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If they approve Trump’s eligibility before the Jan 6th case is decided, and he’s found guilty, then you will have the absurd situation of the Supreme ...

It goes on: Perfect example of Trump handiwork. Take a few grams of bullshit and turn it into wholesale social catastrophe spanning continents. That’s...

The GOP sham trial are not going to want him too. Saith he: I mean, no kidding. We all knew that two years ago.

Of which there is precious little. Don’t you think the Supreme Court will have to take into account the Jan 6th case, which is material in determining...

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I think it's becoming clear that in 2024 - one day away! - the entire American Presidential Election process is going to be racked with Trump's forthc...

Of course. The rhetorical question I posed was, does it make sense to say that (1) this a creation of the brain and (2) is therefore "physical"?

No, it's not a physical result. That is the flaw in your reasoning. You think you see a causal connection there, or an ontological relationship, but i...

Hey love that graphic. I want one. :wink: Reminds me of Daniel Dennett's 'skyhooks'. I reckon that's about right. Thomas Nagel says in his book The La...

I've answered on a number of occasions, the subject is philosophy of mathematics, and you haven't responded, other than repeating your point. I've sai...

There is a long history of the ‘maths is discovered, not invented’ school of thought which says numbers are not produced by the brain but discerned by...

‘In our brains’ is another reification. It has no location, it isn’t in any place. If an intelligent creature were to evolve by a completely separate ...

No, it’s an intellectual process. 2+2=4 is an intellectual operation. There is no such thing as ‘=‘ in the physical world, it is an abstraction. The m...

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I kind of get the intuitive sense of saying that evolutionary development accounts for our innate ability. But then, even Noam Chomsky, who's pretty f...

But the existence of 'an immaterial entity' was not the point at issue. The claim being considered was this: This does not posit the existence of an i...

In the service of survival though, right?

So Darwin explains Kant?

I'm not being dismissive of it, I'm challenging it on the basis of arguments and citations.

It's not an 'appeal to authority', but an appeal to a rational argument by a recognised philosopher. But, of course, philosophy itself is useless, rig...

Breaking news: NY Times sues OpenAI for copyright infringement This image shows an instance of the alleged copyright violation, with the red text iden...

Incidentally, what would constitute evidence of this claim? What would you be looking for?

It's not an empirical question, but a philosophical one. Although, there's the famous TED talk, My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor. She was a neu...

It's physical in some respects, but the salient point, our understanding of what is being said, the expression of intentional meaning - that is not a ...

But they're not. A sentence or a proposition is not a physical thing which is not meaningfully explicable in terms of physical laws. Language, for ins...

However, physical studies of the brain invariably fail to capture the subjective dimension of existence. In other words, this claim entirely overlooks...

Just what is 'a physical thing'? And what is it about consciousness (or acts of thought) that can be described as physical? According to one source, w...

Why physicalism? Physicalism is paradigmatic for modern philosophy and culture because the generalised method of the application of precise measuremen...

I don't think that there is as strong a correlation as you're claiming. Certainly all of those influences affect the brain, and the state of the brain...

Not so. The byline of the article you cite says 'Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves...

However, the fact of my own consciousness is apodictic (beyond doubt) for each of us, is it not? That is the sense that Descartes' cogito is right on ...

Welcome to the Forum, Thales, and thanks for the mention! I might add, another theme I explore in many threads, is the way in which Descartes' 'res co...

I would have thought that the distinction between sentient beings and insentient objects is a fundamental not only in philosophy. I can't see any sens...

Also note this paper 'The Neural Binding Problem(s)', Jerome S. Feldman, Cogn Neurodyn. 2013 Feb; 7(1): 1–11. Published online 2012 Sep 1. doi: 10.100...

I think this demonstrates a failure to grasp the point at issue. In David Chalmers original paper, 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness', nothin...

MODERATOR NOTE: the thread 'what would solve the hard problem of consciousness' was merged with this existing thread on the same topic.

This question was merged into Why is the Hard Problem of Consciousness so hard?

That does not constitute an argument.

And what would provide the basis for such ‘careful reflection’ in the absence of an innate grasp of the issue at hand?

Democratic socialism would be one answer. Which Americans tend to falsely denigrate as ‘communism’.

If TS Elliot is right about the world ending with a whimper and not a bang, there’s your whimper.

The election results say otherwise. Republicans have under-performed in every election since Trump's initial win. Then everyone forgets about that in ...

//oh, and interesting artwork//

Bumping this topic, just going through my previous OPs and this one didn’t get much of a mention, but it really has a lot of extremely interesting and...

A few guesses about this passage. First, monkeys often represent egoic mind in Buddhist and Taoist lore (as in the famous Monkey television show, wher...

In respect of the passages quoted, I would think one would need a fair amount of knowledge of classical Chinese culture to offer a scholarly interpret...

Anyway - that Edward Feser blog post I referred to above can be read here in its entirety. Regardless of one's attitude towards Feser, this post is wo...

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I studied Skinner's 'Beyond Freedom and Dignity' as a psychology undergrad. I hated that book and everything it stood for. Undergrad psych at the time...

My interpretation is because of the challenge Hume posed to the natural assumption that events are causally related. Hume cast doubt on that by saying...