As I say, a very deep topic, I could easily be mistaken about many aspects. It is not accepted by all Buddhist schools, because it said by some Buddhi...
Show me I’m mistaken and I’ll change my view. As always. ‘ ‘… The discovery of the genetic code was a breakthrough of the first order. It showed why o...
I sure will but I’m in grand-dad mode today so am besieged with a thousand minor annoyances and it’s a very deep topic. I’ll try and find some time so...
Thank you for those comments on my essay, appreciated. My only comment on the closing analogy is the proximity to that materialist saying that ‘the br...
I sometimes entertain the idea that modern culture normalizes problematical states of consciousness—restlessness, distraction, alienation—and that phi...
https://iep.utm.edu/hadot/#SH5a This kind of attitude is bubbling up through independent philosophers rather than academics although again John Vervae...
A gloss on first the section Paine quotes ( A758 B786) 1. Ignorance as motive, not paralysis Kant begins by distinguishing types of ignorance. Some ig...
It's the possibilities that near-death experiences suggest that are of philosophical interest. It raises the question, in what sense is our being more...
The reason why one might be open to the possibility of a ‘life beyond’, or not, or why one might think it ridiculous, is the philosophical question at...
What I said ‘couldn’t be more wrong’ was this: That’s why I mentioned the Bohr-Einstein debates which were precisely over this issue, insofar as this ...
I suggest Wikipedia may not be a reilable source for matters of this kind. There is a group known as Guerilla Sceptics, who methodically edit or redac...
Might I suggest that this is another consequence of the Cartesian divide between mind and body? Again, the definition of phenomena - the definition, n...
No, I’m not suggesting that. The commonalities between German idealism and Eastern philosophy were a matter of convergent development. Schopenhuaer al...
Have you encountered Alva Noë ‘Out of Our Heads’? ‘Noë’s contention is that you are not your brain – rather, that “consciousness is an achievement of ...
Well, Schopenhauer and Kant have been compared with Eastern philosophy. Indeed in Bryan Magee’s excellent Schopenhauer’s Philosophy from which that is...
'within' is an interesting concept in this context. It's a spatial metaphor in which brain/body is a container and the mind is something inside it. Bu...
You’re right that “empirical proof of the non-physical” makes no sense - if by proof we mean showing a physical photograph. But philosophy has long un...
What other kinds of evidence could there be? The issue is about first-person reports of near-death experiences. The only third-person corroboration th...
That’s a more reasonable framing, yes. I’d agree that phenomenological reflection is the method by which we clarify the conditions of experience, and ...
Isn’t that exactly what the OP was about? The point of the transcendental argument is that there are truths not determined by observation or logic, bu...
Right - that's what you're doing. You fall back on the 'it can't be determined, therefore a matter of opinion.' I think the logic of the original post...
No. It's that when you imagine or conjecture a universe with no humans in it, that conjecture still requires an implicit perspective. To conjecture a ...
That couldn't be more wrong. Surely you know of the many controversies over the interpretation of quantum physics. The question of whether the objects...
"Not determinable” in what sense? If you mean not determinable by science, then of course — but that doesn’t reduce it to mere opinion. If you mean no...
That’s a very simplified gloss, and not my argument. I’m not claiming that “nothing exists apart from cognition.” I’m saying that any concept of exist...
I'm saying that the argument in the OP is a logical argument. If arguments can only be decided by empirical means, then we're back at verificationism ...
I don't rate that as memory. A rational observer such as ourselves can intepret it, but it is not information that is conserved for the sake of mainta...
Basically you're saying that it's subjective, a matter of opinion. 'It's OK if you see it that way, but I see it a different way'. It's not 'determina...
There's a very simple metric which ought to be mentioned in this context. That is the idea of a 'metaphysics of quality'. One popular source for that ...
Scientific objectivity has customarily been grounded in the notion of the 'mind-independent object' without taking into account the Kantian insight in...
The mystery lies precisely in the fact that every scientific explanation presupposes symbolic mediation — concepts, meanings, language — which themsel...
But the whole point of the essay is what we know of what exists. When I say the world “relies on an implicit perspective,” I mean the world-as-known. ...
McGinn thinks it's an intractable scientific problem, that it's so complex we can't feasibly tackle it. Marcel was an existentialist, he didn't unders...
Although, that said, I think the nature of mind is mysterious, but not in the way Chalmers, or McGinn, are suggesting. It's not a problem to be solved...
Never took to Colin McGinn, although enjoyed his scathing review of Paula Churchlands materialist baloney. Besides, 'New Mysterian' sounds like a band...
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