:rofl: Read it! As concise a statement of physicalist reductionism as you're likely to find anywhere. Good! As you're claiming that science has now di...
Au contraire, direct quote and paraphrase of the OP, wishful thinking on your part notwithstanding. Perhaps you could explain to our new friend the si...
That is contained in Russell's chapter The World of Universals, which I referred to earlier. I'm interested in Aristotelian/Thomistic realism. 'Realis...
All well and good, but nothing you say has any bearing on the truth or falsehood of materialism. And that is a Biblical quotation. Many of the discove...
In short, all the problems of philosophy are dissolved by physicalist reductionism. Question: are you familiar with the expression ‘the explanatory ga...
It's easy to make that claim in respect of the hypothetical 'tree' or 'apple' which is the subject of a rhetorical exercise in philosophy. Everyone kn...
me neither. I’ve been joining the dots between Plato>Aristotle>Thomism. It’s a painstaking process and I’m constantly aware of how much I haven’t read...
read this excerpt I often refer to https://thomasofaquino.blogspot.com/2013/12/sensible-form-and-intelligible-form.html Also do a search for the term ...
You're simply repeating some basic logical relations, such as the law of identity and the rules of valid inference. That doesn't follow. For clarity: ...
Reading that article, it's hard to blame Tiley. He says was advised by the State's Chief Health Officer that exemptions would be given based on prior ...
an update from today’s SMH - Craig Tiley says he received conflicting advise from Federal and State Governments regarding exemptions, which sounds qui...
I'm haunted by the image of a fiery explosion at a launch site during the fueling stage of a Space X rocket that had an Israeli comms satellite on boa...
Computers are instruments of the mind. Nothing they do is meaningful in the absence of a mind. But we don't see it, so fixated are we on our own creat...
I too wonder what it must be like for the people involved when a major mission fails. They take years to build, they have thousands of moving parts an...
The subjective unity of perception is a topic in its own right. It is true there have been studies on patients with split-brain operations, but firstl...
If you mean a more accurate synonym, then no. We can definitely be fooled by illusions or be trapped by delusions, but again it's only possible becaus...
Consider some definitions of illusion: - an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience - a deceptive appearance or impre...
Noticed that! Major milestone. Good write-up by Dennis Overbye in the NY Times, here https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/science/james-webb-telescope-n...
His agenda is not to understand but to deny; not to explain, but to explain away. (Did you know that his first book, Consciousness Explained, was paro...
Dennett is an anti-philosopher. One of his most extreme books, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, talked about the 'universal acid' of Darwinism which dissolves...
My take is that the wheels of justice will not turn quickly enough to put him into the tournament. Already the presiding judge scolded his lawyers for...
Things can be of the same type but entirely different forms for example a collection of musical instruments. A human as a rational agent will recogniz...
It's really not. It's a well-established issue. It's a matter of empirical fact that the brain - for that matter, the entire human organism - comprise...
More here Note: e-Sangha, the subject of the thesis, went offline not longer after it was published due to a major hacking incident, with many of the ...
So my brief sketch is that materialism identifies ideas, thought, and reason with neurobiology - that 'mind is what brain does'. That belief is so wid...
Don't know why, I don't think Soundcloud requires registration for casual listeners. Try my reverbnation page. If that doesn't work then it must be a ...
Well, I have, but I think we have established sufficient rapport to at least debate it. I'm investigating the relationship between scholastic realism ...
There's no room in your rambling account for what Aristotle would call the 'prime mover' or first cause, later understood to be God. In other words, y...
Did you read the article I posted? It explains it pretty clearly. To try and add a camera to the rig would fundamentally change it. They operate it vi...
No. The question was 'Why should there be anything for natural selection to select?' The issue is, the natural sciences assume that nature already exi...
Indeed. There's a considerable amount of ambiguity around the way in which universals are said to exist. You can argue that they are only realised (ma...
Donald Trump was impeached - twice. That is not 'nothing'. If there's anything to be disgusted about it's the inability of the American political and ...
Natural selection is like a filter, but is a filter responsible for generating what goes through it? Why should there be anything for natural selectio...
Yes, it could be f. No, light cannot be cast, because it operates in the dark. Strangely analogous to the debates we've been having about the eye not ...
Of course! You see it, and I see it, but so few people see it! This is one of the reasons that the Western tradition gave birth to science, which has ...
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