However I would think that the emergence of h. sapiens was quite an abrupt transformation, relative to the timescales generally associated with evolut...
Good for you, but it doesn't constitute a philosophical argument as such. If you could develop an argument against those of Dawkins, informed by your ...
I've been arguing that to equate a 'brain state' with a concept, requires conceptual analysis, and so must involve a circular argument. You can't say ...
I think what you're attempting to articulate is a non-dualist perspective. The difficulty is that such expressions are situated within a particular 'd...
The nature of the first person perspective is somewhat similar to a blind spot. The first person perspective is never the object of experience, for th...
Rejecting the qualitiative difference between the first and third person perspective is the nub of the entire debate. Denett grants that first-person ...
"A just machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free ...
And I'm saying you can't make that claim without invoking the very thing you're trying to explain. If for instance you did an fMRI study of 'brain sta...
That is why I think the remedy has to be counter-cultural and why environmentalism and alternative spirituality are intrinsic to the solution. (But to...
That's I meant by 'awkwardly worded on my part'. What I'm saying is that relations of identity i.e. that 'neural events' are the same as 'the act of t...
Not at all! That is of great interest to me, also. I have been pursuing such ideas all my life. Here's a few resources: Science and Nonduality Closer ...
That was awkwardly worded on my part. Have a listen to 2 minutes of this talk by Loyd Gerson, for a very brief Aristotelean argument as to why, if mat...
Whenever you say that something 'is really' something else, you're denoting a relationship of equivalence - that 'this' means 'that', or that 'this' (...
Well that provides a perfect intro for one of my very favourite quotes on this exact topic. — René Descartes Discourse on Method in Discourse on Metho...
I agree with you but the reason I provided all of those details, is because it is the likes of Dennett, et al, who have the arguments about 'qualia' a...
Basically your post says 'hey, all we need to do is define 'ideas' and 'knowledge'! - and then you proceed to do that, as if you can compose a forum p...
I'm not 'conflating' anything. Without the ability to organise sensations, then what kind of ideas could you form of anything? It's not simply a quest...
They were taught it, but some of them were mathematical prodigies, i.e. they were able to grasp mathematical ideas with far greater ability than other...
I understand - like 'practicing the Presence'. But that assumes you are a believer already, whereas I think the OP is asking for reasons why one ought...
There have been notable blind mathematicians. In fact last time this came up, I think I discovered some notable deaf-mute mathematicians. But regardle...
Here are excerpts from last section of the Wikipedia article on Dennett's book Consciousness Explained, which explicitly argues that first-person expe...
The term 'eliminative materialism' refers to a school of thought, of which Daniel Dennett is a prominent advocate (others including the husband and wi...
I was reading an essay by a Catholic philosopher of science, who noted that: Retelling the Story of Science Note however that the world is not thereby...
I think that sense of 'desacralized' or 'demystified' is very typical of the secular age in which we live. Some people (for example, Terrapin Station)...
@Thorongil - I've tracked down that attribution of Vajrayana as 'the third turning' - it gives this page as a citation, which doesn't say anything of ...
But humans have an innate ability to learn language. They may not be born with a vocabulary, but unlike other primates, are born with the capacity for...
I think John Locke's 'tabula rasa' is one of the unfortunate dogmas of the age. I have Steve Pinker's book on that topic and, aside from my disagreeme...
But I'm simply arguing that logic is the relationship of ideas. Logic can be represented physically, but it is not in itself physical. (And besides - ...
But Dennett is an eliminative materialist, which Wittgenstein never was. Dennett's view is that what we take to be qualia, what appears to us as first...
Without brain states ideas are not possible. I think what you're thinking is that you can provide an account of ideas with reference to brain-states -...
There's a relevant quote in the Wikipedia article, from the first mention of the term in the literature: Clarence Irving Lewis, Mind and the World Ord...
OK forgive the sarcasm. But the thread is about a specific topic, namely, qualia, which I've already noted, is a clunky piece of philosophical jargon ...
The nature of qualia is such that they are, by definition, a first-person experience, or rather, they are intrinsic to the nature of first-person expe...
Work is not faith. You can say you have to have faith to do the work, but from the viewpoint of praxis, 'work' is 'performing the service' or 'turning...
Quick! Another Berdyaev quote! As I observed before, we're all citizens of free societies and in that sense free in economic, social and political ter...
I think its existence is incontestable. It is a known fact that one's mental processes are in part directed by sub-processes of which one is not consc...
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