counterpunch

You're not a logician Roger. You're hiding your motives. Why are you doing this? Did you kill grandma? Is your business going under? Do you just hate ...

How could you possibly understand the concepts you're using, and not have heard of the observer effect? From someone who was really capable of underst...

Firstly, rationale - with an E, is a noun that refers to the explanatory theme or logical underpinning of an argument. Rational is an adjective, defin...

There is, obviously, such a thing as quality. Why deny the obvious? But to my mind, the qualitative has always been a matter of judgement. A subjectiv...

If you would propose a theory of quantum consciousness can you explain why the observer effect in the double slit experiment occurs in response to exp...

My immediate impression is that naturalism does not account for the reflective quality of human intellectual awareness - that stands apart from realit...

No idea. All newspeak goes directly in the lefty hogwash bin! My guess is it's something to do with not washing your under-carriage!

Kant is pretty difficult to read. This passage - link below, explains quite well: "If then there is a supreme practical principle or, in respect of th...

Figuratively, anything that shares a trait or two in common with something else is 'a form of' that thing. A road is kind of an artery, pumping the li...

Ah, then you misunderstand! What I'm saying is that the OP is wrong, wrong, wrongy, wrong wrong! That's a technical term. It means "the scientifically...

Oh, then you mistake my intent. You are on a philosophy forum, making observations about truth, then you asked for it. Politics and economics - they t...

Evolution is not a form of consciousness. It's an algorithmic process where organisms that are correct to the causal reality of their environment, str...

We have a new leader in the dumbest thing I ever read contest - and allow me to assure you that competition has been fierce. Roger Gregoire comes out ...

Well then, that's where we differ. I see humankind as only the second qualitative addition to the universe in 15 billion years. We start with about 10...

What's at stake is the existence of the human species. It follows from causality and evolution that the organism cannot be wrong, or it is inevitably ...

I didn't give an opinion on Homolgous Recombination. I did say my instinct suggests chemical valances and electron transport are at work - rather than...

And yet, astonishingly, your computer works - to send that pseudo academic, subjectivist horseshit - from your keyboard strokes, along trillions of ti...

I haven't researched the topic. I said it seems wackadoodle - and it does. "Powerful! Elegant! Simple! In a style that is as accessible as it is meani...

The bacterial theory of disease, plate tectonics, evolution, the nitrogen cycle, heliocentrism, the electromagnetic spectrum, photosynthesis, thermody...

Okay, but let us go back to your OP. You say: The natural implication from this is the impossibility of anything we can reasonably call truth. That's ...

We were discussing how political correctness discriminates against straight white males, because the left have gone a long way past their initial dema...

Ah. It's all coming back to me. Haven't we done this before? Me, killing myself to explain - and you steadfastly refusing to understand, and yet respo...

You are at the centre of the universe. I'm so glad to meet you at last. The rest of us are circling around you. You are in the middle of everything wi...

I think you've made a rod for your own back - responding to every post on the thread, and now you're stressed out - and get bent out of shape when peo...

I was just trying to interest you in epistemology!

The Dunning Kruger paradox: ...those who raise the Dunning Kruger effect are those most likely suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect!

Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. I prefer intellectual honesty. I prefer to have good reasons for my views, and so be able to stand by them, rathe...

A solution in what sense? You are making a claim to know - that we know nothing! You are claiming you have mountains of evidence - so presume an answe...

You can't bypass the problem that easily. What can we know? Nothing! Job done. Wanna grab a pizza! What's a pizza?

I agree to some extent. There is a philosophical tendency to want to decorate the existential Christmas tree with esoteric tinsel and metaphysical fai...

I disagree with all that. The senses are crafted by evolution in relation to reality, and must convey an accurate picture of reality - else the organi...

If you look to your left - third box down, 7th entry down - philosophy of art!

Sure, no rush! I did find your post interesting as it is so very well written, and well informed. It's like you're building a castle, the way you cons...

I'm not going to solve the problem of solipsism. I can't. Everything could be my imagination, creating the world around me. Actually, that makes a lot...

I don't doubt the facts. I doubt the interpretation of the facts. There's an old adage - Occam's Razor, that suggests, the simplest adequate explanati...

...is a fine guide for moral order in the course of scientific truth and sustainability, as an objective, universal value. Morality is fundamentally a...

Yeah, but Nick Carraway was reading out loud to Daisy Buchannan from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

The opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" is: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." That's Relativity and QM. They're contradictory....

I'm sorry, but I've done my best to answer what is - something of an incoherent question. As I said, pragmatic consequences and philosophical implicat...

Fair enough, but there's a trade off between adopting a pseudonym - and granting the layman a sense of authority in support of arguments they are not ...

I'm led to believe that when launching rockets - Newton's laws of motion are used, because they are simpler that Einstein's relativity; and there's a ...

Enjoy it while it lasts! I like to start from a place of good will and fine manners - but have found that as a discussion becomes an argument, it beco...

You're not wrong. Bartrick's reasoning is flawed and his conclusions incorrect. I would go further still, but shall refrain - and instead thank you fo...

I say look reality square in the eye and suffer. Shine your light into the dark corner, and you'll see that small objects cast big shadows. Only a foo...

That's not exactly the right answer though! The Republic begins, a just state under the rule of a wise philosopher King, and then falls apart because ...

Finipolscie is apparently a pseudonym, and that makes it impossible to judge his scientific credentials. Also, he's floating the idea of awareness in ...

You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, and I can't argue because I'm stuck at the hypothesis stage, but at least you seem to have understood it, a...

I think it fair minded. Your average employee turns up, and contributes his labour - takes his wages and goes home. The employer rents buildings, buys...

Because you are not a bat!

Good question Megolomania! Could you point me to Banno's answer! I can't seem to find it!! Chekhov's gun is a dramatic principle that states that ever...