Wayfarer

Citations, please.

But I don't deny the fact that there are real objects external to us. I will try one more time: So I'm not denying that there are objective facts (and...

I do address them, and you object to my objections. I'm not lecturing you, just making my case. You don't like, fine. You can't say I don't make an ef...

We say 'the things we perceive are not ideas' because we instinctively think of ourselves as separate from the world. We see the apple or chair and th...

Your own words: I'm using the word 'idea' in the philosophical sense that anything that we recognise and perceive is 'idea', something we can form a c...

That is the symbol for the wave-function equation. I go into that in an essay I've published on Medium, The Timeless Wave. About the 'miracle required...

Meaning, you can't have any idea of it. :wink:

I've often said before that there is a convergence between cognitive science and idealism (or constructivism) insofar as the former recognises the cen...

You defer to science as the arbiter of reality, saying that anything that can't be known by science is a matter for faith. Yet the observer problem or...

She questions the very idea of there being natural laws in the sense of universally proscriptive or determinative principles. Why? Because what we cal...

But put them in a physics lab.....

I took the time to generate a transcript (with some comments).

Greetings, and welcome. You've chosen a difficult and perennial topic to start with, philosophy of mind and/or nature of consciousness. Presumably you...

Nothing further to add at this point.

Are you familiar with the arguments in How the Laws of Physics Lie?, Nancy Cartwright?

Hint: has to do with the original post.

I'm not denying it, if you read carefully. I hadn't heard of Collier, but perusing the Wiki entry, he seems a kindred spirit! Cognitive scientists who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZdfE_7cde0

I really do understand the perplexity here. The issue is, as soon as you say 'something', then you're bringing your mind to bear on the question. In t...

Sure. I still maintain, time and space rely on an element of perspective, and that the perspective is provided by the observer. The following makes th...

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How do we know that, by the way?

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Speaking of 'smallest details', there's a long (and not very entertaining) video interview on Essentia Foundation's website at the moment (Essential F...

One has to be willing to face criticism on a public forum, as it's integral to participating. But I don't accept that my responses are at all evasive....

Knew I'd read that spelling somewhere.

But if mental life is part of reality, and I’m sure you would agree it is, and physics doesn’t explain that, then there is an explanatory gap. But I a...

Oh, so dualism then? Different laws for the mental?

But physics does not 'explain reality' - contrary to Armstrong's physicalism, in which 'the physical' is all that there is. As philosophers of science...

'Physics does not show us nature as she is in herself, but only nature exposed to our methods of questioning.'

But it doesn't matter, right? Not important. And I've also spent more time addressing your objections than, I think, anyone else on this forum, over a...

Ironic, considering how much time you've devoted to arguing about it. Still, at least that has the consequence of making me clarify my argument, which...

Bob, I appreciate the clarity of your position, but it seems to presuppose that correlation implies causation or identity. While a functioning brain i...

I feel obliged to say something about the conscilience between being good and being true in pre-modern philosophy. Sound judgement relies on clear vis...

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Modern science and culture has division at its basis - division between self and world, mind and matter, I and other. In the sphere of philosophy it w...

That's OK, I'm not accusing you of anything! But 'ethical normativity' is precisely the nub of the question posed by the OP - why ought we do good. My...

Thanks SSU your perspective on geopolitics always seems very sound and well informed to me. Let’s not forget, however, that while Trump inked the deal...

It is, really. I think I’ve interacted with ChatGPT every day since launch, which is now two years. It’s also really helpful in professional matters, ...

Well, to address your objections more completely. Constructivism (and my position in the OP) does not deny that objects exist independent of perceptio...

Right back at ya! :-) (I mean, from what you say, I can't see what it is you're taking issue with.)

Incidentally I am seeing how this 'mind creates world' meme is proliferating on the Internet right now. In various substack and medium feeds, plus Aeo...

Right - it makes sense. In some ways it's similar to the enactivist 'building the path by walking it' approach. There are similar ideas coming out of ...

I don't think constructivism denies that, nor do I in the OP - as I said I acknowledge there are objects unseen by any eye. I think you're still seein...

Trump is basically implying that he will cave to Putin, whom he constantly expresses admiration for. As said many times, I believe Putin is wholly and...

Which questions? Incidentally, my reference to 'the passage I quoted' was actually a reference to the excerpt about Husserl that I posted in the Mind-...

Well said, and a very easy question to loose sight of.

Thanks, but going on the review, hardly mainstream ('discursive niche construction?' :yikes: ) And I'm sure, not what the post I was responding to has...

Where would I look for examples of this kind of approach? And in respect of human culture, how would 'normative patterns of functioning' be related to...