Wayfarer

Indeed. And that the mind does not appear among, or as, a phenomenon.

It's part of a larger argument, that I've tried to develop here and elsewhere. First, as regards computers, I think their capacities can be explained ...

You did not refute it. You did not show it. Your arguments are idiosyncratic and you quote no sources.

It’s an extremely complicated matter. Schopenhauer is routinely described as atheist, yet he explicitly praises Indic philosophy and religious ascetic...

Why the defensiveness? I’m not accusing you, or accusing science, of anything. But at this time it is a conjecture.

Do you think that the dark matter conjecture qualifies as metaphysics? It’s a conjecture based on abductive reasoning, arising from apparent contradic...

Do you think that terms such as mok?a or Nirv??a mean anything? How would you interpret what is meant by them?

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I think it can plausibly related to enactivism. According to enactivism, subjective and objective aspects arise in the context of the organism's ongoi...

Nihilism - nothing is real, nothing matters, nothing truly exists. That poem you quote is dripping with it.

There is indeed a school of Buddhism called Mind-Only, which is near in many respects to Kastrup’s Analytical Idealism. The reason that it doesn’t end...

I have ordered the book I got that quote from, Schopenhauer’s Compass, Urs App. It pays particular attention to his notes on the Upanishads. My observ...

Cribbed from public domain sources: E. A. Burtt's book, "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science," published in 1924, analyzes the met...

I still can’t draw a line between what you say and nihilism.

So, basically, avoid pro-creation. Which is of course reflected in ascetic celibacy, although I think their rationale also extends beyond that.

And how can one avoid participation?

It did, up until around the 4th century AD when it was anathematised by the Church on dogmatic grounds. It seems to have been accepted at least in an ...

‘Brahmanism’ refers to Vedanta. Both it and Buddhism seek mok?a or Nirv??a, release from the cycle of birth and death. There’s no real equivalent in W...

Another point is that Kant’s assertion that we can’t know things ‘as they are in themselves’ is simply an admission of the limits of human knowledge. ...

I would have hoped that brief excerpt would be of use by itself, in respect of the question of the ‘knowledge of things in themselves’. (Knowledge of ...

Remember that 60's protest slogan? 'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'? And the related 'Be the change you want to see in...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-admit-they-dont-know-if-biden-bribery-tapes-really-exist?ref=home It's typical of this lot. All of the promi...

Suzuki represents nondualism. 'Long and short define each other' is a typical non-dualist statement. The principle is that opposites only exist in rel...

My reasoning is not subjective. I take it as axiomatic that the basic laws of logic are consistent everywhere. You will find they hold as much in Indi...

I stand by the basic claim that numbers, logical principles, and the like, cannot be explained in terms of the interactions of matter. That reason com...

I think we must, as we're agents. Choice doesn't come into what crystals do, but it comes into what the most basic organisms do, even if in a very sim...

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So is my idea of ‘7’ different to yours? (Better not be, else it might be hard to do business.)

But: However: Is it though? I question whether evolution is an agent at all. Natural selection acts to prevent things happening, to filter things out,...

:100: Just the book I would have mentioned.

Indeed, nothing can be said about what exists independently of human faculties (including reason) as whatever that might be, is beyond the scope of kn...

It's not an assumption, it's an axiom. The law of identity and other such principles of logic are assumed by the laws of inference. If they didn't sta...

The representation, the symbolic form, exists as matter, but the idea is real independently of the symbolic form. This is shown by the fact that the s...

The number 7 is not matter or energy, yet it exists.

By way of footnote in this discussion, the book I was introduced to Kant through was a book on Buddhist philosophy, namely, The Central Philosophy of ...

I don't know if it serves much purpose to ventilate these theories here. I've tried to read up on the so-called Burisma bribe, and the Hunter Biden la...

I can't quite wrap my head around Tegmark. I think Katz' book is more my cup of tea but I've yet to get hold of a copy.

Really? I had the idea that since e=mc2 that energy - which is interchangeable with matter through said equation - was THE fundamental existent. Incid...

Don't think so. Anyway I de- and re-installed it, seems to work fine now. Useful innovation!

I read 'the physics and metaphysics of biosemiosis'. I felt the physics aspect was better than the metaphysics. I get the feeling that the philosophic...

Why Trump Did It. And here's the massive crowd of MAGA protestors milling around outside the courthouse. /uploads/resized/files/ru/ifnubdcrbg9ox27c.pn...

I respect Pattee and have learned from him. I'm also cognizant that biosemiotics is a wide-ranging discipline accomodating divergent perspectives (tha...

I know we're probably both out of our depth here, but I think you're incorrect about that. It's not as if you can state that a particle really exists ...

Hey you're ahead of me. I have to renew my alumni membership at the uni library and make the trip to get it out. Glad you found it useful.

The Buddha asserts the cessation of all suffering (i.e. Nirv??a, which is not mere non-existence). But having been born, the gordian knot which binds ...

the things we do for love, eh ;-)

Geez I bet that first dude has a great time at airport security. (I've seen an earlier photo of the second dude but I think he's changed his spots.) I...

Thanks, done that.

I seemed to have a problem with this extension which I had installed about 24 hours ago. This morning (my time) I composed a reply and clicked Enter -...

Fitting that the indictment document is headed 'United States of America vs Donald J. Trump' (and accomplice). /uploads/files/s9/mzoc0zpjyeu6n7a1.png ...