear of science. Your posts are too long to deal with. That’s a little simplistic, don’t you think? The point of the passage from Nagel that...

I fact checked this: Claim: Some conservative commentators and media outlets have made this claim, often citing a speech Biden gave in 2019 where he s...

:rofl: (although, not being one to point the finger.... :lol: )

My question was addressed to ucarr, about a remark he made to you. It wasn't addressed to you.

It was a sarcastic remark, of course, to make a rhetorical point - just how is it to be prevented? Australia did indeed implement harsh measures to 's...

Are there alternatives? Could they be, you know, machine-gunned as they cross the Rio Grande? Seems to me part of US law that America is obliged to of...

If you feel that crude metaphor conveys anything about the point at issue, perhaps it is because you don't understand it. What does this mean, exactly...

But that is the very essence of 'scientism' (link to wikipedia.) Note the sinister overtones of 'deviating from knowledge'. I think your arguments are...

Tosh. Kant detested materialism, as do I. Another mathematician, but one who ventured into philosophy and cognitive science, was Charles S. Pinter (wh...

It's a perfectly valid English expression, obfuscated by Betrand Russell in support of his own philosophical agenda. 'Don't mention the cause....' :wo...

Something very like Kant's 'concepts without percepts are empty'. 'Not uncoupled from the material world' does not mean 'material in nature'. Humans a...

Why 'material'? In what sense? In what sense is pure maths concerned with physical objects? Rather an odd expression, but surely one of the confoundin...

NY Times - White House for Sale Sure tops James Comer trying to criminalise Joe Biden loaning his son funds to by a pickup truck.

The fact science builds on earlier discoveries is not a flaw, it is one of the main causes of its spectacular success. But it's also indubitably a sou...

Tosh. Science builds continually on previous findings which constitute a body of knowledge. Newton 'stands on the shoulders of giants'. That constitut...

I agree, and don't even understand why it gained traction. But they're also meaningless. Just because the term 'cause' doesn't appear, doesn't mean th...

I agree, but how or why you can then go on to maintain that this is ‘a materialism’, I don’t understand, but please don’t feel any obligation to provi...

I see what you mean. But what I’m wanting to differentiate is the sensory from the intellectual. Numbers and the like can only be apprehended by a rat...

The evidence of Trump’s malfeasance is abundantly obvious to all, other than those who choose not to see it.

It’s not there, but has been mentioned in discussion of alternative platforms. The predecessor forum to this one had a lot of bells and whistles that ...

That is something that has been mentioned before, but I don’t know if this particular hosting platform provides the feature.

So you think numbers are phenomena? I had thought they were intelligible objects and, as such, distinguishable from senseable phenomena. Agree with yo...