Wayfarer

Yes I meant neo-neo-platonist. Surely there are convergences with Terrence Deacon. The forms can also be understood as constraints or 'forms of possib...

Right. It was a pretty dense review, I admit. Of course, I'm highly sympathetic to Levin's neoplatonism, but that critic seemed to have some pretty go...

Straight out of the Dawkins Dennett playbook. Evolution displaces religion becuase it's scientific. You clearly haven't understood anything I've said ...

agree. I find him pretty difficult, although I very much appreciate what he's trying to do, at a high level.

I am not going to try to persuade you that Eric Reitan's blog post is correct. It may well not be! It made interpretive sense to me, that's all.

Surely this passage at least hints at that:

I only selected that post by Eric Reitan because of its very specific focus on the question of the unknowable nature of the noumenon, and also the unk...

The question is improperly framed as it presumes that morality can be explained by neurology. :ok:

https://youtu.be/rzpL_5CI0WQ?si=xlG1BFu32VVzBUm2 The Immanuel Kant Song

The evolution of the h.sapiens brain, along with the the upright gait, opposable thumb, and much else, is one of the most, if not the most, spectacula...

Thanks for the elaboration. You acknowledge the importance of factors such as upbringing and culture, which I agree are of fundamental importance. But...

Eh. don't see it like that. Did you choose to be born? Do you choose to die? Not everything is of your own choosing.

Sure, there are those that write on those themes. Ever encountered the 'Third Way' evolutionary theorists? Dennis Noble is a prominent advocate, often...

Yes, I suppose you're right. I did cherry-pick that passage, which was then subjected to the same kind of criticism that I would make of it. Still, wo...

So how can it be, then, that ? Isn't this just Hume's is/ought in a nutshell? Descriptive facts about what exists or how things are arranged don’t, by...

As compared to - what? Traditionalist, conservative, undemocratic, illiberal? I would rather hope that authentic values can be realised without that. ...

Another passage from the Transcendental Aesthetic: Notes: •“Aesthetic” in contemporary usage usually refers to beauty or artistic appreciation. In Kan...

When are the US media going to start talking about a ‘rogue President’? Because that’s what they have. This latest social media barrage - announcing h...

I understand that perfectly well. It’s more like, ‘don’t let ideas about reincarnation stop you from understanding Buddhism better’. As regards ‘super...

Capital ‘S’ Self. Which is the entire aim of the path. There’s nothing really corresponding with that in Western culture save as a kind of import from...

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Dawkins often expresses this sentiment. It is one of the things I find agreeable in his public utterances. Also, from Richard Polt, a Heidegger schola...

The passage from Eric Reitan that I had in mind was this: The point I'm trying to bring out, is the elusive nature of the self (or subject). I often r...

But what's so galling is the casual way Trump has brushed off any legitimacy of her claim to be the rightful president of Venezeula, 'because the peop...

This is simply mistaken. Drop that phrase into Google Gemini and see what comes back. No amount of verbalisation is going to alter the facts.

I know the term ‘transpersonal’ used to be associated with Wilbur, but he stopped using it and it generally fell out of use in the 1990s. But I think ...

Generally not, except in this specific regard. The solution surely comprises recognizing it. At least that is a starting point. My point exactly! Evid...

True. No slight on her. But then Trump is like ‘thanks lady, now go away.’ I bet the Nobel Committee is less than impressed.

So the Orange Emperor is gifted a Nobel Peace Prize medal by Maria Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition, which had been awarded to her....

:pray: Someone I'm meaning to study. I've only ever read his obituary.

Fair enough. I'd go along with that. But I've got a more specific focus in mind. (I meant by the 'italicized pargraphs' the post directly above your l...

Great! Thanks for that clarification. Well, they're spelled out in the two italicized paragraphs above. What I'm arguing is that physicalism in its mo...

The only reason I have said that some of your posts are 'positivist', is when they clearly are. Not all the time, but also not infrequently. You might...

Again, a very useful passage, in terms of understanding Kant's view of the matter, and thanks for it. The repeated use of “mere” and “merely” in that ...

There'll be no hats. :yikes: Anyway - my basic point is still, there's an awful lot of basic stuff that needs doing here on Earth, before 'fixing our ...

Hey, I like Gnomon as a person, and he's not a disruptive or antagonistic contributor. But, you know, this forum is a place where ideas go to get crit...

They're not cranks. It's published by the Union of Atomic Scientists. Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chi...

The 'material-immaterial' gap is an artefact of Cartesian philosophy, with his 'mind-matter dualism', which has been woven into the fabric of modern c...

Well, I admire your optimism. The Doomsday Clock was last set 28th Jan 2025, at 89 seconds before midnight.

Some commentary on the idea of transpersonal subjectivity developed in dialogue with claude.ai The supposedly "objective" view of science - the God's ...

I respectifully think a lot of these ideas are science fiction. Which has, after all, seeped into the culture through nearly a century of cinematic me...

Yeah, I'm one. The analogy doesn't hold, though. Mars is a possibility, as it is within some kind of striking distance. But even so, the problems invo...

The point remains that energy is an abstract but universal, constant, and predictable property of matter - precisely measurable to minute degrees of a...

Also, bear in mind that Kant has more to say about his religious philosophy, in his Critique of Practical Reason (and also, I think, his Religion with...

That, I have to agree with. SpaceX is clearly an astoundingly competent company, Those re-landing rockets are an engineering marvel, no doubt about th...

But that's what I mean. In our previous exchange about energy: I'm afraid this is a terrible analogy (and many others would describe it much more hars...

More than happy to debate it.

That was a good and persuasive post, and I acknowledge the importance of space technology for scientific exploration and for the unintended benefits i...

I agree. It's not a wholesale rejection, but a correction. I've also noticed that Edmund Husserl similarly commented on the mistake Descartes makes in...