Still struggling with how this can be meaningfully said to be physical in nature. The appeal of atomism is the ostensible 'indivisible unit' which rep...
I want to backtrack to the post about the Wheeler diagram and a response to it. The response was: So, I agree, I think it exactly the point of the dia...
I may be idealist, but I recognize a brick wall when I encounter one. Indeed, I didn’t know what biosemiosis meant when I joined this forum, and I’ve ...
Just as I said. Self and world are co-arising, just as posited by enactivism. That is why we see the convergence between phenomenology and Buddhism in...
Very rich post with much that could be commented on, but I wonder if you might provide an interpretation of this graphic. I’ve posted it here previous...
Lao Tse is considerably less loquacious than Hegel and the basis of a living philosophy. Bohr as you know incorporated the ying-yang symbol into the f...
I said ‘any judgement regarding what exists’. The position I’m defending is near to Berkeley’s esse est percipe, but the way I put it is that nothing ...
On the contrary realists insist that the object is as it is irrespective of the presence or absence of an observer. And that the understanding we hold...
Even in deciding not to run, Joe Biden did something Trump could never do - which was to put the interests of the Party and the nation above his own. ...
I will make a philosophical point, in respect of the link you provided to the video ‘what creates consciousness?’ That point is that to understand wha...
Hey Sam - great you’ve discovered this site - Essentia Foundation is a really important voice in this debate. I will take this one in. Oh, and your lo...
OK I did a bit more research and uncovered this: that Schrödinger intended the famous Cat thought-experiment to highlight the paradoxes and limitation...
It's said that the current GenX/Y are the first to experience a less affluent lifestyle than their parents. And in my family's case it is true, sadly....
Of course I understand that. It’s an ironic way of illustrating the anti-realist implications of the very principles that he discovered. Incidentally ...
I wonder if an alternative has ever really been articulated. A few years back I did some cursory reading of books like Prosperity Without Growth and T...
'Shared topic', indeed. I have no beef whatever with science or scientists inter-subjective validation. My beef is with the over-valuation of objectiv...
The precise point Schrodinger was making with Schrodinger's Cat. Gosh, I wonder. :chin: That Chris Fuchs interview is here. You have excerpted the gra...
That is a gloss on a paragraph from Kant. The sorrounding text in Magee's book discusses how Kant himself didn't follow through on the implications of...
But I don't accept that your story does away with the requirement for an observer's perspective. It only compares perspectives between different obser...
Well, gosh, thanks :yikes: . A couple of my by-now standard pieces of text in support of my contention. So remind me again, what, exactly, is 'incoher...
My point with respect to the 'mind-created world' theory is that many of the criticisms of it implicitly assume a perspective outside both. Like, 'the...
And thank you. I will add, by way of a footnote to my footnote, that Lusthaus does acknowledge in that article: Again, the aim being not to 'explain t...
I will add, by way of footnote, that scholars question the label of ‘idealism’ applied to Buddhist teachings. The very brief reason is that Christian ...
That presupposes the separation between the model/construct and the world it attempts to represent. Presumably, from some point outside both of them ;...
I thought the speech was fine. Only that he was obviously reading a prompter, but the point was clear enough. I believe Biden when he says democracy i...
Physicalism is a major influence in philosophy, as you well know. So-called 'non-reductive physicalism' is probably the mainstream majority amongst ac...
By 'we' you mean 'me'. Take Richard Conn Henry. He's a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, author of many publications on ...
That's often the case here. The basic insight of the 'mind-created world' is like a gestalt shift - a sudden shift in understanding. (As a whimsical a...
However, and has been discussed many times in this thread, physics itself, the hardest of hard sciences, has produced an outcome where interpretations...
I've addressed that, in Is there 'Mind at Large'?, which I think is coherent, even if @"Tom Storm" says it needs more detail. (I'm planning further in...
I do. But I also see that you have a pre-reflective world-model of 'self in world' - yourself as subject, in the domain of objects, other persons, and...
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