Couldn't have said it better myself. I think point is that it is the experience of the object that is real. A more germane snippet from Hoffman: So we...
Uncharacteristically carried out by a lone female shooter, although that does nothing to diminish the horror of it. There really is a sickness deep in...
Would that apply to psychotherapy? When a therapist helps a patient to surface a repressed memory, could such a catharsis have been effected without t...
The question I would have for Donald Hoffman is why is his theory not a product of the same evolutionarily-conditioned process that our perception of ...
The point I'm trying to make is simply that to depict the denizens of 'the realm of ideas', such as logical principles, or natural numbers, in terms o...
I think that's mistaken, because scientific method is a method, it is not a creedal statement. Following that leads only to 'scientism', as there are ...
As I said earlier, I think you need to distinguish thought in the sense of random neural chatter from the formal aspects of thought. I also think the ...
I merged this thread with the older OP because they're substantially about the same question. You're dealing with the reality of abstract objects, suc...
Has to do with the first-person perspective, as distinct from the third-person descriptions dealt with by science. Science is the indisputable champ f...
Stevenson remarked that Western people would say 'why are you wasting your time researching this? Eveyone knows it's just a myth.' Whereas people in A...
As you already said, GPT is often a bullshit generator, although at least in this case, I have an idea why: that account almost exactly matches the on...
I find the cases Stevenson details quite compelling, but I'm don't obsess over it. The reason it provokes such strong reactions, I think, is because t...
I get it- cultural taboo. I won't press the point, other than to say that Stevenson's publications constitute public evidence, although for obvious re...
On the contrary, the researcher Ian Stevenson conducted many investigations into alleged cases. He followed the same kind of methodology that would be...
We've often discussed the evidence of children with past-life recall, they have been documented in thousands of cases, but of course if you refuse to ...
I like that Penrose is a kind of mathematical Platonist. One of his other Closer to Truth interviews is on that topic. In fact overall I really like P...
I'd best not get into that here, it's completely different from whatever it is that Roger Penrose is describing. But I do agree that his 'proto-consci...
From whence we come, wither we go. You gotta choose who to listen to. But it's very important to distinguish them, especially in this day and age, wit...
I always appreciate your contribution, and I'm interested in improving my understanding of Whitehead and process philosophy, although you're right in ...
I suppose to try and articulate my own stance a little better, I think the higher religious traditions - by that I'm referring to Christian Platonism,...
Agree that religion is often incompatible with liberalism, and also that religious fundamentalism and fanaticism, and the politicisation of faith that...
You edited your answer after my previous response. You seem to be arguing that just because something is lacking in empirical evidence, then there are...
Hey great to hear from you Prothero. He does seem to be reaching for a kind of pan-psychist solution. (Incidentally, where did those passages come fro...
You know, I could quite easily have included that entire passage without any attribution whatever. I included the attribution for transparency. I supp...
In many religious discourses, they are seen as complementary rather than antagonistic. Aquinas is an example. His articles are nearly always given in ...
The idea that everything that it generates is bullshit is also bullshit. It is a convenient information source for summaries and sketches and I will c...
Of course it's not a f*ing authority. What it is, is a little more detail than a one-sentence question, for the benefit of others, who are quite welco...
It's like a Wikipedia entry. (Besides the video link was to Penrose himself, explaining it in his own words.) If you want to read what he says, get Em...
Indeed. Had some of the gnostics prevailed, it might have been a very different story. But let's not throw the baby of gnosis out with the bathwater o...
They're deep questions, and Penrose is an exceptionally deep thinker. I bought his book The Emperor's New Mind years ago, and it was way over my head....
My trying to explain a philosophical view to you is not 'bias'. It's a philosophical view. So, an ontology not based on sentience is described as what...
I'm just providing a bit more detail from ChatGPT to provide some background: You can also find an interview with Sir Roger Penrose in which he explai...
No, fideism is not the same as faith. Fideism is the belief that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other an...
They’re not totally different although I do see the distinction you are wanting to make. Here’s another outlink (I have many!) which distinguishes rel...
Because it involves a factor variously designated salvation, release, mok?a, or liberation. Whereas there’s nothing in the current concept of naturali...
There are many deeply stereotyped ideas about religion which mainly originate in ecclesiastical dogma about what you are obliged to believe. I think t...
An important point that is largely lost in Western cultural discourse is the principle of self-realization in the philosophical or spiritual sense. Su...
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