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I don’t know if you’re aware of ‘the information philosopher’ site but he says something similar. See https://www.informationphilosopher.com/mind/

Something I'm confused about is the apparent equation of physical states with symbolic meaning that is implied here. Symbolic meaning is representatio...

A new word! (I'm inclined to start a thread on 'philosophies of consciousness' - the link between psychedelic experiences and Eastern philosophy. Won'...

Don't give way to anxiety. Understand the 'wheel of thought and emotion', that is, how emotional reactivity and your conscious inner dialogue influenc...

That's what I was getting at.

Well, reading about Lublin Thomism, on Dermot Griffin's suggestion, I came across an interesting term in religious literature - 'gnoseology' (rather a...

It is an open book to those who are able to read. Those who can't read need to be shown how to read. Same with any other higher skill - medicine, pian...

I think Philosophy of Religion ought to accomodate it. I try to maintain a 'philosophy of religion' on the forum, as far as possible. It's a different...

But you keep making sweeping statements that 'all scientists believe this' and 'all science says the universe is a machine'. There are plenty of criti...

Totally with you on all that. But the accusation of belief without evidence is often raised on this forum whenever any vaguely religious sentiment is ...

You really don't understand the point, do you. Oh well, no point labouring it.

The fact that quantum physics appears to undemine the concept of objectivity was part of the major news out of the Solvay Conference in 1927. Why was ...

'If you're not shocked by quantum physics, then you plainly haven't understood it' ~ Neils Bohr, taking questions after lecture to the Vienna Circle, ...

The whole point is that 'what it simulates' is an unknown.

It's not that they 'ignore' that teaching, although they might. It's also because the main point of the Buddhist teachings is not simply an open book ...

Not so. The implications of the nature of the wavefunction are significant. Ontological Status: Is it a real, physical entity or merely a mathematical...

Excerpts from Kalama Sutta, wherein the Buddha addresses the people of Kalama village with respect to which teaching to reject and which to accept.

That is the dictionary definition quoted. Organism is defined as Organisms are mechanical in some respects but with attributes not possessed by machin...

None of which defrays the point that machines are manufactured artifacts. But plainly that is a fact of neither mechanics nor physics but of biology. ...

Not relevant to the issue though. The mechanistic model of nature comes from early modern science not Greek philosophy as such.

Not being as such, but of the objects of experience. Questions about what objectively exists are different to questions about the nature of existence,...

So to paraphrase your argument, ‘the universe operates according to mechanical principles because science says it does. If you disagree then it’s beca...

In respect of physical things, right. That doesn’t make it a model for philosophical analysis of the nature of being.

I'm not dismissing it, but I'm saying it's not the full picture, which is what you're proposing. The point of harking back to the Cartesian division i...

precisely what occurs with the act of observing an experimental result. It 'makes manifest'.

It's because Western culture, generally, has deprecated and dismantled classical metaphysics. That happened mainly as a consequence of the division of...

Although that said, you’re right, I will cease from commenting on Dennett henceforth. I’ve made my feelings clear.

Part of my civic duty, I feel. The first I heard of Dennett was when he published a book called 'Consciousness Explained', which I suspected would be ...

Jacob Böhme being an exception, although subject to severe criticism from the pulpit, but a big influence on German romantics. :100: There was no sens...

I’ve become rather intrigued by the association of reason, virtue, and divinity in the ancient and medieval tradition, although it’s very difficult th...

You have to realise that modern physics itself is a useful abstraction. It grew from the many thousand year old prior tradition, but made a unique bre...

I'm not having a go at Timothy in particular, but it's an issue that vexes me. Had a Letter to the Editor published about in Time Magazine, way back w...

Erika Eiffel (née LaBrie) married the Eiffel Tower (hence the surname) in a commitment ceremony in 2007: Eiffel is also founder of OS Internationale, ...

My long-held conviction is that there's a mistaken equation in American culture between guns and freedom. Guns represent individual sovereignity so in...

The concept of 'theoria' in ancient Greek philosophy, especially in Aristotle, held a different meaning to the modern understanding of 'theory.' In an...

Get over Dennett. He's the poster boy for scientism and scientific materialism. It's scandalous that his output is regarded as philosophy, when by his...

The thing which I'm really feeling the absence of right now is real spiritual assocation although I'm sure I'm not going to find it in churches. My qu...

I looked up Lublin Thomism, and from the overview page that came up: That aspect of 'existentialism' appeals to me because of the understanding that '...

It's beyond doubt what he says he intends to do: That "threat" is, of course, the duly elected Government of the United States and the officials of th...

Here is a recent summary by The Economist, a reputable source, of Trump's indictments and upcoming court cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNYIPS...

I don't think so, but the question is obviously pressing. And why is it pressing? It wouldn't be because those despised 'Intelligent Design' advocates...

I got that, but in general, the correlation between extremely high rates of gun ownership and high rates of gun-related deaths is indisputable. I'm qu...

… Sorry, but that is what reductionism is. In my view, you've developed an idiosyncratic synthesis of reductionist or 'eliminativist' philosophies of ...

Absolutely, that's why I called it out. Blind Freddie can see what is happening with US Gun Crimes. /uploads/resized/files/yj/emr08vwgiuc8f555.png (Wi...

He may, nonetheless, not be eligible to appear on the electoral ballot in Colorado, due to his participation in the Jan 6th coup attempt, if a lawsuit...

Whether you believe in it is beside the point. It has been documented extensively in books on meditative awareness and trance states. The problem with...

No, I don't. Information is part of it, but it is not only that, as I've said already. I don't just disagree, I gave an argument, which you haven't re...

It's an agonizing conflict. The images we're seeing daily of burned and maimed children undergoing surgery on hospital floors with no anaesthetic, sor...

@"Gnomon" - By strange co-incidence, there's another journal article about a very similar idea to the one that this OP was about, which was also publi...

I can provide information which describes it, but remember the point at issue was your claim that I am making the point, there is something other than...