Wayfarer

Perhaps we are, but I thought I was agreeing with you. :worry:

Oh, they wouldn't put it like that. They'd say there are no scientific grounds to consider the transcendent dimension of Platonism. (Never mind that t...

I agree. This is exacerbated by the fact that much modern scholarship deliberately downplays the transcendental dimension of Plato so as to present hi...

Lots to unpack here. First a couple of points - although I think Buddhism would be less challenged by the modern theory of evolution than some interpr...

Consider that reading is also a form of dialogue with those philosophers. When you engage deeply with them it’s almost like a conversation - obviously...

Despite the fact that you are, actually. The OP is entirely based on evolutionary ethics.

I think it’s a mistake to attribute agency to evolution, and also to try and orient philosophical questions with respect to purported evolutionary adv...

The issue is that modern scientific method has a very finely tuned and powerful method for the discovery of objective facts - more so than anything el...

So that tickles you're anti-religion funnybone? Not difficult, I've found.

http://veda.wikidot.com/dharma-and-religion

This is where I see a parallel with Kant - the distinction between reality as it appears to us and as it is in itself. That's why I posted the Michel ...

Do you mean by this that there is 'pressure to approve of and agree with the doctrine of re-birth'? In the Buddhist circles I have interacted with, I'...

What 'matter'? That's the problem! What is measured appears as waves or as particles. But, you're saying, behind what is measured there is 'the matter...

I like to think of myself as a realist :cool: .

I hate to re-open this issue, but you keep asking this. (Again this is from my knowledge, if someone with a degree in mathematical physics says I have...

I got a comment published on today's NY Times story on Trump This point needs to be raised - it's a meme that needs to go viral. Trump has no place in...

As I say, it was tongue-in-cheek, perhaps exagerrated for effect. But he was, as far as I could tell, a lecturer or professor in academic philosophy, ...

Reading serious philosophy is hard work. So you have to push yourself to do it, it's like training. Academic training can be useful in that it makes y...

So stop already.

That’s pretty well what Donald Hoffman says. On the general point of the OP, I agree that evolutionary theory has become the de facto ‘theory of every...

You’re welcome. Overall it was a very good discussion and thanks for it.

I didn’t mean you’re not well-read generally, just to do some more reading in regards to this topic. Seriously, get hold of Manjit Kumar’s Quantum. It...

Right.

Convicted felons are not allowed to run. There are all kinds of rules. Someone has to make this argument. If he flouts the rules then he can’t be allo...

What I’m saying it, the price of being allowed to run, must be the acknowledgment that he lost. He can’t have it both ways. Get it?

The Supreme Court would be an ideal forum for such an argument. Seriously - get the logic. Trump refuses to acknowledge the validity of the election -...

You don’t get it. What I’m saying is, Trump’s GOP should be ruled ineligible to stand candidates, unless Trump recognises the 2020 election. If they’r...

It’s more than simply undefined. It is not objective. You should read Schopenhauer. Objects and subjects arise together, you don’t have one without th...

This is the problem! That's exactly the point! Is its real nature particle-like or wave-like. Well, it depends on which experiment you conduct. Some w...

OK. I won't use the word 'consciousness', I will use 'mind'. Now I can see the problem. In today's understanding, consciousness, mind, the observer, a...

If that’s what you think then we’re done.

Bonus video for those interested: Michel Bitbol on Bohr's Complementarity and Kant's Epistemology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYRLapWBqJY&t=8s

I think that the 'observer problem' or 'measurement problem' in physics is precisely due to the fact that 'the act of observation' has a material effe...

So what you're arguing is that the 'observer problem' or 'measurement problem' in quantum physics actually doesn't exist. I think that's just because ...

Not at all. It's simply that realism is the natural attitude. Thinking through the implications of idealism takes philosophical acumen.

It is generally understood that only a portion of Plato's philosophical work was committed to writing. Many of his most important ideas were communica...

:up: Hey don't sweat it.

Nothing to do with conspiracy theories. And what, pray tell, is poisonous or conspiratorial about philosophical idealism? It is, in my view, the mains...

I learned when I used to post on Buddhist forums that there is belief in Buddhism in a gandharva (or gandhaba) which dwells in the intermediate (bardo...

'Hidden variables' is the De Broglie/David Bohm theory - that hidden variables cause the correlation. I don't think that's suggested as the solution a...

You're re-born in one of the six realms until craving for becoming (or even craving for non-being) are overcome. I don't say I believe it or necessari...

Whoever it is that lives, he sees his life and sufferings as ‘mine’.

He just wants to deflate the conversation so as to move it into the territory he feels comfortable with - ‘plain language’ modern-analytic etc.

Which would mean that if this was recognised and the GOP was deemed ineligible to run on the grounds that they can’t play by the rules, then the USA e...

So I guess the question is, if Trump refuses to recognise the result of the 2020 election, and the party falls in behind him, then how can they qualif...

What is it that is born and dies? If we can clear that up, then probably there's nothing further to discuss.

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‘How’s the patient?’ ‘Oh, he’s in a bad way, his bike went over a rock and he hit his head on a tree. He’s lost consciousness.’ ‘Oh, too bad. How’s th...

Hey you know if Trump prevails in ejecting all the sensible Republicans, in four years time, the Republican nominee’s argument will have to be that Bi...

Hey careful now. Patterns are regular - the Fibonacci sequence. But do the prime numbers form a pattern? I think not (although there’s this.) Anyway, ...