Because requirement implies someone who requires something. I'm not saying that consciousness is exclusively human. Any examples in mind? That does aw...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Which means that, broadly speaking, they too are subject of experience, even if exceedingly primitive ones. And again, this means that there is someth...
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 ...
Is that posed rhetorically? Like, 'we can't mean anything by the phrase "conscious experience".' Because I think 'conscious experience' has a perfectl...
A question that might be considered is whether 'survival' and 'transcendence' entail the same kind of state. 'Survival' seems to imply persistence of ...
In the aftermath of Descartes' division nature into mind and matter, idealists of all stripes gravitated towards the mental, and scientists and engine...
You're using the term 'ontologically' to denote 'really existent', your implication being that physical things are truly existent whilst relations etc...
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 ...
Everything Dennett writes is an elaboration of that theme. Intrinsic: 'belonging naturally; essential. "access to the arts is intrinsic to a high qual...
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...
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...
Because something that attempts to account for everything accounts for nothing. 'Define' means 'limit', as in specify that a word means something part...
I guess you mean 'God' here. The problem with that is, that 'God' is then bad restaraunt meals, crooked politicians, terminal diseases, crocodile atta...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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