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Plus we shouldn’t forget that the sign on the door says ‘philosophy forum’. There are plenty of science forums, but this isn’t one.

That's what you seem to have been doing. You've yet to respond to (as distinct from merely dismiss) anything I've presented. What else could it be? Ca...

We're talking philosophy, not empirical science. To presume that you can identify a causal link between neurological activity and rational thought, al...

Sure, absolutely. I certainly think all the demonstrations are for a righteous cause and I hope they lead to a good outcome. But I can't see it. At th...

I've got a few broad areas to compare this to. One is professional skills - I'm a contract tech writer and doc systems guy who works in many different...

There's also a well-known Schopenhauer passage from WWR which makes the same point. He says 'materialism is the philosophy of one who forgets to take ...

Consider the amount of work Kant had to do, to arrive at his conception of 'the nature of reason'. A great deal of that work was in determining, by re...

No, it’s not that - your responses don’t convey a grasp of the issue.

You keep saying ‘it doesn’t make sense’ or that I’m writing ‘word salad’ but I think what’s coming across is that you don’t understand the subject.

useful primer on current philosophy of mind.

I think what you're missing is the role of the subject in interpretation and integration of meaning. The subject makes judgements - not simply conscio...

But I suppose I should add to that, that whilst philosophers and the like see common ground between the two traditions, one respect in which they're v...

A Pope would be obliged to say something like that, but there is actually plenty of cross-cultural dialogue between Buddhists and Catholics, and even ...

There are two heuristic devices which are from unrelated philosophies, but which might help cast light. The first is a principle from early Mahayana B...

But that is a criterion that can be adapted to many purposes. No doubt the Chinese Communist Party could claim that the Hong Kong protestors are encou...

Because it’s not right. The nature of consciousness is first-person, and can generally be described as ‘subjective’ in a certain sense. It’s not ‘subj...

I think the argument for the particular nature of human consciousness comes from observing the nature of meaning. That's obviously an extremely broad ...

If you lived in a family where you were shielded from all harsh truths of existence, and never required to take responsibility for anything you did, t...

They could sing and count, which was impressive, so they scored big time with the chicks. Some refs: https://metanexus.net/fabulous-evolutionary-defen...

Augustine was philosophically profound but more than a streak of neurosis also which I think unfortunately got transferred along with the profound bit...

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Specifically, this was Augustine's contribution; the resulting 'Augustinian theology' has been hugely influential in Catholic and Protestant (especial...

found this snippet on a blog site re Heidegger's commentary on metaphysics: Introduction to Metaphysics, 13 (H9-10). (I think I need to read this text...

In ancient philosophy, the only knowledge worthy of that name rested on what is truly first, the ground of being, the origin of the manifold, the un-c...

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I’m seriously worried that it might end up in fisticuffs. Or worse. I don’t know who these ‘brexiteers’ are, but I sense they’re real bastards.

If the universe existed eternally, and if all events have a finite duration, then everything that could have happened, would have finished already.

Also could have been banned for Totally Random Capitalisation of Words, but never mind.

If you can work out Mad Fool’s point, please tell it too him. :smile:

French existentialists sitting hunched over black coffee and Gauloise in the Second Arondisement. To the ancient Greeks, discerning 'reason' meant 'un...

So you're honestly saying we have no way of knowing what is the difference between an aware being and an object? So, you don't recognise anything that...

Poke them, and they respond. You’re doing a great job of making my case here.

The wall is all yours. 'Awareness' is demonstrably possessed by sentient creatures, so you can't say it's 'just a word' and dismiss it on that account...

Very perceptive comment! All I can say is, that version that I quoted using the terms 'percepts and concepts' was the way I first learned about the id...

No, awareness is pre-theoretical. Animals and insects possess rudimentary awareness, and they're certainly not in possession of any kind of theory. Hu...

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...to say nothing of apophasis!

Trump's advocacy for Russia rejoining the G7, and his disgraceful- account of the circumstances of Russia's annexation of Crimea, would again be groun...

The way I read it, ‘knowledge of good and evil’ signifies the formation of self-consciousness, the awareness of oneself as an agent with the ability t...

Awareness obviously must exist before any theory. One cannot theorise when unconscious.

Because rain (etc) is 'other' to us. Phenomena are 'what appears'. The subject is what (actually who) phenomena appear to.

I was responding to T. Clark's statement that 'consciousness is a mental process'. What I said was kind of a play on words, but makes a serious point:...

In other words, from outside. Good luck with that!

In humans, it’s a meaning process. That’s what makes human consciousness different.

Heaven's sake, Mad Fool. 'The fall of man' is a mythical account of the predicament of the human condition. Dismissing it with a single paragraph hard...

That's a vexed question, actually. In Theravada Buddhism, the Buddha is depicted as being human in the sense of not being a deity. However, there is a...

as a general rule, trolls ought not to be fed.

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No, via introspection. Interesting fact: one of the founders of psychology was a German-American scientist called Wilhelm Wundt. He migrated to the st...

Sure why not? I mean, you can deal with many aspects of consciousness objectively - which is the subject of psychology and cog. sci. But the fundament...