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Thanks for the interesting and allusive (not to mention elusive) explanation. 'Holographic' was either a typo or an outcome due to predictive text. An...

This seems to be the central issue?what is a fact, and does the qualifier "objective" add anything? Obviously there are many facts in and about our ev...

As far as I understand in biosemiotics it is the membrane which is the basic interpretant. So, I wonder what serves as interpretant in the pansemiotic...

The idea makes no sense to me since information, as far as I know, is always carried by a material substrate. Also science informs that for the majori...

That there is always some form of physical substrate is the point. There is no "immaterial " information. Information is like currency...fungible... i...

That's true it is logically possible?given that no self-contradiction is involved in the idea. The problem is we have no way of determining whether my...

:up: And yet being conscious does have physical properties. So, I'll ask again?what is the difference between consciousness and being conscious? Being...

That's strictly true?I misspoke. What I had in mind was that it is a thesis in epistemology., and it is commonly, as applied to scientific theories, c...

There is nothing in the quoted passage there about Kant's description of the unknowability of the in itself being religious dogma. I haven't even used...

What a ridiculous statement?I never claimed it was a religious dogma.. The in itself is unknowable by mere definition/ stipulation?the in itself is al...

No, it's not: verificationism is a theory in the philosophy of science. I've already said that scientific theories cannot be verified to be true, so I...

Thanks for distorting what I've said yet again. I have never said that only what can be scientifically validated can be stated. It is obvious that we ...

The problem is that the truth (or falsity) of such intuitions is not in any way definitively decidable. We can explain the universality of such intuit...

There are all kinds of things which are commonly referred to as 'things', and not all of them objects of the senses. A thing is simply something which...

Would you say that it is likely, if someone believes that certain kinds of altered states of consciousness give us access to a divine reality, that th...

You assume that consciousness does not have physical properties. Is consciousness something different than being conscious? If yes, then what is the d...

What, despite the vast habitat destruction necessary to install the huge acreages of monoculture sustained with petrochemical based fertilizers and to...

On one way of reading this: that 'existence' is only ever intelligible to us under the conditions of immediate experience, what you are saying is, fir...

A tendentious "just-so" story if there ever was one! What you outline is merely one perspective of what happened historically among many others. Of co...

Vacuous question! Anything that appears presumably exists somehow independently of appearing. You contradict yourself when you say that you don't deny...

Okely dokely...well done, medium, medium rare or rare?

I would say you could be fairly certain you had a mystical experience or not by comparing it to the quite substantial literature documenting reports o...

I think it should have been obvious that I didn't mean to say the dog called it a wallaby?by "we" I meant to refer to English speakers. I'll grant the...

Unargued dismissal by labelling, pure and simple. If you attained a radically altered state and felt absolutely convinced that you had insight into th...

The I have no idea what we have been disagreeing about, because it is true by mere definition that we cannot see the world as it would be absent any o...

I have no argument with spiritual practices and faiths?I just don't like to see people interpreting such beliefs as objective knowledge, for that way ...

You are still missing the point. Due to the general structural and functional characteristics of the human eye most of us see the same range of colour...

Don't worry about the original post or QM, just answer the straightforward question above if you can. What is at issue is the explanatory power of you...

I don't think 'material cause' and 'formal cause' are particularly interesting, but I do think there is a valid distinction between proximate and glob...

It's not dogmatic; it is a phenomenological reflection on our everyday experience. Our everyday experience shows us clearly that we live in a shared w...

I'm not sure what you mean by "bystander". By "participatory" perhaps you mean something like "present"?that is, not "off in your head" all consumed b...

I guess I would agree with the Madhyamika philosophers. Because on the other hand without such a reification, it becomes merely an idea, and thus seem...

True, although it may be that there are elements of efficient causation in all those contexts, but that it is far from being the whole story.

That seems right. Efficient or proximal causation is the basis of mechanistic modeling. That kind of modeling tends to isolate the subject from its en...

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You make a good point. I was addressing just the 'thinking' aspect of mind. When I think, whether in language or images, the activity seems to be loca...

I was using the digestion analogy more to point to the idea that activities in general are not strictly objects of the senses, not to address the issu...

I read your essay, and I thought it was well-constructed and clearly expressed. However I remain unconvinced about the idea of a collective or univers...

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:up: Foolish practice makes perfect foolishness? Would perfect foolishness be wisdom? (there was also a tradition of fools being wise as shown in KIng...

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise" William Blake

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I meant as opposed to ideal. That said. I do think the materialism/ idealism dichotomy is ultimately wrongheaded, but there is a deeply entrenched dis...

I thought this comment referred to a conversation we were having in the other 'idealism' thread. I'm not so sure what it refers to in this thread. Yes...

I've heard of Noe and that book, but never looked into it. I agree that “consciousness is an achievement of the whole animal in its environmental cont...

I get that; it is possible to reverse perspectives. That said from a phenomenological perspective, it does seem to me that my thoughts are going on in...

You haven't said anything I didn't already know. Anything about which we can know nothing is noumenal. "Know" here means 'have cognitive access to'. I...

Corrections require cogent argument and explanation. "No" is a useless comment.

Totally useless comments.

OK, that makes sense. The only thing I wonder about is whether Kant's noumena are logically required. To explain the fact that we all see the same thi...