Wayfarer

Very good, I can see we have much in common. Well, yes and no. Gnosticism in the historical context was a tendency within axial religions, which manif...

I think it's worth unpacking what you mean by 'understand' in this context. As I said there's a real sense in which we don't understand quantum physic...

I will say something about my background. I came of age in the 60's, there was an influx of interest in Eastern culture and ideas. I got various popul...

I'm very interested in non-dualism, but I've found the versions derived from Hindu and Buddhist sources rather more intelligible than the Tao, as the ...

It's not vague. As David Chalmers says, 'It is undeniable that some organisms are subjects of experience.' And subjects of experience are generally re...

Glad someone noticed!

I can't think of many cases where 'science' and 'religion' refuse to work together. I can think of isolated cases - Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blo...

Indeed. I’ve discovered your site via your profile and will continue to delve ;-)

The essay on which the OP was based makes extensive reference to a recent cognitive science-philosophy book, Mind and the Cosmic Order, Charles Pinter...

As you mention Wittgenstein you might be interested in this snippet: 'participants in the culture to which the sentences belong. A sentence does not a...

Like this, you mean? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Digesting_Duck.jpg/220px-Digesting_Duck.jpg Like this, you mean?

Can you see the convergence between cognitive science and idealism?

Just as well I’m not selling, then.

I agree Husserl, and German philosophy generally, is exceedingly verbose and often obtuse. That's why I admit to relying on secondary sources and syno...

I would only add that the article itself does not claim to represent transcendental idealism but phenomenology. I am responsible for any equivocation ...

Completely!

Do you agree with the argument that science has a blind spot? You gave the kind of objections that a Burge might give, but then you say you don’t agre...

I'm keeping away from him, and from 'speculative realism' generally. There's a considerable body of work there but still within the generally physical...

He’s been discussed here, I’ve taken a look. Mine is the kind of argument he has in his sights. That statement is made from a point of view outside bo...

I will clarify that while I acknowledge the reality of empirical and so mind independent facts, reality as a whole is not mind independent, even thoug...

The argument is about whether things exist without minds. I say not, Banno references a gold discovery at a particular place as an example of a putati...

Better start digging, then!

So you say.

Sure. Whatever floats your (ideal) boat.

Sure. Beats scientism hands down.

It’s the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. That’s how I see it. Many great thinkers expressed similar sentiments in the 20th Century. But the times, t...

It does, actually. And forgive any intemperance on my part, but it is a subject that pushes buttons (although to be fair, it works both ways.) But at ...

I think it conveys a superficial grasp of what he’s intending to criticise. But it’s really the tone rather than the substance of the comments. ‘It pr...

Well, mere indignation does not an argument make. Bunge only conveys that he finds phenomenological literature ‘opaque’ - which it often is - but offe...

And?

Well, I noticed reading Mario Bunge's Wikipedia entry that he's critical of phenomenology. I have never read anything about him, but it might be a goo...

I think the obvious but un-stated point in David Chalmer's famous paper, Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness, is about the nature of being. Cons...

I note Mario Bunge is a compatriot of yours! I’d never heard of him prior to your mention of him, but insofar as he describes himself as materialist, ...

I don't know if there is 'scientific evidence' for karma, but the principle is, in essence, that all actions have consequences. The Biblical maxim 'as...

Sure. It's a discussion of an essay published in Aeon in 2019, The Blind Spot, Adam Frank, Marcello Gleiser and Evan Thompson, so reading that would b...

Memory, isn’t it? And the consequences of all of the preceding acts that gave rise to your particular existence? Hindus and Buddhists believe otherwis...

Of course it is true that the psychiatric disorder is often the product of trauma or mental illness, but I think that is not essential to Kastrup's po...

What you're referring to is 'brute fact' is actually just direct realism, the view that the world is perceived exactly as it is. But that fails to acc...

I think that is due to the cultural impact of empiricism. Because of this we are enculturated to believe that what is real can only be in located in s...

Well, I think we have - no offense or anything - a flawed understanding of what is real. (After all, it's the business of philosophy to make such judg...

I'm sure it does. After all, just what Platonism is, over and above the actual dialogues, is always being refined and re-envisioned. My sole philosoph...

Agree. But don't you think that the qualifier 'objective' might be inappropriate in the context? But then, what are the alternatives? The point being,...

I wonder what sound one hand makes? :chin:

Thanks for picking up on that. I was saying, Wittgenstein's famous 'that of which we cannot speak....' is often used as a fireblanket to suppress disc...

Given that cosmic consciousness is likely to be viewed as wildly implausible by many people, what in particular about this aspect of it is particularl...

The question again: can you stipulate some thing which is neither temporally delimited nor composed of parts? I suggest not. So you acknowledge that s...

And yet, these devices we’re using to read and write these ideas depend on it! :up:

Subjects of experience are not things, which is why treating subjects as things is generally considered inappropriate. And why personal pronouns are u...

I’ve not been arguing for God. At issue was your remark that at least one thing existed before Creation. I objected that God is not a thing - for that...