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Because requirement implies someone who requires something. I'm not saying that consciousness is exclusively human. Any examples in mind? That does aw...
January 16, 2022 at 20:26
Emphatically not. My view is not that 'reality requires an observer', as this is an anthroporphism. But I think that reality has an ineluctably subjec...
January 16, 2022 at 10:19
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January 16, 2022 at 07:54
I've addressed this a number of times with reference to a passage in Brian Magee's book on Schopenhauer, which can be read here, here, here and here. ...
January 15, 2022 at 21:55
I've started it, and it's magnificent pretty good. They have the archival recreated the footage of a long interview conducted with Claude Shannon in h...
January 15, 2022 at 21:42
Yes, and left a note in his will that his ashes be put out in the garbage. There's an illuminating bio on scientific american https://www.scientificam...
January 15, 2022 at 21:30
I haven't watched it yet but from reading the promotional material, I think not. It's aimed at explaining the significance of Shannon's work which apa...
January 15, 2022 at 20:46
January 15, 2022 at 09:43
What I'm drawing attention to is that what we presume is real independently of any observers, is still very much a construction of the mind. Any judge...
January 15, 2022 at 09:09
They're all nevertheless dependent on perspective. Things are only nearer or further away with respect to some other thing, and someone has to be meas...
January 15, 2022 at 08:50
Platonists would say that insofar as we can understand anything whatever, it's because the faculty of reason is not something that creatures (other th...
January 15, 2022 at 08:48
The Multiverse Idea Is Rotting Culture, Sam Kriss. What looks at first glance like an opening up of possibilities is actually an attack on the imagina...
January 15, 2022 at 07:37
True, I think you have to track it down. (It's on Curiosity Stream, which I subscribe to.) It's the same director who made Particle Fever, about the L...
January 15, 2022 at 04:56
Doesn't (your oft-mentioned) fallibilism say that hypotheses are only falsifiable conjectures? That they don't need to be declared to be knowledge, as...
January 15, 2022 at 03:44
Top of page 171: wrote that the notion of action at a distance is “inconceivable.” It is “so great an Absurdity, that I believe no Man who has in phil...
January 15, 2022 at 01:49
well, yes, he's certainly well-regarded amongst the digital cognoscenti, but not so much amongst the population at large. But surely amongst his peers...
January 15, 2022 at 01:42
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January 15, 2022 at 01:12
Look out the window, and up.
January 14, 2022 at 23:50
It's about the sense in which universals are real. Apropos of the broader point, I've been quoting from Russell's discussion in The Problems of Philos...
January 14, 2022 at 23:11
Question remains regardless so no point kvetching about choice of words.
January 14, 2022 at 22:59
So, if everyone remained shtum, nothing would be red.
January 14, 2022 at 22:36
Here is a definition of critical realism: Notice that this doesn't declare that the real world is physical. What we understand as physical is a matter...
January 14, 2022 at 21:05
That is the task of functionalism. That is covered by what Chalmers describes as the easy problem. Correct! We manifestly do not have the ability to r...
January 14, 2022 at 09:51
Which means that, broadly speaking, they too are subject of experience, even if exceedingly primitive ones. And again, this means that there is someth...
January 14, 2022 at 02:49
It's a deep question, and I've only read snippets of Gerson. When I encountered it was in studying comparative religion, and readings about Christian ...
January 14, 2022 at 02:36
Is that posed rhetorically? Like, 'we can't mean anything by the phrase "conscious experience".' Because I think 'conscious experience' has a perfectl...
January 14, 2022 at 02:29
A question that might be considered is whether 'survival' and 'transcendence' entail the same kind of state. 'Survival' seems to imply persistence of ...
January 14, 2022 at 01:18
In the aftermath of Descartes' division nature into mind and matter, idealists of all stripes gravitated towards the mental, and scientists and engine...
January 13, 2022 at 22:25
You're using the term 'ontologically' to denote 'really existent', your implication being that physical things are truly existent whilst relations etc...
January 13, 2022 at 21:31
Your OP fails to correctly identify what makes the 'hard problem of consciousness' hard, and why David Chalmers wrote the paper Facing Up to the Hard ...
January 13, 2022 at 21:26
Despite them having been pointed out in clear English.
January 13, 2022 at 07:07
Everything Dennett writes is an elaboration of that theme. Intrinsic: 'belonging naturally; essential. "access to the arts is intrinsic to a high qual...
January 13, 2022 at 04:00
Exactly as he explains in Darwin's Dangerous Idea. There's only one point at issue - the insistence that matter has intrinsic reality. When that's see...
January 13, 2022 at 00:32
I have no doubt, but it has nothing whatsover to do with his philosophy (so called.) That is one of the many blatant contradictions about the man - af...
January 13, 2022 at 00:05
In: Pantheism  — view comment
like I said - read the post above your first post in this thread. Provides a definition from SEP.
January 12, 2022 at 09:41
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Because something that attempts to account for everything accounts for nothing. 'Define' means 'limit', as in specify that a word means something part...
January 12, 2022 at 09:20
In: Pantheism  — view comment
I guess you mean 'God' here. The problem with that is, that 'God' is then bad restaraunt meals, crooked politicians, terminal diseases, crocodile atta...
January 12, 2022 at 09:12
:up: glad someone has said it!
January 12, 2022 at 07:14
So that whenever he's challenged, that's what he says - ducks behind a wall of academic jargonese and hand-waving and baffles the punters. 'Oh I don't...
January 12, 2022 at 06:41
Right. Which is why I'm considering that the real obstacle is 'objectification'. I've been discussing that in another thread. I have the feeling I rea...
January 12, 2022 at 03:41
My background is in comparative religion and Buddhist studies, from which perspective I feel no particular urge to engage with Heidegger. I can't help...
January 12, 2022 at 00:10
I'll get back to you on that. I didn't have in mind Aristotle in particular, but that this book addresses the question of the sense in what element of...
January 11, 2022 at 23:37
It's rather a digression in this particular thread, but see this post I made previously.
January 11, 2022 at 23:34
I’m pointing it out, I’ve by no means ‘swallowed’ it. It’s been swallowed whole by your mate Dennett. ( :clap: for the capital ‘R’, though!)
January 11, 2022 at 21:47
I don't agree that the quest for the good and the beautiful amounted to a reification. Step back a bit. 'Objective consciousness' is a relatively new ...
January 11, 2022 at 21:09
Only if it’s convenient. :grin: Which only a mind can bring.
January 11, 2022 at 06:17
OK I guess what I’m saying is that ‘nous’ has a dimension which the way we use ‘intellect’ today doesn’t have. I think it’s a qualitative dimension, w...
January 11, 2022 at 05:05
You need to be mindful of Aristotle’s term ‘ousia’ which is translated as ‘substance’. it has a different meaning to what we mean by ‘substance’ i.e. ...
January 11, 2022 at 04:27
The reason I say that is because I think there was an implicitly different understanding of the nature of the world before modernity. We understand th...
January 11, 2022 at 04:25
Yes I’m of the view that his medical exemption is legitimate now the details are published. Maybe Border Force overstepped their mark, maybe there was...
January 11, 2022 at 02:02