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I'm not sure what you mean to refer to by "logically grounded theories". Are not all consistent and coherent theories logically grounded? Also, I see ...

On what basis do you say we initially see a two-dimensional image? I don't, and don't recall ever, seeing a two-dimensional image.

The world appears to us as three dimensional. As I see it there are no two-dimensional images; you have length and breadth and depth in any image. wit...

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This is one very limited conception of what it means to be doing philosophy.

Are you not familiar with the depth perception due to parallax? Is there really any such things as a two-dimensional image? Even lines and the paper t...

If you want to do something and nothing stands in your way, do you have any choice about doing it? Only in principle I would say, which doesn't count ...

You don't need the populace to be a "permanent existent entity" you just need everyone, or at least enough people who get the picture, but yes, I don'...

Do you mean to say that we shouldn't bother to pursue philosophy unless we want to? I would take that as read, because the alternative would be that w...

Yes, it would...I'd love to see it happen, but I'm not holding my breath. I agree, and I think the problem is the two-party system, with effectively l...

I agree with this, but this a case of realizing that no organism is isolated or can be properly understood without taking into account its interaction...

No, I would not want to say more than that except I might say "can't know" instead of "don't know", because I want to acknowledge that there could be ...

Karma makes no more sense than rebirth to me, and I am very familiar with the theories in Buddhism and Vedanta. The point about dualism stands even wi...

What if everyone collectively decided they did not want their money to be in the bank or in the financial and stock markets, and collectively decided ...

Is the difference merely a difference of parlance, or is there a deeper issue? I don't think it makes sense to say there are two cups, but I am okay w...

I'm with you on this, I think, though I don't think the problem of recognizing that science only deals with things as they appear to us should find to...

The elites only supply a demand; it is the populace that demands what they provide and if the populace acted as one in ceasing to purchase what the el...

Is there not a coherent conceptual distinction between what is and what we know, or in other words between what we believe to be so and what is true o...

I wonder whether the purely descriptive activity of phenomenology can tell us where our experience originates or what explains it: that seems to be mo...

I don't understand phenomenology to be metaphysics except in the sense that metaphysical speculation shows us what we are capable of imagining. Husser...

I've heard that they are building such bunkers; I guess we should not be surprised. Your ten years seems a little pessimistic, but who knows?

:up: Far be it from me to pontificate as to what should seem intuitively plausible to others.

What I meant was whether the financial elites would allow control to be handed over to benign "strong AGI". I would say the financial elites, whether ...

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Holding that idea in mind disqualifies me utterly from making any sense at all of the idea of rebirth.

Yes, but the idea seems to depend on a belief that there must be something independent and separable from the body that carries over from life to life...

Fair enough. As the saying goes " you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink", but I also acknowledge that it might not be water at a...

I think we basically agree on that, except as I keep saying I think the fact that we can and do make such a distinction has had profound consequences ...

Even if that is rejected on the basis that those are all experience of the cup, and not the cup itself; leaving experience aside altogether it remains...

I think the 'dual aspect' as opposed to the 'dual world' interpretation of Kant is the only coherent one, but I do get where you are coming from.

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The question I have is whether the financial elites would allow it and/ or whether the populace can ever manage to unify itself sufficiently to defy t...

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That's true and I don't deny that with the cell membrane comes primordial enclosedness and self-regulation, the apprehension of which leads in reflect...

Yes, it is Cartesian dualism, but remember that when thinkers started to put aside the religious dogma that curtailed critical thinking and Descartes ...

Well, that's a shame!

That is probably the intuitive "folk psychology" way of imagining ideas, meanings, and thoughts, but now the science tells us they are living neuronal...

I'd say those are physical, not metaphysical, concepts. They are concepts which describe/ explain what is observed. Causality, gravity and relativity ...

I'd say different processes are evident. I don't see principles as being evident; just different kinds and scales of functioning. I agree with you abo...

Why do we need to think in terms of an "animating principle"? The organic processes associated with life can be understood as being merely different t...

I think it is unfair to Kant to claim that we would think there are two cups. He was an empirical realist, and I believe he would have said there is o...

Ah, sorry, I'm a wee bit slow this morning. Is the "transition from quantity to quality" intended to say that the reaction to living, as opposed to de...

Do you mean the past lives research? Maybe I'm missing something, I'm not sure what your question refers to... That process view (which I personally f...

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Totally agree; there seems to be no conceivable way to rationally or empirically justify the idea that intellectual intuition can yield propositionall...

Right, for all we know number could come to an end, but that seems extremely implausible given there is no logical reason why we cannot, in prinicple,...

I don't say it couldn't be true, but I find the anecdotal evidence in support of it unconvincing. the results could more easily, and I think more plau...

You don't think the inevitable idea of degrees of accuracy logically terminates in the idea of perfect accuracy? To my way of thinking this would be s...

I am familiar with them too, but I can't say they make sense to me beyond the fact that they are all logically possible in the sense of not being obvi...