Wayfarer

Does well, considering. The question about the kind of images JW will produce can be found here https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/comparisonWebb...

So, is there a pole-star which draws the moral compass in phenomenology? That’s more than a trick! Liked your posts a lot, though. *** There is a sayi...

the reason there’s no camera on board being that JW operates in pitch darkness (and at -440 degrees c). So if you did have a camera on it, there’d be ...

For example? Do you mean other primates? Other animals? Fish? And that would put us the top of the hierarchy would it not?

Everyone expects political corruption. All power corrupts and so on. But Trump has done something completely unprecedented. He’s corrupted a significa...

Aristotle expounded hylomorphic (matter-form) dualism. ‘Realism’ in relation to that means something completely different to ‘direct realism’. Underst...

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-no-cameras-reason

that poster behaves like either an agent for Trump, or an agent for a foreign power that seeks to undermine political discourse in America. Not saying...

I am still optimistic. Trump went down in 2020, and he'll continue to go down - it is yet to be seen what the full consequences of the Commission will...

Immaterial. If you want to play any game, you have to agree to the rules. If Trump wants to smash the system, then by definition he's outside it, he's...

Beats me how anyone who doesn't recognise the rules of the game can be allowed to play. Could such a person be allowed into a chess tournament? A tenn...

That is a particular way of paraphrasing his argument. He never says 'there is an I', he says that in order to doubt, then a doubter must be. I think ...

There was an article in Slate before the launch about scientists who were throwing up from the stress. I must admit I felt aprehensive watching the ta...

He looks an exceedingly interesting man. And charismatic, to boot. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Itzhak_Bentov_in_the_mid-...

Re the Djokovic ban - Tennis Australia was wrong to think that his claim amounted to an exemption from the vaccination requirements - but the question...

Oh, and I still reckon NASA should change its motto to HEY IT *IS* ROCKET SCIENCE.

there are, I read, 441 ‘single point failures’, i.e. things that, if they go wrong, will doom the mission. So far, it’s all going swimmingly. The seco...

It’s the ‘oneness’ that is at issue. It is well established that there are different neural areas engaged in sensory experience; different parts or as...

//Footnote: Let’s not forget that Aristotelian geocentric/Ptolemaic cosmological principles were demolished by Galileo and the advent of the scientifi...

As has been pointed out many times, Augustine anticipated Descartes: In Aristotelian philosophy the mind is united with the object of knowledge insofa...

My take on the reality of universals (and numbers, laws, principles and the like) is that they are only perceptible to reason, but they're the same fo...

Google Translate renders it as 'nothing more than I'. What I meant it to mean is 'nothing more than self'. It's a sarcastic reference to the outlook o...

Quite right. This was also central to Husserl's whole project. The whole problem of 'scientism' can be seen as treating human being as an object while...

No, only that I disagree with your understanding of hylomorphic dualism and Platonic realism. I was looking through a scrapbook from the old forum, 20...

Because it was written as 'hole' not 'whole'. Fair enough, the paper does refer to it qualia in that particular reference to Chalmers. But note that t...

There's been some updates posted on their site - last one was yesterday. The tennis-court-sized multilayered sunscreen is being rolled out and tension...

Didn’t think you’d like it, but I did try.

‘Either everything is a miracle, or nothing is’ ~ bogus Einstein quote. Also TLP 6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world ...

Yeah, stashed the bodies in Roswell. Heard about that.

I said he was S J, Jesuit, but actually he was a Dominican. But again, I favour his interpretation, I think it's accurate, and is from a standard text...

Don't want to go there in this thread, just making an observation. I found this marvellous illustration on the web somewhere, it is captioned Rendezvo...

All the commentaries I read say that the famous passage in De Anima concerning 'active intellect' is one of the most contested and controversial in th...

:up: Great quote. 'George Bernard', I presume. Agree, with the caveat that how we nowadays understand 'existence' is very different to how it is under...

'nihil ultra ego' When I studied the Gnostic texts, a book drew attention to the two statements 'He who believes in Me shall be saved' and 'you will k...

The fact that I am is about the only thing of which I'm indubitably certain. There are several dimensions to this. The point about the implications of...

Enlighenment in the sense of 'awakening' relies on qualities of mind other than the objective: Whereas, in secular culture, there are no criteria for ...

:clap: The difference between the self or subject and any object of knowledge whatever is precisely that the self or subject is never an object of cog...

So in one sentence you're basically dismissing Aquinas' hylomorphism. Hylomorphism is a dualist philosophy, the duality not being Descartes matter and...

I think he might have. (I loved that book - don't read a lot of sci fi but that one really grabbed me.) If we did encounter any sign whatever of alien...

thanks! Sounds interesting. Note the mention of Breakthrough Starshot above which is trying to build 'solar sailers' for real. I've followed the contr...

Of course, well aware of that. I've only read some excepts and reviews, but overall I'm positive about them, I note they're generally opposed to neura...

‘Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light-years from Earth, a distance that would take about 6,300 years to travel using current technology. Such a trip would ta...

I can assure you that I don’t. I just don’t think Hacker and Bennett can explain away the issues of the neural binding problem with a brief bit of phi...

As I understand it one of its missions is to seek out potentially hospitable planets, but I don't know if it's a theoretical possibility that actual l...

I don't think I hold to either of those views. Representationalism I associate with Locke, that ideas represent things. Then you have the whole proble...

So despite your voluminous posts about metaphysics, you're actually materialist? The statement of Metaphysician Undercover's that I took issue with wa...

through 'renormalisation', as I understand it.

both of which are extensions of human sensibility, artifacts manufactured and programmed for just this purpose. But because modern man 'forgets being'...

Got an example of a non-material thing? I don't disagree with your depiction of neural changes as being 'thinking seen from the outside', but I don't ...