Good analysis Bob. As for the decomposition problem, Kastrup does address that through his theory of 'dissociated alters'. He proposes that reality co...
What about the laws of logic, like the law of the excluded middle? Does that cease to obtain in the absence of rational sentient beings? I’m more incl...
As I said, I think ‘exist’ is problematical in the context. Not that they don’t exist, but the way in which they’re real is different to empirical obj...
It makes sense, but I would also suggest that it’s based on a common misconception. The idea of a ‘realm of Forms’ is often misconstrued as an ‘ethere...
I don't know if I agree with your diagnosis that the opposition to Platonism arises from 'subject-object metaphysics'. I think it goes back to the dec...
Interesting discussion of this topic was published in The Smithsonian Institute magazine, from which: Why not, indeed? But I think that extended passa...
I would argue that the underlying 'dubious assumption' here is that the world, and by extension truth, exists independently of any mind or knowing sub...
Well known knuckle-dragged spills the beans https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/canavan-coalition-not-serious-nuclear-keith-pitt-quits/104749828?ut...
The Trump-Musk Shutdown is a fair indication of the paralysis and complete incompetence of the MAGA movement to do what they are elected to do, which ...
Yeah I didn't think so, although must admit to probably needing a bit more research. I'm not against nuclear power in principle, but the practical, po...
Unknown As I've said earlier in the thread, the process was one of elimination: first posit 'the world' as comprising extended matter and non-extended...
True enough, but there is also need for massive distributed storage, either batteries or some other mechanism, like hydro, to supply baseload power. I...
When I first heard of small modular reactors, they seemed a great idea. But as we all now know, they're not ready for market yet and may not ever be. ...
Fair. By talkback, I meant populism rather than principle, although that doesn’t fit either as the nuclear policy isn’t that popular. I can’t stand Du...
What he's saying, is that the 'idea' of the object, which is its appearance to us in consciousness, is 'immediately given'. That applies to every char...
I don’t think Dutton’s nuclear policy stacks up, but it’s also a great pity that it’s been made a partisan political issue - by him, mind you. But I t...
First of all, it requires interpretation in terms of the culture and society within which it was articulated. That is the basis of hermeneutics, the a...
----- 1. This grounds the connection between physical causation and logical necessity. 2. "The very idea of science from the usual point of view is to...
Whereas I think it is an open question, subject to constant revision as our conception of nature is constantly changing. There are strong lines of arg...
But critical idealism will recognise that in a way that metaphysical realism, like most here, would not. Acknowledging the unavoidably subjective natu...
Just when I thought I was out...... I explained above the 'Cartesian divide' and the source of the mind-matter division. Ever since, Western philosoph...
I will make one more comment, and then I'm logging out for a time, as I'm going away with my dear other and I've promised not to spend too much time o...
I will circle back to this earler comment, because I think it underlies a lot of what is being said. Objectivity was crucial to the emergence of early...
It is not. It is well-accepted science which your physicalist blinders won't allow you to ackowledge. Neural networks which are created by humans to f...
He was very much a disciple of Kant, although one who dared to correct his teacher, but his main Eastern source was a translation of one of the Upani?...
I can see why he says it, and why Schopenhauer has the reputation of being a pessimist who says that life is meaningless. I'm a lot more drawn to his ...
The original claim was: The point I am making is not that ink and paper aren't essential to the physical nature of the book but that semantic content ...
I had the idea that she thought the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi was gnostic and that John represented what was to become orthodox...
He’s :100: right. You say it doesn’t matter, but you sure as hell love arguing about it. The question @"Patterner" is asking is a perfectly valid one ...
He talks about him in Episode 22, immediately prior to the episode on Hegel. He says Schopenhauer was the ‘godfather of nihilism’ which I don’t necess...
There's an entire section of publishing and media devoted to explaining, exploiting, or denying ‘quantum weirdness’. The best book I’ve read on it is ...
I learned a lot from Apokrisis, including the whole field of biosemiotics, which I've read quite a bit about by now. But I also learned that he tended...
I looked up this phrase, which I had only hazy recollection of. From the Wikipedia entry: A literal 'sky father', then. Origen's writings are volumino...
I'm saying the neurological account is not necessarily physicalist. It's a leap from saying that there are neurological processes involved, to materia...
So you say. What about this causal relationship is physical? How is it explainable in physical or molecular terms? How do physical interactions cause ...
A pretty poor post, I have to say. Just because something can be attributed to neurobiology, doesn't necessarily mean it can be understood solely thro...
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