I would like to agree with you, except that you're speaking, or spouting, pop philosophy - partially-understood ideas from the usual suspects - Deepak...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Materialism is simply and only the mistaking of methodological naturalism for philosophy. But once inside that perspective, any real philosophy become...
Original meaning of 'askesis' is training. Many athletes are 'asketic' in that sense. But in Plato's day, athletic, spiritual and intellectual excelle...
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...
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 ...
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...
Cartesianism reduces to abstractions, which can be captured by Cartesian geometry. Those abstractions are not what really exists. Right - really impor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Harris apparently argues this is so on the basis that every decision is determined by neurology and evolutionary biology - the standard materialist tr...
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...
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...
That, I think, is dubious. True, Harris has engaged with a Buddhist tradition, namely Dzogchen, but many contemporary Buddhists are highly dubious abo...
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...
Animal life generally displays overwhelmingly goal-directed behaviour. The things that simple animals do out of what is blithely described is 'instinc...
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...
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