Surely Kastrup’s overall aim is to advocate what he says is the truth of idealism as opposed to the ‘baloney’ of materialism. I can’t see how that doe...
If you’re disputing Rödl, how do you see the distinction of force and content playing out in Quentin’s belief about what Pat thinks? Specifically, whe...
Here's something I've summarised from Chapter 3, in simple terms. Judgment, as self-conscious, is universal and foundational. To make a judgement is i...
The firing of the Inspectors General by summary email is blatantly illegal. The law states that Inspectors General must be given 30 days notice of dis...
I've always seen Jung as a gnostic, first and foremost (and even before I had studied gnosticism.) His collective unconscious and the archetypal forms...
Completely different to the principle of falsifiability, you’re shifting the goal posts. But you're misinterpreting Berkeley in exactly the same way J...
I think it's extremely hard to fathom the sense in which God exists. I don't want to drag the thread into the direction of theology, except to say tha...
Sure I understand your concerns. I tried to register but it’s not available in my territory (and besides I don’t really need anything more than what’s...
I’ve added this story here, rather than start a new thread, but it seems a really big story. China has suddenly unleashed a new AI system called DeepS...
Right. I said I didn't mean it an accusation, but as counter-argument. Anyway, I revisited your objections in this more recent post (and the one immed...
Johnson’s claim is demonstrably ‘an appeal to the stone’, hence the description. I’d rather not be accused of making accusations, but I will sometimes...
Johnson's exclamation is the historical origin of the expression 'argumentum ad lapidem'. But it's equally the case that Johnson misunderstands Berkel...
There's an Evan Thompson article on Bergson-Einstein Clock Time Contra Lived Time. No, that debate didn't end Bergson's career, although it didn't do ...
I've yet to absorb his criticism of Nagel. But the reason he brings Nagel in, is that they start from a similar ground, is it not? But, we'll get to t...
I think you're being caught in a kind of recursion which is central to this whole argument and in so doing trying to reinstate the very distinction wh...
I will say something about the connection between Buddhism and agnosticism. First, 'agnosticism', as I'm sure we're all aware, was coined by Thomas He...
I get it. You would like Vervaeke’s work, I think. He talks a lot about the ‘salience landscape’ and ‘relevance realisation’, which both apply to your...
I guess you're technically correct. But it's not a stretch to say that all Trump's impulses are at least fascistic, and that the party he now owns has...
Perceptive as always. But I think the fascism will show up in his attempts to ‘turn the tables on the Justice system’, when he tries to ‘go after’ all...
Actually, going back to that post of @"Astrophel"’s you’re responding to: It’s fortuitous that Thompson’s name is mentioned in particular, because he’...
Meanwhile in the absurd monologue he delivered to the World Economic Forum, he continued to insist that those who don’t manufacture in the US will hav...
It’s called the subjective unity of experience. Meaning that, if you sprain your ankle, and you’r not paraplegic or anaesthetised, you don’t need to b...
A Republican Congressman is already proposing to abolish the term limit in the Constitution so that Trump can serve a third term: https://thehill.com/...
Sure. I had more in mind the passage I quoted from Michel Henry: In that perspective the separation between subject and object is hard and fast, so mu...
My analysis (and it is analytic as distinct from mystical or symbolic) is that in the pre-modern world, we humans didn't have the same sense of 'other...
Profound. His remark about the 'magic' employed by advertisers to mould the populace's thoughts is spot on. (Queue Edward Bernays.) Also, 'as long as ...
Chapter 3, Denial of Self-Consciousness, 3.1 Knowledge of Self-Consciousness. The chapter re-states that judgment is inherently self-conscious, meanin...
Not something you're demonstrating in this thread :-) Hope you don't mind me chipping in on this point. Insight into fundamental religious and existen...
An insightful passage on the origin of religion by a Zen teacher and author: 1 My bet is the first artefact that was consciously possessed was a stone...
Trump has instigated a 'commission' to 'look into' the January 6th enquiry, and also issued an executive order to investigate the 'weaponisation' of t...
One doesn’t have to subscribe to any religious belief to see the falsehood of this, whether you believe in God or not. As a matter of definition, God ...
According to Buddhist lore, human birth is precious and rare, precisely because humans alone can hear and potentially understand the teaching as to th...
Does atheism entail that the category of 'the sacred' is meaningless? Does it entail that the 'mok?a' of Hinduism or the 'Nirv??a' of Buddhism have no...
Maybe but he’s sure as hell wanting to try. He’s already muscling both houses to allow him to pass Pete ‘Pass-the-Bottle’ Hegseth as Defence Secretary...
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