It's a philosophical claim in support of idealism. It is developed in more detail in The Mind-Created World OP and its linked essay. I didn't say it w...
To me, he's the most congenial of the Copenhagen scientists, and yes, he was a lifelong Platonist (in fact, a Christian Platonist, unlike Neils Bohr, ...
I loved Zizek's whimsical analogy. Obviously to be taken with a large grain of salt, but still.... Don't know if I agree. In our culture, since the En...
Right! Excellent start, and thank you for the acknowledgement. My knowledge of McLuhan is second-hand although I do recognise that he was a pivotal th...
:100: One of the bits of terminology I've picked up from Vervaeke is 'relevance realisation', which operates right from the inception of organic life....
It's existential angst, isn't it? That's the subject of John Vervaeke's 52-episode lecture series on Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, which I'm part...
The problem with your ideas is that they are too idiosyncratic, and that they don't reference anyone else's work in philosophy, cog sci and other fiel...
Sure, but that doesn't refute the objectivist claim that at a fundamental level, the objects of scientific analysis are 'just so', independently of an...
I don't think you can deflate Kant's claims so easily. Despite the 'marvellous progress of modern science' there are philosophical issues which will n...
And mine was that they're not objective until they're measured. And even then, there are experiments which indicate that those measurements will vary ...
Ian Stevenson, who we have discussed previously in this thread, provided studies of somewhere around 2,700 cases in his two-volume Reincarnation and B...
I think that would rather over-dramatize it, although I do recall Alan Watts saying that dying is like going to sleep without waking up the next day. ...
The properties of particles are not defined until they are measured. That is the central philosophical problem of modern physics. The Copenhagen inter...
Fair enough. As I've said many times in this thread, I think research into children with memories of previous lives is corroborative in some ways to N...
You're sure about that? We're all constantly changing, day by day, moment by moment. There is continuity, but also change. Many of the cells in your b...
It's a shame you can only see it through your pre-concieved notion of what a 'religious point of view' must be. Buddhism is alone amongst religions in...
Re a priori knowledge - there's a current philosopher, Lawrence BonJour, who writes about role of a priori knowledge and philosophical rationalism. As...
Computers don’t come into existence de novo. They are artefacts built by humans according to human aims and purposes. In other words, whatever purpose...
That's not an argument, but an observation. If you're an idealist, then you believe that Armstrong's physicalist theory is wrong, and will argue accor...
I don't agree with that. Trump is someone who is an absolute expert at exploiting democratic systems and also financial systems for his own advantage....
From a philosophical perspective, it might be instructive to consider the Buddhist view of re-birth. It is often assumed that 'Buddhists believe in re...
There is much anti-American sentiment, on the streets and on this forum. I don't buy that 'it's all f***ed anyway, no point in either party, they're a...
Thanks for taking the time! Just for clarity, I will be upfront about my attitude towards Armstrong. When I enrolled at University (decades ago now), ...
But if they're not the laws described by physics, then in what sense are those relations physical? What about the relationship between sign and interp...
Not necessarily. They could be regularities which serve a descriptive, but not regulative, purpose. The idea that laws necessitate outcomes may presup...
It might be, but it could take a long time to re-appear. Whereas if Trump looses he's not going to run again and many of those who backed him will at ...
That is the problematic of classical philosophy in a nutshell, is it not? Which has nowadays made a comeback, through such sciences as systems theory ...
No, no, no. It's not nearly so complicated, there's no need for all this complicated verbiage. Science studies objects and objective facts - how big i...
My own existence is certainly a fact - cogito ergo sum - but not of the kind that was mooted in the post I was responding to. After all, even Descarte...
Are laws of nature natural? They’re never actually observed, only their effects can be discerned by measurement and observation. But the question why ...
I agree, although the threat of an apocalypse is a real and present danger. There are so many critical situations - economic, political, military and ...
Interesting but intimidating! There’s always so much to read and only so much time. But it sounds to me as if you have a multi-faceted and rich perspe...
I don't know if there is - 'noumena' is nowadays almost exclusively tied to Kant, specifically. It was more a reflection that the use of 'phenomena' t...
By way of footnote, I feel there's an issue with the way 'thought' is used in these contexts. It's a term with many meanings, but to me it conveys a v...
I used not to think that Trump was evil. I thought he was banal, narcissistic, corrupt, venal, and all the other obviously suitable descriptions. But ...
I question whether mathematical axioms count as 'phenomena', which is 'what appears'. In classical philosophy mathematics belonged to the 'formal real...
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