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I'm meaning to read Metzinger, but at first glance, he seems a rather cold personality. But I don't see any contradiction between the type of construc...

Which is pretty what the Phaedo and other ancient sources imply in the analogy of 'the soul as the harmony of parts'.

You haven't addressed the argument, but I have a sense that nothing further can be added.

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This is not true that idealism has been 'solved' or refuted generally. There are quite a few people of scientific bent, of whom Bernardo Kastrup is on...

In Australia, this is generally much less visible than the USA. I say 'generally' because there are some cases - a Murdoch-owned (natch!) media outlet...

I don’t know if the above two posts reflect awareness of the specific problem regarding raising the debt limit. Due to a quirk of the American politic...

Hope you don't mind me chipping in here. My aim is not to persuade, but (hopefully) clarify. This is the crux of the issue. Realism presumes 'the worl...

'Trans rights' are a political correctness minefield in today's culture. A story in the Sydney Morning Herald being a case in point - the Oxford Union...

I wonder if Kevin McCarthy caves, whether he will loose his job over it. After all, part of the devil's bargain he had to sign to win the Speaker's ga...

No! This is where 'the unknown knower' comes into the picture. 'The eye can't see itself, the hand can't grasp itself', which is an aphorism from Veda...

And which stone would that be? 'Oh, it doesn't matter - any stone.' But 'any stone' is an abstraction - and abstraction is still dependent on the matr...

No, it's not. It's not anything, until it is cognised. It's not non-existent, but it's also not existent - it has a kind of latent or unmanifest reali...

We can form no meaningful idea of what exists in the absence of the order that the mind brings to reality. There is an implicit endorsement of scienti...

I wonder if that ‘aha’ point is the appearance of the very first living organism.

I notice in modern discourse that even the notion of laws is called into question. This goes back to the discussion about the erosion of the idea of a...

Interesting how nature, once 'the created', is now imbued with the power of creating itself.

Now we see your true colors.

You may not disagree, but the fact of human-induced climate change is proven beyond reasonable doubt, regardless of how you feel about it. Yes so perh...

'Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but not to their own facts' ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

I’ll stick with the free version for now. I find myself using it all the time. I can see the day, and it’s not far off, where it becomes embedded in y...

You'll find them here.

:up: Agree. I am also a Kastrup reader. Overall, as I'm opposed like him to reductive materialism, I'm generally in agreement with him. My criticism o...

The point is that our rational grasp of things is constructed around abstractions, which are fundamental to language and therefore the basic operation...

Then why bother asking? It's a serious example. 'Money', would be another. Especially now that all money is electronic. It exists only by fiat, as a s...

Interest rates.

Thanks! Actually as far as I know, it’s still ChatGPT - I’m signing in via OpenAI although whether the engine is the same as GPT-4, I know not. Also a...

Indeed. 'Being' is a verb. ;-)

Some philosophical questions I put to ChatGPT 20.05.23 Q: Where would one encounter the expression about things that are 'always already the case'? Ch...

There’s a term that is distinct from both the subjective and objective, and that it transcendent(al). The detachment of the sage in philosophy has a d...

There are fundamentalists in areas other than religion.

But that is one of the points at issue, although I’m not in a position to pursue it right at the moment.

Marx said that after turning Hegel on his head. I won’t argue the case beyond noting dissent.

The point is that it’s not a product of culture and society. It preceded them, as did the axial age religions generally.

Actually I guess ‘confirmation bias’ would often be very difficult to expose and often effective as an accusation. See this case of.a biased investiga...

I agree that Meta’s logic is sometimes baffling :lol:

I still think a presupposition or an axiom is different to a bias. I suppose you could say that a strongly held but unexamined belief might constitute...

Much of the fault lies with the ‘rule of fear’ of the Churches and disgust with the religious wars and power struggles.

Good realization. One of the sayings that helped free me up was ‘My life has been a series of crises, most of which have never occurred.’

I think bias has more of a connotation of being unconscious, subjective or held on emotive grounds. Different to axioms which by definition are open t...

An update from The Hill - discussions have been paused. The 'Freedom Caucus' (read: MAGA Extremist) faction is still insisting that it won't sign the ...

I know! Ain't he amazing! Tommy Emmanuel put a comment on one of his latest, 'keep up the great work'. The attention to detail is fantastic - all thes...

We come into the world with proclivities, tendencies, traits, character, talents, and so on. These are all characteristics of living beings that are n...

In the sense of ‘known first person’ not ‘particular to the individual’ or ‘private’.

I updated that post as I had omitted something important. What I'm trying to get at, is that there is an experiential (or even empirical) element in g...

Well, if religion meant something different then the question of the relationship (I meant to say) with philosophy might have also been very different...

I actually do have an e-copy, I've read sections of it, but must find the time to give it a more thorough reading. I had encountered his criticism of ...

Interesting, I must go back and read more of the original.

There is, as I've noted in another thread just now, a tension between philosophical rationalism and naturalism. I think it's because philosophical rat...

That's pertinent in many a thread. This is why I keep referring to Thomas Nagel's essay, Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear of Religion, although it...