The story of Jung and the scarab beetle is one of the most famous examples he used to illustrate his concept of synchronicity. Once Carl Jung was trea...
From our previous discussions, I presumed you had D M Armstrong in mind, who is an avowed physicalist. Are the 'law realists' who are not physicalist?...
I’d say that “law realism” really just smuggles Platonism back in through the side door. It appeals to universals to ground necessity, but universals ...
You really need to have a look at Alicia Juarrero Dynamics in Action. The book starts with the question ‘what is the difference between a wink and a b...
I recognise that, it's David Bentley Hart's latest All Things are Full of Gods. And he states exactly what I was about to write, which is the vexed re...
In the one paper I’ve read about Frege, he describes logic as ‘the laws of thought’. ‘Frege on Knowing the Third Realm’, Tyler Burge. The thing is, lo...
Indeed. I'm in Australia, and here, most people - a huge majority, in fact - are shocked, frightened and appalled by what's happening in America under...
Not that large: 2024: Trump won the popular vote with a lead of about 1.5% over Kamala Harris. This was the first time he won the national popular vot...
I believe Timothy has addressed this adequately in his subsequent post. We don't see things as they are in themselves, one might say. I think there ar...
I know! That conditions your approach to the issue, where it is something to be avoided at all costs. But that is a consequence of the very 'Cartesian...
The point isn’t that instruments are “out of this world,” but that they’re not just neutral parts of nature either. They’re artifacts manufactures to ...
I take your point that we should not confuse subjectivity with the role of the measuring apparatus. Of course it is the detector, not personal awarene...
Nor do I, but the theme I'm exploring is more like a current in the history of ideas, which shows up in Scholastic philosophy. But what was 'real' to ...
I have zero idea what you’re talking about. But I did google ‘’life in North Korea’ from which: Forced Labor: Many North Koreans, including children, ...
According to many reliable sources, life in the Hermit Kingdom is a dystopian nightmare where you can be sent to a prison camp for expressing dissent....
Why would we assume that? They are given no choice at all in the matter. It’s a complete totalitarian dictatorship with an appalling human rights reco...
I read an analogy, recently - imagine you’re one of millions of displaced people after a war. You find a large bulletin board in the city you used to ...
‘Wanting a dictatorship’ is surely the abdication of freedom. And even if I agreed that sexual and identity politics has been taken too far in western...
Sure - provided they’re not imposed, but chosen by democratic means. The big parade in China today starred Xi Jin Pin, Modi, Putin and Kim Jong Un - o...
Totally. And I'm not holding myself up as an exemplar of one who has managed to accomplish that - in fact I'm rather driven by the gloomy awareness of...
Jung isn’t collapsing truth into belief. He’s pointing out the phenomenological fact that “world” always means world-for-us. The stone on Mars is ther...
It's not conceding the point. In the very first paragraphs of the mind-created world I spell it out: 'First is the criticism that ‘idealism says that ...
A definition 'proves' how the word is used. If you wish to re-define memory as 'the past', then the onus is on you to justify it. When I say memory is...
Sure, I'd agree with that. I'm constantly on the lookout for new ideas, and the general tenor of academic philosophy changes constantly. There's a hug...
As the topic of wisdom is being discussed, it may be worth adding a note about Peirce’s philosophy of agap?, or selfless love. Peirce objected to the ...
Here are your objections to idealism, and my response to them: Novelty emerges from new external data interacting with our fixed frameworks. In the Ka...
Right. I am basically arguing against the popular view, or myth, of mankind as the 'accidental outcome of the collocation of atoms' (Bertrand Russell)...
But don't you see how momentous that decision would be? The admission that the fundamental particles of physics are not themselves physical? That you ...
Just explain to me what about this statement was incorrect? And the fact that data is not information until it is interpreted? I'm simply stating that...
Your own words: Here, you are directly equating the argument in the original post with religious dogma - and now, you're denying you said it. Just as ...
You have a too narrow an interpretation of consciousness. You think it something inside your head, looking out. But the chip, the theory, and all of t...
Hey, good for you! But surely this was linked to the fact that science was in search of a or the 'fundamental particle', the basic componentry of the ...
An important report from CAP, a democratic-leaning think tank, on Trump’s First 100 Days. Table of Contents: Trump’s game plan for establishing an imp...
I don't use the phrase 'consciousness creates reality' and you won't find it in the mind-created world OP, as it would be misreading the point. What I...
How? If you're going to make a point, then make it. Otherwise, you're just taking potshots. You see, that line could be taken from 'the mind-created w...
There was plenty wrong about the pre-modern world, no question. But there's a definite historical trajectory. In the forum environment it's impossible...
Bohr wasn't saying "don't ask deeper questions" or "physics should only describe observations." His complementarity principle was a sophisticated atte...
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