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I think the interesting philosophical question is the sense in which the mind - I'll use that term instead of 'consciousness' - is a product of the br...

Well, as I mentioned, I'm subscribing to it - one of about three news & current affairs subscriptions I pay for. I got interested when there was a sto...

actually this question and @"tim wood"s response makes me question whether the study of the evolution of the universe is actually 'history'. The web d...

At last the obvious was stated: It’s unbelievable that Trump could even be considered a candidate unless he admits Biden won - which of course he'll n...

I'm convinced that colonising other planets is a fantasy. Mars is totally inhospitable to any form of life as we know it. Mars has a very thin atmosph...

Watch Devs.

The idea, according to the doco I mentioned, is to capture wavelengths that are out of scope for other telescopes, so as to 'see' right back to the ve...

Strangely, I am not stumped by this question, but I don't think I'll bother to try and explain why. The long and short is, there are no 'beings' as su...

My take on Dennett is that he's a perfectly nice guy, very approachable, apparently very smart, worked his way through college playing jazz piano - I ...

You've never understood my criticisms of him so there's no point in discussing it with you.

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But the point I made about Dennett - that his concept of philosophy actually undermines or completely destroys what philosophy was always understood t...

Of course. By all means read him critically. He's just one of my bogeymen.

Don't get sucked into it. It's ridiculous that Dennett is even regarded as a philosopher. In one of his books, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: One of the sub...

It's the only place you'll ever read it. It's the sole preserve of a clique of modern academics and of no relevance to anything outside it. I would ad...

Careful, the joke may be on you. (Although on second reading, maybe I didn't pick up your intentional irony.)

I think you're right. Won't quibble with that. It's not as if 'the Tathagatha' is not conscious. There is a stream in Buddhist philosophy about buddha...

So - would it be real were there no humans to be non-attached? Is it just an artefact of pyschology, do you think? That saying 'show me your original ...

As Buddhism has entered the conversation then a canonical reference would not be out of place. 'The unborn' is a reference to what is not contingent a...

There's a certain circularity at work here. Concepts are grounded in abstraction. And abstraction is dependent on sophisticated intellectual operation...

The Platonist answer is that humans have a foot in both worlds - physically embodied beings who can by virtue of intellect peer into the realm of idea...

There's a very sensitive sub-topic around this point - the boundary between metaphysics, philosophy and religion are somewhat hazy and it's easy to fi...

as said, I'll wait for anyone (you know who you are!) who actually understands those issue to respond, but I feel we did at least actually point the t...

There's a subject called 'the De Broglie-Bohm theory': But you will notice that even that article contains equations in mathematical physics which I d...

banno’s right you’re basically appealing to the Bohr-De Broglie’s ‘hidden variables’ type of argument. Here are some video tutorials on it. Oh, and yo...

I think you’re asking evolutionary science to answer a philosophical question to which it might not be applicable. Think about what evolutionary scien...

This is a philosophy forum perhaps if you’re looking for a comment from people knowledgeable of physics you could try posting it to physicsforums.com

This was the subject of my MA thesis in Buddhist Studies. The two 'extreme views' are nihilism, which is that at death, the elements return to the gro...

The Atlantic is publishing some truly great stuff on all this. I subscribed and am not regretting it. Helps I guess that it's owned by Laurene Powell ...

If magick were real then no matter how you tried to regulate it the magician could simply will the legislation to be changed. https://i.gifer.com/75Za...

Imagine drafting the documentation.

:up: The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure...

That it’s inappropriate in this medium. I’m happy to debate ideas and I am open to criticism but I don’t want to be told what I should think.

This requires very careful interpretation as it is easily misconstrued. Please see this brief sutta. It comprises a question and answer between Ven. M...

People of his ilk makes a lot of money out of misguided idealism. One of the devil's best tricks.

I’ve found the book on archive.org, I’m going to read it again as it went quite over my head the first time.

We’ll don’t know about that but the TV sure has made the cave wall a whole lot more entertaining.

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The meaning of 'yoga' is union or binding, but it's being bound to Brahman, not to some sensation or emotion, which is the meaning of liberation in th...

In Gnomon's defense, he offers definitions and glossary links to every term he uses. You don't have to agree with him but you can't say that he's not ...

There's a tendency of thought called 'orthogenesis' - 'Orthogenesis, also known as orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progres...

Big questions, but this is what philosophy is for. As I might have mentioned I've been reading a blog I've discovered by a Dutch author - don't know i...

I don't associated the idea of the 'world soul' with Aristotle in particular, but definitely with the idea of 'animating principle'. I suppose this wo...

Yes, but Popper's point was that no matter what came up, you could accomodate it or explain it, so Freudian psychoanalysis wasn't a predictive theory ...

My thoughts exactly! Who is being informed and by what? although I will add that I can see merit in this formulation: I posted a snippet upthread whic...

But you just said: which is what I meant. I found Suttavada, I'll definitely look into that. Not unfavourably - it's that sometimes you come across le...

the higgs boson, we're told.

Plato gets the last laugh.

All true, but the point about falsifiability is to be able to differentiate scientific or empirical hypotheses from those that are not. Examples that ...