Janus

Apparently you misread what I wrote. I had in mind the commonly imagined scifi scenario, where you are traveling at close to the speed of light and al...

Yes, I agree that dualism is unsupportable. If we were traveling at speed close to c, aging of our bodies and all its physical processes would, accord...

If mental processes are independent of neural processes then they ought to be unaffected by the relativity of velocities. If they are not independent ...

I'm not sure what you are saying. Are you responding to my disagreement with "the rational is the real"? Are you pointing out that it could be true on...

You've changed the subject. You were talking about printing money to give to those who had lost jobs due to technology so they could remain as consume...

Inflation will only result if there is insufficient product to meet demand.

Right, and I agree; I think such an idea can be nothing more than that, an idea. Where I don't agree with Hegel is in his thought that actuality is id...

It just means we don't know everything about anything. There is always more to know about things and different ways to know them than those which are ...

I tend to favour seeing process, relation as ontologically fundamental rather than thing or substance being fundamental. So, things are processes, not...

It's a thorny question. What does "validated" mean? If it means verified, then the point seems moot since it is well-accepted in philosophy of science...

We can only figure out what the nature of time is in the context of how time appears to be to us. It doesn't follow that there is no time independent ...

Cheers, I think I already read that review on Medium. If it was the same one I found it a bit carping?I don't think Levin is concerned with promoting ...

Many people find their meaning in earning a living?that is, in their profession. You are speaking, and can speak, only for yourself.

Actually on second thought "scientific orthodoxy" seems a bit strong. "Popular image of the scientific view" seems more apt. What individual scientist...

I added a bit more to my post as you were responding. I don't think I'm specifically implying that you want to return to the "aegis of tutelage" (Hege...

I'm not sure which italicized passages you are referring to. I don't disagree that Galileo's distinction between primary and secondary qualities and D...

You accuse me of positivism when I distinguish between those claims which are amenable to testing, to empirical evidence or logical demonstration, fro...

You need to understand that the search for meaning is far more open today than it has been in the past. The "predicament" which is the really just the...

The spotlight analogy can be read as local, attentional awareness of what was already there in global consciousness. Like when you are driving, you ar...

That's very funny if not a little sad!

Yes, as if making sense for somebody is not ever attempting to make him (or her) believe...

I don't find much to disagree with there so I'll just comment on this: There is certainly a power to collective belief.

Exactly. Imagine if there were no plurality of views.

Thanks, I can make sense of what you say there. I'm radically open to entertaining different perspectives, and I'm not wedded to any of them, or even ...

I'll try another way of looking at this and see if it makes sense to you. I am going to kind of repeat what I already said. So, you say "the in itself...

The first statement says that space and time are relevant to or operative in some domain, which doesn't rule out that they are also relevant to or ope...

Any attempt to explicate just how things are does seem to generate inconsistencies, paradoxes, antinomies and I guess these could all be seen as perfo...

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I'd say the producer, not the product, of our senses and cognitive apparatus seems more apt.

I don't see how you can escape the contradiction if you say which is exactly to say that the in itself is human mind-independent. Also, when you say "...

Thanks for your great effort. There is a lot there and I'm running out of time today so I will read through and if I have time select bits that seem t...

You contradict yourself?you say "the in itself is what lies beyond our conceptual and sensory reach", which is the very definition of human mind-indep...

I don't think this assessment is accurate if the Ancient Greeks philosophers are taken into account. Perhaps, but 'revelation' is a loaded term?I pref...

Are there? How do you know? Again, how do you know there is reincarnation? Yes, of course they are allegorical?I was only pointing out that all our su...

There is no change without energy, no constitution of anything without energy. The changes, the possibilities for different constitutions of things, s...

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I've read some of both, and much much more of Heidegger, and where I find difficulty is only where the language is obscure or ambiguous. The basic ide...

Do you mean the theory or the practice? If phenomenology consists in attending to experience, then the theory is unnecessary?which is not to say the p...

Fair enough?I guess "taboo" could just mean 'not acceptable'. It has been used on here in the other sense?to suggest that there is a fear of religion ...

The anti-modernist, neo-Romantic thing seems apt to me up here in Nimbin. :wink: I don't know what's its like in the cities these days?I haven't lived...

Right, of course we are looking at a ship not a mental image of one? this is shown by the fact that we can maintain a clear (but constantly changing) ...

That makes sense to me. I don't see why one could not be a (non-eliminative) physicalist without devolving into some form of dualism. One could mainta...

The problem for phenomenology is that all of what is said above is also a "theoretical artefact". Property dualism is discursively inescapable. I thin...

You've provided no counter-argument, just hand-waving.

It's simple; "taboo" implies a socially conditioned introjection governing responses and the presence of fear.

No, we know from observation that metals expland more than wood, for example does with heat, and wood more than metals with moisture. We know that woo...

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Why interpret a principled rejection of the idea of transcendence as a "taboo"? It seems that some folk seek to psychologically explain away the holdi...

I'm saying that some technology is based on observation of how things behave, not on theories that explain why they behave the way they do. The analog...

Thermometers seem to be accurate enough to serve the medical industry. In my experience they show I have elevated temperature when I experience the sy...