You mean this? You think that is remotely close to what Popper would consider 'falsifiable by empirical evidence'? ‘When we create an artificial human...
I think that's pretty accurate. Metaphysics mainly comprises unproven first principles - unproven, because they are understood as the basis for any in...
Might also add, by way of full disclosure, that I am very much a dog lover. I've had quite a few, though none currently - my dear other is indifferent...
That was in the back of mind when I started this debate, although since joining forums ten years ago I've become aware of how deeply influential Desca...
(@"Janus", @"Manuel" - if you do create another thread I'll move the relevant comments from this one if you like.) That is rather chilling! You can se...
Thanks for that! Jonathan Bennett's editions are always very helpful. I'm nowhere near really understanding the background to these disputes, I will a...
The observer problem is a problem because there’s nothing in the maths to indicate where the observer must come into the picture. But the act of obser...
Philosophy long pre-dates, and post-dates, Descartes. I have respect for Descartes - certainly I don’t want to ‘cancel’ him! But the discovery of the ...
PBS SpaceTime video on the double-slit experiment. Dr Quantum video on the double-slit - short and to the point. They both cover the same basic subjec...
The actual word, 'philo-sophia', 'love-wisdom' is derived from Greek, and what is recognised in Western culture as philosophy is likewise derived from...
Morris' book was ostensibly scientific - he had been (just looked it up again) keeper of primates at a zoo. But he made a lot out of the sexuality of ...
Gotta say, there was a book in the 60's called The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris, which made all these points in abundant detail. God, it was hot 1. It...
That it indicates his philosophical dogma is radically insufficient in a way which I hadn't previously understood. It's one thing to argue abstraction...
I quite agree, but I think this discussion is helping to understand the progression from Descartes to Dennett. Dennett's major foil is Descartes, and ...
Notice the quotes around 'bigger'. What I think you actually mean is, 'many'. They're very different things. Einstein didn't like the uncertainty prin...
What the human mind does - uniquely well, as far as we can ascertain - is grasp abstract ideas and see causal relations (among other things) which are...
:up: Ad hominem means 'attacking the man not the argument'. I'm criticising the metaphysic which can overlook or endorse such activities. It's not an ...
But they're defined in opposition to each other. Body is only extension with no thought, mind is only though with no extension. Even the human body is...
Well, sure, there's plenty of violence committed in ostensibly Buddhist cultures, it's human nature, regrettably. (With some exceptions, it is said th...
The article that @"Hanover" linked https://www.friesian.com/jowers.htm is informative. I hadn't realised the absolute nature of Descartes' division be...
It would be better to simply recognise there are things science is unable to ascertain and leave it at that. As a general rule, knowing you don’t know...
Madison is a nice place, we visited late August last and went down to the lakeside of the University campus. My son lives in Oconomowoc, it’s kind of ...
I've only began to visit the United States later in life, I've had, I think, 7 trips there now. (Highlight was catching the California Zephyr from SF ...
It seems inevitable that the only ending to this war can be great disaster - either great disaster for Putin, or great disaster for the whole world. I...
That article on the Friesian website is right on the mark, I will take time to read it. I will add, my overall estimation of Descartes has always been...
Whilst I see the point of the views expressed above, I'm still very shocked by this discovery. I'm not someone who wants to tear down statues of famou...
:up: I only summarised what was in the original but yes you hit the nail on the head. One thought that occurs to me is that current culture has to dis...
I have family in Wisconsin. Lovely place, hope to be back there again in August. The political scene has been extremely fraught, beginning with Scott ...
I've quoted the work of Hubert Yockey in the last few days so won't copy it again, but you can read it here. The basic drift is, according to someone ...
There's a lot in what Brooks says about nihilists. These MAGA lunatics are completely out of touch with reality. (What was the saying from a few years...
I've read that a US Bond Default would credibly cause a financial apocalypse, an 'all the banks are closed and there's no money' scenario. I think it'...
:ok: Personal note: my dear departed father was a world-renowned Prof of gynae/obstets who was one of the generation of doctors that released the Pill...
If you go back to the origins of Pyrrhonian scepticism with Pyrrho of Elis, he is said to have voyaged to India (likely Gandhara, in the Swat Valley, ...
I have often read criticism of porn based on it often depicting violence, real or simulated assault and apparently non-consensual sexual acts. But I h...
Took me decades to rid myself of tobacco. The adage that really struck me when trying to quit was 'one is too many, a thousand is not enough'. All add...
I vaguely recall a story some years ago to the effect that there was a very high concentration of porn searches from internet cafés and kiosks in Paki...
I'll refer to John Wheeler's paper, Law without Law: That's what I think the various many-worlds interpretations are rejecting. They view the lacuna a...
Inly in respect if the question of how life originated. In all other respects it’s a perfectly naturalistic theory. We might never know how life origi...
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