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Might I suggest that the motive for accepting the MWI interpretation is to avoid the philosophical conundrum of the 'collapse of the wave function'? T...

Just did, nobody noticed. Or ever will.

I think (for what it's worth, probably not much) that there are more and less credible interpretations. I rather like Chris Fuchs QBism, from which:

Sure. The newly-embolded GOP House has many bunches of nonsense to pursue. The next on the list is 'investigating' the FBI and DoJ's handling of Trump...

The White House should simply be completely transparent, admit to the error, and acknowledge that Biden will fully comply with any investigation and f...

They don't see it, because it's in their blind spot.

I think this post and this post of mine basically cover it. Sime's comments in this thread are also on target (here and here). The plain text version ...

I’ve been attempting that, but the thread keeps being diverted into various tangents (including by me I will admit).

In the distant past, I was employed as a wardsman in the casuality department of a Catholic Hospital, at which my wife was to have life-saving surgery...

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven s...

It's about David Chalmer's 1996 essay, Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Consciousness (which, by the way, made him a famous philosopher with academic ...

First, the written and oral records of religious traditions mainly stem from the 'axial age' in the first millenium BC, at the time of the formation o...

(John Hick (1922-2012) was an influential philosopher of religion and theologian.) +1

...even despite Dennett's 50-year effort to cast doubt on it.

What in your view is the problem for which MWI is a solution? In other words, what would proponents of MWI such as David Deutsch and Sean Carroll be o...

:up: Making my way (slowly) through the online editions of both (but it's hard to stay motivated.)

Besides, nobody recognised his brilliance, so he's probably better off.

Isn't this just what the 'hard problem' is about? 15 pages of texts and it's back to square 1.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks again.

I am using the online edition here https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm#chap04

Thanks. I understand he doesn't posit the distinction between sensory and rational as such, but it is still implicit in his analysis, no? (And I remai...

I don't think Schopenhauer's reading of Buddhism is that bad, especially considering he had no interactions with actual Buddhists, who he never could ...

What I was commenting on was not the range of phenomenology, but rather this statement: That's why I introduced the distinction between 'phenomena' an...

SLX recommended a book to me a long time back, Kant's Theory of Normativity, Konstantin Pollok, which I think addresses this subject - how Kant 'subla...

No probs, I've been wanting to discuss this topic, more in respect of Universals than Kant specifically, but still... Oh, and also one of my favourite...

What about the idea of the 'form of the triangle'? Similarly, Russell's discussion of Universals: (I've bolded the two congruent statements.) These ex...

Ahem, SCHOPENHAUER'S criticism of Kant's use of the term 'noumenal', to wit...

I’ll work on it

might be worth checking out the associated profile. I'm interested in the intersection between Plantinga and Donald Hoffman. Hoffman is a professor of...

I side with Schopenhauer over Kant although I'm still working through it. But I can't see how such things as logical and geometric principles can be c...

:up: Yes, that is what I had in mind.

No, that would be philosophy of science. The point I was labouring to make was simply that 'phenomenal' was one term in a pair, the other term being '...

Is it possible that 'the singularity' is the distant echo of 'the One' in Plotinus?

Because it doesn't belong to the domain of appearance. When you perform an arithmetical calculation, you're not utilising the senses through which you...

You put a / in the opening bracket. You can amend that. Simple arithmetic would do. That doesn't belong in the phenomenal domain.

A footnote on "phenomena" - in classical philosophy "phenomena" was part of a pair, the other term being "noumena", "Phenomena" referring to "how thin...

No I can't. A machine is not bucket of water, or a fruit-bearing plant, or an animal. I'm not going to engage in pointless arguments.

"Machine: an apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task." Are ...

I remember both. I must be an old timer. (Vale MM, I never liked his posts, but he was struck by an awful misfortune.)

Oh yes, David Loy is one of my favourite authors in that space. I saw him speak and introduced myself to him at Science and Nonduality a few years bac...

Yes silly me. I was just reading something about him. :yikes:

Not with me, you're not. :wink: I think you're stretching the definition of empiricism. Heidegger Heisenberg is an especially interesting case, though...

Are you referring to Wilder Penfield's research here?

David Chalmer's original essay, Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Consciousness, really is addressed to 'scientism'. Daniel Dennett is 'Professor Scien...

I don't know if Kant nor the Tao Te Ching have specific any bearing on the question. The argument I was making was specifically about the assumptions ...

Didn't notice it, I'll go back through the thread.

The Republican extremists have increasingly resorted to threats and blackmail to get what they want, and blackmail is definitely not 'politics as usua...

Kudos for that! I only encountered them tangentially in Comparative Religion, Jung was anathema in the psych department. (I’m listening to the audio b...

I've absorbed quite a bit of his work in the last few months but from experience this forum is generally hostile to his orientation.