I'd question that - it is because it is interpreted through the subject-object perspective that we fail to grasp its import. This interpretation subje...
That's empiricism 101. I think Whitehead was quite aware of that when he wrote the book. I think the point is that empiricism itself always starts wit...
You say that because of your faith in the unerring testimony of the senses. Yet the fact that there might be a woolly mammoth behind a hill (or not) i...
Very good. I've not read much of Hannah Arendt though clearly a profound thinker. I think the kind of 'direct seeing' we're discussing is more charact...
'What to do' is bound up with 'how things are' or perhaps more to the point 'what things mean'. Science does a great job of measurement, quantificatio...
As I tried to point out ealier in this thread, I think the issue is bound up with the emphasis on 'belief' as the sole criteria of what constitutes a ...
That is not the sum total of the subject although it's an important part. Aristotle's argument for a first cause is based on the observation that moti...
As I noted earlier, Auguste Comte, founder of sociology and of the idea of positivism, attempted to create just such a secular church movement, The Ch...
Interesting that stuffy archaic Christianity defends freedom of the will as a matter of principle while scientific materialism views humans as automat...
Dawkins would denigrate religion as being something like a mind-parasite. It is what he invented the terminology of 'memes' for (which is one of the i...
That they're parasitic on religion? Auguste Comte, founder of sociology and inventor of 'positivism', also tried to found a replacement for religion. ...
I came into contact with the Theosophical Society through the Adyar Bookshop, which was an institution in Sydney until early in this millennium when i...
I wasn’t attempting to trivialize anything. All I meant was that the fact that living beings began to appear on the earth doesn't undermine the idea t...
I will add, science itself has a parallel discipline - the point of the scientific method being to eliminate the personal, the idiosyncratic, the subj...
I think you are, but it's an unwinnable argument, as there will always be counter-examples, such as those @"Tom Storm" has given. When I studied Compa...
I think it's essential to it. As I said in my first comment, the question 'why are we subjects of experience?' is a strange question. It's tantamount ...
As the crux of the issue. Seems to me that Humphries addresses one aspect of the problem - what is the evolutionary rationale for this capacity? Why a...
How about, consciousness is a fundamental simple of experience? Even despite the fact that I comprise billions of cellular operations, many existing o...
What occurs to me, reading that article, is that what his model is describing is ego, the self's idea of itself. I don't think it addresses the aspect...
Both the Russian and Chinese Communist parties set out to eradicate religion, and to institute 'scientific communism', but both of them failed. (Since...
One philosophical point to consider in all this is the implication of David Hume's 'is /ought' problem and the difficulty of deriving the latter from ...
I mentioned the book The One, by Heinrich Pas, earlier in the thread - see this Aeon essay by the author with a synopsis of some of the ideas in that ...
The issue is that the fine-structure constants are prior to anything evolving whatever. If they were different in some slight degree then there would ...
Do thermometers and computer systems warrant being kind? Are they subjects of experience? It seems perfectly obvious to me that they're not, but it's ...
They're ratios. And what I said was responding to So, my reasoning went, if matter (matter~energy) represents the 'hyle' of hylomorphic dualism, what ...
It's a philosophical point - that the value in question is invariant, doesn't change over time, has no units associated with it //and furthermore that...
I do read Ethan Seigel's posts although I notice that he's been dropped from Forbes. He's a great explicator. From that article: Sounds awfully like '...
I wonder if those could be conceived as analogous to the fundamental existence-enabling constraints identified in cosmology (e.g. Martin Rees' 'six nu...
Then I can't see the point of you're introducing with ' Buddhism's "anicca", "anatta", "dukkha-karma"'. Are you saying that these are examples of the ...
To what end, though? The theory is, that ignorance is the attribution of permanence to that which is by nature impermanent, i.e. arising of thoughts, ...
I never used the word 'blindness'. I simply said that the popular rejection of the notion of the divine origin of natural law is a factor in the debat...
Whereas in reality all you will end up with a heap of feces-smeared and broken typewriters. (Although I do sometimes wonder if they're not harnessed e...
I didn't intend to imply wilful blindness but that could equally be said of your second sentence, as, at the time, the Christian worldview comprised a...
I think it foolish to deny that there is an order in nature, but I also think that the answer to the question of why there is such an order, and what ...
How is it a different question? For the physicalist, the physical substrate is fundamental, consciousness is epiphenomenal. So explaining consciousnes...
It might be worth mentioning Science and Non-Duality. This started as a conference in San Rafael in California in 2009. They now have conferences in m...
It is about establishing a reduction base. The reduction base is the set of concepts, entities, or principles that are considered fundamental or basic...
Do processes such as metabolism, homeostasis and reproduction 'emerge from' simple lifeforms such as single-cell organisms? Or are those metabolic pro...
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