Wayfarer

Putin will never compromise. You can’t negotiate with terrorism.

Not a promising title. Here’s a boomer anthem to global awakening and one of my favorite songs. https://youtu.be/0L8rRMipzMg

A little to nascent to be interesting to me.

What would you consider evidence for the reality of the non-physical?

:up: Very much respond to the Stoic idea of the Logos.

Not at all. The Stoics, Epicureans and Atomists were materialists. Materialism has always existed as part of philosophy - even in ancient India.

I can't be bothered arguing against that kind of complacency.

I'm not disputing the facts of evolution, but h. sapiens realises horizons of meaning which are completely unavailable to other creatures. In fact I d...

So, what might be considered evidential for any such claims? What would constitute a verifiable ground of experience? Incidentally, I do agree that re...

That humans are different to animals is not a matter of opinion. We show capabilities and attributes that no animal can come close to, I don't see how...

that's positivism.

If that's the question you mean to ask me when you say 'the same question', I would say a couple of things. First, I don't think that the existence of...

none of which might have any bearing on philosophy of mind, as such. The major applications of neuroscience are medical and therapeutic. (Well, leavin...

Well, that passage you quoted gives four examples: DNA, bits, text, neurons. The paper itself can be found here. But you're answering your own questio...

You know the saying, 'many paths up the mountain' :wink:

I don't think *anything* is 'purely physical'. Drill down into matter, and what do you find? What you would be seeking would be an ultimately-existing...

The only criterion for success in biological theory and evolution is reproductive success - as you said, surviving and thriving. Obviously surviving i...

Right. Philosophy seeks something beyond that.

Physicalism of various stripes is the default in modern secular culture. Its assumptions are widely embedded even in many people who don’t know what t...

Aren't there at least implied dualisms in biosemiotics? Between symbol and matter, between self and other? “What we call the real world” jumps out at ...

I guess, but I liked the whimsical nature of that shot. It captures something of his mischievous character. He was always interested in gadgets and ma...

I'm not going to offer an exegesis of the meaning of Abraham's sacrifice, beyond the general observation about the role and meaning of sacrifice in th...

Yes - in his case, a few more weeks with any luck. I think it's obvious that what we're seeing in Ukraine - the mass destruction of cities and hospita...

That's John Wheeler, nothing to do with Shannon (other than Shannon coined the term 'bit' although he claims a colleague thought of it first). But you...

It certainly seems like that from the perspective of our culture 2,600 odd years later. But all ancient cultures were built around sacrifices. Sacrifi...

most of the thinking about religion or the religious aspects of philosophy on this forum are highly stereotyped in my view. This is because religion i...

It's a perennial title, a meditation handbook. It is a horrible fact of life that the apparently-devout can participate in such terrible atrocities. B...

The I that us subject of all of those is still nevertheless one. None of those sensations or experiences arises in the second person.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/

In fact it’s the very taken-for-grantedness of first-person experience that is at issue here. We don’t see the meaning of it because it’s supposedly e...

I don't think you see the point. The point of the hard problem argument is simply that the first-person nature of being (or experience) can never be r...

:100: I would however observe that in the tradition of philosophy, the capacity to 'see things as they truly are' is the mark of wisdom or sagacity. H...

It's broader than that, although though that is part of it. 'A philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or whic...

I think I do - the very short answer is, that it's reductionist. As the Wittgenstein quote mentioned in the passage I provided says, human beings are ...

It's a problem for neuroscience, as the area of the brain which performs the crucial role of generating the subjective unity of consciousness can't be...

Not 'gods' - individual particular things. Whatever you see, any object or being, is a combination of matter and form. I think we do - because that is...

From which up-to-date paper:

Also, it's not a matter of 'gaps' but of principle. Notice the term: objective sciences. The reason the hard problem is a hard problem is very simple:...

From which: Also adds: So, a Kantian form of Platonism. No argument from me there, but materialism, it ain't.

There's no point in 'addressing the arguments' when you don't understand the objections. Take this example: The very source you referred to in reply a...

Don't mistake the fact that I can't be bothered arguing with you, means that I think you've made anything like a 'valid point' - only that you will ne...

Not subjective materialism, but philosophical dualism. The rational intelligence, nous, recognises numbers and forms, among other attributes, which ar...

Except that neither you nor anyone can pronounce what the meaning of 'produced' is here. I'll leave it at that.

From which: From the conclusion of the article: From the second source: So, both the first articles acknowledge that the nature of consciousness is el...

They also didn't engender the scientific revolution.

:up: Perhaps, 'describing conscious experience'?

There's a biblical saying that the wisdom of God is folly to the world ('For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.') It has been interpret...

You're touching on some very deep and difficult subjects.In the Socratic dialogues, 'aporia' were questions that didn't have a satisfactory answer, or...