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I think it's one of the reasons for the emergence of bio-semiotics which I've learned a lot about on this forum from Apokrisis. It revolves around the...

It's not a synonym for scientific method. It is an implicit assumption. By describing it in terms of 'objectification', attention is being drawn to th...

It’s an abject failure if the American system that Trump isn’t in jail already for sedition.

But engineers, and the like, are dealing on the one hand in theoretical possibilities, but on the other, if they get their calculations wrong, then bu...

Side-note: Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactors.

:100: Hopefully it will split the GOP soon and demolish their chances of winning. That'll learn 'em. This is going to be a very nasty conflict, what w...

What is the meaning of 'creature'? It means 'something created'. Created by 'the creator' - a.k.a. first cause, unmoved mover, or God. I get that you'...

Speaks to the uselessness of what passes for philosophy in our culture.

Well you say first that: But then you say that: Which reads to me like: philosophy is unnecessary, and that the mind can be understood solely through ...

But even in the absence of any mind, five is a prime number, and the law of the excluded middle will hold. Our simian ancestors could not have grasped...

Excellent! Saves me the trouble of reading it. Gonna butt in here with some of my homespun analysis. Universals don't exist, but they're real. They're...

But it serves a great many purposes in physics, science, engineering and so on. Don't you see a relationship between the emergence of Galilean science...

You know what reductionism means? Do you see why this might be described as reductionist? Here's an anecdote. There was a televised debate about ten y...

You wear your prejudices like a red bandana, I'll give you that.

Evolutionary biology is not itself a philosophy or a metaphysics. It’s a theory of the evolution of species. Due to the historical circumstances of it...

serves you right :naughty:

And who amongst us does not dwell in a certain degree of ignorance? Quite. In my youth, I believed that such a piercing insight was obtainable, that i...

I have been sincerely trying to do that on each occasion. It seems you're not understanding what I'm trying to convey. I think you're approaching it f...

I've quoted this before but it remains on point.

This is just what Kant describes as 'transcendental realism'.

Be warned, mortals. Garrett has spoken. :naughty:

You show no understanding of why Einstein was compelled to ask that rhetorical question In that case, you have nothing interesting to say. You're just...

But this is bullshit. The nature of reality is what is under question. It's been changing constantly ever since the scientific revolution. Newton and ...

:rofl:

Tricky. The way I put it is that such ideas are coherent within a domain of discourse. Within such a domain, there is a shared understanding of key te...

:clap: René Descartes was the first modern - or at least, that's how it was taught to me at UniSyd. Cartesian dualism is very different to hylomorphis...

But there is vast disagreement about that. The Great Schism between Orthodox and Catholic for starters. Theistic personalism v classical theology. Lis...

Strange. I think it is the nebulous idea par excellence.

nothing but whataboutism and dissimulation.

Check this out....

Good question! Next book after Kastrup's Schopenhauer, is Kastrup on Jung. And the reason it's nebulous, is because it's not a thing. Our culture only...

To say something occurs 'in the mind' is not the same as to say it occurs in your mind or my mind alone. Consciousness is a collective. Through langua...

Nobody wants any of this to happen. If Russia goes full tilt, it's quite possibly going to have devastating economic consequences all over the world, ...

How have 'other world leaders' been 'allowing this to happen'? The US and European nations have long opposed Russian territorial aggression on Ukraine...

As predicted four days ago: Today's headline: 'We're taking over, and any resistance will be regarded as an act of aggression.'

https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_quantum_nonlocality.html

And does this 'mysterious being' have a name?

And, were conclusively proven incorrect. It's not a 'non sequiter' 180, just something you don't understand.

Not quite the same. We didn't invent the brain. And you can see the causal chain for all aspects of the classical laws of motion, but when quantum phy...

That is particularly accentuated by Protestantism with its emphasis on salvation by faith (which is close to, or actually amounts to, fideism, which w...

It's more that I couldn't find anything to disagree with in what you wrote. In fact where this particular conversation started was with me trying to m...

So what is a word ‘made of’? Or a sentence? Why, that would be letters and words. And the same idea, the same proposition, can be conveyed in all mann...

‘Scientism’ is not a model, it’s an attitude, but from what you’re saying, one that you don’t endorse, so let’s leave it at that.

‘Nobody understands quantum mechanics’, said Richard Feynman, one of its giants. And yet, digital technology depends on it. It works, although we don’...

'Mind' would do.

The conversation has moved on but I wanted to adress this question: Regard it as a footnote.

Russia is not a free and functioning democracy. It’s a kleptocracy run by the rich oligarchs who were able to exploit the collapse of communism by pri...

So behind all the dissimulation and circumlocution and fallacious comparisons, you’re basically an apologist for Russia.

Was Xinxue Buddhist? It seems a form of Yog?c?ra (mind-only) Buddhism, which was influential in East Asian Buddhism.