When I criticise reductionism, I’m not denying biological continuity or evolution, neuroscientific correlation, or the legitimacy of physical explanat...
Apropos of 'capacities of sign, symbol and meaning'. One of the long-time posters here, Apokrisis, has introduced myself and many others to the emergi...
The rules of 'matter in motion' are those of physics. To reduce a phenomenon to physics or chemistry, it is necessary to show that this phenomenon in ...
I don’t think intelligibility is the sort of thing that calls for explanation in the way empirical relations do. The intelligible relations within the...
What the 'explanatory gap' and 'hard problem' arguments are aimed at, is precisely that claim. That everything is reducible to or explainable in terms...
As a matter of fact, I agree that the world (the sensory domain) is intelligible in some fundamental sense. In the classical tradition, the 'necessary...
Something I've gone to write in this thread, but haven't, is that the very wording of 'necessary things' is a problem to begin with. In my understandi...
What is the roadmap a roadmap to? What is the goal? In Buddhism it is nibbana (in the Pali) - the cessation of suffering and the ending of repeated bi...
But here, you're singling out one layer in this complex and dynamic whole, and claiming that 'everything' is derived from that layer. That is, after a...
It’s not a matter of time, or more research. Consider this passage you yourself posted in another conversation: A materialist explanation of a work of...
See this book by a Buddhist monk of German origin, which reviews both the traditional beliefs on re-birth and also current research. As I said - the b...
Let me ask you, if a subject presents to a doctor complaining of a pain, how does the doctor measure the intensity of that pain? To my knowledge, ther...
Well said. I suppose I could add that one of the themes I've been exploring was suggested by John Vervaeke, with his 'participatory ontology'. That is...
If you're asking 'is Buddhism is a religion', then the answer is definitely 'yes'. But the deeper point is, the cultural background and underlying bel...
Actually, it occured to me after spending a few hours on Collingwood's Essay in Metaphysics yesterday, that I might fairly be accused of what he criti...
It seems to me that @"Philosophim"'s analysis is implicitly Darwinian in character in assuming that the ground for the faculty of reason is successful...
As a defender of phenomenology and/or idealism, one point I have to continually re-state is that I don't think this means 'the world is all in the min...
No, I think we're operating in different registers. What you're saying is quite true about domains of discourse. But I'm extending that to a further a...
The point is, it's a glaring contradiction: We live in an ordered universe that can be understood by humans. The universe consists entirely of physica...
Yes, I found it pretty hard to watch. I've tried to take a bit of what Maudlin says, but he's not my favourite in that space. I prefer Philip Ball. As...
Not in formal logic. But surely the many fervent disagreements sorrounding the ontological status of numbers and scientific laws indicate that there i...
I haven't said that, either. I will deal with any cogent disagreements, but not those which betray a failure to grasp the point at issue. (If you woul...
If I had believed that the criticisms you offered had truly understood what was being proposed, I might be inclined to so believe. But, no. Meanwhile ...
It is what Banno thinks that Wayfarer thinks he is doing, which he is not doing, but which conviction no amount of patient explanation will ever suffi...
In idealism East and West, there is the idea that the sense of separateness is intrinsic to the human condition. And that overcoming that sense is in ...
In this case, the problem is more of a categorial one. It is the missapplication of objective methods to a subject which evades objective specificatio...
Why is to be explained? By what is it to be explained? As it happens, I wrote a Medium essay on precisely this topic, explaining how Buddhist philosop...
Incidentally, in respect of neurological modelling of first-person experience, take a look at The Neural Binding Problem, specifically The Subjective ...
Really this is one of the central points of E A Burtt's book, although he tends to imply it rather than state it in such bald terms. There's a hidden ...
The discussion was the emergence of consciousness as the 'self-other' distinction basic to the emergence of organic life. It is also a basic theme in ...
Nothing so exotic as that. Any mathematical expression of natural laws will serve as an example. F=ma for instance. If you measure the behaviour of ma...
The question that jumps out at me is: are the mathematical laws themselves physical, and, if so, how? I don’t expect an answer to that, as there isn’t...
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