:up: I also stand by my preference for the DR view, and I totally get your interest in exploring the nuances of the various arguments even though I no...
I have always found this whole debate somewhat ridiculous. It has always seemed to me to be nothing more than arguing about terminology. We can say, w...
You are each talking about different notions of free will. The libertarian notion admits of no determinants which are not strict restraints on freedom...
For me eliminative physicalism says that ultimately the constitutive reality is the physical causal with the semantic being an emergent phenomenon of ...
I agree that Buddhism offers only a soteriology and not any coherent, consistent or explanatory metaphysics, and the idea that it does offer the latte...
Right, the conclusion follows from the premises in that it must be, at least implicitly, saying the same thing. So, I would say it is a matter of sema...
It's clear in that quotation that he's not denying the reality of agency. consciousness and meaning? but by all means continue with your self-righteou...
I take the normativity of reason to be relative to its form, not its content. Valid reasoning may lead to unsound or even meaningless conclusions if t...
What makes you think it is a Cartesian division rather than just the acknowledgement that there are different spheres of activity and inquiry in human...
I basically agree with what you say about science, but there are two points that came to mind. First, I see science as an extension of ordinary, every...
To say that no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is observed is not the same as to say that we bring things into existence by observing them. W...
I think it's the best we can do. For me the very idea of a "full account of morality" is the wrong way to think about it, given that we are always dea...
Sure, but for me the essence of ethical thought and action is about fellow feeling and good intentions. We are not perfect, obviously we can and do ma...
On the other hand, the idea that reality could be other than it appears to be is absurd unless what is meant by "how the world appears" allows that wh...
You said."who says reality has to make sense?". I was pointing out that anything that would count as a reality for us must make sense. The point was c...
Anything we can identify as being real has to make sense. Of course that doesn't rule out the possibility that there are aspects of nature that we can...
I agree that as far as we can tell humans compared to animals have the added ability to reflect in symbolic linguistic terms. I agree that humans bein...
I don't equate justice with revenge, but I get that the idea that wrondgdoers can get away with their wrongdoing and escape justice by dying is not pa...
I somehow missed this earlier. I'll give my thoughts on each premise and conclusion. P1: Saying that reasoning is normative suggests that it is social...
You clearly missed the point. I was responding to the underlined, not making a comparison between humans and animals, except insofar as it seems more ...
Animals are initiators of actions?it seems wrong to impute moral responsibility to them. If you are talking about mere responsibility, as in 'lightnin...
It should be possible to make sense of any clear and consistent argument. The claim seems to be that because physicalism cannot make sense of intentio...
Maybe there is nothing to understand. If no one can lay it out, we might conclude that there is no argument?that is what I've been leading up to. You ...
It might help if you lay out what you think the argument is. You say this: But that is a mere assertion. What reason do you think the argument is offe...
What exactly are you looking for Tom. Do you think intentionailty cannot be explained in naturalistic terms? Or are you thinking that it is the origin...
Yes, I suppose that is true for some?for those who need certainty. My point is that God and other spiritual and/ or esoteric notions might provide a s...
If people claim that physics can explain everything, then they are obviously wrong. I haven't heard many, or even any, claims to that effect on this s...
I don't think that is a fair assessment of either physicalism or naturalism. It may apply to certain stripes, but beyond that, no. For example there a...
In an earlier response I outlined what the world being intelligible means to me. It means simply that an organism can navigate an unarguably complex e...
Right, but it seems undeniable that each entity is unique and that there will never be another the same. In our thinking about the one, I think we sho...
If there is no continuity of memory, then there is no continuity of "interesting threads". On the other hand what if, as Kastrup believes, nothing is ...
In my book for the environment to count as intelligible all that is required is that percipients can successfully orient themselves in it such as to a...
I agree. I think the idea of the enlightened one is just a case of the usual human myth-making. In any case no one but the actual enlightened would kn...
Cheers, yes the idea of liberating all beings is aspirational. And given how few (if any?) do ever seem to be liberated, and the acknowledgement withi...
The idea of ending suffering for all beings seems to be in both traditions and also seems impossible to me. Buddhist cosmology posits a beginning-less...
Right, I think it is true that for any biological lifeform physical suffering is inevitable. I read the prescription of non-attachment as recommending...
So, according to the passage quoted, the first kind of suffering is due to pain?no problem interpreting that?suffering can even be defined as pain. Th...
Earth may not be the "normal" frame (although it certainly is for us). The fact remains, however that, if the theory is correct, the twin who traveled...
You are just repeating what I had already said...that the thought that mind and body could be completely independent of one another is absurd...while ...
I think that's probably right, but I didn't want to assume so, because I really haven't looked into it much. So, it might take a year of our time for ...
Good point (how did I miss that?), but the video data from them would presumably be slowed down too relative to us. So the question then is whether th...
Their physical processes cannot be observed from my frame until they return. Then I would see that their physical processes had been much slower than ...
Unless I am mistaken, the theory says that if you traveled at the speed of light to some distant star and then returned, those on Earth would have age...
It seems obvious to me?it means suffering due to negative thought complexes or patterns. This notion of transmigration could be consistent with the id...
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