Janus

Sorry, I don't really understand the question. That said, even in the absence of understanding the question I can ask why they should not "sync up". A...

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I'm not sure what your reference to meaning and classification seeks to highlight, but my point is that intuition does matter when it comes to rule-fo...

Feeling thirsty can be considered to be a purely physical process. It's not that mental processes are "along for the ride" if you think of the mental ...

The point being that counting is intuitive...the act enacts a logic which is inherent to animal cognition, so no need to think of it as rule-following...

The logic of adding goes back to grouping objects, animals, people, together.

You might say rule-following has its genesis and foundation in pattern recognition and mimicry.

As far as I know science never purported to be able to directly study anyone's experiences. It generally acknowledges that its ambit of investigation,...

:up: 'Real' refers to whatever we all reliably experience in common ways via the senses. including (internal) bodily sensations. Hence colours, just a...

Or fortunate... depending on perspective.

I don't see the point in examining our notions of identity under the light (or more aptly in the darkness) afforded by thought experiments which utili...

It is both commonsensical and commonplace to attribute memory loss to physical changes in the brain, so it's not clear what point you are trying to ma...

Yes, the idea of the body being the best picture of the soul seems right to me. I am also reminded of Spinoza's "the soul is the idea of the body". An...

Is this not just the continuity afforded by memory? We can also say that, for instance, a tree has a persistent identity over time. I plant a tree whe...

I said that Wayfarer does not present an unambiguous position. It looks like I misread you to be suggesting philosophy is commonly ambiguous, whereas ...

Firstly I haven't said there are no ambiguous claims from philosophers, but I don't believe philosophy in general is rife with them. So that said, how...

Berkeley had a clear position. According to him the explanation for the persistence of things and the fact we all perceive the same things was that Go...

OK, I think what you say there is uncontroversial and perfectly compatible with realisms (other than naive realism). The only ambiguity there is "a ki...

So you acknowledge that unperceived things exist, and you are only denying that we can see things as they are when unperceived? In that case there wou...

I agree with what you say, and I think it follows on from what I said. It's the best we can do.

I believe the Universe evolved, and I think this belief entails that there were an untold number of events and processes that occurred before there we...

Right, and this is just what I've been saying except I don't think the fact that we must acknowledge that there is a reality beyond our perceptual and...

Sure, why not? I'm not sure what you are getting at with your first sentence. "The world as it is" is for us just an idea, but it doesn't seem to foll...

It's not that I don't understand what you are saying, it's that I don't agree with it, but you don't seem to be able to fathom that. You say "the exis...

Well, in line with what I said, we don't know what they are. Do you really think the whole story consists in what we can be consciously aware of? I ge...

I think you are saying that we perceive the differences that have meaning for us, differences that make a difference for us, and that that meaning is ...

What is the alternative? That the world just is what it isn't? I have to say, Wayfarer, that I am yet, after all the exchanges we have had over the la...

Reality as experienced and interpreted by us has a subjective pole, so no disagreement there. We can imagine that the world without us has no subjecti...

Cheers but there is nothing to excuse, it's an open forum. It has nothing to do with coherentism. The reality that we can be mistaken about. according...

:up: That's an apt and succinct way of putting it.

A brick wall's response depends on what you throw at it. Just to be clear: are you claiming that the world absent any perceivers could not possibly po...

I am anticipating a verrry long wait... Edit: Some rhetoric appeared above as I wrote...still waiting for the reasoning.

I was just about to write "How could you know that" when I looked directly above and saw that Banno beat me to it. Lay out the reasoning.

Right. the basic features of the world are not mind-created, but mind-recognized.

:100: How easily and how often that is forgotten!

Yes, there would seem to be little hope for us as a species if we don't find such a way.

:up: I think that is what it all comes down to. Philosophy should be about how best to live. Whatever does not inform that, however interesting and cr...

You haven't and Wayfarer hasn't, said what that alternative form of idealism consists in. If it is only that the brain models a world, well I think th...

There is no point saying that I don't understand some idea if you cannot explain it yourself. I can simply retort that you don't understand it either ...

I would have been better to say 'a world or a self is never encountered'. Perhaps That seems right, but no framework is THE framework. I think we agre...

I don't see how you could transcend the "I-making and mine-making proclivities" as long as you cling to the idea that the mind (that is the self) crea...

We don't encounter a world or a self, but we encounter many hands. And many hands make light work—but only if they work together.

I had to look up those two names—I don't know much about the British Idealists other than that they were followers of Hegel. Apparently, the early Ber...

My criticism of the view that everything is mind is that we really have no idea what that could mean. On the other hand, we know very well what it mea...

Sure, however I'm not talking about the science, but the various metaphysical interpretations of the implications of QM made by probably mostly non-sc...

I don't beleive that Quantum physics although of course some want to interpret the results that way. The metaphysical speculations about the results o...

No, it's a problem that goes way beyond solipsism. If there are mind independent existents that would explain how it is that we see and hear the same ...

Yes, I think consistency with our experience is important. I'm not a fan of religious faith at all, at least insofar as it makes ontological or metaph...

Without actual renunciation such social entanglements are inevitable. And even with renunciation, complete disentanglement is not possible, because co...

But does he do so coherently? Not that I have seen. Yes, there is no coherent way to render mind ontologically fundamental, since the notion has its r...