There's an awful lot of unclarity about what Dennett does and doesn't say, what he does and doesn't deny. That is why I included a lengthy quotation f...
It’s easy to say that ‘thought is a mechanical process’ but what does it mean? As this is a Buddhism thread, some reference ought to be made to abhidh...
That seemed to me the implication of this: I agree the whole issue of religious authority is vexed, that it is often abused, and that appeals to faith...
Of course! I too am sceptical of institutional religions. Fair enough! It's just that many of your posts seem to express a hostility towards 'religion...
The main point that Dennett is making is that consciousness can be fully understood in the third person. What he is saying is that science can, in pri...
I agree that Buddhism is a religion, but it seems in your view, religion is bad, so the point you always seem to laboring is that insofar as Buddhism ...
Qualia is a jargon term that is only ever encountered in this context. The only place in the English speaking world where you will hear the term is in...
What I’d like to know is how, in Dennett’s model, there can be ‘an illlusion’ as an illusion is ‘ an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception ...
Well, one is quite entitled to take that with a large grain of salt. Or at least recognise that it is a methodological postulate, more than a statemen...
Ch’an is the Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit ‘dhyana’ which means ‘meditative absorption’. The Japanese version is the more familiar ‘Zen’. Th...
Sorry - hadn’t noticed this response till just now because I wasn’t tagged in it. You’re still glossing over the basic conceptual problem implicit in ...
I have also noticed the overlapping meanings of ‘information’ and ‘meaning’. But there are many thorny issues here. ‘Information’ is nowadays used as ...
Pure Land schools teach the setting aside of all 'self-effort' and simple recitation of the name of Amidha, the Buddha of Boundless Light. There is ac...
That's really pretty right, but it's easier said than done. You're no doubt aware of the popular catchphrase of 'mindfulness' which is now very much p...
I read Krishnamurti for a lot of years, and he had much to say about 'thought' being 'of the nature of time', on how 'the old must cease for the new t...
It’s nevertheless ubiquitous in most traditional philosophy and religion that the human condition is somehow flawed or faulty. The Buddha is sometimes...
I'd like to raise an objection along the lines that your model makes no allowance for judgement, other than in the section on sapience. However this a...
But that is the whole point at issue in the 'measurement problem', is it not? Kumar, Manjit. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Na...
In Christian religions the doctrine of the fall means that humans on the whole are marked by a basic imperfection, 'original sin', the overcoming of w...
We're the rational animal, and that's a difference that makes a difference. Saying we're just an animal, or just a species, is the epitome of biologic...
Maybe what it's telling you is that your definition of what constitutes religion is too narrow. :up: With the caveat that it ought not to be 'adapted'...
If you posted your OP at physicsforum.com, I'd be interested to see what other physicists say about it. I intuitively feel there's a problem with it, ...
But in the popular imagination, heaven and Nirv??a are often equated. In popular Asian PureLand Buddhism, the accepted aim of the faith is rebirth in ...
Thanks for the summary! I see what you mean. According to the Copenhagen attitude, the electron is neither a wave nor a particle, but can present as e...
This was the context: So I was saying that if he's not in the business of existential plights, then perhaps it would be wise to stick to his knitting,...
Didn't run into Rousseau there by any chance? Or Margeret Mead? //sorry - being facetious. I think there's a lot of truth in what you say in that post...
In that case they should stick to their knitting and not write books which end up in the Religion section of the bookstore. Dawkins' attitude to what ...
I don't think you're out of line - but I also don't think you're fully grasping the philosophical implications of the issue. I'm not trained in physic...
yet 'the altruistic gene' doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? Dawkins and his ilk are generally tone-deaf to the existential plight of h. sapie...
It wasn't meant as a pejorative. Actually what I originally wrote was 'pre-modern', perhaps I should have left it at that. What I'm getting at is that...
and as MU observed, this is a philosophy forum, not a physics forum. I do ask questions on that forum also, but they give pretty short shrift to philo...
I thought the electron couldn't be 'found' anywhere until it is measured? It is not a discrete entity that exists in some unknown location until such ...
Saying it is 'nothing more than feelings' begs the question - it presumes that the notion of final cause can only be a matter of feeing, but that pres...
That's true - I was impressed by a TV appearance of Dawkins, in which he said: However, very shortly afterwards, and in the same interview, he says: W...
I grew up in the 60’s in Australia, a thoroughly secular culture in a non-religious family, raised on the Time Life books in nature and evolution. Nev...
No. It would be good to imbue them with the qualities necessary to understand the problems of philosophy when they are sufficiently mature to plumb th...
I read Midgley’s Evolution as a Religion in about 2009 when I first encountered philosophy forums, and found it a pretty clear exposition, albeit writ...
Yes and no. A lot of people WANT Buddhism to be 'anti-religious' or secular, but it really isn't. The other problem is, that in Eastern culture "relig...
Yes, I did visit Ven. Meido at Korinji, in 2017, on the occasion of the birth of my grandaughter in Wisconsin. Splendid and accomplished teacher. I al...
If you have no interest in it, there's no point trying to explain it. Can't you just stick to your threads about Justified True Beliefs and whether th...
It makes no sense to you, you show no interest in it or knowledge of it, other than barging into conversations with pictures from popular media and ca...
Nothing to do with it. What I'm talking about, is the relationship of natural law and ethical principles, mind and cosmos, humanity's place in the cos...
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