Wayfarer

Brown’s Cow.

Not long now......

I once had a manager who used to say ‘Don’t come to me with problems. Come to me with solutions’.

I think it’s more that Trump-Fox effectively deployed shamelessness and mendacity to undermine any prospect of reasoned opposition. After all, if an o...

The basic fact is, Trump is undermining and destroying the office of the Presidency in plain view, right before the world’s eyes, and nobody outside t...

Trump & Co. Are Crossing Big, Bright Red Lines—and They’re Getting Away With It It’s been bad since Day 1, of course. But in recent weeks, the lawless...

You can’t reverse-engineer reality. Dang.

I can see why you would think that, and it's true that do see the question in terms of cultural dynamics and history of ideas. But what interests me i...

I think all the problems start with the phrase that I bolded in the dictionary definition of 'objective': It's a can of worms. Take that out of the de...

You could say that the first is the assumed stance of naturalism, which assumes the perspective of the subject, attempting to arrive at as objective a...

Well, consider the context. The idea of the atom was that it was a discrete indivisible point-particle - posited as the ultimate constituent of matter...

There have always been many paradoxes in respect of the nature of the 'ultimate reality' in theistic traditions. Historically, the way that God was de...

:up: Maybe it's embarrassed. :yikes:

An excerpt from a Web definition of 'objective'. Bolds added. ;-)

Imagine the buzz. I don't know if the faculty of reason can be explained in other terms - whether pattern recognition or adaptation or stimulus and re...

It might have practical significance. What if the equation in question controls a piece of machinery, and getting it wrong means the machinery fails? ...

If someone looked at an equation on a blackboard, and said ‘that’s wrong’, is that a matter that can be explained in terms of stimulus and response?

‘in a sense’ ;-) When it comes to this matter, that phrase carries a lot of weight.

Actually, I think you're mistaken in that regard. Schopenhauer has quite a lot to say about the brain, and had a particular interest in optics. Kant l...

'Existences'?? But the very fact that different symbols designate the same value is essential to mathematics and language. If in each system, each sym...

But, what kind of explanation are you seeking? I had assumed that with your references to 'brain' and 'under the skin' that you're looking for a neuro...

I will let Schopenhauer address the point: The World as Idea

Notice the implicit materialist presupposition here in the equation of ‘brain’ and ‘understanding’. This also underlies the presumption that the ‘real...

Sure, absolutely. I'm not querying whether fields are real or the effectiveness of field theory. The point I was taking issue with was 'Particles are ...

Then why doesn't everyone agree with the many-worlds hypothesis? According to you, there's no scope for disagreement.

I think the forum you want is https://www.physicsforums.com/

Do you believe it is objectively the case that there are other worlds? You see, I would have thought that if it were objectively the case, then there ...

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But it is implicit in the formulation. 'Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "w...

That is reputed to be an exceedingly difficult book. But you might find Hegel's God, Robert M. Wallace, interesting. Also have a look at God does not ...

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Fair point. The etymology of 'real' is given as follows: The Latin root 'res' (matter, thing) denotes 'something which truly exists', an 'actually exi...

Bear in mind the following is an heuristic, not a developed theory. It is based on the idea that what is real is not necessarily the same as what exis...

Are 'different versions of yourself' objectively real? I suggest that as soon as you say 'that depends', then the argument is lost.

Surely you can see it's problematic to reconcile what we understand as 'objectivity' with the notion that reality comprises an endless series of paral...

What I said. And the casual way in which this is accepted as an explanation or rationalisation of the 'observer problem' strikes me as either disingen...

From the Daily Nous analyses Qualified with the following caveat: Likewise Sean Carroll: Which again begs the question of ‘what is objective’? How doe...

Me also. Perhaps there's a problem with the way in which it's being described. But there are many texts in Buddhist and other spiritual literature abo...

Sorry for being facetious. :sad:

Is there a remote for that?

So what if I said Yes. How’s that going to help. ‘Hey this guy on the forum who says....’ Actually, one point that ought to be mentioned in respect of...

I think the assertion that fields are what ‘reailty Is made of’ indicates deep confusion. We don’t even know what fields are - all we see is effects i...

Well, you might like this aphorism from Thich Naht Hanh - ‘There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way’.

What does evolutionary biology purport to explain? It is a theory, first and foremost, about the origin of species. So the criteria it provides for ev...

:down: Dennett is a materialist. Buddhism denies materialism outright. But other than that, very insightful post and much I agree with. There are some...

From the Wikipedia page cited : . I don't think there is any such thing as 'the classical sense of an object'. What there has been, at various points ...

It's all rather tortuous isn't it?

Of course. As you say, Varela and Maturana incorporate many elements from Buddhist philosophical psychology (abhidharma) in their work. Varela was a c...

Well the Buddha would challenge anyone to say what ‘the higher self’ is, or where in experience such a proposed ‘changeless being’ can be found or be ...

RIght. I guess that went out along with ether, didn’t it.