Manuel

Yep! Can count on you to put it in that sophisticated formulation. Hah. Well man, what can I say? We eliminate as much as we reasonably can. Whatever ...

I take it to be the notion that beyond this postulate (negative noumenon, thing(s)-in-themselves), we cannot know the nature of reality. We can study ...

lmao :clap:

I believe it does. All I'm claiming, is that I believe the idea of the "thing-in-itself" is more coherent, for the type of limiting notion Kant was in...

He's an empirical realist and a transcendental idealist. Kant has some very acute and critical things to say about common sense, incidentally, though ...

That's right, I think on this point Schopenhauer was correct. I think you are starting from the wrong end. We see plurality, much the same way we see ...

I meant to say that isn't he making an assumption that things in themselves, are plural? The fact that he is referring to plurality by speaking of "th...

Thanks for the clarification. Nevertheless, isn't Kant making an assumption by saying there are "things in themselves"? This includes plurality, how d...

Yes, that is my understanding too. That doesn't mean that positive noumena are impossible, just that we can't comprehend how they could exist, or even...

When what's being discussed is far from clear, we should withhold trying to find a reference relation until we have a better idea of what kind of thin...

In what sense do you intend to define it? Real, in English, is an honorific term; if someone says to you "here's the deal" or "here's the real deal", ...

What do we measure knowledge with if not with our lifetime? There was no possibility of knowledge prior to birth, nor will there be after death. I sup...

I have skimmed the essays a bit and have read one essay of his not directly related to physics per se, but related to the topic of "realism". My own v...

"But as for those other Objects of Cogitation, which we affirmed before to be in themselves neither the Objects of Sense, nor Objects of Fancy, but on...

The Secret History by Donna Tart Second (and final, for a while) reading The True Intellectual System of the Universe by Ralph Cudworth

We are speculating, he may be fine and simply is following doctors orders. With a guy as important as him, timing is never going to be ideal... Btw, B...

I see. Yeah, it makes sense. Once you hit that age, every hour is a super gift. I'll wait until I have more info. But even with all that, it's a treme...

Yeah. I've been emailing him on a consistent basis since 2015, roughly every 2 weeks or so. He usually replies extremely quickly and replied to all bu...

That's interesting, will have to wait and see how this pans out, but this is a promising avenue.

I can't guarantee you'll like it; some aspects can be subject to (probably) fair criticism. It just hit me at the right time I suppose.

Spent three days reading: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. That was a masterpiece. It's been a good while since I've been engrosse...

Well this last offensive has been mentioned a few times, notably by Col. Macgregor, who has been pretty good in his predictions so far. So it's not a ...

Nobody really knows right now what Prigozhin was really thinking, he says it was a protest of kinds. But is that the actual reason? Maybe what you say...

He's fantasy or, magical realism. Not much sci-fi, a little in his Hard Boiled Wonderland...

Al Jazeera spoke to Daniel Hawkins, a journalist based in Moscow, who said that Yevgeny Prigozhin is still under investigation by Russian authorities ...

I agree with bitter, that's been my experience too, it lingers in the back. Sour is kind of more intense for me. I suppose the answer should be found ...

It took me way too long to realize that sour and bitter are different tastes. :chin: Interesting...

Ayyye. We idealists, probably. :halo:

Ahhh, that was Penrose's idea. If I remember correctly, there are a few others that believe in similar things. I think you would very much enjoy Cosmo...

Well, I would hope not. That would be outrageous if it were unethical or if somehow people could see our thoughts. It's the one place in which we can ...

Predictions? I mean, so far as I know they (dark matter, dark energy) are postulates made in order to render serviceable the 5% of the universe we can...

Welp, gotta see more professionals try and make sense out of this. Getting rid of dark matter and dark energy would be helpful. If the universe is ind...

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This is a very good summary. Thanks for sharing.

Yep, I am well aware that motion and consciousness are quite different, in terms of phenomena and emergence. But this issue here is of intelligibility...

He quotes Locke many times, when Locke says: "We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere mate...

I don't personally recall him using that term ("weak emergence) to describe anything, and the reason he even used the term "radical emergence" at all,...

There's nothing in matter that suggests consciousness, true, at the same time, there is nothing in matter that suggests lack of consciousness. It's as...

The idea that consciousness is somehow special in some sense that makes it radically different from other parts of nature. He takes it that all aspect...

I didn't add that liquidity would also be above its constituents, or life, or bipedalism. So it's either property pluralism, or it's natural monism, w...

I'd guess he'd say something to the effect of: "yes" on consciousness being over and above its constituents, though it wouldn't be the only property t...

Yeah, we are going to continue running in circles given how we define and think about "strong emergence" and "weak emergence". So it's best if you ask...

Heavy under the example you provided. If you are saying it is a fundamental property, then it's a fundamental property of matter. That's not emergent....

I mean, you are asking several times if he believes in radical emergence, I've said yes numerous times. Alternatively, you can just email him yourself...

If by irreducible you mean that these properties are not to be found in the isolated molecules, then I believe he would.

Ok, I think I understand what you say somewhat better, not unlike Dennett's views. I don't happen to think that heavyness is trivial in an obvious sen...

I mean, if you take that attitude literally, we wouldn't have modern science. The reason why Newton discovered gravity, is because he was puzzled as t...

"Knows" in English, can be misleading, I think "understanding" is less ambiguous (not that it makes it perfectly clear, but, maybe less confusing.) If...

Radical emergence is the idea that a new property arises which was not evident in its constituent parts. Some people like to say that since we underst...

Oh sure. And as suggested by you implicitly, much of this depends on what one takes "God" to imply or cover. If it is belonging to the Abrahamic tradi...