Are you familiar with the amazing feats of Matteo Ricci in China? Who, on the occasion of his return to Europe, was hosted at an Imperial Banquet, at ...
I understand that Roger Penrose is not a materialist — if anything, he leans toward mathematical Platonism. But like Einstein, he is staunchly realist...
Well, yeah, but how do you take issue with a direct quotation? :brow: The passage you quote has nothing to do with the topic at hand. That is a precis...
The point remains.He doesn’t single out the ‘consciousness causes collapse’ theory. His objections are pretty straightforward: His objection is philos...
But it’s undeniable that the experts opinions are deeply influenced by their philosophical commitments. Hence Penrose’s insistence that quantum physic...
Recall that in the early modern scientific model, the measurable attributes of bodies were said to be different from how the object appeared to the se...
The question of interpretion of physics is as much one of philosophy as of physics. And Kastrup has got considerable practical experience in physics -...
But there's a big difference in perspective that you're glossing over there. Objectivity is already a step removed from the actuality of first-person ...
As regards black holes, Berkeley doesn’t reject inductive inference; in fact, his Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues show that he accep...
I might, if I saw one. When I was early primary school age, we spent a year in Aberdeen, northern Scotland. We rented an house on the outskirts, about...
Yes, but the positivists detested metaphysics. How would Berkeley have been received, explaining that everything is kept in existence by being perceiv...
Many interesting comments here, for which I'm grateful, but the main point of the OP has slipped by. The modern notion of a “mind-independent reality”...
I was being ironic or facetious, in respect of the inherent difficulty of capturing these episodes, which only happen through periods of acute crisis....
Terrence Deacon did call his book Incomplete Nature. Maybe he's onto something! Quite! That is a central point in this topic. Except I would say 'subj...
Truly excellent question! I agree that science depends on the working assumption of a reality that is what it is, independent of us. That’s the stance...
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As am I! We can objectively verify if a subject is conscious (well, except in extermely rare cases such as 'locked-in syndrome') and we can tell when ...
But can’t you see that this seemingly straightforward statement already assumes the very point in dispute? You’re picturing “reality” as something ful...
:rofl: You also can’t ask any of the US LLMs any in-depth questions about US politics (last time I tried I got a terse ‘try Google search’). DeepSeek ...
This Trump-Putin summit that's been announced, likely to be in Alaska. Ukraine won't be represented, and Trump is already saying there will need to be...
You're looking at the question as if it is an objective matter - a question of 'what is really there'' and whether 'consciousness' is a constituent of...
Certainly. The thrust of the essay isn't that there's not an objective reality, but that reality is not only objective, it has an ineliminable subject...
The Latin 'substantia' was used as the translation for the Greek 'ouisia'. But 'ouisia' is a form of the Greek verb 'to be', which has very different ...
which is Whitehead's process and reality, right? Incidentally I might mention that 'substance' in philosophy is more properly 'substantia', 'the beare...
Apropos of whether the use of the term 'existence' is idiosyncratic in this thread. In common speech existence is defined as “the fact or state of liv...
'Gestalt' would be a term generally associated with these schools - not that it's incompatible, but belongs to a different context. One of the key boo...
The field of cognitive science, neurobiology and philosophy is complex and vast. I'm never going to catch up on all the reading. My interests at the m...
Sure, agree with that. My remark was directed at the paragraph about the Robocop analogy, where it seemed to be suggesting that the brain usurps the r...
If possession is nine-tenths of the law, then defining existence is nine-tenths of philosophy. You’re right that if the world “neither exists nor does...
AI has helped track down the exct Wilder Penfield quotes from his book Mystery of the Mind: Notice, in particular, that the last metaphor compares the...
But that comes close to what is described as the mereological fallacy - the attribution of an action to a part (the brain) when it actually originates...
But 'exist' is precisely the wrong word! 'To exist' is to be apart, to be separated, to be this as distinct from that. Which is why I say in the origi...
However one crucial point that Penfield noted was that the subject could always distinguish a movement or a memory that was elicited by the surgeon fr...
Certainly—I'll try to explain. The idea is that a photograph presents the appearance of an object as mediated by the camera’s optical and technical st...
Physical Monism may be what you are getting at, but this is generally regarded as a kind of Physicalism. >Generally described under the title 'physica...
Notes on David Chalmer's 'Naturalistic Dualism' At its core, naturalistic dualism says: There are two kinds of fundamental facts in the world: Physica...
We have to use words very carefully here. What panpsychism says is that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter. Matter can be studied objec...
You're still missing the point of the critique, which isn’t about denying that there is some kind of reality independent of our particular perceptions...
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