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This may be a bit odd maybe but Camille makes it work. A tentative translation follows. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGNWFQy_gg Get up it's decided ...

What substance are your laws made of?

Note that the parts of an apple, eg its flesh, its seed or its skin, are themselves made of smaller parts (cells) themselves made of smaller parts (bi...

Sorry Amity, I haven't been on TPF much lately. Yes, it's as fair a translation as can be. :-) I love the growing complicity between Paradis and Morea...

A touch of color perhaps? This improbable Caribbean princess is Liliana "Li" Saumet from Colombian band Bomba Estéreo. Ahora, by Bomba Estéreo https:/...

Yes. Greater exposure to the phenomenology tradition (beside Heidi) would help this place methinks. I mean, lets recognise pretheoretical human experi...

Because of the idea that even sense data (pain) could be deceiving, or doubted for the sake of the argument. It can be explained, but not explained aw...

That made me laugh, as I wondered: will the guy who completes physical science get all the Nobel prizes thereafter, year after year, or will they canc...

:starstruck:

I agree that to try and categorize thoughts as 'physical' leads to seeming absurdities. This form of monism is simply a category error. Logically spea...

A point Husserl made well, and a great contribution to philosophy IMO. Yes to this. When I speak of other animal species' potential conscious experien...

That's a keeper. I wonder why they always exclude Jews from this blanket condemnation... Isn't Yahweh a bitch too? :-)

Just like a computer can win a chess game. No will needs apply.

That Bitbol lecture is a blast, but it does not argue for the impossibility of self-knowledge. Rather, it argues that one must recognize the knower as...

Okay then, sorry if I misunderstood your argument. Unicorns don't exist on planet earth other than as a human fantasy -- though we can't rule out that...

Thinking about these examples of things that appear to exist but are not made of energy or matter, some of them (the surface area of a cube, the direc...

By and large yes, and thus the existence of minds cannot be denied. That's the cogito.

In "If a thought is physical, it consists of physical energy." There is no justification given, and it simply does not follow. Many things appear to e...

Only minds can discuss, though.

What I can relate to, is the idea that forms exist universally and have causal efficacy. There is no matter without form (and vice versa). By "form" I...

That's panpsychism, too iffy for my taste.

Good resource. I note with interest: "Jaworski, William. Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind: How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem. Oxford ...

Isn't it simply a displacement (or universalisation) of the classical Cartesian human mind vs matter 'divide', in direction of panpsychism?

You contradict yourself here, it seems to me. My original point was that it is an error to consider science as anti-dualist. Individual scientists mig...

Epistemic divide.

Because of the epistemic divide I am talking about. Any knowledge is an interpretation, and any interpretation involves an epistemic jump. The map is ...

And de facto, our knowledge of nature is always imperfect and provisional, to the extent that some philosopher once opined that the only thing he knew...

If that works for you, why not? To me the idea of "property dualism" means very little, just like the term "substance dualism" by the way. "Dualism" i...

I count two things: a logos on the one hand, and the material thing the logos is about on the other hand. Note that these two things are inherently ap...

Science is a logos about matter.

The article misrepresents science as a saying anything certain about the soul. In fact, a dualist point of view is essential to science.

Who is Graziano, and what bits if his writings have you read?

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I share the OP's feeling of a world disappearing. According to The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, a novel by Jérôme Ferrari, men do not necessarily notic...

They didn't grow a real back hole though, but a fake one according to your linked article. Not sure what that is.

Because it involves a singularity, the big crunch. How would you do that in a lab? Create a small back hole and see what happens?

You jumped first by mentioning Thrasymachus. That made no sense. I haven't defined philosophy quite yet and there is more than one single Christian di...

Weren't Socrates and Plato mostly interested in ethics? Aristotle would say that ethics is what defines man as man, and that without it we're just lik...

There's such a thing as information overload. There is also some truth in the saying that "science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme" (Rabelais...

Or take over the US Senate... People are dreaming of revolution again.

That made me laugh. I take it you are being sarcastic here.

I think it's more general than that. Have seen it happen on a variety of topics, as if it was somehow becoming fashionable to diagnose a communication...

So many threads end up like that. Doomed conversations are in the zeitgeist. It seems we cannot do better these days.

Most welcome, you misunderstood quite well too.

That's an interesting parallel, thanks.

Still, form is different from substance. The discussion is whatever we want it to be. To me, the question of ethics is important so I discuss it. If y...

Oh I'm sure it is liberating to have no value at all. It's just not practical for a society though. No, you did not. My world is dualist, or rather pl...

That is simply not true. The film was released in France under the English title "Matrix". By the way, your absurdist French title up there is also gr...

I thought as much. Yours must be a very boring world, where everything is in the same shade of grey.

As a Latinist, feel free to offer a better translation.