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Sabine Hossenfelder has a current blog post on Do Complex Numbers Exist? Might be relevant, I'm not qualified to judge.

Not all of the elements of human being are located in time and space. Moderns are ‘naturally naturalistic’ - they understand themselves wholly as phys...

The Euro mission's Mars Rover crashed because of a confusion between Metric and Imperial in some table. The requirements for such a mission are indeed...

The philosophical realisation that underlies our world began with Descartes’ algebraic geometry combined with Newton’s and Galileo’s science. That phi...

But here your confusing conception and imagination. A concept is different to what you can imagine. Descartes gave the example of a chilliagon, a thou...

Yeah, as we're all Kant, that is likely true.

There's a current Smithsonian Institute essay on what is math that is worth perusing. I'm *still* with the Platonists. The metaphysical impact of 'the...

Empiricism is not necessarily science. Or, put another way, empiricism is one of the facets of modern science. Empiricism insists that what is propose...

Until you ask the grocer for six bananas, and he gives you five, protesting that 'six is only a concept'. 'Concept, schmoncept', you say, storming out...

You've applied the strikethrough attribute to all the text. If you remove that attribute, then it will no longer appear that way. If you rectify the f...

Well, I'm surprised by that. I was given Atheist Delusions as a gift although i didn't finish it. I did read Experience of God, and aside from finding...

they're often the ones who make the most noise and attract the most attention. So much for the ‘still, small voice’. Generally speaking, Christian cha...

You might find it interesting that Richard Maurice Bucke's book, Cosmic Consciousness, published 1901, and an ur-text of the New Age, considers Walt W...

:up: Gotcha.

I feel there's been some misunderstanding here. I was responding to this - What I'm saying is that the study of philosophy doesn't need to be justifie...

A commentary on the elusive nature of 'the knower' from the Upani?ads:

He goes on to discuss that in the attached essay, but I picked that passage because it’s quite a good summary. There still remains a malady for which ...

What is, and isn't, Yog?c?ra

Yoo hoo.

Sorry about that. I'll try and sharpen it up next time.

The argument about biological information is however that organic life retains memory in a sense that inorganic matter does not.

Read the section under the heading The Chemical Paradigm. It concludes: Barbieri then remarks 'This is one of the most deeply dividing issues of moder...

Thanks! I actually stumbled on this guy a couple of weeks ago and thought he looked pretty interesting, I will revisit him.

Sure! But the remark you made: I think that conveys an incorrect grasp of the point at issue. Really, I'm not just bollocking you or engaging in ad ho...

I might ask you, are you aware of the work of Marcello Barbieri, who is the originator of 'code biology'? I have referred to his paper What is Informa...

It's an interesting question and I would like to respond to it, but I think it belongs to a different thread.

I don't think you know what I'm getting at, but regrettably having to explain a philosophical position to someone in order to show what is wrong with ...

Sure, evolution is like a secular religion. No question. That is why when the likes of Thomas Nagel published his book on what was wrong with it, he w...

I'm simply commenting on the declaration that 'we' - presumably all of humanity - doesn't know Capital T truth - is presumptious. I could - but from l...

Who is 'we'?

Everyone here has a right to disagree. But @"Tom Storm"s response doesn't recognise the argument it's responding to. What I am calling out with refere...

But materialism is a form of monism. To admit that there’s something real other than matter-energy us to reject materialism and open the door to all m...

Don't. You're obviously intelligent, articulate and interested. And philosophy doesn't require a 'practical outcome'. (981b) (982b) The idea that phil...

Like any academic area, there are those who can excel in it and build a career from it. But unless you have exceptional skills, and maybe luck, it's v...

The argument, which is very badly put by the OP, is that if you seek to *explain* reason in terms of naturalism or evolutionary development, then this...

It is a good link but that site is a bit erratic, it is intermittently unreachable.

I can't see how this relates to Aristotle's well-known hylomorphic (matter-form) dualism. The underlying logic of this metaphysics is that the mind kn...

Indeed, that is a very meaningful passage from the Letters, it sure resonates with me.

I think we have quite a bit in common......I also quit philosophy for comparative religion, which has of course not been at all useful from the perspe...

I think so, also. At issue is the nature of valid reasoning. This is not something that evolutionary theory deals with, let alone explains. Nor is it ...

That's an interesting question. Like a many others I was very attracted to Zen, but after a long while, I realised that Zen is a highly-structured and...

Not only Catholicism! There's a reactionary political-philosophical movement, called Traditionalism, not very well known outside academia, that believ...

That is because modern culture only recognizes discursive, symbolic modes of consciousness. I'm not saying there's anything the matter with that, but ...

Fair point. I don’t see consciousness as ‘an additional property in the world’, and I don’t think that’s how Chalmers depicts it. Chalmers' issue is t...

And secular culture has no way of differentiating the two!

Don't you think Socrates or the Buddha would not be aware of this? Don't you think philosophers consider this? In our age, science is held up as this ...

It would be from the viewpoint of the ego. But, you know, ‘He who saves his own life will lose it’. Or alternatively, Diamond Sutra

‘One funeral at a time’, according to Thomas Kuhn. :wink: Very much appreciate your courtesy and interest.

I wouldn’t bother, unless I was a bench scientist. It’s not philosophically interesting. What would evidence of orthogenesis comprise? I mean, the dif...