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Of course! Especially if you’re going to agree with me ;-)

There is the presumption that their findings are observer-independent i.e. replicable by anyone, They’re ‘third person’ in that sense. It’s an implici...

Well that assumes you had some to start with :wink:

Not really. The objective point of view doesn't take the subject into consideration - it is only concerned with what is amenable to quantitative analy...

Unanswereable questions, I think, although useful grist for the mill for sci-fi stories. (Did you by any chance see Devs?) David Chalmer's doesn't say...

But that takes for granted that you and I are both subjects of experience, so that you can safely assume that I will understand what you mean. And for...

Right - that is the issue. The key paragraph in David Chalmer's original paper was: Compare Chalmer's antagonist, Daniel Dennett, who claims: I agree ...

ENOUGH SNARK ALREADY. I deleted the last post as it was blatantly abusive. Unless there are more constructive contributions to be made this thread wil...

Welcome Leontiskos. I too am interested in the Platonist tradition and Christian philosophy. I'm inclined towards idealism with an interest in the cla...

I don’t have a professional interest in the subject, but I’ve found a couple of his articles useful, and the subject is generally interesting. Glad it...

I was hoping it was pretty well in line with the OP. Even including Linde.

You're getting closer to what I understand the issue to be. What I think the issue to be is the apparently commonsense notion that the world exists ju...

Oh yeah sorry at first I posted the wrong link.

It's the book Plato at the Googleplex, Rebecca Goldstein. It's a reflection on the role of Plato both historically and culturally up until the present...

You might find this title of interest.

That was what I thought you were taking issue with.

That is quite a well-researched article. If you look at the footnotes, Dennett is really the outlier, there's hardly any one of the others mentioned w...

That's because Western culture demolished any sober way of thinking about it, mainly due to the authoritarianism of ecclesiastical religion. Don't loo...

Of course I accept that there is a truth, but I conceive of it in Buddhist terms - to apprehend it requires going beyond the ego oriented worldview th...

:lol: From the article: But none of it matters to Dennett and his readers. They are so motivated by the fear of spooky woo stuff that they'd prefer to...

...the nature of which is the point at issue.

Well, I'm flattered to have posted something which provoked such a coherent and lucid response. That is Platonism 101, isn't it? The 'argument from eq...

Of course eyes are objects, but it is not as objects that they are significant. The significant factor is sense perception and its interpretation. Pla...

No, they're not. Your eyes are organs of sight, but your eyes are not what you look at, unless you have some cause to do so. Yes, you can see the eyes...

Only one of us said that :-)

Here, though, ‘the brain’ could easily have been replaced with ‘the mind’ which is not so amenable to that kind of description. Sense organs in situ a...

The ‘star witness’ that James Comer was counting on to dish the dirt on Biden has instead been made subject of an arrest warrant for various acts of i...

He still wrote a book on Making Room for Creation which seems open to divine agency. From which: Fair amount of that on display in this thread. I'm sa...

Not trying to. Sorry if I did. Amended post accordingly.

According to Kant, a priori knowledge refers to knowledge that is independent of experience, meaning it is derived from reason and logic alone. This t...

All of which require rational ability, don’t they? I have no doubt you could train animals to recognise difference and similarity in objects through r...

You mean, Socrates, or 'the argument from reason', has it backwards. (I am quoting him.) But you do need to have the ability to grasp what 'exactly eq...

I think there's an error in your reasoning here. Recognising that the brain synthesises sensory inputs with pre-existing knowledge is not 'spatial rea...

I think you're downplaying the faculty of reason here. 'Bandwidth', obviously a technological analogy, refers to the rate at which information can be ...

The epistemic cut is simply that between knower and known, organism and environment and symbol v what is symbolised. It was coined by Howard Pattee, w...

Again, nirv??a is not non-existence or non-being or a dreamless sleep, or anything of the kind. The difficulty is that it cannot be defined, specified...

I will try and backtrack and at least summarize the points we have discussed. I really don't want to insult or offend, but I found this hard to swallo...

I see your point. I suppose what I meant to say is that mathematics allows for utter precision, whereas, in reality, things are generally not mathemat...

I think it's more likely that it is the understanding that is fragmentary.

My question also. But this 'epistemic cut' is that between a subject of experience, and the world in which it exists, even if in very primitive form. ...

In the very first sentence, you're wanting to objectify the observer, locate the observer in time and space. There is no such thing, in an objective s...

...for whom any suggestion that objectivity can be less than absolute is a surrender to anarchy...

See my reply in the Schopenhauer thread.

You can see Schopenhauer struggling mightily to avoid the necessity for God. He says at one point that if God has symbolic meaning, then that's OK. I ...

I generally address my posts to the individual(s) with whom I am conversing (although it's may be true that swathes of people will read them and take ...

Well, philosophers do say that 'wisdom begins in wonder'.

How can that be an error? Isn't it amply confirmed by neuro- and cognitive science? What do you think the fantastic hominid forebrain does with all th...

I'm of the view that you're exceptionally quick to take umbrage. That's why I rarely respond. I'm aware that my kind of approach rubs plenty of people...

I'm all in on the representation aspect. Still not sure about the will aspect. Here's one of the passages I often cite which basically demolishes phil...