The Republican blindness and mendacity on this issue is truly depressing, but then, I hope that they're heading for a shellacking next year and won't ...
Only when considered as objects - when you look at the brain as a neuroscientist or eyes as an ophthalmologist, then you’re viewing them as objects. B...
You can only imagine the looming shitfight when the Georgia indictments come down and Resident Trump has a full dance card. Already it turns out some ...
Listened to a long interview the other day (which I'm beginning to prefer to reading, as I can listen whilst driving or working out.) Seems a sane sor...
:up: 'In contrast to the outlook of naturalism, Husserl believed all knowledge, all science, all rationality depended on conscious acts, acts which ca...
The latter. In some ways it's a very simple problem, in the sense that the solution to it is holistic or a matter of a change of perspective. But the ...
You're not progressing your argument by obfuscating and trivialising. I don't think you're clear about what is actually being called into question, an...
But it's more than trivially true in respect of the question posed in the thread, the question being, what does the ground of experience really compri...
It's not a question of being fallible or infallible. The difficulty is that the experiential dimension is not included in any description. Skilled wri...
That way of expressing it came to me as a consequence of listening to one of Kastrup's talks, along the lines that the appearance of living organisms ...
The divide between organisms and minerals is pretty clear, is it not (leaving aside viruses and prions which seem to straddle it.) Kastrup's answer is...
But you appeal explicitly to biological criteria: Whereas we’re discussing the metaphysical implications of science. Do you see any difference between...
Big assumption, and also question-begging. I would almost agree with the remainder apart from the appeal to biology. Or maybe you could say that the a...
Yeah but that’s biology. The parameters of what we’re discussing are no longer determined by that, and I think rationalising science, or any other hum...
Hi Richard, and welcome to the Forum. Excellent first post - but tell me this. Once upon a time, I considered, but never enrolled in, a Project Manage...
No. I mean they’re used to smooth over annoying inconsistencies in current models. Like I said, Everett devised many worlds to avoid the spooky implic...
What if they solve problems of cognitive dissonance? You know, are used to keep challenged paradigms immune from criticism? Multiverse arguments and ‘...
:pray: Let’s not forget Trump’s clinching of the Republican nomination was nearly derailed at the 2016 Republican Convention. I’m certain there would ...
Sorry - what part don’t you agree with? If it’s that you can’t map thought content with neural data, I would have thought that was a clear implication...
I had thought that Descartes’ discovery of algebraic geometry - the idea of dimensional co-ordinates - was of absolutely fundamental importance in the...
Agree with the sentiment. It is perfectly reflected in those articles you sometimes see ‘scientists puzzled over why consciousness exists’, ostensibly...
Actually it was tongue-in-cheek, I read somewhere recently that Team Trump can't stand her (probably because she's too much like him). He'd want someo...
I suppose, but it seems a bit contrived. I'll go back to where this started: What is 'an empty ego'? Seems something like 'an unclenched fist' - which...
I get that, and often refer to it, but I think to deny the reality of agency is a slippery slope towards nihilism. I mean, given that there may be no ...
But the point of the critiques of speculative physics and cosmology is that they might never be testable at all. As Ellis and Silk put it: I've often ...
Aristotle, and Greek philosophy generally, also differentiated different kinds of knowledge, did they not? Phronesis, techne, episteme, and so forth -...
My answer to the question would be framed in terms of my quest to understand the dominance of scientific materialism in modern culture. That is of cou...
Hence the requirement for the vertical dimension, the qualitative domain. The issue is that materialism only considers objects and their quantitative ...
It’s appropriate that Trump is being indicted and very likely he will be convicted. But it’s also likely that he will continue to dominate the politic...
There's a word for 'embodied subjects' that applies to all sentient organisms, and by which we ourselves are routinely described - that is, 'being'. T...
And an emphasis on quantification, objectivity, and replicability. Naturalism is a theoretical posit intended to differentiate science from traditiona...
Is that the task of the philosopher, or of the engineer, technologist and scientist? I would have thought the philosophers would have plenty on their ...
Splendid post and very much on point. (You also just got a new follower on Medium ;-) ) Another book that would qualify for your list is The One: How ...
The issue with the (modern) scientific image is the assumption of separation between observer and observed. That itself is not a product of science bu...
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