Wayfarer

Have you encountered phenomenology as a field of study?

I engage with plenty of people here thank you. I've been discussing this post and the related The Blind Spot of Science for two years, most of your co...

You alternate between saying that it's obvious, and that it's absurd. Wrong on both counts, but then I've noticed your inveterate tendency to regard y...

:rofl: You don't understand the criticism that are made of your posts, and then think that your not understanding them is a counter-argument. You don'...

Noodling around on the Internet, I happened upon a book by one Robert Ornstein, who's earlier book on the evolutionary roots of consciousness I bought...

Let's recall what this thread is about. Scientific instruments vastly expand the sensory capabilities of humans, but the data they generate are still ...

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.

'Duty' is a rather odd word to use. The graphics provided by @"punos" in the above post are instructive. They illustrate the massive proportion of the...

Spontaneously!

Some people are unaware of physicalism for the same reason fish are unaware of water :lol:

Indeed. And on the whole, with some notable exceptions, Buddhism has been a civilizing influence through the East.

By way of contrast this is where the Buddhist model is relevant. In the early texts, the Buddha emphatically denies that there is a ‘what’ that surviv...

Indeed. A point to consider.

Brook Ziporyn. And it's not just nostalgia. Indra's Net is hardly a primitive ontology.

I read your rationale for this the other day but it easily seems like overreach. It is inferred that there would be that number of reports, on the bas...

One thing to bear in mind is that philosophical disputes may involve disagreements about what the participants think is real - and that can’t help but...

I've always found your posts to be a model of courtesy and have no idea why you think you might be 'thrown out' for saying so. I completely agree with...

Thanks! I found the essay itself very insightful, I think he makes a really important point about the distinctin between human abilities and artificia...

That’s a marvelous anecdote—almost a miniature case study in how meaning emerges through social practice. It nicely illustrates the distinction betwee...

@"Patterner" I’d like to respond to your thoughtful posts on panpsychism, particularly the idea that consciousness is latent in all matter, and to cla...

Agree. But consider again Aristotle's view of 'psuche' (psyche). There was the vegetative, animal, and rational soul, each with different levels of ca...

Seems a very good presentation. Have you encountered Matt O'Dowd and the channel PBS SpaceTime? He also has a large collection of lucid videos on phys...

There was a famous and highly influential experiment conducted by Dr. Álvaro Pascual-Leone and his team at Harvard Medical School in the 1990s. This s...

Well, my main point is that the soul - not that you have to believe in such a word! - is not something you have, like an appendix or a limb, but what ...

I thought your depiction had merit. I'll also add that it is now thought that neurons are actually generated in specific regions of the adult brain th...

Jaurrero’s Dynamics in Action begins with Aristotle.

That’s well taken, and I appreciate the elaboration. What I was aiming to highlight—perhaps somewhat obliquely—was a structural contrast between class...

You are being far from clear. But grass is considerably more complicated than are stars, although admittedly there would be no grass if there had not ...

What does ‘plays by physics’ mean?

Would you say they need to take context into account in a way that classical physics did not?

‘Thought operates according to different rules than matter, but that shouldn’t cause us to conclude that the world is anything other than physical.’

You’re equating sameness with numerical identity—i.e., “the same thing” must mean one and the same physical object. But this confuses the distinction ...

An excerpt from an essay on Medium. These paragraphs briefly discuss the transition from the participatory knowing of Aquinas' Aristotelianism, to the...

I don't need to respond to a false distinction. Two instances of the same song are of the same song. If you put out a version of a Beetles song that y...

But Brian Greene's point is, the physical properties of an electron can be measured with precision. The alleged 'consciousness' that pan-psychism says...

Of course! That's what the whole thread is about. (Maybe I should have called it 'Mind-Constructed World'). It's about how cognitive science validates...

bourgeois

If your philosophy cannot allow for the existence of a song, and copywright to it, then all I can say is that it has a serious deficiency. Regardless,...

Incorrect. The melody IS the same. RIght now, my 10-month-old grand-child is playing with an electronic toy which is playing the song My World is Blue...

Which nobody can specify. They're still physical, but are designated 'mental'. How can that be distinguished from straight-ahead physicalism?

I think the thread is about 'mental causation' - can mind, if it is non-physical, cause physical effects? It seems obvious that it does, but it's a qu...

It’s more a question of intellectual humility - no matter how much we know there’s still a sense in which we lack insight into how things really are. ...

A melody can be represented in musical notation or binary code. It can be engraved in metal or copied on to paper. Then it can be played back on diffe...

The word ‘formal’ originates with Greek metaphysics.

The medium is physical; the game is formal; the meaning or purpose (like “this move is a blunder”) is relational or noetic.

I only posted it - I post this passage often - because what you said here: Isn't it making the same point? Anyway, it's a digression, let's leave it.

A fundamental ontological distinction is between beings and things. I’ve had many an argument about it. That was the context in which I was sent the K...

although the Buddha said there is nothing not subject to change

A classic paper you might find of interest is The Greek Verb 'To Be' and the Problem of Being, Charles S. Kahn.