You're on thin ice here. Quite apart from the immense distances between possible life-bearing planets with advanced civilisations, there might also be...
Well like everyone here I'm aware that Kant is a very difficult read, and there's a lot of material to cover. Honestly reading him is a slog. I think ...
I will respond with an exposition of the transcendental nature of the Self from the Upani?ads. While is true that there are many cultural divergences ...
In respect of the question posed in the OP, it might be recalled that the 'knowledge of the external world' was the subject of an often-quoted passage...
You'll notice I deleted my answer which was made on a whim, although now you've responded I will explain what I meant, which was simply that survival ...
I mentioned the essay What do organisms mean? by Steve Talbott. As the theme of this essay is directly relevant to this OP, hereunder a summary: Talbo...
I meant that Newton’s laws of motion were universal not in the sense of explaining everything - gravity being the obvious omission - but in unifying s...
@"180 Proof" I'm pretty clear about what I'm attacking, but you're not at all clear about what you're defending. I'm criticising the effects of scient...
No, much narrower than that. Modern thought as in the accepted wisdom, what the man in the street thinks. And please spare me your antagonistic cynici...
Insofar as modern thought takes science to be the arbiter of reality, and insofar as science construes the world as solely consisting of objects and r...
Isn't 'qualia' just a bit of philosophical jargon for 'quality of experience'? And the difficulties it causes merely due to the fact that the physical...
I wasn't promoting him, in particular - I just found it an interesting perspective. But I am very interested in various schools of neo-Thomism, transc...
But do they? That's the question I'm raising. The point I'm making is that they exist in a different way than do phenomenal objects. As I said, the on...
I locate it earlier, with the division of the world into mind and matter, the Cartesian-Galilean paradigm that characterises early modern science. I a...
It's 'projected and sold' to those who want to it to be, of which there are many. Of course it's true that because it is conceived of as the answer to...
And you have no interest in being free from that? Or is it you don’t believe it’s possible? Do you think that condition is a factor in your judgement ...
I want to flag an objection from the perspective of one sympathetic to the Platonic intuitions behind this post. And that is the sense in which it can...
that's because BingAI is connected to the Internet, and ChatGPT is not. I've tried Bing, and also Bard - actually in my current work contract we're as...
But I would have thought that a concept would have some kind of correspondence with an empirical or intellectual object. It seems more determinate to ...
Karl Rahner proposed the (rather scandalous) idea of the ‘anonymous Christian’: Perhaps that is because there is actually an anonymous, or at least, u...
Something that comes to mind is that list, very popular at weddings, of the seven kinds of love in the Greek language (as mentioned above) - Platonic/...
:100: That's pretty well what the Cold Fusion video stressed also. But it has implications for philosophy of mind, yes? It shows that the ability to i...
Hey don't get me wrong, I'm very bullish about science and technology. But there's a missing dimension, without which it might easily loose its moral ...
On a deeper level, surely the 'corruption of the intellect' due to man's fallen nature is a factor? There's an interesting scholar, Peter Harrison, wh...
I think so. I've had many insightful interactions over the last twelve months - on Kant, Schopenhuaer, C S Pierce, organism v mechanism, whether the c...
I notice a connection between reason and purpose. That the reason for something being, or happening, also implies its purpose. That is what is implici...
I seem to remember that Nietszche had quite a lot to say about nihilism, which he ascribed to the dominance of scientific rationalism and the empty pr...
China had a two-child policy for a long while. But then, they're a totalitian regime, you can be put in jail for saying wrong things about The Party. ...
Hey can you try this one again? https://chat.openai.com/share/967940e0-886c-4fd6-b919-ebe16a002d7e I clicked on it in a virgin browser window on my de...
I thought I had created links to specific interactions. I didn’t realize you would need to log in to review them, sorry. I’ll look into that, it’s a d...
I would say the latter. Reasoning requires something else - like motive, for a start. Curiosity would be one. Distress might be another, or seeking ad...
Well, yeah, as I already said, the Sam Altmann sacking seems like something right out of streaming media, billions of dollars and many big players. Me...
Metaphysical axioms are not empirically provable, they're nearer to the realm of the a priori. I'm of the view that mathematics, for example, is funda...
That technology does nothing to prove materialist philosophy of mind. The technology is completely dependent on human ingenuity and the ability to int...
It was a two-way street in at least some cases. Desediri Ippolito made it to Lhasa in the 17th Century and stayed for many years. He of course regarde...
Is that so? I'm impressed! I've never learned to program, although I do work in information technology (as a technical writer). I was immediately won ...
That science is capable of amazing achievements and discoveries, but science is also a human endeavour. The mistake of physicalism is to treat humans ...
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