/uploads/files/hl/9b27fhfjj1onnanv.png Hell hath no fury like a senior adviser scorned. And more to the point of the OP Brexit has been ‘big success’ ...
I think the distinction that modern philosophy has lost is between what exists and what is real. They are after all regarded as synonymous in the mode...
How can he go on? Surely every possible excuse has just been incinerated by this report. The writing must be on the wall. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/med...
Ought not to be forgotten that the Greek philosophers thought we were something other than, or more than, other creatures. ('Creatures' means 'created...
My wife's family are devout members of a small Christian sect. At funerals (there have been a few, we've been married a long time) they often sing a h...
Hey seeing as you guys know computer science, answer me this question. I posted a lnk to a documentary about Claude Shannon a few weeks back. Shannon ...
Very wise. If you think about what you have to do before doing it, it can become an insurmountable problem as you imagine all of the ways in which it ...
which is strictly positivist. 'Positivism - a philosophical system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or which is capable of l...
As I said - I think physicalism is the default for the educated, secular intelligentsia. It is what remains, when the superstious babble of religion h...
What I'm interested in is 'higher consciousness', which actually has a wiki entry - not brilliant, but still. But it is nothing at all like: https://s...
I'm not railing against anything. I am expressing a view on subject of the thread. Yes, the eliminative materialists, like Daniel Dennett, express the...
Never saw Armstrong as a father figure. I thought him a dork. (My actual father was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.) What's wanting is any un...
thank heavens for small mercies. Totally reject that, by the way. Materialism is only one way of 'understanding the physical world', and it's a defici...
It is a live subject in culture and philosophy. If you don't find it interesting, then why barge in with inane commentary? that's Alan Watts' The Book...
I think the 'whole is more than the sum of its parts' is quite a compelling argument actually, with a long pedigree. It's based on the observation tha...
The reason being that 'scientific materialism' is what is left of the 'western tradition' of philosophy, post the Death of God. The picture it paints,...
Nonsense, absolute balderdash. Scientific materialism and/or physicalism is the mainstream orthodoxy of the secular academy. It isn't often spelled ou...
I'm a technical writer and though nominally at retirement age, I intend to keep working for a few years as I find it interesting (especially since the...
Agree with you on that. My 'naturalistic' intepretation is that the emergence of life just is the emergence of intentional consciousness, albeit in ru...
:pray: Appreciate that. As I've said, I'm drawn to Orthodox spirituality, along with the mystical stream in Christianity generally. I've long had an i...
I suppose, as Russia has been insisting all along that it isn't preparing for an invasion, if there is no invasion it will be able to say 'See? Wester...
I don't much care for Augustine's interpretation of that, but then, neither do the Orthodox churches, although there needs to be a secular equivalent ...
Emoticons and ad homs. How can I deal with such rhetorical firepower? I don't expect anyone to believe it, but if that's an allusion to Jesus Christ, ...
Didn't say anything about it. I'm not 'strawmanning' or entering 'non sequiturs' except for in your highly idiosyncratic interpretation. Again, a very...
Also, explain to me what is a non sequitur about this statement: An encyclopedia definition of materialist theory of mind: Is that also a non sequitur...
Whenever I say something you don’t understand, which happens a lot, you call it a ‘non sequitur’. Is thinking reducible to neural matter, or is it not...
I have the idea that the equals sign represents something uniquely powerful about the ability to reason, and furthermore that it is often taken for gr...
But if something can be reduced to matter, then matter is all that is real, right? If thinking really is the output of neurotransmitters, as materiali...
It's no straw man. How is saying 'whatever exists is based on matter' different from saying 'nothing exists beside matter'? If something is based on m...
I constantly quote from other sources. This is to relate what I'm saying to what others say, and also to provide sources of information that other rea...
My reckoning is that Putin was preparing for an invasion but underestimated the reaction from the West. So he is now caught in a situation where he do...
Apropos of some of the ideas discussed this thread, if not of Chomsky in particular, I've found an intriguing chapter by Neal Stephenson, well known a...
The book I’m referring to is Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki who founded the San Francisco Zen Centre. He’s a S?t? Zen teacher. S?t? is b...
Generally I agree with a lot of that. That’s what drew me to comparative religion and also the perennial ist/traditionalist schools. I’ve explained th...
One point I sometimes think about is that the Christian concept of spiritual illumination is very much tied to a specific narrative, namely, that of t...
My view is that the Western philosophical and intellectual tradition was originally idealist or dualist in nature, grounded in the platonist tradition...
Russia's covert online ops teams are also active in propogating false narratives about Western democracies through social media, and amplifying memes ...
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