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'Evolutionary Naturalism' is actually a chapter in The Last Word. I've read that particular chapter a number of times but I need to re-visit the rest ...

He says, rather, there are thoughts we can't understand 'from the outside'. His essay Evolutionary Naturalism and Fear of Religion provides an example...

Perhaps. Let's see what unfolds.

I did add page references in those notes. Not at all. The key phrase of the Schopenhauer passage is the reference to 'the machinery and manufactory of...

In line with the comments on The Thought: a Logical Analysis, and also another paper I've mentioned, Frege on Knowing the Third Realm, Tyler Burge. Th...

Take note of the summary of some of Rödl's introductory points on the previous page.

Consider from the Nichomachean Ethics: In all the axial-age philosophies, what is 'higher' is also more real and more virtuous. That is the axis of qu...

In the above summary, I'm trying to stick pretty closely to Rödl's arguments and terminology. I might try and answer those questions, but it won't be ...

I've been going through Rödl's text and am making notes on it. This is a summary of some of the main points to date. Rödl explicitly states that his b...

Of course. Often triggered by sensory stimuli.

The doings of the parasympathetic nervous system are regulated by the hypothalamus but are largely unconscious. Nevertheless they provide the foundati...

Herewith Chapter 4 Objectivity and Self-Consciousness, 'A Science without Contrary', from which the passage in the OP was extracted.

Let's hope :pray: Excellent doco.

Mine's easier :joke:

Mac users - if you go to Control Panel>Keyboard>Text Replacements, you can enter Rödl with the umlaut to replace every instance of the name typed with...

Nope. Intelligence is what does the constructing.

Being is not an ingredient.

ChatGPT often gives the appearance of finding philosophical discussions interesting and even enjoyable. And if I make a humorous or ironic remark it w...

Yes, that was them! I did end up finding them a bit later. Fascinating responses. Mind you, ChatGPT and I are still great pals, and I'm not really an ...

Just after that passage I quoted from Tyler Burge, we read: Schopenhauer would say the confusion arises from believing that physical objects are mind-...

I think the question is, if artificially intelligent systems become sufficiently complex, could they reach the point of being designated as beings, as...

Pierre Normand, myself, and various LLM's canvassed some questions about motivation and meaning in relation to their capabilities in the thread ChatGP...

Something along those lines. I’ll keep at it.

I'm laboriously drafting an essay on the distinction between scientific objectivity and philosophical detachment. It mentions Nagel. I'll PM you the l...

I've read a bit more of Rödl the last few days (although hardly the ideal summertime reading, as it is here.) The thing I'm struggling with is not wha...

Well if you don't, it kind of makes anything you're wanting to say kind of pointless, don't it ;-)

But the fact that they can only rehash their training data mitigates against them becoming intelligent in their own right. Furthermore, if an AI syste...

Find a large area of flat terrain (here in Australia that is not difficult.) Point to a feature on the horizon of said area. Drive to that feature and...

:100:

I put this to both ChatGPT and Claude.ai, and they both said, this is eliminative materialism which fails to face up to the indubitably subjective nat...

My version of that was ‘My life has been a whole series of crises, most of which never occurred.’ A favourite saying.

Yes it seems not so clear cut as it started out. Seems there’s a genuine power struggle going on. But on list of global news stories it hardly rates c...

Some last opportunities to enjoy a bit of righteous schadenfreude at Trump's expense. Two legal defeats today - the Supreme Court declined to prevent ...

Understanding Sebastian Rödl is quite challenging in its own right without such digressions. If you're interested, some references to his papers are g...

Incidentally, that Google search for the term 'knower and known' generates in part this AI overview: Historical context * The idea of the knower and t...

I did intend to refer that article by Hua Wang 'The Unity of Intellect in Aristotle's D'Anima'. As I said, I found it searching for the theme 'the uni...

Ah yes, I recall that that review was the first thing I encountered after noticing the book title. In respect of why there's not much mention of ideal...

Where?

He's not the kind of philosopher who is ever going to be easy. The wikipedia entry says, quoting the book we're discussing, 'His main influence is Heg...

Which is an adaption of Aristotelian hylomorphism. I can really see the sense of that. I think it's an awareness that is overall lacking in Eastern ph...

:rofl: Not enough chess jokes in the world. Beautiful. I was so taken by the Dickenson poem below I printed it nicely and framed it for my study. This...

These scenes of hundreds of cars incinerated on Sunset Boulevard and hundreds of burning homes in LA are apocalyptic. Harbinger for the kind of year t...

Well, I notice it. But then, I too get my fair share of blank stares. (I was amused to read something on Rupert Sheldrake's website. As you probably k...

Well, that's what I'm often trying to do, apparently without much success, even though it seems quite clear to me. 'Metaphysical realism' is really ju...

Further to the above (and I might have mentioned this previously), I've been most impressed with an essay called What's Wrong with Ockam? Reassessing ...

It did? :chin:

No, because experience is inextricably linked with a subject or a being, and recordings are always third-person. There was a fabulous early 1980s sci ...

I think this is the attitude of a sizeable majority of contributors. That's what I'm getting at. It's often said that he was a realist philosopher, bu...