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I use it as a reference source. You have your way of carving up the territory, but it's not the only way, and it's more concerned with modelling and e...

According to Politico, the attack theme that Trump is working up is that Harris is 'as dumb as a rock'. Which strikes me as being, well, about as dumb...

Berkeley is an ingenious defender of idealism, but nominalism is his weak point. However nearly all the objections I read to him are no different in e...

But then, if the scales are lifted, whether what is seen is beneficial surely depends on what's there. I mean, if a character in a Lovecraft novel saw...

Gee that's a leading question! Supernatural and metaphysical are really the Latin and Greek synonyms for 'beyond nature'. Catharsis was interpreted, i...

Oh, and Andy Beshear looks a good pick. Two-term Democratic governor in a Red state.

No :yikes: It's only that he's always struck me as telegenic and articulate. Whoever it is, I think it's an absolutely crucial choice. He wasn't remov...

Still saying Gavin Newsom. He's got higher recognition, I think, and he's been running a shadow campaign. What 'election' has been overturned? The vot...

What do you call a Greek skydiver?

Without doubting that the scientific modelling of the biochemistry involved, the question remains, to what end? For what purpose? You said upthread: M...

I get it. I'm not entirely happy with it, that's one of the reasons I haven't written many more. I'm kind of on board with Kastrup's terminology, but ...

Thanks! Not a compromise, but an inspiration, the subject I'm working to understand.

Yes, well put. That's exactly what I have in mind. A convergence between cognitivism and philosophical idealism. :100: I can see why you would say tha...

It should be reported as: ‘President Biden has decided not to contest the next election, and instead to retire. He has endorsed his VP…’ etc, instead ...

You’re selling us short ;-)

There’s no requirement to. I used it to generate a useful summary rather than going to the trouble of drafting one de novo. Like a glossary entry. Kno...

That’s encouraging. I’ve been reading that there’s the chance of an ‘open convention’, but that in the past these haven’t been very successful. But if...

I know that interview. I’ve been reading and listening to Kastrup the last couple of years. He’s an articulate defender of philosophical idealism. (A ...

I don’t know if Harris will end up as the nominee, and not confident that she can win. But let’s see what happens.

I followed this exchange with one part interest and three parts bafflement, but I also remembered a book I have saved in my Google Books library which...

That basically excludes Buddhism, which is not predicated on there being a God. It might be better phrased ‘if there is a higher truth’ or something a...

:clap: fair points. But I think a more ‘Buddhist’ attitude to production and consumption a la Schumacher's Small is Beautiful would not be amiss. (Not...

Thanks for the compliment, appreciated. This forum has been a great learning experience for me. I had never heard of Davidson or Austin, for example, ...

Cherry-picked. The full passage is: Can you see the distinction? That what is empirically true is not the whole story?

It’s not a question of whether the ‘wave function’ is or isn’t mind-dependent. The equation describes the distribution of probabilities. When the meas...

If you looked at the Mind Created World piece, I explicitly state that I am not arguing for any such thing. (Banno’s is the first objection.)

But how does that detract from what I’m saying? Pinter’s book makes that precise point - that we organise cognition around Gestalts, meaningful wholes...

You have a world in mind when you say that. Anyway I’m out on family time for today.

Sure. But that was a notable instance.

Nothing I've said calls that into question, though. I've said, I'm not questioning the existence of unseen worlds, other minds, and unknown facts. It'...

Thank you for the compliment, I try not to violently disagree, even where I differ. You know that the term ‘catharsis’ (and also ‘therapy’) both have ...

Have a read of the Mind-Created World. I think it addresses your objections.

What I would point out is that the description of humans as 'animals' is very much part of the naturalist worldview (naturally!) It is taken to be an ...

Incidentally - on the Judge Aileen Cannon case - as is well-reported, Cannon has made a series of questionable judgements about the classified documen...

Something you’ve demonstrated every day for the last four years. Why anyone bothers with your nonsense is beyond me. Eastern bloc, I’ve always thought...

Isn’t there a sense in which an arithmetical proof offers a kind of certainty by virtue of the fact that it is ‘the terminus of explanation’? If any s...

Meanwhile, news is in on Trump’s 90 minute ( :yikes: ) acceptance spiel. Apparently the first ten minutes was electrifying, the remainder just the usu...

I don’t reckon she’s the candidate, and I also don’t reckon she would want to be. The Democratic Party has a lot of talent, let’s see who comes out of...

That they are delusions are also a matter of conviction.

For anyone other than Trump supporters, it’s been a pretty terrible couple of months. I think what’s happening right at the moment, is that the Trump ...

And as there is nothing beyond nature, we’re stepping off our own meta-cognitive awareness into the void of nothingness or meaninglessness. The best w...

I recommend that Urs App book. Plus this one, on Google Books, very generous preview. Both provide insights into Schopenhauer the man.

It's a curious fact that Schopenhauer is categorised as atheist, when there are such obvious parallels between him and Indian philosophy (and also Sto...

Hey welcome Dan! I won't be submitting as it's not my area of interest, I'm just responding to say :clap:

I agree with every word, but it probably belongs in the Trump thread. It seems the gig is up for Biden, he's going to announce 'the passing of the tor...

As noted, he was a reader of the Upani?ads. There are many similar passages in them e.g. Chandogya Upanishad 8.12.1: "In this imperishable realm, Brah...

Schopenhauer said:

Don't overlook the fact that Schopenhauer accepted there was a mode of existence beyond suffering. He was of course scathingly critical of the reveale...

Not at all. But, thanks for your constructive criticisms.

Epistemic idealism is sufficient in my view. I'm not agreeing that 'the world would still exist in the absence of the observer' - what is, in the abse...