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Exactly what he would say. Phenomenology 101

You say 'feelings are the only thing problematic' as if that's a minor footnote, but feelings - qualia, first-person experience - is the whole point a...

Thanks! But I'd be very careful with interpretation. That essay took quite a lot of reading of Bitbol, and he's very careful in the way he expresses h...

The problem isn’t that some mental states are hard to describe, or that brains are complicated. What’s at issue is something much simpler and deeper: ...

Wait until you read it. I don’t think that term is used anywhere in the book. (I’d love to see a discussion between Faggin and Glattenfelder. They’re ...

I’m well aware. But I have also repeatedly shown why the treatment of mind or consciousness as an objective phenomenon (even if described as a process...

Notice that was given in the context of Buddhist ethics. There, materialism is designated nihilistic because it denies the efficacy of karma. But I fe...

That is exactly what this does. and when I posted it, you agreed with it. https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/files/nk/6xn4hag9ful33pe...

Maybe you should give yourself a name you can live up to.

The OP is a big topic. You could put on a bit more work. See the How to Write an OP https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7110/how-to-write-an-op

Not when consciousness is treated as an object (per Materialist Theory of Mind) :brow: It’s not about falsifying the third person perspective, but poi...

Bitbol says it's 'misleading' precisely because it is reifying to designate 'consciousness' as an object of any kind, even an 'objective process'. To ...

Not peculiar - I think Federico Faggin is highly intelligent and genuine. I did tackle that book - actually I think I have the Kindle edition, but I c...

@"Relativist" @"Apustimelogist" - interested in your reactions to this. (It's in a paper I'm writing an article about, 'The Roles Ascribed to Consciou...

But it's all of a piece! Think Socrates. He was by no means 'a moraliser', but the 'idea of the good' and personal authenticity were at the centre of ...

That seems a theme in the perennial philosophies, doesn't it? Although 'self reflection' is not the same as 'thinking about yourself' is it? I'm reali...

Interestingly I once corresponded with Kelly Ross, founder and owner of friesian.com. A profound and erudite philosopher. He mentioned that his dear o...

I know. I'm gloomily aware that had I been a Buddhist monk I would have been chucked out decades ago (although I still maintain a Buddhist faith.) I f...

Of course not. Morality (sila) was all of a piece with the rest of the path - the 'three legs of the tripod' are morality (sila), wisdom (panna) and m...

This Buddhist sutta (thread) concerns the questions of Vachagotta, a figure in the texts who is customarily associated with the posing of philosophica...

oh yeah, I know Faggin. I read (actually, listened to) his autobiography, Silicon. I’ve looked at Irreducible a few times but I have mixed feelings ab...

Indeed. But one has to ‘see it to be it’, so to speak. No use holding forth on it otherwise.

One possible terminological consideration would be to cast the debate in terms of the contrast between 'contingent' with 'unconditional' rather than b...

Discussed in another of Gnomon's threads, from which: Do notice the title of this article: ‘Apart from the Experiences of Subjects There Is Nothing, N...

But Whitehead, as you will well know, was vociferously critical of the 'bifurcation of nature' and the Cartesian division. Whitehead was really rather...

Hey, coral polyps create coral reefs. I think we do something analogous. One thing Levin is clear about is that physicalism doesn’t accommodate what h...

Yes. And don't forget, we are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to idolize reason and rationality. It's more that I think the decline of the classical understanding of the faculty o...

Considerably easier to defend in the Academy! But here is where my preferred heuristic distinguishes between what is real and what exists. I maintain ...

Thank you for your good wishes. :pray:

I'm attempting a long fiction work. My intention is, in the final draft phase, to have it scrutinized by all three engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) t...

Logic may well be formal and content-neutral, but it does not operate in a metaphysical vacuum. It still presupposes a thinker and something thought. ...

Wouldn't last long on the veldt. You said the same in the thread on first- and third-person perspectives. Your use of 'primitive', even with scare quo...

Quite right—though it’s worth bearing in mind that Aristotelian (and Thomist) realism is a far cry from empiricism or modern scientific realism. It is...

Yes I certainly believe trees are organisms and categorically different to devices.

You’re welcome, I found it a fascinating lecture (although I have to say I’m sceptical about ‘tree consciousness’.)

The whole point of Descartes' meditation, was that he could doubt the existence of objective reality. But even if he doubted everything he thought he ...

Any being does, but already said you think cogito ergo sum proves nothing. The point, which I return to, is that the fact of one's own being is apodic...

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:clap: Your speaking my language!

I think the key is reason. The ability to ask 'why is that?' 'Why should that happen?' 'What does that mean?' I was contemplating the other day that t...

I think of it more as metacognitive insight, knowing how we know. It's been a central question of philosophy since its inception. I suppose you could ...

From the perspective of neuroscience and physiology, it's the brain. From the perspective of philosophy and the humanities, it's the mind. I don't agr...

Let's focus on what the basic argument is about. What I'm saying is that the authors ('they' - Adam Frank, Marcello Gleiser, Evan Thompson), cite and ...

I can see why you would think that approach resonates with me, which it does, to an extent, but what I keep coming back to is the active way the mind ...

It is, but a very concentrated piece of work. I doubt I’ll be able to take it on, at any given time there’s a whole bunch of stuff I should read. You’...

https://youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?si=OmQ7TvS8XfBX2ek- (I beg moderator indulgence for this presentation, it is highly relevant to the remark that prompted ...

First, kudos for a very well-written post. But my argument is well-supported. I’m not saying that the actual world “lacks objects” in the sense of bei...

True - but I think this comes from the way the term has been used in phenomenology and in consciousness studies discourse. Me, I think it's actually a...

Thanks for your very perceptive comments! I am not insisting that because of the constructive activities of the mind, that the objects of perception a...