Said 'wag' was actually Fred Hoyle, an eminent British cosmologist who never accepted the idea; in a BBC radio interview. I'm chipping in because I ha...
My big-picture view is somewhat like those historians of ideas who see the collective consciousness of h.sapiens evolving through, and associated with...
Well, Frank, I did post it in four separate sections, allowing time for commentary on each section. But if you can't be bothered reading, then I can't...
Isn't that extremely reductionistic? Humans are clearly capable of great empathy, but also of terrible cruelty. But attempting to engineer compassion ...
That topic being ‘nihilism’ ;-) I see your point about faux stoicism but it’s also a pretty cynical take. I don’t think you can paint everyone with th...
Trump will be asking, where's the return? Can't we mine an asteroid, or something? What's the point of that thing? All it does is take pictures. Billi...
It’s a dark day in history when the US refuses to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the UN, because Trump :heart: Putin. https://www.reuters.com...
A potentially significant judgement - from NY Times (I’m all out of gift links): It’s a very transparent tactic - nobody is responsible for these mass...
Indeed. Which is a perfect segue to Part IV: Detachment East… Interestingly, the Stoic concept of the Logos bears a striking resemblance to the Chines...
Time itself is mind-dependent. Given that, we know there was a time before h.sapiens evolved. The two levels, again. It is logically possible that the...
No, I reject that emphatically. Again, 'before h.sapiens existed' is itself mind-dependent. That doesn't mean it is all in the mind. Yours is the act ...
Interesting and not something I'm familiar with. I've been reading Jonas' book of late, which I find overall amenable (not finished it.) I'm familiar ...
But it doesn't, Banno. 'The world' outside any mind has no structure or any features. Structure and features are imposed on it by the mind. This doesn...
Important to know that this is true in one way, but not in another. It is empirically true that there is vast world outside my knowledge of it - heck,...
They're my feelings, also. I'm learning a lot from the readings of the various postmodernist philosophers, but I don't share with them the distrust of...
No, I have not backtracked. You asked three questions, about novelty, error and consensus, and I addressed them, with reference to transcendental idea...
Again, if you read carefully, you would have understood it was something I was not obliged to deny in the first place. It is only characteristic of wh...
As always you misconstrue the nature of 'mind'. What you are saying is that idealism claims that the world is the creation of your mind, or my mind, o...
For instance? The only example that stands out to me is Albert Camus. The 'comprehensive subjective construct' sounds much like Kuhn's use of 'paradig...
Earlier today I was served up yet another youtube talk on this very thing, by an Oxford cognitive scientist (which I almost posted but decided not to)...
Hey you’ll like this one. I was discussing Chalmers with Chuck (as I now refer to ChatGPT) and we were both of the view that Daniel Dennett’s eliminat...
I can't see that at all. The paragraphs that I've just been studying are those concerning his critique of naturalism: Here, he's saying that while log...
You continually mistake the limits of your understanding, for those of others. That’s why I stopped interacting with you a few months ago - oh, that, ...
As I’ve patiently explained many times, I do not say that nothing exists without the mind. I say that without the mind, there can be neither existence...
Excellent point! I have noticed in Mah?y?na Buddhism, there is a lovely expression, that emptiness and compassion are like the two wings of a bird - t...
It's an especially hard problem for the generally-accepted forms of scientific naturalism, as they assume at the outset that whatever is real must be ...
I have the feeling that you’re incorrect in this analysis although I’m not well versed enough in Husserl to put my finger on why. Perhaps you might co...
I’d like to differentiate myself from the thread owner. And the so-called ‘step too far’ you keep accusing of me is nothing of the kind. It is plainly...
My understanding is not that time doesn't exist, but that it has an ineluctably subjective aspect. Meaning that the reality of time is not solely obje...
I see your point, but in the context of Galilean physics, the emphasis was certainly on the measurable attributes of bodies and its delineation from A...
The Virtue of Detachment As seen above, a scientific orientation often leads us to assume that objectivity is the sole criterion for what is real. Thi...
Again, amazing. The depth and nuances are quite remarkable, as also the apparent self-awareness ('I suspect....') (I've been getting help with redesig...
There's a book-length article on IEP, The Phenomenological Reduction. I'm still going through it but it's a dense and rich entry. The passage I'll men...
I’m personally very impressed by Jamie Raskin - I thought he was a stand-out during Comer’s ridiculous kangaroo court hearings about Biden’s supposed ...
I understand your perplexity. What drew me to philosophy was the quest for enlightenment. This is something that is often said to be 'spiritual' but t...
Thank you :pray: That’s not quite it. The allegory of ‘me looking out the window’ is the self-awareness of the act of looking. A reflection of oneself...
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