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New York Times endorses Kamala Harris (gift link).

Rather a poignant expression of the plight of modernity. That is not a personal criticism - I think you're wrestling with a real conundrum inherent in...

Sure. Might just be my own experience as I first started reading philosophy decades before the internet existed. And I’ve learned a ton here. But the ...

I think it’s more important to get acquainted with the subject of philosophy than to start interacting on forums. On forums you will find a huge varie...

The purpose of the quote from Indian philosophy was mainly to demonstrate the provenance of the aphorism that 'the eye cannot see itself' and its link...

Mathematics doesn’t require numbers to exist as physical objects; rather, it functions as an abstract framework that helps us describe and understand ...

Although I introduced arithmetic, my point wasn't about "transcendental functions" in the technical mathematical sense but rather about the type of kn...

One might imagine the object going in and out of existence, depending on whether it is observed or not, but that itself is a mental act. So there’s no...

‘There are no mind-independent objects!’ ‘Sure there are.’ ‘Well, name one.’ :chin:

We can ‘see’ things through deductive inference that are not empirically knowable. There’s a sense in which even arithmetic is transcendental in that ...

Another footnote - scholars have commented on the influence Kant and Schopenhauer had on Freud’s theories. See this The point being many aspects of ou...

The whole 'hard problem' arises from regarding consciousness as an object, which it is not, while science itself is based on objective facts. It's not...

‘The eye cannot see itself’ really has ancient provenance, in the Upani?ads, in the teaching of ?tman, the ‘I am’ that animates the cosmos: An online ...

I have input a Q&A into ChatGPT which you can peruse if you're interested

I'm doing a bit more reading on this, but meanwhile I found Marc Lange's academic homepage which is definitely worth the visit: :lol:

Hard to compress evidence for anything into three words :-) Regardless, welcome to the Forum.

So Berkeley's idealism is implausible, but it's less implausible than Cartesian dualism?

But there's a danger here of 'subjectivising' the whole question of the nature of logic, principles, and mathematical regularities. Pinter is not advo...

And does that make sense to you? Does it seem plausible?

I'm not a physicist, I merely have an interest in philosophy, but it's common knowledge that 'the measurement problem' and the ontological status of t...

Well, this is the proverbial can of worms and is far afield from the OP. But my response is that strictly speaking it is completely impossible to imag...

Actually I’m reminded of a quip by (I think) Neils Bohr - ‘A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself’.

I think on the whole current philosophy finds the idea of there being necessary truths somewhat uncomfortable. I think we'd rather prefer to be able t...

The challenge for scientific realism is the concept of superposition, what exactly is involved in measurement and why the act of measurement appears t...

Glad is was such a happy occasion! Likely some more than others.

Well, that's true! The whole point of the argument is to throw into stark relief a fundamental gap in the generally-accepted physical account of the w...

Well, I know it's all off-topic for this thread, but that passage you quoted resonated with me.

But notice: This is the principle that animates all living beings, from the most simple up to and including humans. it is why, for instance, all of th...

Computers operate according to the parameters, programming, and designs created by the scientists who build them. While it's true that large language ...

I have quoted your question and my response in this thread as it is offtopic for this one.

Response shifted from here. /// The specific point at issue was the idea that while the wavefunction predicts probabilities, it seems a 'wave without ...

I’m afraid that is word salad. The fact that a hand cannot grasp itself is apodictic. Not setting - describing. I don’t accept the Cartesian division ...

No, it’s not property dualism. The passage I quoted was an example of phenomenology. It doesn’t categorise consciousness as a phenomenon, as phenomena...

Unum in the same sense as in non-dualism, advaita, non divided.

I’ll have a listen although I’m already dubious about the premise that people are bad because of ‘bad information’. Still, many interesting things to ...

Your son’s wedding, then? What a romantic description!

I’ll need photographic evidence in this case ;-) Fair point. We could say of someone, ‘she has a brilliant mind’. In that case her mind is indeed an o...

:pray:

Generally :up: but watch out for the tendency to reify, 'make into a thing'. I think that categorises every attempt to conceive of the probability spa...

Grab your right hand with your right hand and report back.

It's the inherent mysticism of Platonic realism that analytic philosophy finds distasteful.

Chilling essay by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic: What Musk Really Wants. (It's paywalled but available via e.g. Apple News) I've been wondering what M...

Very perceptive question. That was the reason I called out scholastic realism, and C S Peirce's recapitulation of it: and that: I think that's a clear...

Question from the stands: are individual numbers considered objects? I mean, '7' sure looks like 'an object of thought'. 'How many did you have in min...

:100: Not 'the most damning thing'. It is the most trivial and non-incriminating thing. The only kind of thing you will allow yourself to see. Meanwhi...

You wish! Just one more knotty philosophical problem that we won't have to deal with. Still, thanks for the acknowledment, appreciate it. Please sir, ...

Penrose is quite sympathetic to Platonism, although, due to his commitment to objectivism, his notion of reality is rather one-dimensional. I take iss...

Well, to be honest, I'm finding that he's rehearsing many arguments that I've been having here, so at the moment, early stages, it's a bit ho-hum. I r...

I think the interesting question is, then, whether 'our' mathematics would be 'true in all possible worlds'. Meaning, perhaps, that it's not really 'o...

OK, sure, I'll come back to your response to my posts about scholastic realism. You said: From a high level, your instinctive intuition of the world i...