No, that’s not the question. You’re starting from the object. You’re viewing it from the outside. The ‘wet matter’ (to transpose to a Buddhist registe...
Right - so what is it a matter of? And the whole thread is about the hard problem. Patterner is proposing ‘property dualism’ as the solution. And I ag...
I still don’t think you’re thinking philosophically about it. I’m not preaching any kind of ID. I fully accept the scientific account, but it is a sci...
Really hope not, but it’s disheartening that so many people can’t seem to grasp the danger of what is happening. Shouldn’t be forgotten that the only ...
I was responding to a single sentence ‘ What "makes us conscious" is the (rare) arrangements of our constituent "particles" into generative cognitive ...
That having made a great start on wrecking the Government, he’s now turned his attention to wrecking the economy. Meanwhile, Trump has just summarily ...
What property of matter is such that it spontaneously assembles itself into sentient life-forms. — Wayfarer Why not? What’s the matter with the questi...
Objectivity is the criterion for natural science and many other disciplines. Philosophy is different in the sense that in this subject, we are what we...
Good post and especially the citations which make your point well. One thing I would note, is that the background assumption behind all of it is still...
My thoughts also, as explained in the mind-created world. But he’s talking specifically about the translation of ouisia, and how the meaning of that s...
My thoughts also. I have a six yo grandson and his teachers are strongly suggesting he’s assessed for the condition. And he surely shows symptoms of i...
Thanks, interesting. Here you can see pre-figured Berkeley's rejection of 'material substance' altogether, can't you? Which I believe we discussed rec...
A perceptive OP mentioning Huawei's newly-established Research Park in China: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/04/02/opinion/02friedman1/02friedma...
Which has a clear precedent in The Phaedo in the passages about the separation of soul from body. I was going to quote a passage by Sachs in the OP, b...
Excellent question. You're right to question "operates"—it is a placeholder. But that’s because our vocabulary is constrained by a model of causation ...
Which a Christian would probably attribute to the unreliability of human reason, tainted as it is by sin, would they not? But then, from the Christian...
Totally. But then, Hegel was a representative of the grand tradition of philosophy. That 'active principle' is again reminiscent of the original Arist...
Despite Musk ploughing $140 million into the vote for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and even handing out $1 million dollar checks to a couple of voters ...
Sure, totally get that. Taoism is after all non-dualist in some fundamental way (even if the term is generally more associated with Indian rather than...
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism#Arguments_against_dualism That’s exactly the kind of confusion I was pointing to in the...
Good choice. I didn't really notice, until composing this post, the interchangeability of 'essence' and 'substance', but I think the former is far les...
Very good and right on point! That ‘only one subject’ rings truer to me. It’s not exactly right but conveys a dimension of meaning that ‘substance’ te...
I think you will like it. He's not well known in academic philosophy circles as he's come from outside the ivory tower, but I think he's the real deal...
There’s an author you might find interesting if you haven’t encountered him, Federico Faggin. He’s a notable Silicon Valley pioneer who had a profound...
Could I ask, have you spent any time interacting with any of the new AI systems? ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or one of the others? I think whether you...
I said '1500 odd felons who had among other things beaten police with fire extinguishers and flag poles.' Which is fact. This is classic 'whataboutism...
It truly is an alternative reality. Some of the apologists for Trump on the Forum seem quite earnest, and pained as to why critics (like myself) are s...
He doesn't. Detail is not the same as an explanatory principle. The higher order is more like a framework of explanation. There's a philosophical poin...
I feel the same about what you're saying, but in this matter there are not two sides to the story. That Trump lies repeatedly and is a threat to democ...
It's not a matter of detail alone. In Greek philosophy, the issue is phrased in terms of explanans and explanandum. In the Phaedo, for example, Socrat...
It's significant that the only contributions you're calling out are Gnomon's which have neither any reference to or connection with what is actually h...
There's a damned good argument for the fact that quantum physics is, in fact, magic - specifically the effect known as non-locality or entanglement. T...
Very facile, but completely overlooks the point of explanation. An explanation demonstrates a causal relationship between events, and a correlation is...
Another grifter buys his way out of jail by gifting Trump For a forensic analysis of Milton’s grift, see this episode of Cold Fusion TV. Basically he ...
This is video of the chilling arrest by plain-clothes ICE operatives, of Rumeysa Ozturk, 30 y.o. PhD student at Tufts University, ostensibly on the gr...
All physical in nature? Reducible to physics? Able to be replicated in silicon? Oh, I see - 'anomalous monism'. Physicalism with whatever ad hoc admis...
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