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Sure, if you want to be more precise, you can say that we put together what comes to us when we externalize to others what we say, or when we are atte...

Quick comment, that's an interesting question. I think Chomsky's idea is that if you introspect into what happening in your head right now, you don't ...

Yeah, all the evils of the world are the lefts fault. Von Mises on the other hand was gushing with Joy as the Austrian state smashed union workers. Fi...

Yep, great quote. He's right, as far as I can see. Heck even people belonging to the Hayek institute (I'm forgetting the name) say that his summary of...

Indeed. Which is why he refers to Descartes and Cudworth in the tradition, Chomsky is very much an "innatist dospositionalist", experience serves as a...

Quinn Slobodian is probably the best source on the topic. Many definitions have been given, having to do with privatization and letting the market run...

In case anyone is interested, I believe one of his most interesting books in regards to language is his New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind...

That's true. But I suppose you can also add eliminitavism and idealism too. They can argue that those views cover everything. But it's a matter of emp...

Yep! Quite true, it's a tendency we have in our nature and psychological makeup that makes us seek these things, which is curious. Why seek unificatio...

It likely has something to do with explanations. We ideally want to find out what's basic or fundamental, and the less things we have to postulate, th...

I didn't take it as a personal criticism. And you are right that some of these mainstream scientists, though in my opinion quite more serious than Cho...

The issue of true understanding is important. We can't even really explain why we have these aha! moments, nor would most predict that some human bein...

That's a bit too far. The word and field lose meaning. Is Charles Manson philosophy? It could be, but it's problematic. I don't disagree with the gist...

I'd say intellectual honesty and coherence at a basic level. Who judges? The community of people engaged in philosophy, especially those who make cont...

He goes on with these scientists in conversations or debates because he sells a lot of books. But most scientists, with the exception of Hoffman and o...

No. It seems to me to obfuscate a trivial point, people and life in general will tend to treat you better if you treat them/it well. But we see thousa...

Really? There is a fine line between talking about QM in a serious manner, and using the same terminology for obscure and often meaningless babble. An...

I've emailed him hundreds of times over the years (over 8 years now). And I also got to meet him personally in MIT, just before he moved to Arizona, t...

Damn Mikie that's a massive catch! Extraordinary. If you give him my name, he'll know who it is. By way of reinforcement, could you ask him why he thi...

As far as buffets go, if they have fried rice, nothing else really matters. Those who disagree are quite objectively wrong and were possibility born w...

Ohhh, these look very very interesting, I'll definitely take a look. Many thanks. :cheer:

That's tricky. Let's use real life examples, Newton and Einstein. Newton got his idea of gravity or was motivated to explore the idea, by seeing an ap...

Currently reading Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Amazing so far. Incidentally, I plan to read Jim Gauer's Novel Explosives for a third time, it really i...

I know this isn't aimed at me at all, and that I'm butting in here, but I wanted a bit of clarification on this comment: I don't quite follow the reas...

I rather take it that those of us interested in philosophy engage in a true privilege, being able to use thought for its own sake, which reveals aspec...

I don't think that there will be such a merger of science and religion/spirituality. These are different aspects of human life. The latter includes is...

I was into pomo back in the day, though Zizek would disagree with such a label. The fact that he labels himself a Lacanian, makes it difficult to not ...

You are supposed to disagree for us to have a discussion. :shade: Anyway, good thread, looking forward to see what others think.

That's exactly right, which is why Bernardo Kastrup now has a decent following, he has many videos on YouTube. To my mind, the best original philosoph...

You would know, I only briefly engaged with academia, it left a lot to be desired, despite having some nice aspects. But knowing this, as you do, then...

It's a great question, one that Susan Haack (surely an exception to the current norm) writes about in several papers. There are many reasons, includin...

Thanks, will check those out. :up:

Metzinger is very good, one of the more interesting people working in neuroscience. I think the hard problem can’t even be properly formulated, since ...

Well it seems to me to be a factual case, the so called “hard problem” - which should include the problem of appearances in general. I can drop the “c...

These things can only be grasped - so far as we know - by matter modified in a specific manner, which, when interacting with an environment, gives ris...

It's a good question, but difficult, in so far as having a "philosophy" is a complicated matter since it covers many areas, some of which certain peop...

It's working fine for me.

Honestly, I think we are too far apart to extend this discussion much further. We seem to come from very different backgrounds with very different not...

I believe I follow some of it, though other points seem to me somewhat dubious. It feels a bit strange to say that one is to be held responsible for m...

That may be the case, gestures are a big form of communication. But it's also quite sophisticated, a bit more so than animals, in terms of the circums...

I have his 3 collected works volumes. Besides the mandatory Meditations (including part of Objections and Replies) and Discourse on Method, I'll proba...

Thanks for the heads up. Descartes is up next on my re-read list, so once I finish that I may be able to answer some of the questions you pose. They c...

T'would be fun to take this classic and stretch it as far as possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

What, you come here asking for proof? What's up with that? :nerd:

I see. Although it has a certain intuitive appeal, it is kind of nebulous. Which occasions the question you ask: I don't know. It looks like an import...

Sure. The "I" is a mark of mind (along with creative language use and thinking), which according to him, could not be explained by appeals to material...

Sure, especially if you insist that if the other person is not sticking to your own definition, then that person is not talking about the same subject...

I don't know how simply saying that the self is a kind of fiction or a necessary social construction is any less clear than adding the aspect of a "tr...

It's late here so I can't reply to your longer post. I don't understand your problem with Descartes. What do you mean by "whence the rational norms?" ...

Sure, I could be called a property dualist, though I think it can be misleading to think of experience and non-experience as separate metaphysical thi...