I don't know if Kastrup says Schopenhauer says, but he most definitely did say in the interview I mentioned that he thinks we have access to the noume...
is it just a theory of heat or light, or is using what we know works like using a ruler to measure? I mean a thermometer works reliably as attested by...
The observational knowledge of science is of course true. The hypotheses and theories as to how the processes observed work are defeasible models. The...
I don't see much to disagree with there except I would say the subject is immanent, not transcendent. I see the notion of transcendence as being purel...
I'm not very familiar with Kastrup's philosophy, but in one of interviews (I think with Curt Jaimungal) he says that we know something of the noumen (...
Your thinking seems to align with my own, insofar as it resonates more with the Vedic tradition than the Buddhist. Having said that I can't claim to b...
I don't think so. The working of the engine can be observed directly?transparent models have been constructed. It's like saying that we don't really k...
I agree with T Clark that science is the search for knowledge?for knowing how things work?and not for truth. This is so because scientific theories ca...
The internal combustion engine is well understood. The understanding of its workings were not the kind of thing I had in mind when I spoke of scientif...
The irony is that certainty is never obtained in the hard sciences. No scientific theory can ever be proven to be true. While many people fail to unde...
Are you rejecting the existence of other consciousnesses or just the idea that they have any actual connection with yours, as distinct from merely a s...
I still don't see an argument that supports a conclusion that any particular metaphysics or presupposition is needed in order to do science. Science, ...
Insofar as I could understand it, I think I agree with most of what you say there, and I think disagreement often hinges on an alternative turn of pha...
No I'm not and that's not what I've been saying at all. Anyway I think I've reached the point of diminishing returns so I'm happy to leave it where it...
The world as perceived is obviously not independent of the perceivers. But it seems obvious there is a "contribution" to what is perceived from a perc...
That's not true, I'm not smuggling anything in, but just making simple observations.. I'm not talking about structures I'm talking about trees. The fa...
You are misunderstanding the point. I'm not saying animals I don't even understand what you mean exactly by "individuate, discriminate or make attribu...
What you are saying is of the same kind as what Kastrup is saying and what I said is the only explanatory idealist model. You say consciousness has "o...
Cheers, Happy New Year to you as well! Let's hope there is some real progress towards solving the suite of now everlooming problems humanity faces in ...
They're all just perspectives on something we know nothing much about, and all as such more or less inadequate. The only perspectives I consider as wo...
I'm out of time for this so I'll just respond to this for now. I of course agree that all consciousnesses are subject to the same general constraints ...
Kastrup says that he is a naturalist and that mind-at-large just is nature. Soinoza says God just is nature?that is the extent of the comparison I was...
Science can only deal with what our senses reveal...with what is measurable and quantifiable. There are other less 'hard' areas of enquiry such as psy...
I'm very familiar with Buddhist philosophy?I took units in it at Uni and have been interested in Buddhist and Vedantic ideas since the age of 16. Ulti...
I can't see why one would need to be a metaphysical materialist in order to do science. Scince can only deal with what is given by the senses?that is ...
It's not the idea like Berkeley's that God is always perceiving everything, and that God's perception or thought holds everything in stable existence....
Yes, if they are manifestations of a universal mind. But that seems to be the point that Wayfarer is denying. In fact he has written on here that it i...
The fact that our sense organs and brains are similarly constituted can explain how it is that we see things in similar ways, but it cannot explain ju...
As such matter is real and human mind-independent, as it "mind-at-large". As I read Kastrup, he understands matter to be the "visible" or tangible asp...
I don't think that is what he argues. He argues that matter is what appearances look like to mind. It is the tangible aspect of mind, so to speak, not...
Yes, we just don't know. It begs the question as to whether the laws of nature were present from the start or whether they are, as Peirce suggested, e...
And what if everything is the subject? If the order of the world is infinite and our models finite then there would be infinitely many ways to model i...
I don't think that is a good analogy. Anyway why change the subject? We were discussing universal moral principles, principles which don't depend on t...
It seems most reasonable to me to think that animals of any kind might be considered to be conscious, however minimally. Plants and fungi I don't know...
Okay, I don't agree because although 'existence' is an idea, I don't think existence is an idea. If the terms 'Earth ' and 'dinosaur' were understood ...
So, do you think as Wayfarer does that it is not merely the possibility of meaning that depends on consciousness, but the possibility even of existenc...
Would Kastrup not be operating within a distinction between perceiver and perceived, saying that consciousness is the medium and that the perceivers a...
The point is why bother saying that the mind is immaterial? If the mind is a process of the brain, then it is no more immaterial than digestion. Neith...
No, I don't need to imagine myself making a distinction, I simply make the obvious conceptual distinction between the world as it appears and as it is...
But again this is a mere truism and/ or a conflation?of course a concept of "the world before humans existed" is a concept. However the world before h...
I think you're projecting bert. No doubt everyone has a purpose here, even if it is only entertainment, or an interest in exploring ideas in order to ...
If you read it with enough care you would have seen it was a question, not a statement. A question you refuse to answer for what would seem to be obvi...
Right, instead of answering the question you instead talk about me and where you (erroneously) think I'm coming from. More politics than philosophy. W...
Material conditions are anything that we can detect via the senses. Science tells us there were material conditions prior to humans. And, as predicted...
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