Wayfarer

Another disgraceful illustration of corruption in Trump's America https://i.postimg.cc/VsHbQp4m/D9341-F5-A-1-C9-F-4-A2-A-8493-19-F99987-B205-1-102-o.j...

I've started on a book called Dynamics in Action, Alicia Juarrero - one of the many books I've learned about here. She makes it freely available on he...

But it can't. Any explanation relies on symbolic language, obviously. You're using words to describe the process, but you can't see the words for the ...

The distinction between the physical and the semantic is not a matter of taste, it’s a matter of fact. The ink marks on a page, or the neural firings ...

Ours — the limits of human cognition. And justified by what? By the recognition that our categories of thought (existence, objectivity, causality, etc...

Have you ever studied philosophy, as distinct from popular science? By 'studied', I mean, done a course in the subject and submitted a term paper in i...

But the distinction isn’t a matter of “thought-police prescriptions.” It’s a matter of recognizing limits. The “transcendental sense” isn’t an extra l...

It is, though - plainly and obviously. Symbols convey nothing to animals, they have no impact on the structure of materials. You're not seeing a disti...

I contemplated it as a possible thesis subject, but in the end, I went with the American Transcendentalists (Emerson and Richard Bucke).

Examples? Now you're getting it! And yes, that is the subject of the discussion. And here, I suppose you realise that you've restated a version of the...

It was just life, at the time. As I said, in the 1960's there was much more of this in the air, so to speak - part of popular culture. I didn't really...

My initial interest in philosophy was linked to my interest in and belief in meditation and 'higher awareness'. I came of age in a period where there ...

Apustimologist, I think this is exactly where the crux lies. You’re so sure that “mental = physical” that you don’t see how the distinction shows up r...

No not only humans, although I'll never know what it's like to be a bat.

'The root for wise traces back to the Proto-Germanic wis-, meaning "to see" or "to know". This Germanic origin is seen in words like the Latin sapient...

another 'hard problem of consciousness' thread? That discussion was with me, and that is what was being discussed. If I will still a mod I'd merge it,...

It's only that I see the Democrats being written off everywhere, 'bleeding voters', 'dire poll ratings'. And this, as the United States are quite visi...

There are some good instincts in what you’ve written, but I think a few key distinctions are blurred. First, the direct vs. indirect realism debate is...

Why must it be physical? this assumes from the outset that everything real must be made of particles or fields described by physics. But that is preci...

The what and why are all part of the same question. Must the answer to the question ‘what is life?’ be only given in biological terms? For that matter...

Yeah, too many regular people in the Democratic Party. You know, people who go out and organise neighborhood events and waste time on community activi...

Look at the classified documents the FBI found stashed in John Bolton's bathroom! https://images.axios.com/9HepTmPSMv2JW9mvFYfOeHG1oqY=/2023/06/09/168...

A20/B34 (in the Transcendental Aesthetic): Kant says that in appearances there is “that which corresponds to sensation (the matter)” and “that which a...

Yes. That's the pun-ch line :rofl:

Meanwhile, Sergei Lavrov is saying that Zelenskyy is making any progress towards peace impossible. I'll fill in the blanks: 'The Ukrainians keep insis...

That is the subject of the David Chalmers paper being discussed. Speaking of whom, a very young Chalmers laying it out, in an interview I’m guessing i...

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What seems crucial here is not so much what is said, but what’s left unsaid. By framing NDE testimony within Wittgensteinian grammar and JTB-style ana...

This is a 'yogic pun', of course. In Eastern philosophy 'citta' is variously translated as 'mind', 'heart', or 'being'. According to the classical tex...

Even that has an implicit assumption - that consciousness is 'something that emerges', while 'emergence' is only one of several approaches. The proble...

I was contrasting organisms with atoms. I believe that only organisms are capable of experience, not atoms. So, no, an atom does none of those things.

But that is just to restate the blind spot. To say “the subject is irrelevant to science” is precisely the forgetting I am talking about. Science can ...

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It’s not a strawman at all. The Blind Spot of Science article in Aeon (and the later book by Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson) addresses mainstream scienc...

The whole essence of anything organic is memory. It stores memories of what happened so as to better cope with what's coming up.

I’m not claiming that the thing-in-itself is some ghostly half-real entity. My point is that existence and non-existence are categories that only make...

Actually M?y? is Hindu terminology. The Buddhist term is sa?s?ra, ‘cyclical existence’. It’s idea of the illusory nature of experience is more that we...

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No it isn’t. He quotes Nagel in support of his definition; The two are inseparable. You need to specify something if you are to describe it. Because o...

Going back to Chalmer's Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness, he makes the distinction between what he calls easy problems of consciousness and t...

Waking, Dreamimg, Being - Evan Thompson

Did you have Luigi Mangione in mind by any chance? He that shot a healthcare CEO in the back, on the street, at point blank range, and has become a cu...

Don't forget that the categories of the understanding and our sensory abilities are factors that we all share. They're not particular to individuals, ...

ChatGPT's review of your question. My impression of the AI feature in Google Search is that it acts as a kind of concierge with a summary overview, fo...

There’s not a blanket ban on your using AI but we’re not allowed to use it to write posts for us. You can use it to refine your arguments, ideas and p...

But isn’t it you who is here saying things about the noumenal or thing-in-itself? If there’s a fault in the expression Ding an sich, it lies in the “D...

Sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean.

…which is?

I do understand that my approach can be difficult to understand. Like many others here, I've been reading this philosophical project for a lot of year...