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None of it is nearly as easy as you think it is.
July 28, 2017 at 05:24
I would like to agree with you, except that you're speaking, or spouting, pop philosophy - partially-understood ideas from the usual suspects - Deepak...
July 28, 2017 at 05:16
Of course it doesn't, nor am I saying it did. I think that Rich has a point, but that Rich doesn't appreciate how radical the statement 'no subject, n...
July 28, 2017 at 04:46
I hate to say it, but Rich has a point. Recall the famous anecdote - I've quoted it to you before - of Einstein, out on one of his afternoon walks in ...
July 28, 2017 at 04:21
That's your problem, in a nutshell.
July 28, 2017 at 04:13
Total. Shambles.
July 28, 2017 at 02:09
True, but not the point. I was responding to your statement about 'the line between stimulus/response and thought/belief' - I'm arguing there is one, ...
July 27, 2017 at 22:52
It was in response to this: My view is, there is a leap or discontinuity when h. sapiens becomes able to use language and reason, and to tell stories ...
July 27, 2017 at 20:48
The fact that you call it 'a cup' and that it performs that function is dependent on human designation, perception and convention. If you were a micro...
July 27, 2017 at 10:46
' From the above review:
July 27, 2017 at 04:40
I will leap in here, Creative, with the caveat that I only read the first post, and also that I'm stealing bits of time between working on a drudgerou...
July 27, 2017 at 04:23
You're being trolled.
July 27, 2017 at 01:53
Agree. I like the light-handed moderation on this forum, but at the same time, there are a lot of crap posters around who ask meaningless questions wi...
July 26, 2017 at 20:53
I study philosophy purely out of interest, and the necessity of asking such questions. I recommend it.
July 26, 2017 at 20:42
What you're not addressing is whether this has anything to say about the problems of philosophy. One can agree that the theory of evolution by natural...
July 26, 2017 at 06:36
Or it could also be the quality of people who turn up and post on internet fora. After all, there's no entry exam, and it's quite possible to post wit...
July 26, 2017 at 02:13
100% agree. Even neuroscientists have to interpret the meaning of the data - the meaning is not 'in' the data, so to speak.
July 26, 2017 at 00:59
I personally wouldn't be surprised if there isn't much more to the 'collusion' story than what has been disclosed already - that Junior and some other...
July 26, 2017 at 00:54
That is the biggest lie of all. Trump lies continuously, and all of his trolls applaud. That is how this catastrophe of Trump's presidency is sustaine...
July 26, 2017 at 00:33
Perhaps one of the confusions underlying this area is the 'domain of discourse' within which such discussions take place. I mean, I can imagine an und...
July 26, 2017 at 00:01
(Y) Makes sense to me.
July 25, 2017 at 23:14
That's what I took it to mean. Typically, if scientistic types are faced with something they can't explain in scientific terms, then they will either ...
July 25, 2017 at 23:05
I don't agree. Perhaps I could concede that the wording is misleading, insofar as it suggests that life has a meaning. But if the question was phrased...
July 25, 2017 at 10:52
No, Andrew4Handel is entirely correct in that. Science has no account of how experience arises from what it knows about neurology and the like. Of cou...
July 25, 2017 at 10:46
Has to rate as an all time obscure question, though. You can imagine being asked on a Mastermind show, 10 questions on Ortega Y Gassett, your time sta...
July 25, 2017 at 01:59
OK I'll put it another way, the Janin concept of spiritual liberation doesn't rely on there being a God (same as Buddhists); they're non-theistic in t...
July 24, 2017 at 20:26
Materialism is simply and only the mistaking of methodological naturalism for philosophy. But once inside that perspective, any real philosophy become...
July 24, 2017 at 10:27
Original meaning of 'askesis' is training. Many athletes are 'asketic' in that sense. But in Plato's day, athletic, spiritual and intellectual excelle...
July 24, 2017 at 04:21
Got a citation? Right. So everyone should believe the same, think the same, in accordance with revealed truth, which is the same for everyone, and tho...
July 23, 2017 at 20:49
They're 'anatta' which means 'not self'. Buddhism doesn't accept reincarnation, strictly speaking, in the sense of there being a person or soul which ...
July 23, 2017 at 10:04
Isn't simply an argument about whether we are compelled to act in particular ways, by factors outside our conscious control, on the one side, versus t...
July 23, 2017 at 07:07
Cartesianism reduces to abstractions, which can be captured by Cartesian geometry. Those abstractions are not what really exists. Right - really impor...
July 23, 2017 at 06:59
How Russia Played Trump The Mooch and the Mogul, Maureen Dowd
July 23, 2017 at 05:58
A reference.
July 23, 2017 at 03:10
Strange that there are such disciplines as mathematical physics, then.
July 23, 2017 at 01:53
There's a lurking issue in all of this about the nature of identity. The question always seems to be, is the person in one life, the same person as th...
July 23, 2017 at 00:39
No apologies required.
July 23, 2017 at 00:13
Who are you agreeing with? I didn't say that Aristotle falls into a category error; I posted that quote because I think there's wisdom in it. If you'r...
July 22, 2017 at 23:10
The point I was making is that it is commonplace nowadays to assume that human goals and behaviours are all ultimately shaped by, or the consequence o...
July 22, 2017 at 22:25
The skandhas don't reincarnate, as their nature is temporary. It's worth recalling the original statement as to what constitutes escape from the 'whee...
July 22, 2017 at 22:18
July 22, 2017 at 11:27
Harris apparently argues this is so on the basis that every decision is determined by neurology and evolutionary biology - the standard materialist tr...
July 22, 2017 at 08:43
The fact that we can choose whatever aspect of the topic we wish to, is pretty convincing demonstration of free will, I would have thought. As for whe...
July 22, 2017 at 07:59
I have read some of what he's had to say on Buddhist philosophy and it's not completely uninformed but overall his approach to the subject is tendenti...
July 22, 2017 at 05:39
That, I think, is dubious. True, Harris has engaged with a Buddhist tradition, namely Dzogchen, but many contemporary Buddhists are highly dubious abo...
July 22, 2017 at 05:11
Except when you take some recognizable terminology and use it in an entirely idiosyncratic way, which makes you a self-appointed expert in a school wh...
July 22, 2017 at 01:51
What Banno said.
July 22, 2017 at 01:18
Animal life generally displays overwhelmingly goal-directed behaviour. The things that simple animals do out of what is blithely described is 'instinc...
July 22, 2017 at 00:58
You will notice I actually removed the sarcastic remark I made, and replaced it with another. But the point of the remark was that you're glossing ove...
July 22, 2017 at 00:39
+1
July 22, 2017 at 00:07