He doesn’t say that perceptions are hallucinations per se. See this interview. As I’ve said above, Hoffman’s is really an argument against cognitive r...
But notice here the assumed perspective that our perception is limited to that of being an ‘organism’. It’s inherently reductionist, as if a biologica...
‘Learning to use’ is not quite the same as ‘inventing’. Was the law of the excluded middle invented by us, or was it discerned? Would it be something ...
What Hoffman is calling into question is the mind-independence of the objects of cognition. That objects are real independently of his or your or my m...
:clap: Well said! Better than I could have said it myself. It could be said that this simply characterises the outlook of post-modern nihilism. Strawb...
Such as…? It sounds like the agenda of the ‘radical right’ in the USA, but if my intuition is correct, they’re going to get a shellacking in the forth...
Also I recall an earlier thread from a year ago on the same topic. It might not be too late to merge this thread into that one, as many of the same ar...
What do you think 'natural causation' comprises, and how might it be related to reason? It's actually quite a deep question, explored in part in this ...
When he published his paper on the evolutionary argument against naturalism, a number of scholars responded critically to it, but, so far as I know, n...
There's an expression encountered from time to time in perennialist circles, 'the good that has no opposite'. It is distinguished from the our convent...
I think biological determinism remains a potent force in contemporary thought. The whole of naturalised epistemology would seek to ground reason in te...
The common view that Donald Hoffman seeks to challenge is our belief that objects continue to exist independently of our perception of them when they’...
We watched the very chilling Civil War movie the other week. The most chilling scene in that disturbing movie was when the group of journalists who we...
One thing Tim Walz immediately brings to the campaign is JOY! He just looks so darned happy to be there. He radiates joy. As opposed to The Other Guy,...
But I think you lean towards a physicalist interpretation of the inherent ambiguity implicit in the ‘epistemic cut’, so as to avoid the suggestion of ...
I made that remark a long time ago, but I really didn't think at the time you understood what I meant. When I say there is no evidence for physicalism...
Inclluding purges of the civil service and intelligence agencies, a plan already outlined in detail in the Project 2025 manifesto. So now we can add u...
No, it's more like a handy kind of gap-filler, which can be assigned roles in many different contexts. Regarding the 'epistemic cut', I noticed this p...
By accident means 'for no reason'. There's the nub of the issue right there. But here, are you imputing intentionality, which is the specific attribut...
As soon as you’re talking about ‘the sense in which the spoon “exists”’ then you’re already in the territory of philosophy, you’re qualifying its exis...
In this case, I would favour N?g?rjuna over Buddhaghosa, but this is not the forum for Buddhist doctrinal disputes. But, long and short is, realising ...
All of those types of objections are addressed in the book, with references to papers that make such arguments. Besides, saying that we don’t perceive...
:rofl: A quote from Chapter 4 - the Interface Theory of Perception (ITP), which compares our perception of objects to the icons on a computer interfac...
In Chapter 3, Hoffman discusses the background to his ideas, including his apprenticeship under Francis Crick among others. He also introduces the Fit...
(By way of footnote - the question of what is eternal and/or persists in Buddhism is a very interesting one, against the background assumption of the ...
Based on Buddhist studies readings, I see a convergence between Hoffman's views and the Buddhist principle of ??nyat? (emptiness). In Buddhism, ??nyat...
His 'theorem' - and there are objections to his use of that term in this context - is precisely that 'fitness beats truth'. It is that natural selecti...
I’m also very interested in the whole apparent convergence between cognitivism and philosophical idealism. Hoffman is on the board of Kastrup’s Essent...
I’m reading the Case Against Reality at the moment, although finding it a little difficult to maintain interest. I’ve also listened to some of his pan...
I will review it but the over-arching question is teleological. (I guess the micro tubules referred to in that video are the same as those that Penros...
You say that but I’m inherently distrustful of mechanistic metaphors past a certain point. I can see how the analogy works but I can’t see how it acco...
What Wigner found baffling was not that maths was so effective, but why it was. And also the way mathematics developed in one context proved effective...
An important distinction. My observation is that biosemiotics is not strictly physicalist in orientation, based as it is on the principles of signs an...
I was musing on the well-known saying of 'thinking outside the box'. As is common knowledge the origin of this expression is a cognitive test wherein ...
But isn't there something deficient about Wittgenstein's apodictic religion? After all, he was claimed as the emblem of the vociferously anti-religiou...
Very much. His main claim to fame was a lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. He's pretty wide-ranging but tries to stay within the bounds...
I've been reading that he has two campaign managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who have been trying to domesticate him and get him to stick to t...
There's a rather awkward neologism I've heard several times of late, 'transjective - transcending the distinction between subjective and objective, or...
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