Wayfarer

But are these sensory? 'of or relating to sensation or to the senses sensory stimulation. 2 : conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the ne...

Any examples of what these additional senses are, over and above the five we're taught at school?

I suppose I might be willing to give it a go. At worst, it will make me do some work.

So, even though But nevertheless, So, this 'hidden states model' is not applicable to scientific reasoning? By what criterion do you distinguish scien...

Nonsense. I have answered your objections on a number of occasions, only to be told that my response is 'woo', when from my perspective, you've simply...

But isn’t this a problem for science? I mean, science of all types must assume the basic rules of inference to even begin to hazard what such and such...

Probably not without a 5,000 word essay which nobody would read anyway. It's just something which I think is a background factor behind what you've be...

Fair point. I will read some more. Certainly will absolutely acknowledge no expertise in that field. But the question I have is, don't you think the c...

Threads like this are like tossing a bit of bloodied meat into the Piranha River. :naughty:

Trump is obviously delusional on a grand scale. He’s managed to get through life with enough people believing in his fantasy world to empower him, so ...

There's a particular subject in history of ideas that has bearing on this. It has to do with the advent of nominalism and voluntarism in medieval phil...

:up: Not to say that 'liberals' don't have their own vices and blind-spots - sure as hell do - but the 'conservative' movement in the USA has become s...

Perhaps the division is not hard and fast.

That cannot be the case. As has already been shown, neural activity shows no such regularities or patterns that can be discerned when the brain is exp...

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If you think that a device like a camera is an analogy for DNA or for human intelligence, then there's no point discussing it, as it just seems obviou...

Published in 1637, and true to this day.

Memory, like the quote said. As Mayr says, DNA basically preserves the whole history of evolution in a single DNA molecule. There’s nothing correspond...

Well, it has been a good conversation, and I thank you for it, although I still feel as though I haven't made myself clear.

Karen Armstrong is pretty good on that. She started out as a nun in a very strict Catholic order, but basically had a breakdown and couldn't deal with...

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I realised that there were people who didn't believe in God. I found this shocking, for some reason. How I arrived ...

Algorithms are close to what I’m getting at. But what about scientific principles? f=ma? e=mc2? Are they physical? I’d say, of course they’re not, the...

I really don't think you understand universals.

But the harmonies, which are ratios, don't come into existence when the lyre is tuned. They are the same whether there is any lyre or not. It's those ...

You may be interested in skimming this thread Is Information Physical? which was about this question.

Not 'entirely'? It's a moving target, it changes all the time. All it comes down to is a pledge of allegiance to science. OK, let me put it this way -...

Logically prior, i.e. must be real in order for matter to exist in the first place. In Platonic philosophy, forms don’t begin or cease to exist, which...

I will never defend British soccer fans. What’s that saying? ‘Rugby is a thugs game enjoyed by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman’s game enjoyed by thug...

Material stuff which could not exist without those forms. So they’re prior to matter, and they’re not physical in nature. They don’t have to exist - t...

I would agree, with the caveat that these structures and patterns are not material. Rather, they show up as patterns and structures in material forms,...

oh well, 'the god of small things' has to have something to attend to. (Not that I've read it.) I'd like to see the Brits win it. Not sure why I feel ...

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It is largely the very peculiar kind of being that belongs to universals which has led many people to suppose that they are really mental. We can thin...

You still don’t show that you understand the meaning of ‘substance’ in philosophy. You’re thinking of ‘substance’ in the everyday usage.

Yes, reading that passage again, perhaps not a reference to mantram. But the symbolic imagery of 'songs' and their restorative power is intriguing. It...

You're trying to locate ideas in the physical world, but I think they're real in a different sense to existent phenomena. They're real as principles, ...

I think that's a reference to 'mantrayana', repetition of a sacred word of phrase.

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Right, but what is preserved is an idea, information, a story. It can be represented in a variety of media and many different languages or systems, in...

Isn’t ‘writing’ itself a form of representation? It has to be metaphor, right? Secondly, that article shows that even for simple stimulus and response...

Agree. Thanks for the clarification!

I do disagree but I did so with all due courtesy and respect. I’m genuinely trying to understand and am quite willing to be corrected.

You should have a glance at this.

there was nothing uncivil in what I said. Simply putting another view.

Mine, already given.

I can’t see how the reading supports that. The body perishes or is destroyed but I simply don’t see how this passage admits this of the soul, also. So...

Phenomena, nature, is 'what appears' - but what appears is always subject to judgement and interpretation. That is what 'apperception' is. And those a...

The salient passage My gloss on this, is that 'concrete things', or individual particulars, are always a mixture, whereas the forms, or the ideas of t...