Wayfarer

Agree 100% ...well, 98%....

Of course. There are often people registering here and posting that ‘free will is an illusion’. When I can be bothered, I ask if if they did so volunt...

I don't think any laws known to physics. That is why he is routinely castigated as 'fringe/alternative', although I don't at all agree with that view....

Not me. Self-important windbag.

Humans are always implicated, that knowledge is always 'for us' or 'discovered by us'. The modern plight is to lose sight of this and presume that the...

I equate 'the phenomenal domain' with 'the domain studied by the natural sciences', in other words, the realm of phenomena. (I don't think mathematics...

Correct. Hopefully what they understand surpasses common sense rather than falling short.

I will stop wasting your time, then.

well that's utterly ridiculous.

Biden didn't run in the last campaign but seems to me most electable. Elizabeth Warren is far more comprehensive from a policy development P-O-V - but...

OK, maybe not 'ignored' but not given such hysterical and massive coverage. A big part of Trump's arsenal is to create outrage and then leverage it fo...

Hasty answer as I'm on duty. Note that the optical illusion example is often thrown at Berkeley, but he does have an answer to it. Over and above that...

Like dying being a symptom of a terminal illness.... Evil is winning in America; the bad guy is winning. The sheriff has been run out of town, or brib...

It’s useless for people to keep condemning Trump’s racism. it’s one of the things that got him there - he gives voice to things that nobody is suppose...

Well, I have a pretty poor opinion of Stove's Gem but the reason I liked him is because he was very courteous to me (as they all were). Although I hav...

that's what all your 'plain language' philosophers would like to think. It brings the whole issue down from airy-fairy meta-nonsense to the kinds of t...

but it's not that silly. H. Sapiens alone really 'interprets' things, because of language, abstraction and reason. Only humans can be subject to delus...

that's what keeps us on philosophy forums, isn't it? :wink:

easy to say, but very difficult to see!

miss the mark! There is principle in Indian philosophy, and probably in traditional philosophy generally, that philosophical teachings, generally, are...

whereas you don't, right?

I may be mistaken, but I think this shows an inaccurate understanding of Kant. This is not at all true - Berkeley addresses the same point, and Kant i...

There's a C S Lewis book called God in the Dock. It's a collection of essays, but the meaning of the title is that it implies a "God on Trial", based ...

I think the inextricable aspects of reality that mind contributes are scale, perspective and temporal duration. They are not 'given' but are part of t...

The problem is that you’re answering a philosophical question about the nature of knowledge with a scientific question based on the knowledge of natur...

As soon as you have to use quotes around “physical” then it’s game over for physicalism :grin:

Definitions that are created by physicists. And measurement is a conscious process. Scale and perspective likewise imply a point of view, because you ...

He explicitly states ‘an observer with a clock’.

I see panpsychism as a kind of pseudo-scientific claim - that consciousness (actually I prefer ‘mind’) exists as an attribute or potential within any ...

:cheer:

It’s not false, but I feel the question is being asked for a reason over and above its facticity, namely, by way of introducing a naturalist philosoph...

But can’t you see that the same principle applies to all empirical facts? Not simply what existed prior to human life, but anything that happened in t...

Well, in the context of this particular discussion, I think that the argument begs the question i.e. it assumes what it sets out to prove. Are a prior...

I suggest you don’t understand what ‘thought’ signifies in this context. You’re still viewing ‘the mind’ as a phenomenon i.e. from the outside.

You don’t see a fundamental hubris in M’s argument?

No, but it is widely presumed. It is explicitly what Dawkins and Dennett believe and implicitly what many others believe.

I did that. I wasn’t ‘blindly’ repeating the argument that M. criticizes, I was repeating it consciously and conscientiously for the reasons given.

It's the 'constructs' part; mind as 'active agent'. Locke, for example, thought that everything was 'received' by the mind which is a 'blank slate', t...

The only parallel or image you can think in terms of is 'simulation' or 'artificial intelligence'. That kind of limits the ability to discuss it in te...

Sure, we're all different individuals, but no man is an island. When I'm talking about mind, I'm not talking about your mind or my mind. We as individ...

But the same argument applies - previously, we thought that diseases were caused by humours and phlegm, and then Louis Pasteur comes along and proves ...

Sure it can. We all belong to the same species, and for that matter culture and language group. So the collective nature of mind can be explained in t...

The sentence before the one you quoted gives the grounds for the argument. Perhaps you can point out to me how it fails to do that.

According to our best understanding, h. Sapiens is the product of billions of years of evolution. These thousands of millions of years, our sensory an...

I want to know where in the television set all those people are hiding.

In the attached Aeon essay, I note the following: Which is an immediate red flag for me, as I don’t see humans as either. If we’re talking such crude ...

Thank you both for missing the point so thoroughly, and yet concisely. :wink:

Well, it will certainly undermine the very basis of realist arguments. Realism assumes a great deal, and then forget what it has assumed.

It's covered by what Kant describes as 'transcendental realism', that 'regards space and time as something given in themselves (independent of our sen...

The only practical solution is to treat the cause of displacement by economic improvement and political stability in the countries of origin. Of cours...