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The “model” is not a representation standing over against a separately existing world. The modeling activity and the world it yields are the same proc...

I will keep the Forum posted, but only if I find a publisher.

Chance has a very specific role in this context and in modern culture. It is generally presumed to be the only alternative to intentional creation - e...

Well, I hope you and it can form a meaningful relationship.

I use the regular definition. I've posted several objections to the idea of correspondence previously, but you seemed not to notice them. They're all ...

Excellent NY times article on AI impact on writing, generally. Gift link Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT why this might be: Oh and that closing phrasing...

We know there are trillions of galaxies, and that each galaxy probably contains trillions of planets. Who's keeping the Almanac?

Here, Janus, a special one for you. Good old Aristotelian Thomism. Terrified. Shaking in my boots.

The bird example again shows the equivocation I was pointing to. Yes—its perceptual system must be exquisitely tuned to environmental structure. But t...

If that’s not the point, then we need to be clear about what the point actually is. You’ve shifted the discussion from rational grasp of truth to perc...

I understand it, I am not ignoring it, and I'm saying it's mistaken. The 'mind created world' thesis is a rational and defensible argument based on ph...

It shouldn't be forgotten that aside from the vast distances involved in astronomy, there are also vast periods of time to be reckoned with. Human cul...

Language and politics vary tremendously, but hearts and lungs are the same everywhere.

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He says: my existence is apodictic (impossible to doubt) because in order to doubt, I must first exist. You're getting close to the point now, but sti...

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But what it means is always subject to interpretation. Indeed, we're always interpreting - this is what normal conscious existence consists of. We go ...

begs the question i.e. assumes what needs to be proven.

In Descartes example, to the apodictic truth of his own existence - cogito ergo sum - which then served as the foundation-stone for his philosophy. Bu...

I think it is, rather. The 'consciousness studies' discipline that developed in the early 1990's around Chalmers and a few others was much broader ran...

I still recommend The Blind Spot. I posted this link on the Forum in 2019, well before you joined, and it was thoroughly bollocksed by everyone, a com...

No, I'm not at all sure. I see mathematics along Husserlian lines as necessary structures of intentional consciousness. So neither 'in' the mind nor '...

You do realise, though, that the use of this term 'quale' or 'qualia' is almost entirely unique to a very narrow band of discourse, conducted mainly b...

Surely we can. Water still boils at 100c at sea level. COVID vaccination is effective. The problem is, though, that objectivity has come to be a stand...

I think it's generally recognised that the objective sciences proper begin with Galileo. with mathematical idealisation, the primacy of observation an...

OK I will enlarge a little. That is a pre-commitment. You begin with a pre-commitment to the indubitable reality of the sensible world. Think about De...

Mine complains about time spent (or wasted) with my ‘invisible friends’. I protest that folks do far worse things online than debate philosophy. Not a...

If you have any comment on this brief passage I included from Kant, then I will discuss it. Other than that I have no further comment at this point. I...

Hopefully to the person one is trying to persuade. But relativism does seem impossible to avoid.

The only way the veracity of philosophical arguments is demonstrable is through their logical consistency and their ability to persuade. But they can'...

Notice that Adam Frank specifcally refers to broad philosophical questions: 'there is a whole class of problems that are at the very root of some of o...

It's also possible you don't see the target.

That poster said a few weeks ago s/he wanted to be banned for some reason, but then kept posting. My impression was that s/he was a thoughtful contrib...

The point of falsifiability is not that it's the gold standard for all true theories. The point is only that it allows for the distinction between gen...

This is from Adam Frank, one of the co-authors of The Blind Spot of Science (alongside Marcello Gleiser and Evan Thompson.) Frank is a professor of as...

Exactly as defined: Who are you to say? Einstein's question was 'does the moon continue to exist when nobody is looking at it?' He had very good reaso...

But they don't heal, grow, reproduce, or mutate. Agree that it's very hard to determine what is or isn't sentient at borderline cases such as viruses ...

You think, therefore presumably you are. Have to log out for a while, duty calls.

I would like to think that the sentience of beings other than human is not something for us to decide. Whether viruses or archai or plants are sentien...

You say I should distinguish between "judgements about the world" and "judgements about the mind-created world(model)." But this is precisely the dist...

Upthread somewhere I linked to an Evan Thompson paper 'Could All Life be Sentient'? He says, briefly, that it's an undecideable question, because it's...

There's no third person without the first person. Modern science began by the bracketing out of the subject. Another of my potted quotes:

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The reason I'm not making an ontological statement, is because I've already stated 'Adopting a predominantly perspectival approach, I will concentrate...

I don't see that as different to what I'm saying. So I don't agree that I'm not in agreement. :-)

It's incoherent for the exact reason that this thread was created months ago! Even designating 'the quality of lived experience' as 'quale' or 'qualia...

That precise point is written all over the history of quantum mechanics. The customary dodge is 'well, there are different interpretations' - but noti...

I'm suggesting that in the context of philosophy, 'qualia' are defined as subjective and first-person in nature. Look it up. I think an issue with Cha...

But are qualia real without consciousness? Qualia are first person as a matter of definition. Perhaps it is not something that can be, or must be, exp...