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Isn't what you mean by 'rational' in this thread empirically or scientifically justifiable? I note that my entry reflexively provokes the objection to...

I think there's an underlying psychological and social factor lurking here. In old-time religion, I don't know if there was ever an implicit understan...

‘The devil quotes holy scripture’ - wise saying

It provokes strong emotions because it's a real danger to civilisation. Countries need to work together to address it and doing so is going to be extr...

Compared to what? Typical conspiracy theorist thinking. You challenged climate science and scientists many times in this thread based on data which yo...

Aussie tech giant Atlassian has unveiled plans for a multi-story timber HQ in Sydney https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/atlassian-central/36458

Based on this earlier post, your interest in the subject seems more than casual: Has any of this data been peer-reviewed or published? How are we to j...

Again there are not ‘two sides to the story’. The only progress in that scenario would be the abandonment of creationism, any other outcome would be r...

There are many topics for debate and discussion around climate change - political, technological and social implications and solutions for example - b...

No, the main problem is that unequivocal evidence is being obfuscated by those with vested interests in the fossil fuel industry. They spread a lot of...

Etienne Gilson’s ‘The Unity of Philosophical Experience’ attempts to show that. In his words, ‘It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to s...

I stand corrected. But Cartesian coordinates, right? Pretty fundamental to all kinds of science, I had understood (per the book by Mario Livio ‘Is God...

I was told that a journalist once asked Craig Venter, the prominent biotechnologist, if he was concerned about the accusation that he might be 'playin...

Well, the top paragraph of the Guardian story @"jorndoe" posted: Story goes on to note: I don't know if 'unholy' is the right word - maybe it's not st...

I think it's much broader and more diffuse than that - it's rejection of whatever is considered 'the supernatural' or even 'the sacred' (or arguably t...

Thanks. There is something both absurd and deeply menacing about DJT being considered 'the leading contender' given all that has happened and is happe...

I was only kidding :sweat:

Then, they start posting on Forums.

I don't buy the 'both parties are corrupt' line. American politics has been considerably worse since first the Tea Party and then the Trump-MAGA movem...

No, I don't think so. I there has to be a conception of levels or modes or domains of being. Traditionally that was cast in terms of the chain of bein...

Here's a snippet I will sometimes quote. It's from Ernst Mayr, who is a mainstream scientist, and it's about the fundamental difference between living...

That's actually what I think. I think what David Chalmer tries to express rather awkwardly as 'what it is like to be...' is, really, just 'being'. Fur...

This is a spurious comparison, regardless of the statistics. It's a version of whataboutism - 'what about the cold?' 'Everyone has a right to their ow...

I see your point, but at the same time, I am of the view that the facts that you are calling into question are beyond dispute. As I've said, I've put ...

No, I'm a moderator, and well known to all the staff and posters here. I notice that all of your comments, bar one, on this forum, have been on this t...

Yeah! I joined a forum, and there’s an anonymous poster who says they might be wrong. So they’re wrong! It’s obvious, really. As far as I’m concerned,...

Is it a numbers game? A scorecard? Tens of thousands have died in European heatwaves the last few years. Find me a story on ‘increased deaths through ...

Being is not a thing. The exact thing that materialism denies.

Right. Agree with every word. But none of that makes the self (or the mind or the subject), an object of cognition, in any sense other than the metaph...

Incidentally, précis of Kant's 'transcendental apperception' which might be relevant to the 'Apel' quotation. All experience is the succession of a va...

Because it's not. Even the source you quote, David Hume, says that he never discerns a self, but only a stream of thoughts. Every object I can now per...

Which argument doesn't it support? I've often, although very inelegantly, advanced an argument very like this: The way I tried to put it is that you c...

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OK, I see. I went back through your posts on this thread, and you do acknowledge the difficulties of reductionism, so kudos for that, and I stand corr...

But can biology be reduced to chemistry, or is there an attribute that biological organisms possess that non-organic chemistry does not? The no case i...

Didn't know where to post this, but a great New Yorker article on contemporary philosophy of mind. Mentiones Kristof Koch, David Chalmers, Thomas Nage...

It's well known that Augustine articulated a similar argument to Descartes': I agree that the argument is apodictic, that it can't be plausibly denied...

Agree. I listened to a Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup where he says one of the common objections to his 'analytic idealism' is actually based on the fact t...

It was a long time ago. I checked with ChatGPT and it returned this.

cuts both ways, you know ;-)

With regard to the ridiculous charade of the Jan 6 indictement as being an 'assault on free speech':

I think you make your position abundantly clear.

I think your commitment to science as an arbiter of truth reflects your cultural conditioning, and it has many philosophical implications. Another sto...

Well, you seemed confident! And one would have thought a global cooling event could at least serve as a counterweight to catastropic heating.

There's an anecdote I often share, re-told in Frank Moorehouse's account of Cook's discovery of Australia. According to Joseph Bank's scientific logs ...

Let's hope.

'The Many live each in their own private world, whilst those who are awake have but one world in common' ~ Heraclitus (quoted in John Fowles, The Aris...

No sign of that actually occuring, though. It's a theoretical possibility, but the evidence doesn't support it.

There is an awareness in contemporary philosophy that h. sapiens is 'the universe become self-aware'. One of its proponents was Julian Huxley, a passi...

I'm sure we discussed this article before Quantum mysteries dissolve if possibilities are realities -'“This new ontological picture requires that we e...