I don't personally find the distinction between individual and collective evolution confusing, but for those who do, your suggestion might indeed be h...
That's the difference between biological and non-biological evolution; there is no self-organization involved in the formation of hurricanes, rivers a...
Biological evolution is obviously a partially inorganic process insofar as it involves interactions between the organic and the inorganic. Nonetheless...
If a physical object is defined as 'what is described by physics" then that is circular and is really no definition at all. In the current understandi...
Well, I do think the idea of geographical isolation is the most (and perhaps the only) plausible explanation we can presently come up with for the obs...
It's true there are different species, and the evidence certainly appears to show that evolution (in the sense of a changing and progressive series of...
Apparently I was adding text while you were responding; but be that as it may, you still haven't offered any actual argument. So, unless you do offer ...
Why not? Why cannot the intuition that awareness is ontologically different than physicality be a subjective epiphenomenal illusion? You haven't prese...
"Enjoy" was used in sense of 'experience'; I used the former instead of the latter, though, because it seems clumsy to speak of experiencing experienc...
I am not an eliminativist, and I'm not accusing you of anything other than that whatever perspective you support, it will not, cannot, be free of pres...
So you believe that insects do enjoy subjective experience, and make judgements and decisions? I think it's safe to say that this is not required; and...
From the eliminativist point of view the first person point of view is not ontic, but epiphenomenal. This is a form of monism; but it is not neutral m...
Yes, I do agree with you that it is wrong; but I also acknowledge that my agreement is based on presuppositions. So it would seem that from the perspe...
Whether or not that proposition is considered foundational will depend on starting presumptions. If you take phenomenology as fundamental, as ontology...
What about the illusions used by carnivorous plants, and flowering plants to attract pollinators. Will you claim that the insects that are fooled are ...
I can't see how I am being rationalistic "by definition". I don't deny that we know of our thoughts by being aware of them, and I can't see how that f...
But thinking of illusions in terms of "first person points of view" is already to assume that first person points of view are not themselves illusions...
What we think of as 'the subject of experience', the "one who is subject to the illusion", could simply be the physical body. You might not be able to...
I'm not trying to argue that an eliminativist POV is rationally justifiable or even merely sustainable. I am just trying to get at precisely why it wo...
I came across this passage,written in 2008, in my journal. It seems somewhat relevant, so I am posting it here: If I say that mind does not really exi...
What if all humanity ran after Agustino? Oh, sorry, I broke the sequence. I think Stormy Daniels will bow to Donald Trump, and so show her naked inten...
Entertain for a moment the idea that all mental states have physical correlates. This would mean that all mental processes; coming to understand somet...
Why not? I would not agree that immanence and transcendence are polemical. For me It is all a matter of context. As I said a few posts ago, if I were ...
We can certainly say what it is to exist in the phenomenal sense. But metaphysics is always attempting to go beyond the merely phenomenal. You are agr...
I have always understood the term to be a polemic against the notion that it is the dialectical logic of consciousness which determines the unfolding ...
It's not clear what you "don't necessarily believe". Are you saying that we do have an exhaustive understanding of what it means to be physical? Regar...
From the review, speaking about the "consciousness" deniers: The problem is not that they take naturalism to entail materialism—they’re right to do so...
Yes sure, a discrete entity can be composed of smaller discrete entities. The point is that if a discrete entity is active then that activity can only...
The problem for this is if a moment is active it cannot be fundamentally discrete, because if it is active then there will be change, process, within ...
Philosophies are critiqued by other philosophies. If you are looking for an absolute standard of critique such as the scientific method (enshrined in ...
I think the difference is that what you think of as "higher knowledge" I think of as "heightened consciousness" or "elevated feeling". And I do see th...
Well, no I don't think what you are calling "private ineffable experience" is really in every sense private or ineffable. I mean, all experiences are ...
Like any diverse activity, as Wittgenstein pointed out, it cannot be precisely defined in some essentialist manner. But we all can recognize art in te...
I think you are still conflating the content of religious experience with the fact of religious experience. I*n any case the content is not subjective...
Positions in science may be able to fulfil this requirement, but not all, or even many, positions in philosophy can. This is evidenced by the fact tha...
Again, you're assuming 'exhaustive' when that was not what you intended. 'Reality' is a very plastic term; the forces are assumed to be part of realit...
Two questions; in what way precisely are they necessarily Protestant? And how do you propose that inter-subjective corroboration (which is the term I ...
As you no doubt know; I am also interested in "the spiritual". The problem is, and we have touched on this before, that spiritual experience doesn't c...
OK, I get it: it's beneath you. The irony is that if you have a good argument or objection to make it should only take a handful of sentences to prese...
It seems to me that not just science, but all human discourses, inevitably have this dualism of knower and known, self and other; and that this is jus...
Sure, the thread is about the term 'belief' and what would be its most useful ambit of application. And you have provided no argument as to why you se...
The "vitriol" is a phantom projection of your own defensiveness, I would say. I certainly haven't felt any vitriol. Impatience is all I have felt in t...
Which is of course true in the context of science; but more or less irrelevant when it comes to philosophy, except in those restricted areas where the...
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