Wayfarer

https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resized/files/1q/jn1ewuik4bkpi0g8.jpg The Kantian response would be: why assume measurement must b...

Closing one slit is physical, But how is the act of measurement physical? Isn't that the whole measurement problem in a nutshell?

As you've mentioned Michel Bitbol in the past I did a bit of research on Bitbol's comparison of Kant and Neils Bohr's approach to quantum physics. Bit...

I mostly won't engage because you are truculent and verbally aggressive. You've said that I'm 'full of shit' or that I'm 'intellectually dishonest', a...

I can't see why you keep insisting that a particle, or a crystal, is a subject of experience. The rationale seems to be that if all that really exists...

Or being a drive-by shooter! Whatever floats you boat, eh?

What point would there be in explaining it to someone who thinks it's meaningless?

Sure - that's the encyclopedia definition. But I am stressing the link between 'esse' and 'is' (esse is the Latin verb for 'to be'). So the essence is...

But it really is a debate about the nature of reality—and also about the corresponding change in consciousness that follows from how we draw that line...

I'm pleased you like the OP and can see that you get the gist. But I wouldn't want it to rely on revealed truth. I can recognise the significance of r...

Indeed. Berkeley was both empiricist - all knowledge from experience - and nominalist - there are no universals. This is where Berkeley’s idealism sho...

That is not something that Newton himself would have said. It’s true that his discovery of inertia fundamentally changed the conception of matter, but...

I did see the headlines, but didn't read the detail. It stands to reason, though. I still think the early iterations of all the engines were very reti...

Bernardo Kastrup points to a 2014 fMRI study of subjects diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. In one striking case, a dissociated personalit...

Well aware of all that. Nevertheless, I maintain that the distinction between beings and things is fundamental to Christianity as it must be to other ...

I've just posted a question about opinions on Trump's use of executive actions in Government to Gemini and received an answer with the for and against...

As a matter of fact, ‘person’ was derived from ‘personae’, the masks worn by actors in Greek drama. Regardless, surely Christians of any school or sec...

Thank you for the explanation, I see your point. But surely describing the persons of the Trinity as ‘things’ is even greater error than was mine.

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It just occurred to me spontaneously - don't want to make too much of it.

Well, of course. But what did you mean, then, by 'accepting our true nature as primates'? In what way is that being denied, and how would acknowledgin...

One could also engage in a conversation about what, precisely, is the error, but then, it's a lot easier to make snide remarks, isn't it.

So you think I invented that! Where's my Nobel?

There's a real problem with the naturalist account of human nature, which is that it doesn't or can't acknowledge the sense in which we're essentially...

I can see why. I'll leave the explanations of its shortcomings to Phillip Ball.

Although looking at the original post again, it's plain the entire purpose is debunking Christianity, so I should have kept out of it, and will now.

So when you've got nothing substantial to add, you'll try condescending or sarcasm or ad homs, right? Rather than actually trying to engage in a conve...

Right on point. Berkeley is objecting to the concept of matter as 'substance' in the philosophical sense - something which underlies the observable at...

But I think what I've said in the above posts acknowledges all of that. I said: Although now I've read that entry of Timothy's, I understand better th...

I'm not Catholic, but I am trying to portray what I think they would say. The Count has been scarce the last few days but I acknowledge that he has fa...

Trump's authoritarian takeover of the United States is proceeding very smoothly - and with hardly any dissent! Now he is sending in federal police to ...

Depends on how idealism is interpreted. Transcendental idealism does not claim that the world is a mere figment of individual minds, but rather that t...

Thank you Banno, but the thrust of this particular OP is historical - something which nobody's picked up yet. It was actually motivated by a comment I...

Right - in those debates I had with Streetlight, he referred to Heidegger a few times. Since then, I've read a bit more and am *starting* to understan...

So does this substance called mind have a molecular structure?

The comment was in reference to the difference between numerical identity and two entities of the same kind. 'Essence' is 'what is essential to the be...

Watch out 180, woo about! But fear not, the woo police will come to our rescue.

We should say something about the Copenhagen Interpretation. The name itself was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950’s, writing retrospectively about tha...

I’m not alone in thinking that the many-worlds interpretation is wildly incoherent. I believe that Bohm’s pilot waves have been definitely disproven, ...

I am impressed with your ideas and think you’re a valuable contributor to this Forum.

But that’s the point of the OP! Aquinas was traditional (although for his day he was considered progressive.) But it was the beginning of secular mode...

I think that terminology is certainly not his. Have a browse of the Early Modern Texts translation provided in Ref 1. He’s quite the sophist. (I recom...

But, for Berkeley, all that is real are spirits, which could be glossed as ‘perceiving beings’, and objects are ideas in minds. But I don’t think that...

My interest in philosophy grew from a spiritual quest (rather a quixotic one, hence the avatar). I pursued it through two degrees, one in Comparative ...

Ha! Fascinating topic (as is often the case with your posts.) Actually now you mention it, I did use Chat to explore on the topics here, namely, why r...

I take measurement and observation to be observer-dependent. I mean, you could infer that many similar processes might be taking place without an obse...

maybe you're right. I'm a pretty diehard Never Trumper and the few times I asked Gemini about Trump-related issues I got that kind of response but it ...

Two meanings of ‘representation’ in play there. He objects to representative realism but I’m sure he would accept that the sight of smoke represents f...

Perfect! I had many debates on this forum in years past, on account of my claim that the noun 'ontology' is derived from the first-person participle o...

Pleased to find we have this in common.