The issue is in the definition the "external world", as you point out. External is usually taken to mean, something outside our minds. So how it that ...
I believe I have mentioned this before, but if you can find yourself a copy of Tallis' The Knowing Animal, I think you will very much enjoy it. I thin...
I think we approximate such as state if we attempt to remember a bit what existence was like prior to birth, or the instance before our first consciou...
Sure, which is why have literature and art. And a good deal of philosophy. Good thing too, otherwise, a world with only science (as narrowly construed...
Welcome and enjoy your time here. There are plenty of important Australian philosophers around. As to your question and Sartre's claim, that "existenc...
I think we can be highly confident thoughts arise in human beings from the brain. We can lose almost any part of our bodies and still have thoughts. B...
Well, if you keep in mind that we do not know what 95% of the universe is, aside from naming them "dark energy" and "dark matter" and to postulate the...
I don't quite understand, how is it that the (to use a less problematic term - perhaps) mind/brain are not in the head? If we read a novel, we imagine...
You are pointing out the description of what Wilfred Sellars' says when he mentions the Manifest Image of Man, and the Scientific image of man, as you...
No, because we do not know enough and lack the capacity to make the leap from physiology to consciousness. Some may say that just wait for technology ...
Time for round 2 of CPR, very soon. Well, technically round 3 and 4, cause the damn book has the A and B editions in it. Ugh. But I must. If I don't g...
That's right. How more right wing could they become? I mean, Israel only has the strong backing if the US, and to a lesser but still substantial degre...
I don't think it's necessary to be too insistent on the topic of this statement being literally problematic. Someone can saw they are an agnostic athe...
The Rigor of Angles by William Egginton Quite an interesting book mixing Kant, Heisenberg and Borges to explore the limits of human understanding. Tit...
Well. It's a problem, surely. If we have half the population living in utter fantasy and we cannot even agree on facts and furthermore, tensions are r...
As far as I know, experts are saying this is the strongest case they've seen in terms of "intent of genocide", so, I suppose that counts for something...
I'm not seeing the "any means necessary" part, in that document, not that they haven't said it, they have in many ways, maybe I'm looking at the wrong...
Very much so. I personally would be in favor of more evidence forcing us to reformulate our picture of the universe. It signifies progress, though if ...
From what I've read through Haaretz, Al Jazeera and several knowledgeable people on the situation, including UN agencies, some aid is getting through,...
It's better than nothing, but it's still a pittance. Something's gotta give, or else this genocide may come to full fruition as mass starvation starts...
They should. But they also have the Samson Option, which they could use if they see themselves in an existential threat. Egypt, Jordan and others have...
Yes, Biden's policies in foreign affairs have been by and large pretty bad. Not to mention that if Israel did not receive so much aid from the US, Isr...
I mean yes, technically Hezbollah. But remember Lebanon offered to remove Hezbollah from the border on condition that Israel stop its bombing campaign...
Standard issue so far, but as you indicate, it's becoming less effective. You can only continue this mass butchery for so long, people see the picture...
Sure, what else are they going to say? Well, they did say South Africa was the legal extension of Hamas. But it's all pathetic, having no defense, the...
This case South Africa presented against Israel was superb. Defense against such facts, will be near impossible. At least one country in the world is ...
That's in the Amphiboly if I don't misremember. Allais breaks down that section impeccably, and says pretty much what you say. The question is, what d...
You better not. If so I am doomed. And will say that Kant considers monads to be negative noumena available to introspection! You have been warned. :g...
Yeah - he covers a fantastic deal of territory in that book. We are always going to try some parallels between our "ordinary experience" and whatever ...
As Wittgenstein famously said, a serious work of philosophy could be done consisting mostly of jokes. Or as Schopenhauer said, on an individual basis ...
As I am working on Cudworth's philosophy, I found that he frequently cited Plotinus in favor of his views and I found such views very interesting. So,...
Sure, it is an account that may sound persuasive to some, but I do appreciate him attempting to sketch out a framework of our mental activity and I do...
There's an element of that, it's hard to think so otherwise, but even taking this to account, I don't see how this expands to objects being "disassoci...
That's a bit misleading I think. I agree with you that Kastrup, while interesting in some areas, goes off the wall with attributing "dissociated bound...
Which he denies exist. Saw an extended interview with him the other day. His views on consciousness are frankly embarrassing to me. It's as Galen Stra...
I mean, if we are talking about conceivability, it's also conceivable that the mind of supreme being exist, absent anything else, that is, no matter, ...
These zombie arguments are kind of pointless. They show nothing, outside of the fact that we can imagine stuff. Sure, that's why we write fiction and ...
Not addressed to me I know, but, thanks for the clarification. :up: And happy 2024 to you and yours, am looking forward to exchanging books and ideas ...
It would be a mistake not to talk about politics, especially if it's controversial. Most philosophers up until recently were very much involved in cur...
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