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Fair call, I should have let it go.

They're both reviews of another of Nicholas Humphrey's books, covering similar theories, and Humphrey being the author of the linked article. Neither ...

Critical reviews of Humphrey by Galen Strawson and Mary Midgley (although I disagree with Strawson's panpsychism, subject of this thread.)

The first thing an organism has to do - any organism - is to establish a boundary between itself and the environment. What organic processes then do i...

:lol: I have the idea that, just as energy can be defined as 'the capacity to do work', biological consciousness may be defined as 'the capacity for e...

Because it's fundamental to what organisms are. It's the specific difference between even very simple organisms, and inorganic matter. Even the most s...

Have a look at From Physical Causes to Organisms of Meaning Steve Talbott. Argues that organic life is qualitative from the get go, that the processes...

Not at all - just a bit exasperated at having misinterpreted the aim of the OP.

Not of my devising. It’s really just an implication of Chalmer’s ‘facing up to the problem of consciousness’. The following is from the précis of Mind...

Well we plainly have different notions of what that consists of, but never mind, I hope someone else has a contribution to make.

I haven’t read the whole book but it immediately resonated with me. ‘ Here’s a related anecdote. I read in relation to another book that the symbol fo...

I beg your pardon, I thought it was a philosophical question.

Don’t want to start a big argument, but I think it's a mistake to conceive of mok?a as oblivion. What is beyond the vicissitudes of existence is a dif...

Still, I think living in the Pacific NW would have its consolations. I've always wanted to go there, the closest I got was a road-trip from SF in 2012...

There was a researcher by the name of Ian Stevenson who devoted many decades to interviewing children who claimed to have recalled their previous live...

I listened to a podcast or video the other week with a bit of background on Fani Willis. Her father was, apparently, a lifelong activist and lawyer, u...

There's a lot of commentary on the idea that much of the insurrectionist and white-supremacy rage is driven by the shrinking demographic of white male...

anyone heard anything about Steve Bannon's appeal against the Contempt of Congress sentence? According to prior reports 'Bannon appealed his convictio...

Certainly if viewed in terms of physical causation, then simple elements are constituents of more complex objects. I think cosmology establishes that ...

You have to see that something is either publicly demonstrable or it’s subjective. Intellectual honesty demands it.

All kinds of things. A lot of what we nowadays take for granted, or at least, see around us all the time, not long ago only existed in the domain of t...

The statement quoted already was right out of the positivist playbook. Positivism: a philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifi...

Here is where I say that you echo positivism. You tend to set the limitations of your own personal worldview as the yardstick for what others might or...

Not only that, but Biden's campaign on Truth Social has more followers than Trump's campaign! (Can't you just see the ketchup hit the wall when the Or...

As you've made a claim that 'Meaning depends on a physical interpretive context' so I'm asking, what do you mean by that? If it's a 'vague notion' the...

I see what you mean.

But can they be subject to philosophical discourse? The whole point of the remainder of your post is to uphold a taboo - these things ought not to be ...

I read once an excerpt from the Charter of the Royal Society in the late 1600's, the first scientific foundation, that a boundary was to be set demarc...

Agree. My reading is, though, that historically, much of what was valuable about the pre-existing (so-called 'pagan' philosophers) was absorbed into (...

Pot, meet kettle.

Agree it might be a generalisation, but it is an observable tendency. 'Physical' meaning what, exactly? I can encode information - a recipe, a formula...

The last two comments illustrate what I've been saying. As soon as discussion turns to the qualitative dimension, the domain of values, then the respo...

Well, the issue is, as I keep saying, the 'vertical dimension', which is the domain of values, the qualitative dimension. In traditional philosophy, l...

I am egalitarian in believing that every individual should be treated equally by the law. The issue I was getting at was the denial of what I describe...

Speaking of world wisdom literature, I was reading a introductory text on Proclus the other week and was surprised to come across this remark, without...

Without wanting to get involved in a big argument over it, I think that an unsafe assumption. The emerging story of a failed missile launch from the c...

The twitter thread posted earlier on with the sub-titled comments from Hamas operatives, says that it was a missile that had launched from the cemeter...

I don't think one has to claim to be enlightened (as I certainly am not) in order to see evidence of what it comprises in the literature.

Well, true, it's a magnet for abusers of all kinds, as we seen amply and tragically demonstrated many times over. But as Rumi said 'there would be no ...

I understand modernity as the period between the publication of Newton's Principia and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (or more precisely, the...

Of course it is. Do you think my recommendation to 'avoid inflammatory language' amounts to propaganda? Considering the amount of vitriol already sorr...

Let's be careful what we say in this thread. The whole issue is highly inflammatory, and there's not a lot of point in fanning the flames, as if there...

My knowledge of him is extremely scanty, but I know Kant depicted him as a dogmatist, and I get the sense of what he means by that. That article I lin...

He was torpedoed by Kant, although that article doesn’t really seem to capture that.

Has this been documented? I read that Israel showed then deleted a video showing an apparent missile strike when it was found to have been timestamped...

Speaking of ‘committing texts to the flames’: Perhaps she was a kindred spirit of Hume’s :-)

Typical in Australia that ‘elite’ is a pejorative :wink:

I should add, I'm not of the view that the kind of values I'm seeking ought to be imposed on others, or that they necessarily form the basis for a pol...

It’s a shame you see it like that but I don’t want to derail the thread any further. I suppose I could say that I’m a moral realist, I believe there i...

It's incompatible with //some aspects of// democratic liberalism. That's why most of the exponents of the various forms of the perennial philosophy ar...