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'Free speech' is not absolute. Wikileaks is hiding behind it, taking advantage of democratic freedoms, but not observing any of the conventions which ...

And if the NY Times published any of the material that had been accessed via infiltration of encrypted databases, then it would face have faced the sa...

From one of the linked stories: Didn't know that. I'll take it into account. As I've already said, I favour leniency for Assange and hope he gets it, ...

Right, so he's been retroactively declared 'a journalist'. I'll take note.

The relationship between the USA and Saudi Arabia is sickening. If it weren't for oil, it would just be treated as a benighted backwards outpost.

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I favour leniency for Assange on humanitarian grounds, but it's fallacious to say that he should be afforded journalistic priviledges. He was never qu...

Can't disagree. The mind is 'in' the brain in the same way a story is 'in' a book. I think a lot of the confusion goes back to the 'res cogitans' - th...

Blind spot? I don't see no blind spot!

Guilty as charged.

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you have to learn not to feed the troll.

What are you? The Red Guard?

Pity. I was disillusioned by that biography, but I still think he's a great popular writer in his genre and a true cultural pioneer. Way of Zen, The S...

That's probably because you take it for granted. Naturalism tends to do that. Then it thinks it's 'explained' it.

All forgotten. The lie that is being spouted by Tucker Carlson is that the riot was instigated by 'liberals' to 'make Trump look bad'. So once again, ...

The point that interests me about universals is that they're only knowable by the mind, but they're not a product of your or my mind. In humans, reaso...

Most of them are published online e.g. here. (Lacks the intimacy of a dog-eared penguin edition, though.) The other invariable companion volume was Al...

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I'll try and come up with something. Maybe a cameo from the story.

Is indeed an bad day when one is compelled to agree with Joyce about something. On a more cheerful note, Albo is coming across pretty well, I saw him ...

I don’t write short stories I write songs

Yeah, on second thoughts I'll leave that for some other time.

Such are the attributes of universals, numbers, and the like. In the strict sense, it is not 'whiteness' that is in our mind, but 'the act of thinking...

They're not 'grandiose'.

I'm not convinced you have demonstrated a grasp of what those questions are.

The point being, by your continual reduction of the subject to rhetorical devices trivialities, like tables, spoons and cups, you're actually missing ...

There used to be a relationship between this and the kind of 'enlightenment' that is subject of the other thread. Well - almost. The reason being, tha...

The question is, if you and I see them as being different, how do we go beyond those difference to see what it really is. There's no particular use po...

a position described as naive realism.

He allows sensations, thoughts, etc, but denies they are properties of an agent or person. Instead they're illusions generated by the activities of un...

:ok: One of the first books with 'Zen' in the title that me and millions of other people read in the 60's and 70's was Penguin Book called Zen Flesh Z...

That sounds rather like a prescription for reactionary authoritarianism.

which is what?

There's a very simple word for the 'what it is like...' which is purportedly the subject of 'qualia'. It is being. Being is what objective physical de...

'Quotidian' was one of my forum nicknames. It is true that Zen is replete with sayings like 'to chop wood, to draw water' but there really is a purpos...

Now that I'm not typing on an iPhone in a coffee shop....there is of course an inherent paradox in saying anything whatever about what is designated a...

It happens sometimes on this forum, I think it's a software glitch. The deeper point is that the atom, as originally conceived, was a form of 'the unc...

I think that's pretty true although it risks makes light of 'the great matter' (as it is referred to in the literature). I would have argued vehementl...

Don’t know how I’ll ever get over it. Although on the plus side I’ve discovered an interesting book from the linked wiki article on apophatic theology...

You're articulating a fundamental problem in modern philosophy. The problem will always be that objectivity cannot be absolute, it is always dependent...

See, The Blind Spot. (I don't think it's dull or vapid.) Thanks!

that your appropriation of that terminology is meaningless a lot of the time.

Pardon me, but your version of the 'via negativa' is completely different from that term as traditionally understood. It is associated in Western phil...

In a mirror, one can see a reflection of the eye, but one doesn't see the act of seeing, one only sees an image. This lecture (pdf format) elaborates ...

Not at all. '“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery t...

That's a different subject, one often discussed but not directly connected to this thread. See for instance here. I think in this thread I really just...

Sure! I really like those ideas. I will don’t understand ‘mind’ as being a consequence of molecular activity but that’s a different thread.

Of course. Kicking myself, I’ve watched Brian Swimme.

Can't help but agree, even though I know those kinds of suggestions are fiercely rejected by many Buddhists on dogmatic grounds. (It appeals to the th...