Wayfarer

You make my point for me.

Do your own research on ‘subjective unity of experience - neural correlates’.

Maxwell Richard Bennett is an Australian neuroscientist specializing in the function of synapses. He has published a large number of text books and jo...

As stated in that article, there is no scientific account for the subjective unity of experience. If you go back and check it, that claim is thoroughl...

It can’t. If you want to criticize something, you first have to demonstrate that you understand it. I have had near and dear relatives saved by neuros...

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In any case, I'm definitely cooling on Hoffman. One idea that really threw me in the long article Banno pinned, was that 'conscious agents' are not ne...

Kant's criticism of the ontological argument.

Next court appearance for DJT for the NY case is currently listed for 4th December. Quite possibly several other indictments will have been unsealed i...

What is awkwardly referred to as 'what it is like' is actually just describing 'being'. It is what 'being' refers to, when we use the term 'human bein...

If you ran a simulation of kidney function on your cloud computer network, would you expect it to produce urine?

Jesus often spoke with the authority of someone who had direct knowledge of God, whereas the rabbis tended to rely on the authority of the Torah and t...

Yeah, you sometimes wonder what it would be like to be a bat.

Let's ask: Also discussed extensively in Pierre Normand's thread on GPT4.

He’s a cognitive scientist but as he doesn’t subscribe to materialism so it seems suggestive of idealism. I’m going to read that critical review Banno...

There's definitely a Pythagorean flavour to it. But then, Russell says in HWP that the mathematical mysticism of Pythagoreanism is one of the key diff...

/uploads/resized/files/f3/1vtyd0p3pzizmu0m.png Having said that, there's an awful lot of awfully idealist-sounding prose scattered throughout, e.g. 'C...

Top of p100. The thing I'm suspicious about is that we don't know what is real outside our desktop metaphor. I thought a scientist would at least have...

He puts paid to my idealist gloss on his work in a couple of paragraphs: Ideas similar to MUI theory are found in various forms of idealism. But, as S...

Thanks. Lots of homework there.

I've learned that platonism in mathematics is regarded as highly non-PC - presumably because of its challenge to philosophical naturalism. Have a look...

Typically it's a moderator slang referring to a banned user who re-joins under a different ID - hence the whole kerfuffle in this case. :lol:

If you were dealing with a recipe, or a formula, or design blueprints, you'd better be damned sure they're accurate. (Remember that European Mars Land...

Pretty much as per the encyclopedia entries: This is what results if you take the Christian worldview and replace religion with science, and the divin...

More metaphysical naturalism, which is naive realism on steroids :rofl:

That's what I meant. Have you ever read anything about that topic? Because it seems to me closely connected to the hard problem argument.

You will always reflexively equate philosophy with naturalism. I mention it because of the very well-known arguments about the apparent conflicts betw...

But it doesn't provide criteria for judgement of epistemelogical or existential or metaphysical questions, because that is not the problem it is addre...

I don't really see the problem. I fully accept the naturalist account of evolution. All organic life is related, as evolutionary theory demonstrates. ...

What I already said about the collective nature of mind. Besides, the laws of physics still hold at micro-levels, but they're probabalistic, there is ...

So you don't accept that science has a cultural role? That evolutionary theory is often used as a guide to how we should think or what we are? Have yo...

This is where the non-objectivity of quantum mechanics enters the picture. When you seek the underlying, objective ground from which all of the object...

The blind spot is a great subject of study. It is grounded in the Upani?adic philosophy, 'the eye cannot see itself.' Google The Blind Spot, Michel Bi...

By the 'species mind', I mean, rather than positing a 'universal mind', realising that as members of both a species and a culture, we live in a world ...

See if you can get a snapshot for us.

I think of in terms of ‘the collective mind’ - as members of a species, language group and culture then we inhabit a shared reality. Is there a need t...

'Independent' in the sense that the concept triangle is not dependent on your thinking about it. The same principle is broadly applicable to all manne...

Not 'secession', 'sedition' - my mistake - some of the Proud Boys participants were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

An example from an article referenced earlier: ---- * 'In his work, Frege used the term "thought contents" to refer to the meanings of sentences or pr...

thanks for the very thoughtful introduction! I hope the community lives up to the rather exalted standards you have laid out, and welcome. aww shucks ...

It's very clear - 7=7 (or the sum of its factors). Actually during this exchange, I've come to realise that what I believe is that whilst mathematical...

I think the argument against this is the existence of mathematical constants. They are understood as providing objective and universal truths about th...

This was posted by Trump in 2018, showing his political adversaries behind bars for imagined 'treason'. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtEwcW2WsAADSP2?fo...

He might he say that elsewhere, but that thumbnail sketch I provided doesn't say it. It says that There's nothing about 'compound agents' implied by t...

Right - see your point.

Here is a good detailed review of Case Against Reality with some useful comparisons. Some snippets: Followed by a very succinct statement of 'consciou...

Sure. But I just did a search on the Kindle sample and notice the term ‘idealism’ does not appear. All the examples in that sample are taken from biol...

Thanks! I do see his point, it’s more or less the same objection I raised at the very beginning. It’s like when David Stove would compare positivism t...

Where or what is Tallis’ criticism of Hoffman that you keep alluding to?

Trump’s continued attacks on the Department of Justice and the judiciary are another assault on the democratic state, aided and abetted (although clum...