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Only that you never seem to see the point of that passage whenever it's quoted.

Curious then that Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness a...

Ryle's criticism is valid in saying that Descartes' division of 'mind and matter' has absurd consequences by proposing 'res cogitans' as a literal 'th...

This is a scrapbook entry about how discoveries in cognitive science lend support to transcendental idealism. And that holistic, gestalt-generating ab...

There was a Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, who was famous for conducting such tests, which he did over many years. He started out a convinced...

The similarities between Kant's and Schopenhauer's transcendental idealism and the philosophies of the Upani?ads and Buddhists texts is well known. As...

The way I put it is 'sentient consciousness is the capacity for experience. Rational sentient consciousness also includes the capacity for reason'. :c...

Now there's a freudian slip for the ages.

Idealism IS the mainstream. All else is degeneration. ('Footnotes to Plato' - remember?) So the poll is simply a reflection of the fact that we live i...

ChatGPT Question de Jour Now, I could have arrived at that through my own research and investigation. But not in 4 seconds. Incidentally, I haven't se...

+1. That is indeed not the point of the argument. The point of the argument about 'what it is like to be...' is to convey the fact of being a subject ...

You asked a question: I answered with a passage from a canonical text of Advaita non-dualism, saying that 'outside the atman, nothing has any sense'. ...

I sort of, kind of, agree. But I've become acutely aware of how 'post-Cartesian' our worldview instinctively is. Descartes is where the modern 'mind-b...

A blip could indicate incoming ordinance, so beware. I was going to add, idealism nowadays has rather counter-cultural implications. Kastrup is still ...

I think a fair case can be made for the ancestor of what was to become known later as 'idealism' in Greek philosophy - specifically Plato, of course, ...

I would imagine it would be simple to describe her experience to another person who is not colour-blind: 'I saw colours for the first time! Now I know...

I think idealism as any kind of majority view died with the 19th Century. In the 'Golden Age' of American philosophy - C.S. Peirce, Joshua Royce, Will...

But there must be some level of intention to reach a sufficient level of organisation in the first place. (I'll leave it there until I finish the arti...

Excellent. That's more or less the point I was labouring to make. You wouldn't see much of it in academic philosophy lectures, though.

Born in 1932, that makes him 90 this year. When I found his book, I emailed him and got a nice reply - about July last year. His book has gone under t...

Doesn't this imply that matter is capable of intentional action?

Meaning is both embedded and embodied. It's embedded in our environment, embodied in language and gestures, interpreted on many levels from the cellul...

Wasn't trying to single you out - It was just some remarks you made earlier in the thread . (Did I mention Charles Pinter to you before? You can find ...

Pretty fine distinction, in my view. Quite germane to the conception of philosophy as a quest for truth.

The point of the thought-experiment is that when Mary sees colour she knows what colour is like, for the first time - something she didn't know before...

Have a glance at the wikipedia entry on the word teleonomy. It is a neologism coined in 1958 by a biologist to accomodate the awkward fact that virtua...

'The unexamined life is not worth living' is one of the Socratic maxims. Philosophy itself means, not just the 'love of wisdom' but 'love-wisdom' and ...

I would put it like this: that it's more like a change in perspective. When you have an insight, have you 'acquired information'? You may have no new ...

Asked and answered as far as I’m concerned

As mentioned earlier, the point about Buddhist idealism is not that it claims 'the world is mind-created' but that we normally misconstrue the nature ...

Well indeed I would agree that if you equate enlightenment and data-harvesting then there is probably no enlightenment to be had. Look out! Idealists ...

OK, I will try again. The point of the 'everyone knows' statement is to depict the apparently-obvious fact that the Universe pre-existed h. sapiens by...

I'll favour his account over yours in this case. Are you referring to the distinction between 'ontological' and 'epistemological' idealism. The former...

Check out the article on Mary's Room. It's not the same point you're making, but it's related.

hmmm, deep question. I'll come back to this one.

:100: I think one of the typical objections to what I'm describing as 'idealism' is 'if the world is "in the mind" how come you can't bend it to your ...

Very well stated, but the point could equally be made that philosophy used to contemplate these larger questions, but that its scope has been delibera...

I make a tentative distinction between 'being' and 'reality'. The root of 'reality' is 'res', meaning 'thing'. So reality is the totality of things, a...

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I rather like him, I read (actually, listened to via my Audiobook sub) Decoding Schop's Metaphysics and have listened to part of More than Allegory, p...

Thanks! Yes, I know. :roll: But I've done the readings, I'll defend my ground.

That is correct. I'm now regretting NOT selecting 'idealism' as that is what I actually believe. I have repeated a passage in Bryan Magee's 'Schopenha...

Would you be willing to provide a synoptic overview of what you mean by ‘fundamental abstraction’? (Or will the answer be, ‘read my paper’ ;-) )

I’m a Boomer, and my quest originated very much in the 1960’s. I had a few vivid epiphanies - at least that’s what it seemed - that hinted at some lar...

I agree that phenomenology uses the term 'phenomena' in a much more specialised way. But I still don't think 'phenomena' is a useful description for w...

That only I can imagine the music in my head. It's not 'an appearance' for anyone, not even me. 'Phenomenon:1. a fact or situation that is observed to...

No. Phenomena are 'what appears' - sensory input. The stream of consciousness is just that, a stream of consciousness. 'Phenomena' is a hugely overuse...

Your depiction of 'religious people' refers to a specific kind of religious mentality, most like fundamentalist or creationist Christians to whom scie...

You do wonder, then, why it's origins and traditions lie mostly with renunciates and sannyasins. You might be referring to the 'ordinary mind' approac...

I completely accept that animals are subjects of experience- that they're beings, distinct from objects or things. I thnk the Cartesian view of animal...