Wayfarer

Hope you read that poetry above, it is really very good. I understand a lot more about Alfred North Whitehead just having read it.

Great work. Process philosophy sung into verse—beautifully done. :clap: :pray:

Might be a good place for a recap of what the synthetic a priori is, and the role it has in Kant's COPR. The phrase “synthetic a priori” is one of the...

Nevertheless, I think it must be acknowledged that the consequences of Galileo's overturning of Aristotelian physics was of major consequence in intel...

How germane is it to the point at issue? I started with a quote from James Glattenfelder's synopsis of his book (as mentioned by @"Gnomon"), and then ...

fringe cases. I'd go with Chomsky.

Well, sure - there is much commentary on the fact that Galileo was deeply influenced by Plato in conceiving of “the book of nature” as written in math...

That would figure - he doesn't know, because without any language, there would be no way for ideas to 'register in memory' so to speak (at a guess).

Presumably, they are stil able to speak, so, form concepts, understand meanings and grammar - all of which require thought.

It might indeed be 'a step in the development' of thinking, but it's not thought in the sense that you and I are doing, in composing and replying on t...

I have a more prosaic view, although we arrive at a similar conclusion. He says in his Medium synopsis There is a solid historical basis to this claim...

The symbolism of the Fall is appropriate, considering that the fruit was 'from the tree of knowledge'. Another potent metaphor is that of Faust who se...

Language. Not communication - birds and bees communicate - but language, representation of objects and relations in symbolic form.

Recognition relies on understanding the concept 'larger than'. Of course, an apple *is* larger than a plum but the mind still has a fundamental role i...

Yes, they do exist. My bad. According to further research, quantum computers have made progress, but current systems are still too noisy, not large en...

That describes how organisms respond to their environment - which the vast majority do, quite successfully, without thought.

I've long felt there's a sense in which the project of modern consumer culture and techno-capitalism is to create a safe space for ignorance (in the s...

Bear in mind, what you quoted is from my paraphrase of the original post, not an argument that I myself was putting forward. So perhaps the original p...

So now the MAGA administration is predictably leveraging the Kirk assassination as a pretext for the furthering of authoritarianism. This, from the Pr...

THAT is the big question!

I'm not attacking a strawman - you’re treating “the facts of science” as if they were metaphysically transparent, a window to 'how the universe truly ...

Ask AI if a quantum computer could be considered a conscious, sentient being.

I've read up on them. Currently, they don't actually exist, and there is still some skepticism that they will operate as intended. But I still believe...

I mentioned Vervaeke’s series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, which addresses similar themes. It is much broader than philosophy as such, it’s a st...

I know you feel that way :wink:

The way I think about it is very much shaped by evolution (and anthropology) in that whatever is said about it must be able to accomodate the facts th...

But how can you 'set aside' the posit that current physics accounts for 4% of the totality of the universe? And the entrenched controversies around th...

Some properties are recognised by the rational mind as being real independently of the mind, but only perceptible to reason, such as 'the idea of equa...

I suspect the problem you're wrestling with is the idea that the brain 'in here' represents the world 'out there' by way of creating a model, such tha...

Scientific materialism and science are not the same. //Neils Bohr said 'It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Ph...

It’s ontological but not physical - an intellectual act which enables the recognition of abstractions. The property can only be recognised by a mind c...

I believe that for pre-modern culture, it was always assumed that things happen for reasons. This of course is the subject of causality, which is stil...

Thinking is neither. Computers can encode ideas in symnolic form, but computers do not think. Hey, ChatGPT: do computers think? ChatGPT: No, computers...

I was the emphasis on hallucinogens that dampened my enthusiasm for Glattfelder’s book. It’s been many decades since my ingestion of lysergines. There...

Out of blind faith.

Well, I’ll go back to saying it’s an attempt to rescue materialism by attributing consciousness to matter.

From The Daily Beast via Apple News:

But only organic matter. Consciousness is what differentiates organic from non-organic matter. Agree or disagree

But what it means can be changed - by what you do next.

:rofl:

I’ve noticed many sports people interviewed courtside have really internalized this ‘here and now’ mentality’. This point, this match - don’t think ab...

Do you mean by that, that an idea is not bound to any specific expression or form, but can maintain an identity even in different expressions?

Good, and dfficult, question. There was a huge cult book published in the late 60's, Be Here Now, by Richard Alpert, who became Ram Dass, a key figure...

Keep digging, but don't expect to find any gold.

Trump fans the flames of fear of ‘the other’ to his own political advantage. This is an undeniable factor in his rise to power.

The trail it sent me down was the implied ‘divinity of the rational soul’ in medieval philosophy (stemming from Aristotle’s ‘active intellect’.) The e...

Fear is MAGA rocket fuel. How much of Trump’s campaign was based on stoking fear? ‘They’re eating the dogs ! :rage: ‘

Me neither, but I still believe that Trump will ultimately fail because he’s a completely mediocre individual and not even competent. Amazingly it has...

I don't know who David Hogg is. I do know that if a figure on the liberal side of politics had been shot giving a talk at a University, MAGA would dow...

It is in no way 'a physical property'. One can count the members of a set of concepts, none of which is physical. Counting is an intellectual act whic...