Janus

If you ask how it feels to skydive the answer could be "exhilarating", "terrifying", "boring", "disappointing" and so on. No need for 'resemblance' la...

It's a common usage which makes no strict logical sense. Someone might say " what is skydiving like?" for example, which means 'how does skydiving fee...

That may have a mathematical meaning in the context of QM, but it has no logical meaning.

If they are not at different locations then logically there cannot be two.

Not if they are at different locations. I didn't say they could be the same (if they were, they would not be different descriptions); I said two diffe...

I'd say two different things cannot be the same. As to your 'force/ mass x accelaration example" is that a claim of identity or proportionality? Other...

To be the same is the logic of being the same. What else could it be, since it's not a physical relation?

Isn't that just because to be the same is a matter of logic, and there is no unnecessary logic; it is entailment all the way down?

I am sure I remember reading a passage from Kant wherein he says what amounts to saying that a priori judgements are independent of any particular exp...

Kant acknowledged that a priori judgements come after experience. (You couldn't conceive of causality, for example if you had never experienced consta...

I would say the rules of valid inference are abstracted from our experience of making inductive inferences (which are not understood in terms of valid...

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We know what they can do now; we don't know what they can do in the future. We can only assess what seems plausible now.

It "learns" because we programmed it to do so. Algorithms...

If there is mystery as to the existence of the Universe, then there is an extra layer of mystery in regard to the existence of consciousness, I would ...

Taking experience as fundamental, though, I take to mean taking it as what fundamentally needs to be explained in such a putative theory of consciousn...

You said "there is no ether" and since you were drawing an analogy between the ether and consciousness, it seemed reasonable to think you were suggest...

OK, thanks for posting the passage from Chalmers. As you say there is no mention of phenomenology there, and also no mention of a 'first person scienc...

Surely Chalmers would be aware that we already have a first person science: phenomenology. Do you have a quote from Chalmers which actually says that?...

There are two points here I think are worth noting; first, Chalmers doesn't claim that science cannot possibly explain consciousness (otherwise he wou...

So, what will be this hypothethical independent philosophical thinker's starting point and guide, then if not previous philosophical attempts to under...

I get what you're saying but I didn't have in mind so much that a philosopher should focus on working within and/or critiquing the ruling paradigm of ...

It all depends on which "independent thinker" and which "academic philosopher" wouldn't you say? How can you generalize about such a comparison? Perha...

That makes sense to me. I guess we could say that deeper thought is like a more complex tapestry; with more interwoven threads, and then be free of th...

I have been speaking about the content of the thought process, not its neural underpinnings. Of course the latter can only be more or less complex ove...

The LNC doesn't state that you cannot make contradictory statements; if it were impossible to make contradictory statements then the LNC would be redu...

No answer to no question seems appropriate.

I don't acknowledge that I was wrong about that. You haven't explained why you think I am wrong other than to claim that I was saying that capitalism ...

Sorry, I didn't notice a question; you'll have to spell out the question in clear terms that my simple mind can understand.

I haven't claimed that capitalism is merely an "abstract matter", so I have no idea what you're driving at. I also haven't claimed that there is no ho...

Everything I have written has to do with what I originally wrote, if not with the OP itself. I wouldn't expect you to agree, in any case, since we obv...

Depth is usually conceived not as consisting in "surface movement", or the superficial, but in subtlety, nuance, complexity of association and allusio...

I agree with you that capitalism has become more and more widespread, nearly universal, as a socio-economic model and practice; and I haven't said oth...

The essence of capitalism is capital growth or profit, over and above any growth in actual products. Once ownership became established then usury was ...

The current problem, which some see as a crisis, for capitalism seems to be that the upward spiraling generation of mega-debt, which is acceptable onl...

:smile: And I should have added: usury has been around for a very long time.

Interest, or the realization of profit, or increase in capital. without having to produce anything, seems to be the essence of capitalism. Of course t...

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No ,sorry, I should have added 'yes' or 'right' to indicate that I was agreeing with you.

Inductive reasoning is not, in the first instance, or essentially, a matter of deriving general principles. It is, primordially, just expectation base...

Reason is inescapable in the context of discursive thinking insofar as to question reason, reason is required.

This is absolute nonsense. You don't seem to understand the distinction between inductive and deductive logic. Validity is a deductive matter concerni...

Already addressed; read more carefully and you might avoid further misunderstandings.

If everyone stops responding, then he might stop whinging. Or if he continues, then stop paying any attention, and the problem disappears except for h...

Right, that Kant passage supports my earlier response to @"Mww". The further thought in my response was that mathematics (arithmetic) certainly seems ...

You're conflating deductive with inductive logic. The classic example, given by an ancient Greek thinker whose name escapes me at the moment, describe...

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying here. It seems to me that the "possibility of actually doing it" would have been realized quite early in huma...

I see the idea of a unique absolute reality as following logically from the idea of an absolute reality. And there can be no real contradictions in re...

I think a good example is mathematics. Some say it is analytic a priori, others, including Kant I believe, say it is synthetic a priori. Now you say t...

The idea of many absolute realities contradicting one another makes no sense. So, if you claim, for example that some story of Gods creating the world...