Wayfarer

I did change my mind about suspending myself again, but some of these debates do feel repetitive. In my view, this link between Galileo’s science, whi...

Hey I’d agree with you! I’ve noticed that on philosophy forums, there is a lot of hostility towards any idea of there being ‘higher truth’. It’s like,...

First of all, you did say you don’t know how any creature could experience anything other than itself, which I interpreted at face value. That was wha...

I started out writing this OP as a kind of valedictory, as it is really one of the main themes I’ve been exploring through all these conversations. I’...

A salutary reminder of why I had stopped posting on the philosophyforum. It’s plain that my interests have drifted a long way from those of others her...

I don’t disagree that education, greed, and social dysfunction are serious issues, but those are symptoms rather than the root. The “meaning crisis” I...

Each of us has to find meaning in our own way. I think that was actually part of what phenomenology was setting out to do. And existentialist philosop...

I think it is conceivable that modern culture could have developed along radically different lines, although of course, that is one of those speculati...

it seems to me, at least, that for very long periods of time, in pre-history at least, that almost nothing happened that is remotely comparable to the...

You need to understand that the search for meaning is not a script or a dogma. It is not about returning to some imagined pre-modern utopia at all. Ev...

It is also one of the themes in Max Horkheimer's book The Eclipse of Reason'. It doesn't age that well, written as it was in the aftermath of WWII, bu...

Sure, agree. But then, the philosophy encyclopedias all register him as an 'objective idealist', something which seems at odds with your naturalist le...

Indeed, algebraic geometry was one of his major contributions. You know the anecdote, right? He was reclining on his lounge in a tiled room, with a bu...

You've landed on the only speculative element in my earlier response. That speculative comment you latched on to, is mainly my attempt to provide a ki...

:up: Both, I can completely relate to.

I agree with you in some ways, but not in others. I respect your learning, but I'm not on board with Naturalism Triumphant. And Where in your reckonin...

Gift link to NY Times editorial - The 12 ways in which Trump is eroding democracy/ moving towards authoritarianism. (The first graphic is a video of t...

I completely agree with that, and, astounding as it might seem, I'm not actually trying to pick a fight with you about it. And as for 'in one ear and ...

And philosophy?

Incidentally I asked Claude AI whether AI is a subject of experience, to which I received the following response: Although you have to give it credit ...

Nothing I said is in contradiction to what you have said, although the dimension your analyses always seem to omit is the existential. I’m also intere...

The 'receiver/transmitter' model of mind and consciousness. Alduous Huxley also considered that idea when tripping on mescaline. In Doors of Perceptio...

Appears to! I did hide the passage I had written, maybe I shouldn't have: They appear to reason, but only in the sense meant by 'instrumental reason' ...

I’m pretty much on board with Bernardo Kastrup’s diagnosis. He says, computers can model all kinds of metabolic processes in exquisite detail, but the...

‘Forgetfulness of being’ seems symptomatic of the times.

Could you describe them for us?

That devices are not subjects of experience is axiomatic, in my opinion. Some distinctions are axiomatic in the sense that they’re more fundamental th...

:100: Plainly an echo of the scholastic doctrine of universals, but reformulated in terms of dialectic. When he says “intelligence is explicitly, and ...

Thank you! I agree, the ‘what it is like to be…’ expression is really not very good. I think what Chalmer’s is really trying to speak of is, simply, b...

(I've been away so pardon this belated response.) There are many deep philosophical questions that are raised by this apparently simple rhetorical que...

Quite. I'm not that well-read in either Adorno or Horkheimer, and not all of his 'Eclipse of Reason' has aged well, but the basic drift is something I...

Splendid OP, and encapsulates many themes I have contemplated for years. I'm very critical of neo-darwinian, reductive humanism - the ubiquitous notio...

very good :up:

You're the one who brought in Buddhist dependent origination, I thought it worth saying what it means.

I think it's more likely that you can't see what anything in religions mean, except for in the social sense, of how they help society hang together. O...

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You can't even discuss it without becoming antagonistic, never mind that I have endeavoured to maintain a civil discourse throughout our debates.

I answer your challenges to the best of my ability, but not always to your liking. I’ve been here for a decade and I know where the boundary lines are...

It’s an acknowledgement, not a confession. I don’t regard epistemic idealism as a sin, even if I have many (and one thing I did retain from my upbring...

Biology is not an existential discipline. It isn’t concerned with existence as lived. I could know all there is to know about you, biologically, and y...

That’s rather a cartoon version of what is implied by this belief system, but then, that’s something I’ve come to expect. Yes, I do believe that death...

But this is precisely the meaning of 'relativism'. It is 'what is right for me' and 'what is right for you.' You have your reasons, and I mine. It is ...

The Buddhist goal is nibbana (Nirv??a), liberation from the cycle of re-birth. Everything in the Buddhist world is calbrated against that. It is the s...

Well, can't be helped. There's an old cartoon, some guy typing away on his monitor, saying 'can't come to bed yet, dear, someone on the Internet is wr...

Fair enough. But I did notice that the thread was 6 years old. He might well have moved on.

Completely different thread. But really, if you’re going to debate Quora threads why not do it on Quora? Do you expect the contributors here to weave ...

I'm surprised you say that. What, then, of the corrollary I noted from Wittgenstein? Him also? I think it maps perfectly well against the 'cartesian d...

I can't help but notice the teleological implications in this expression - purpose, 'throwing itself ' 'so it can...'. All intentional language. Maybe...

His intro section (as well as Colbert’s) are in my youtube feed, I watch them from time to time. But it’s also a bellwether case for freedom of expres...

Although you charge me with vagueness, I can’t help noticing that physicalism itself is equally vague, if not more so. When it defines “physical” as “...