apokrisis

Everything here you are arguing to be true per definition. You don't seem to realise that. So that is why I have tried to focus your attention on the ...

So what makes it yours? Do you want to point to something material ... like nervous systems and physical locations? Or did you have in mind a soul? Le...

It in fact seems an important point that consciousness has this character of being a highly particular point of view. So you are presuming that makes ...

Just keep chanting "all branches of the wavefunction are equally real" until you are a paid up member of the cult of MWI. That way you will never have...

Well. And why is that? What is causally significant about a nervous system? There must be something or else why else have you just singled it out? But...

Well something sure flies out the window once you deny the measurements that might locate you in some actual world rather than leaving you to fluff ab...

Fine. So now try to answer my question. I'm drawing attention to a presumption your OP embodies. The way to understand it is by considering why you mi...

OK. That's your claim. Now make sense of it causally. What is the mechanism that underpins your categorical distinction?

It's a question. Do you find mind problematic for physicalism but not life? If so, why exactly? The point of the question is that the origin of life m...

Yep. Rosen did a great job on highlighting the logical impossibility of "computing nature". And the holographic principle now shows that it is materia...

The OP displays a basic epistemic confusion which is indeed fairly widespread in physics since it has jumped sides and gone from a materialist ontolog...

So is there a difference between life and mind in your book? Is one "just physics" and the other "something else"? Or does life start the swerve away ...

Well, at least they are reversible all the way back to the first instant of the Big Bang and any other such event horizon. :) So you are appealing to ...

Yep. Our physical laws are constructed by excluding change or spontaneity. That aspect of existence is instead the job of measurement. We are left to ...

If that is the case, then of course it doesn't matter which theory you employ. But is that a realistic scenario? How often would you get such perfect ...

I agree that freewill is really about moral competence or socially constructed habits of self-regulation. Animals of course are perfectly good at maki...

So your bottom line is scepticism about hallucinations and credulity about pixies. Cool.

Thus proving my point. All one can do is constrain one's uncertainty as to what might be the explanation by adding further constraining information. Y...

I'm baffled which stipulated condition you think rules out hallucinations here. Your point stretching makes it clear you don't have a good argument.

The dichotomy is not between knowledge and learning but hinges on the distinction between constraint and construction. So in Pragmatic thinking, minds...

You are avoiding answering my question. What here constitutes reasonable evidence of this not being a hallucination?

Why wouldn't you conclude that this "unknown reeason" was a hallucination? On what grounds are you dismissing the hypothesis exactly?

I would believe I was hallucinating. Now what would you believe as inference to the best explanation?

Up to you if you want to demonstrate it was a serious question.

What do you say I ought to believe?

So I can believe there are hedgehogs living at the bottom of my garden and you can believe there are pixies at the bottom of yours. But evidentially w...

How is that the case when the inquiry is framed in terms of two strongly counterposed views? The "act of faith" involves two complementary rational po...

But how is it strictly faith based in my case? I have clearly framed the alternatives using metaphysical reasoning. I already accept that existence is...

And my answer was that your presumption of transcendence - going beyond - is at odds with my presumption of ontological naturalism. So my hypothesis -...

That's a bit rich. You quoted what was a reply to your posts and then restated your own position. I was happy enough to leave it at that. What more wa...

The advantage of pragmatism is that it makes purpose central to epistemology - there is always going to be a reason that gives some inquiry its meanin...

The issue is not how to defeat scepticism but how to use it usefully. Doubt is always possible, but doubt can always be minimised. And it is the possi...

Such a drama queen.

Which word is giving you trouble?

Don't pretend that's a difficult question.

So is there some important difference from pragmatism here?

One other thought. My case has already been tested and demonstrated in the field. Back in the 1970s, computer scientists hope to build intelligent mac...

Look up fractal geometry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_dimension The in-between spectra are now mathematically well defined. Huh? We say i...

You are asserting naive realism and ignoring the subtleties of my actual argument. But never mind. It doesn't need to. In the semiotic model of truth,...

As an Aristotelean you should see how this is the same as Aristotle's own argument for substance as the ur-category - the argument from contrariety. S...

What I say is that (metaphysical strength) categories are in fact boundaries. They are limit states. And they come in dialectical pairs. They are the ...

But that is implicit in acknowledging we are limited to interpretations. So there is always going to be uncertainty about what is left out. And yet al...

Do you get to make the facts up or do you have to report them?

If that is an exact analogy, then you have only said you would need more empirical facts. You have not yet abandoned naturalism if you feel you need t...

Yeah, I was forgetting. Philosophy relies on scientific inaccuracy. :-} I'm not completely against such an idea as you know. But also, I could only tr...

Yeah. But that construction of a worldview (or umwelt in semiotic jargon) is both biological and cultural. So because we have a shared history of neur...

Yet still, what is "spirit" such that I can understand it to be doing mapping? If you make it clearer you are talking about final cause in some fashio...

But what does the actual evidence say on this? The human infant is born spectacularly helpless and reliant on social care. The brain is a sponge for l...

But is that statement true beyond some particular mapping relation? In talking about "spirit", you are speaking about the topological features on a ma...

But this is the questionable presumption - that you are just a biological machine. Biology would see it as the other way round. Life arises as a form ...