Wayfarer

Nothing of what you're saying here rises to the level of philosophical analysis.

Fair enough. A thing and the idea of a thing are separate, in that sense.

Did you know that the Mormon religion, founded in the United States, actually believes that Jesus Christ visited America on a spiritual plane? Accordi...

Explained in the OP The Mind Created World. Not that I'm wanting to hijack your thread, but I also don't want to try and explain it all again here. If...

In other words, Vote Democrat.

Have you been on that road before, or are you relying on a second-hand accounts? You think philosophers don't recognise this? You need to do some home...

‘Naive realism’ is the philosophical attitude that things just are as they appear, and there is no question to solve about the relationship between re...

The explosion of another SpaceX rocket is not really part of the 'Musk Plutocracy' but it is at least the occasion for a little wholesome schadenfreud...

Sorry PoeticUniverse, whilst I appreciate what you're trying to express, it doesn't capture my interest, as I don't know if poetic meter is really an ...

Probably just as well, as you show little aptitude in philosophy.

We can test it! I'll wave, and you vibrate.

Yes, I think you're right. I think it's a fact. Matter of fact, I've got one now. It's called 'irritation' ;-)

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We've been through all of this already. Fields in physics specify mathematical values for every point, as physics is quantitative in nature, comprisin...

Already done: morphogenetic fields. Stop blurting things out, just take a little time to actually think about it. I'll leave it with you.

That is also part of the point of the essay I've referred to:

Hence my essay on the superiority of philosophical detachment to scientific objectivity. Here's a gift link for you. Dogmatic? Me?

Why not? If you were amnesiac, you would presumably be conscious, even if you didn't know who you were. Your autonomic and parasympathetic nervous sys...

You're the one who changed the topic, and you're now trying to shift it back within your comfort zone. Where was it you lost those car keys? ;-)

The fundamental level of self-awareness that characterises beings. What would remain if you had complete amnesia and forgot who you were.

Still not an argument....

You're not answering the question, you're simply deflecting.

Why? What's wrong about it? A mere assertion does not an argument make.

The context was this quotation: What precisely is the matter with that again?

Not forgiven so much as expected ;-)

:pray: I watched an archival 60 Minutes documentary about Mt Athos the other day and found it very affecting.

The field of conscious awareness is how I intended it. Aside from physical fields in biology there are morphogenetic fields. "A morphogenetic field is...

Thanks, nice of you to say! Glad someone does ;-)

On further reflection, there is a self-evident subjective field immediately experienced by every subject, namely, the field of their own conscious awa...

Isn’t that close in meaning to Taylor’s ‘buffered self’? Which is not coincidental with the advent of liberal individualism and the primacy of the ego...

‘Trump’s speech was 10 minutes longer than the Lion King, but had twice as much lyin’ in it’ ~ Jimmy Kimmel.

That’s one for the scrapbook! :clap:

You make that clear. At least I try and articulate a philosophy rather than hanging around just taking potshots at other contributors, just for the sa...

:roll: It's a philosophy forum. I write about philosophy.

Yes, as his 'answer to Hume'. As I said, I'm an admirer of Whitehead, at least of what I know of him, but I'm a bit uneasy about the panpsychist eleme...

It's not an assumption, it is a philosophical observation and nowadays with ample support from cognitive science. Right! 'The question doesn't matter'...

Everything we know about reality is shaped by our own mental faculties—space, time, causality, and substance are not "out there" in the world itself b...

Something that is not in question. That's not relevant. What I'm criticizing is the view that matters OTHER than those that can be measured scientific...

The fact that you and I see the same things is precisely because we belong to the same species, language-group, culture, and the rest. I'm not, again,...

You mean, not a thing, therefore, not real. What you mean by 'substantive' means 'can be verified scientifically'. There's no conflict between the fac...

Yes, an interpretive framework is definitely needed. Whitehead's seems to be close to a form of panpsychism ('consciousness everywhere'), which, while...

The 'collective mind' is not a separate entity, not some ghostly blob hovering over culture. It's more like expressions such as “the European mind” or...

One point I would stress is that 'consciousness' far exceeds 'what I am consciously aware of'. After all, you're not consciously aware of cell mitosis...

(Gift Link) The suspension of US Foreign Aid and U.S.A.I.D. has wrought havoc not only in developing nations, but also amongst many rural communities ...

By all reports, the SOTU address was another fire hydrant of mendacity, constantly applauded by the MAGA zombies. Business as usual.

It would take a lot more explanation, or conversely, a great deal more reading, to elaborate on what this means, and as the various contributors here ...

A great deal of what Trump does is motivated by spite. It's unbelievable that the leader of such an important country is so consistently petty and spi...

Particles are the excitations of electromagnetic fields. But particle physics is wholly quantitative, it deals only with the measurable attributes of ...

What scares me is the effect of a probable and severe US downturn on the world economy generally. Europe already is stagnating, plus it now has the ad...