And that quote is by itself perfectly sensible, not everybody has a constitution to think that all there is, is this universe here, following some law...
Interesting OP. There's some merit to the idea that a good deal of talk about consciousness is often empty. And frankly, I suspect that one of the iss...
I mean, it kind of depends on the kind of atheism one is listening to or supports. For instance, Bertrand Russell, on the whole, seems much more level...
There's a lot there and very careful notes taken, it is much appreciated, I am about to begin the 6th Meditation, but your posts deserve some comments...
You can and you can also pick up the table with cup on top of it or you can pick the table apart, say by breaking one of its legs. Or you can sit on t...
It does - it feels intuitive, but it leaves many questions open, which need not even arise. If objects are not disassociated complexes, then that's mu...
I may have already participated, if not I'd add: Why not monism? What we seek is to try and understand how everything fits together, what is it about ...
With a sample of less than one, I can't say. I do like the writing and the visuals and the plot, no problems so far. Maybe it will get worse down the ...
I think that's right and that's what I've more or less concluded after looking at the topic rather carefully for 4 years and still to this day. I also...
For novels, I prefer paperback (or hardcopy). I am close to halfway through but am reading quite slowly. Normally (with less distractions), I would ha...
I would assume that the problem of evil does not arise for naturalists, not because of natural selection, but because ethics does not fall within natu...
While leftists, of which I consider myself quite sympathetic, will, correctly point out that corporations are extremely dangerous too, I do think the ...
That's the one issue which I have a problem with his account: colors and senses are called by him (and Leibniz too, I would add) "obscure", presumably...
It's unclear how to proceed with this passage, due to the differences in the aims of his project back then and what we know now. I think what he has i...
That those of us who think it was the West's fault for Russian aggression must agree or like Putin or his government, it doesn't follow at all. I don'...
And who here likes it? Does anybody like invasions or war? Maybe, perhaps, some elements in the military, they are the hammer after all and everything...
Fair enough, I think most of your clarifications are quite good. We can put aside the "more reflexive" comments for some other time. In part, sure, we...
That's correct, we can have precise and rigorous analysis of "ordinary" perception and we often judge people's sanity or sobriety on this basis. Never...
Yes and many thanks for that. It really is an important topic, that is sometimes made fun of or more precisely ignored, these are the very ideas that ...
Thanks for posting the line about hats and coats which is a crucially important topic, which I am particularly interested in, because it is much under...
I think it's important to note, as I have been reading a few decent secondary sources on the matter, that Descartes gets his "clear and distinct ideas...
I like Kastrup and I think he says interesting things, but he is knocking on an open door. First of all, very few people actually believe in "material...
What it means is that, out of 8 billion or so people in the world, several could survive, maybe millions, or more, or less, who knows. Nuclear War wou...
It could, but it alone would be insufficient for all human beings on Earth to die. Another issue would be nuclear war, that would end everything. It's...
Not the end of the species, but the end of organized human societies yes. It's an important distinction. People won't be able to live in Florida or Sa...
Not meaningless, it signals that we are going above predicted deviations. It may not formally lead to the conclusion that we already have exceeded the...
Yes, that's rather sensible, however bad it seems now, very soon, it's going to be significantly worse than predicted, because every new study is conf...
Very soon, yes. A bit later, Florida isn't going to be livable, barring a gigantic infrastructure change not seen since the Southern part of Florida w...
It is interesting to note that in The Second Meditation, Descartes says: "If the "I" is understood strictly as we have been taking it, then it is quit...
I mean isn't the point that what he is thinking about may be false, or misleading or an error, but that he is thinking can't be coherently doubted... ...
How so? It seems to me that not having some kind of goal, however small, heavily contributes to a lack of meaning or significance. Now, if you reply o...
Wow Fooloso4, that's some gold you've provided in that link, not limited to Descartes. I was familiar with the letter, but had not seen it, I do have ...
Was reading over your conversation with Antony, and it is very interesting, and very much echoes Chomsky's interpretation of Descartes, which is that ...
Given that I read what I was going to read concerning Descartes "Rules for the Direction of Mind", I'll instead go directly to the Meditations, so as ...
I agree and I do think animals (some of them at least) go beyond mere stimulus reaction, namely some presence of mind. As to the animals being machine...
No, I haven't, like you, I've greatly decreased my time watching movies or tv shows, with minimal exceptions. I am a compulsive book buyer, had this o...
Not like the church and related religious institutions didn't have 1000's of years of power to smash people's brains with this dogma... People really ...
I think so, making sense is something like "give it meaning", when I think of senses, I think about moving my quickly away from a hot object, or scrat...
This sounds more plausible to me. What do we do with edge cases, such as plants or oysters? Do we assume some minimal intellect here or is it all sens...
I was referring to human beings in that example. Sure, animals in his view, on today's terms would be mere reactive organisms. Of course. No sane pers...
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