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I Just watched a bit of a video of enactivist and Francisco Varela which means i understand the last sentence. I just don't understand how the quote r...

Husserl isn't sacred to me and i don't mind being at odds with him. This said i don't think what i think and what you highlight Husserl as thinking to...

I enjoyed reading this. I think Hershel and by extension you are making lots of good points that i agree with. I agree that what consciousness is made...

I hadn't herd of Bob Doyle all the website but i will defiantly check them out. I don't get to talk about this with many people normally so its really...

I very much Agree with your wider point. I do think there are some finer points in there that may profit in re-thinking slightly. It could be suggeste...

I agree with most of what you are saying. I make use a lot of information as noted in a more recent post which i regard as being what our minds are ma...

I very much love this question. I think that information is really key to understanding mind/brain and key to what information is, is how information ...

I couldn't agree with you more. Emergence has a tendency to be used as a magic wand. Your point is very well talk, as is your highlighting of the fact...

Thanks i will read the paper. Thank you for suggesting it. Honestly, what we define as the word machine as is semantics and distracts from the core re...

You are confusing what you would like to be for what is. Yes physics talks about what objectively exists but that doesn't mean it isn't saying anythin...

No, this is basic science you just don't understand it in anything like a sophisticated way. The fact you call the idea of emergence a "ad hoc gap fil...

Descartes acknowledged all animals to be "beast machines" except us. Its soooo incompatible with science.

“By convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality, there are atoms and the void”. Democritus (c. 460...

I gave you real definitions from a real dictionary saying what a machine is. All you have done is crafted an artificially narrow definition of a word ...

Democritus was before Descartes.

No, if you don't think the world is mechanistic science isn't the problem, the facts are the problem The fact that a Urbain Jean Leverrier predicted t...

No, it make it a model for scientific analysis of the nature of being, which is better. It is better than a model for philosophical analysis of the na...

Yes, modern physics, is a useful abstraction, but it is a useful abstraction that represents fundamental reality well enough to make incredibly accura...

OP? what's that

I think that anything that refers to introspective experience + notions are fundamentally understood by people and the notions we have of them are fun...

I don't have a problem with what you said. Yes we don't know that anybody other than ourselves is conscious and i guess that relates somewhat.

This is fine, and i agree with on the whole, it just make the question meta physical rather than answering it. Ye by This statement is a really proble...

Ok, cool. The first statement you made was I ask a question you then make the statement This is a rather cheap rhetorical trick often called a straw m...

Morality comes from religion is quite a statement. What do you mean by this statement? For this to be true religion must be older than morality which ...

metaphorical screaming. I have a romantic sole. Ozymandias BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and tru...

I have very much enjoyed our discourse and thank you for it. I am by nature, training and profession a Scientist, an immunologist working on treatment...

I can’t help but think we are operating from different metaphysical perspectives. I am a rather extreme materialist who thinks everything is just atom...

I like how you put this, very simply put and very correct. I think the simplicity of the statement belies how radical a statement it is and how it goe...

I guess I set the terms of the debate around atheism because I wanted to avoid theological debates. I wanted to avoid theological debates because I am...

I think the basic reality is that this whole subject quite generates strong feelings, I know it does with me. We are asking questions about truth and ...

I can't quite tell if you agree or disagree, i am thinking you agree maybe? If you look at all the different mechanism that seeds use to distributor t...

“What I'm saying is that particle physics begins with putting aside any ideas about such questions as 'morality and truth'. They are not directly rele...

Everything you say about Morality seems very correct to me and is very well put. From my metaphysical perspective however i don’t think we are quite g...

I have a dyslexia diagnosis and have struggled with the disability all my life, it is a consent struggle to try and mitigate it. I have never let it h...

Everything you say about morality i would agree with. Do you have an answer the question of what morality is made out of or encoded into or how it cam...

First, thanks for writing such a fun responce Models are collections of predictive hypotheses and mathematical formulae. When a lot of very predictive...

I have read each of your posts found then enjoyable and informative. I now realize that I really tried to go too far too quickly and didn’t adequately...

While there are many different ways of addressing these two parallel issues of truth and the good, one such approach is then to uphold that both truth...

You could solve the problem by killing anybody that disagrees with you. I am not suggesting that it would be my approach but it isn't like people have...

What we consider reality is just a an evolutionary driven model generated by our brains, and us persevering that our continued existence as impotent i...

yes, well argued, you made my first point better than i did. It seems quite obvious what purpose the concept of morality serves and why it is ubiquito...

Massive Climate change probably wouldn't wipe humanity out unless the whole of the earth become uninhabitable, which i think the wight of scientific o...

"The legitimacy of physics is one of mankind’s greatest delusions." The legitimacy of philosophy (where it isn't just science in disguise) is one of m...

Science agrees with idea that lies at the core of metaphysics. There is the actual world which is made out of huge amounts of fundamental particles ar...

Meaning is a label we automatically apply to everything we can. It is in essence a value judgment based on how much we believe the things we are label...