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There's nothing about chemical and physical laws which in itself will give rise to living organisms. I mean, it's a kind of magical thinking - people ...

which is alive already. And anyway - that's not the point. The point I was making was about the subjective nature of time itself, how it is not someth...

'The soul' might be thought of as shorthand for 'the totality of the being'. After all, humans are possessed of all manner of inclinations, procliviti...

You're wanting to provide an explanation grounded solely in the physical. Note this from Info Philosopher's profile page on Pattee: And so what I'm sa...

As I mentioned the other day, there's quite a good article in the current New Scientist A New Place for Consciousness. It mentions panpsychism, David ...

Thank you.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/01/webb-completes-first-multi-instrument-alignment/

That was being said on day one. it’s now week 6. The argument that Ukraine’s has lost its ability to defend itself doesn’t square with the facts on th...

So how is that good news, or even newsworthy, except as Russian propaganda? As for Russian losses: Sure, Russia can always throw more conscripts and m...

You’d be absolutely justified in ignoring my posts. That quoted passage is just rationalization in apparent support of Russia.

And I still can’t understand why you say that, when there are so many indications to the contrary.

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I didn’t mean to say that, and I’m sorry if it came across that way.

I read it again. I'm not accusing you of anything. What I said was that Putin's noble sentiments about democracy and liberalisation haven't been at al...

But then, I recall you're actually located in RU. I guess we had better watch what we say, I wouldn't want to get you in trouble.

There are people just like us in Urkaine - parents with families, wage-earners, people just trying to get along, make a living, live their lives, whos...

So what is the point of reproducing that? Is it the 'Russian side' of the argument? What if he never meant all these noble-sounding catch phrases in t...

:up: Some really interesting ideas there. That last sentence, in particular. ‘The subject’ does stuff like, you know, physics.

I take Armstrong to be criticising the propositional nature of religions in today’s culture, although I do agree that the seed of that is in Christian...

No I don't. That is only my opinion. I agree, other people have other opinions, and they are free to express them, and I can then take issue with them...

My view is simply that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is unjustifiable, unwarranted and fundamentally criminal. It has resulted in thousands of death...

From the SEP article in the OP: There's then a lot of complicated analysis of what a 'polythetic' conception of religion might be, drawing on Wittgens...

For anyone who subscribes to New Scientist, here’s a current article which discusses panpsychism and physics https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25...

Very insightful analysis. Generalisations are often innaccurate case-by-case, that's what makes them generalisations. But I stand by my criticism. You...

Erich Fromm ‘The Fear of Freedom’.

It’s significant how many contributors here use this subject as a pretext for questioning democracy generally. And scary. Mind you, some of them seem ...

Elegant account. With you on most of that. The idea I'm contemplating is that the organising principle that gives rise to the unity of consciousness i...

I'm not talking about engineering, about what systems you would have to have in place in order to produce or emulate a mind. To paraphrase that SEP en...

A constellation of cultural beliefs, practices, social forms, etc etc. Anthropological analyses bring many useful perspectives to that.

It's not that 'religion' doesn't refer to anything, but that its use as a kind of catch-all with a particular set meaning is problematical. I've long ...

Whilst nevertheless possessing the paradoxical attribute of subjective unity.

Right. And this gets us to the nub of the problem. Naturalistic explanations implicitly rely on what is objectively existent. What the panpsychist arg...

According to Aristotelian principles, forms are a manifestation of mind. The forms of things can't be explained in terms of the activities of matter a...

I think you mean 'matter'. We should consider what the ancient philosophers understood as the philosophical significance of the forms, which is that t...

I guess in some ways that is what the panpsychists are driving at, although I agree with @"apokrisis" criticism of it - that it tries to solve the pro...

Thought I did! The original term was 'ouisia'. I'm not a Greek scholar, or Classics scholar, but what I've learned is that 'ousia' doesn't mean anythi...

Dualism is usually understood as the idea that there are two kinds of 'substance' - matter (what things are made from) and mind (which thinks. 'Dualit...

That is the subject of ‘revelation’. See also theosis. Maybe God does play dice.

That's not panpsychism, that is materialism. The Galen Strawson-Philip Goff idea is that even sub-atomic particles possess a rudimentary form of consc...

It's a disaster because they can't meaningfully hold that territory. The Russian version of 60 Minutes last week descended to a shouting match because...

Don't know why you keep saying that. Maybe we just have totally irreconcilable ideas of what that word means. I have read recently that the Chernobyl ...

I am perfectly capable of recognising the biases in the media sources I read - CNN, SMH, ABC, and so on. It doesn’t alter the facts on the ground.

You make your feelings very clear. You don't need to keep explaining them. Let's not loose sight of the fact that tens of millions of people are being...

So, do you believe that organisations like CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, etc., are doing something other than reporting the news? That they have a conscio...

That the war is going disastrously for Russia, which it demonstrably is, doesn’t mean that Russia won’t succeed in imposing itself on some or all of t...

The key question is the meaning of the terms ‘to exist’, ‘to be’, and ‘reality’. Scientific thinking, generally, is focussed on phenomena, and the pri...

Agree. The problem with the way you've framed the question is that it tends to equate 'God' with the other objects of science, as some object, being o...

Other creatures have no need of reason to survive. In my view it’s a highly questionable assumption to assert that the faculty of reason can be accoun...

Definitely planning. Minute, precise, meticulous, checked and double-checked.