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You do see how the assertion that 'something just happened' does not actually amount to any kind of rationale? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mi...

Like I said - lumpen materialism. Yours is the very position for which the nature of consciousness is a hard problem, but there's no point in recapitu...

Yes - well, when you can demonstrate a self-creating machine that follows goals, then I will accept the answer. Because machines are human artefacts, ...

There are natural constraints on humans as natural beings. One of them is, I'm sure, the inability to adapt to long-term existence in space. We've co-...

Yes, I see your point. I've been reading up on biosemiotics and noticed this paragraph about intentionality at a cellular level: It makes the point th...

Sentient beings are the means by which meaning manifests in the universe. Rational sentient beings are able to understand that. It’s a science fiction...

:up: In my case, the affinity I discovered with Husserl had a lot to do with the convergences between phenomenology and Buddhist abhidharma (philosoph...

‘Shouting has no place’, he shouted

I too am a newbie in this area but for whatever reason, I find that Husserl really resonates with me. Incidentally there’s another good online resourc...

Husserl devoted considerable energy to rejecting charges of ‘psychologism’ i.e. that phenomenology was a form of psychology or could be reduced to it....

What’s the answer to ‘what does this DVD mean?’ That’s much nearer the issue at hand than how it works. What any DVD means depends on the content, whe...

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From the same column:

Any examples come to mind of sciences or scientists that do?

The distinction is that biology and neurology are conducted at arms length, to to speak. They’re objective disciplines, as distinct from immediate awa...

MU does have a flair for obfuscation, if it can be described as such. ;-) Although only on one aspect, try this. (Amended link.) @"Joshs" - I read in ...

Maybe they wouldn't do it on purpose, but they've shown they're willing to play chicken with the fate of the world in service to their lunatic ideolog...

Somehow, the thought that immediately sprang to mind was Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan. We are transformed into actors playing roles in the sp...

Well, you're not a chair, because chairs are not intentional agents, and don't go around writing posts on philosophy forums. And a 'purely material wo...

@"Tom Storm" - I was once sent a .pdf of The Routledge Introduction to Phenomenology ed. Dermot Moran, which you can actually find here. Of particular...

that is the inside of their body, not the inside of their experience.

Indeed. But there are philosophies that explore the limits and the transcendence of discursive analysis. After all philosophy is the attempt to unders...

Yes. Perhaps one's head would need to expand correspondingly.

Bingo. Right on the money there, Smith.

Well, I'm arguing that they're two different aspects of the same overall problem. What I'm saying is that David Chalmer's rather awkward expression of...

:100: It's what I've been trying to argue for all along. The problem is one of perspective. Naturalism starts from the presumption of the separation o...

:clap: Do you see any relationship with this and Heidegger's 'forgetfulness of being'? See The Blind Spot of Science:

Meanwhile in Kentucky..... If these kinds of people cause a US debt default, then it's brush up your survival skills and buy lots of tinned supplies w...

Ah yes, that must've been it. I copied a lot of quotes from this forum over the years.

Of course. Carry on. (But then, I did read somewhere that 'The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is and ...

There's an expression one will sometimes happen across in the discussions of texts of spiritual philosophy, 'the good that has no opposite'. That is a...

They keep describing the republican dissidents as 'ultra conservatives', when in actual fact, as mentioned above, they're radicals. They don't want to...

That's what Bernardo Kastrup says. I think it's right, although I hadn't considered it from the perspective you suggest regarding the expansion of spa...

just watching that about 2 minutes ago. Zimmer is just totally digging it, he doesn’t know what to do with his hands ‘cause they’re not on a keyboard....

Not seeing the point of an argument is not a rebuttal, but flogging dead horses is also not productive.

Even though you've quoted the salient passage, you're not demonstrating insight into what the issue purports to be. The argument is about the first-pe...

:100: There's been very little discussion of the actual issue.

Well, pack it and send it, and I'll check it out.

It's not complicated. Science (or at least a lot of it) begins with the presumption of objectivity, that it is studying something that really so, inde...

If you liked that, you'd love this.

The point I was trying to make in the OP is that while magnetic field effects can be easily demonstrated by observing the behaviour of iron filings th...

thanks, interesting article. I'm a fan of that writer, she produces some excellent material. (Notice there's a headline 'Good Vibrations' :-) )

https://www.sheldrake.org/

There's an essay on Sheldrake's website about reaction to his books, called 'The Sense of being Glared At' :-)

Question: 'What is 'modal realism' in philosophy?' ChatGPT: 'Modal realism is a philosophical theory that holds that possible worlds exist and are as ...

According to the abstract for the article I mentioned in the OP, morphogenetic fields have a long history, and address specific problems in biology (a...

thanks Jack, appreciated. I've always liked Sheldrake but I'm mindful of his critics, although their stridency is revealing. I suppose the specificall...

Right, that's what I was thinking of. That's the point - that's what made it an anomaly. Frank Brown took oysters from the Eastern seaboard and sealed...

I’ll definitely give it a listen. Also Guthrie Govan, also mainly on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XueQzGeELs (Couldn't find anything about the second name he mentioned. Al Di Meola gives him a big rap too and featur...