Don’t you think behaviourism was reductionist from the outset? That it was basically a Procrustean bed - because the mind couldn’t be observed, and sc...
That’s because somewhere along the line you have things you know without knowing how you know them. We can’t explain explaining. The epistemic buck ha...
Well you have a computer to record that idea. That is a consequence of noticing attributes and making minute distinctions which were discoveries i.e. ...
What is absent is the conceptual space for 'the unconditioned'. Perception and perceptual objects are conditioned in two different ways - first becaus...
I've been pretty careful about that point. The way I've put it is that any meaningful judgement about existence assumes a perspective, but that doesn'...
You've written a lot, and I may not be able to give sufficient time to respond to all of it, as Christmas is looming. But this is an incorrect analysi...
Not so. That is where the 'multiple realisability' argument comes into play. This concept, which emerged in the philosophy of mind, argues that a part...
Thanks for your kind words, and glad you found it helpful! But the mind does not appear to us! Sitting here in my study, all manner of things appear t...
Note the specific charge against Trump, 'comforting an insurrection', which exactly parallels the expression in the 14th Amendment clause. If you don'...
The charges against the individuals involved in the January 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol include obstruction of an official proceeding, assau...
On the contrary. As of July 2023, there have been many hundreds of convictions arising from the January 6 2021 assault on the Houses of Congress All a...
If you read the OP Mind-Created World you will see that I deny that. From my perspective your criticisms are a product of the Cartesian tendency to ob...
The Eiffel Tower is indeed an idea, which has been realized (made real) in iron. Without the idea, no such thing could have been wrought. https://www....
I know this is a little hackneyed, but a (bona fide) quote from Albert Einstein expresses something similar: Likewise, in Spinoza's Ethics (and 'Spino...
In whose eyes are we a mere speck, other than our own? In the absence of any perspective there's no scale against which to make the comparison against...
It's from a review in a UK Buddist online magazine, of Thomas Nagel's 2012 book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Natur...
I don't think so. Look at the history of ideas, at how philosophy started, the dialogues of Plato. There are very many examples of consideration of th...
I wonder if, should this case be taken up by the Supreme Court, whether they ought to wait and see what the outcome of the Jan 6 insurrection case is?...
What is the alternative? The strictly materialist account can only be something along the lines of living organisms originating as a consequence of ch...
Nothing is ‘ ultimately material’. No material ultimate has been discovered, despite the construction of the most complex apparatus in the history of ...
My theory about his attraction to dictators and facists is that it’s not grounded in political theory, but the simple fact that they wield the kind of...
As to the ‘fairness’ or otherwise of Trump being ruled ineligible as a candidate, let’s nor forget he repeatedly called for disqualifications of other...
Never mind, I was being flippant. The serious reason is that I believe there is a reason for existence, but that is a religious or philosophical convi...
Remember the 'birther theory'? That Obama was ineligible as a candidate because of being born in Africa? That hoax was pushed for years by Trump even ...
The question I keep asking is: how can someone who continues to deny the lawfully-determined result of the last election be permitted to contest the n...
As constituents of reason, is how I put it. That applies to a very wide range - arithmetical objects, rules of logic, conventions, scientific laws. Al...
I do, but I'm a little pressed for time. But in short, the problem is that our culture is deeply committed to the notion that what is real exists in t...
Every judgement concerning what exists is indeed dependent on our intellectual and sensory faculties. I believe this is in line with Kant's philosophy...
TRUMP DECLARED INELIGIBLE ON COLORADO BALLOT UNDER SECTION 14 OF THE CONSTITUTION https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/colorado-trump-14th-amend...
For the very simple reason that if numbers are real, but not material, then there are real things that are not material. The intellectual contortions ...
It appears to have, yes. There is a much deeper issue here than the hard problem of consciousness, although it is related. But if you do have time, ha...
The point about number is that it can only be grasped by the mind. A number doesn't exist in the same way that trees and chairs do, but numerical reas...
Well, you will have an issue accounting for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences' (Eugene Wigner). The point about n...
Welcome to the Forum. There's definitely something like that idea in Buddhist philosophy. Emptiness (??nyat?) is very easily misunderstood principle, ...
Hey if the GOP thought said influx would vote for them they'd be laying out the red carpet. On a more serious note, there's a kind of osmosis at work ...
Reification means ‘to treat as a thing’. It is from the root ‘re-‘ (from which ‘reality’ is also derived), and which Descartes employed in his ‘res co...
Would you acknowledge that arithmetical proofs and logical relations are real, even if not material? It doesn’t mean treating them as things - which i...
The post of mine you were responding to was tangential to the topic so I didn't pursue it. It was written from the perspective of Vedanta where 'the s...
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