Wayfarer

I say that this is a something of a false dilemma, but one that we are very much bound to, due to the circumstances of culture and history. It arises ...

It's a matter of principle. This is the point of the original 'facing up to the problem of consciousness' essay. Consciousness can be studied as a phe...

The OP presents an argument for the distinction of the sciences and the humanities. You may not think it's a good argument, but that is what the threa...

But there is no theory of 'how brains generate consciousness', which actually is an implication of the 'hard problem of consciousness.' It is assumed ...

And there freedom lies.

Ain't that the truth.

This is one book on the subject, The Lost Sutras of Jesus, Thomas More and Ray Riegert.

That is only a re-statement of beliefs that have been pretty well universal at one time or another throughout history. Of course that is no guarantee ...

But they don’t. How interactions between physical objects and forces is observed and understood is completely different to what makes a valid syllogis...

But is ‘abstract reasoning’ among those ‘complex phenomena’ that are ‘a result’ of simpler things combining?

Of course I agree with you, but then that is a distinction that we both discovered through Buddhist philosophy, whereas most folks on this forum (and ...

As I’ve mentioned many times, I majored in Comparative Religion as a mature-age student (i.e. in my late 20’s). I was and am still interested in relig...

:up: I do see the distinction.

That book does look a very interesting title indeed. I discovered the fascinating history of the Nestorian Christians and their scriptures called the ...

Never having owned a Scottish Terrier, I wouldn’t claim to know. I did add that I see all sentient organisms as subjects. Whether they think or have ‘...

I'll add that whilst I question whether animals think and have emotional states, I don't question that they are subjects of experience. In fact I'm st...

So - all intellectual endeavours can be understood in terms of the 'simple principles' from which 'complex phenomena' arise? What about physics? It is...

The problem with that is that you can obviously have false beliefs. We do it all the time. 'I believed she was faithful to me but now I find she's bee...

Behaviourist after making love: 'That was wonderful for you, dear. How was it for me?'

*This is what is referred to as the 'umwelt' or 'lebenswelt' of phenomenology and embodied cognition. **This is what John Vervaeke refers to as 'relev...

I detest behaviourism. I know dogs have moods, because I've owned many. But then domestic dogs have existed in a symbiotic relationship with humans fo...

Contentious statement. First, there is no way of knowing, or of testing, whether animals have emotional states. ‘Thinking animals’ is also a contentio...

One point I will call out - there are tons of stories about Republican operatives and politicians ‘pleading with Trump’ to stop campaigning on insults...

I was referring to Biden's farewell speech in particular. But then, I admit I'm emotionally attached to the outcome of the election in a way that, if ...

But it does assume the division between object and subject as a limiting step, which has many consequences beyond it's range of application. And there...

I don't agree it's boring. I've beeing watching on and off, and some of it has been scintillating. Biden is just wrapping up, and he's given a powerfu...

Recently published: Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past, Steve Benen.

I don't think you've seen the point of the objection. The word 'information' is often used in this context, but 'order' and 'meaning' are both much br...

I see the connection you're drawing between entropy and information at the physical level, where both are linked by thermodynamic principles through t...

But the problem is, the 'human dimension' was explicitly eliminated from the scientific image of man in the early modern period. The division between ...

This is the question that the OP poses in the first sentence. But the question is actually not about 'perception'. The study of perception is (as many...

I've tried to explain recently why I think it's fallacious to say that Platonism in mathematics is a reification, meaning literally 'making into a thi...

That, I agree with :100: and have often argued along these lines (see this thread).

That is obviously true to some extent, but the nature of the questions change as culture develops and new discoveries are made. The argument that reli...

Of course, they are measurable, but how it appears to the subject is dependent on her faculties. She might, for example, be red-green colorblind. Besi...

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that's one for the scrapbook!

Can you unpack that a bit? The meaning doesn't spring from the page, so to speak. A question that has long interested me, and one of the motivators fo...

It’s also perfectly compatible with the Buddhist philosophy of ??nyat?, the absence of own-being of particulars, and the doctrine of dependent origina...

It still leaves open the question of where does any agency whatever arise, or whether all agency, and by implication, all subjectivity, can be seen as...

Buddhism also rejects as nihilistic the view that actions do not have consequences in future forms of existence. In that sense, the death of the subje...

Never read Kafka, although of course I do know something about him as he's a cultural icon. Incidentally - a Medium essay on the origin of 'transjecti...

Of course. I read somewhere - can't recall where - that ancient Greek has a very limited range of words for colours, and that the 'wine-dark sea' of t...

Also Eric the Eel, the African swimmer who came last in all his events in the Sydney Olympics. But knocking him really would have been bad sports, he ...

The whole thread is about it, it shouldn't have to spelled out. The physical attributes of a wavelength of light vs how it appears in the eyes of a su...

I don't dispute the reality of objective facts. Where I differ with cognitive realism is that I claim that objective facts are still in some fundament...

You might be interested to note that measurements of its height have varied considerably since it was first observed, and that furthermore its height ...

I mentioned Whitehead's 'bifurcation of nature' previously: Similar analysis expressed by Hans Jonas:

Readers may or may not have heard about the excruciatingly embarrasing performance of Rachel 'Raygunn' Gunn, an Australian Cultural Studies academic (...

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