Manuel

That's the one aspect of Kastrup which I think goes way beyond any evidence or even intuition. To extrapolate from dissociative personality disorder a...

I suppose one formulation of idealism would be: there are only ideas and nothing else. So, all there is are ideas, and ideas come from minds. If this ...

One has some leeway in how these terms can be used, it's not something set in stone. Why "mere" presence? As opposed to presence.

I'm not much into the philosophical dimension of ethics, but this topic sounds somewhat interesting. I suppose I'd take the pragmatic approach here an...

I'd have to go back to my paperback copy of Hume's Treatise to confirm. I don't think he denies that the mind attributes properties to objects in a ce...

Touché.

I assume that this particular charge was brought forth because the prosecution thought it was the strongest case against him, legally speaking. After ...

Mehhhh. I have seen some enlightened people and have not been impressed. But exception surely exist. Kant's views on gum might be found in his corresp...

About metaphysics? :wink:

Perhaps looking at several of Susan Haack's articles - many of them freely available on academia.edu, could offer some help. Alternatively, you can tr...

Do you want me to argue against that or to comment? I don't disagree with what you say. One can - and should - speak about the necessary cognitive con...

Around the wall of his own perceptions? I don't quite follow. You can think about your thoughts - as in, I can think about me typing these letter righ...

Well - he is consistent though, in his discussion of the self he famously said: "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I ...

As far as I'm aware - in this thread - I don't believe I have made a metaphysical distinction, one between "body" and another of "mind" nor one of "in...

I have heard of him, but have been warned by a very good philosopher - Susan Haack - to steer clear of him. I suspect that too much emphasis on certai...

I didn't presuppose that you were leaning on authority nor that you were being condescending, I am only pointing out that anyone can refer to distingu...

The thing is, I wouldn't say it's an assumption (re: we infer that they are (conscious), based on how they behave, which most of the time mirrors the ...

But this is true independent of a belief in idealism. We don't know if other people are conscious, we infer that they are, based on how they behave, w...

It can be difficult, especially trying to give a comprehensive account of everything involved, because the phenomenon in question is complex and multi...

Not at all. That fly analogy is a nice one and can sometimes be used (arguably) correctly. For instance, if someone argues that there is a "mind-body"...

Well, I mean, it's not that we "can just be naive realists" - it's that we are naive realists the vast majority of the time, despite how incoherent it...

If someone can tell me what it is, maybe I could reply. But if it has to with, say, marginalizing sensations and mental states, then I don’t even see ...

We sure can say quite a bit about idealized states- no doubt. It’s pointing out that this knowlege too is representational. So I don’t think we have s...

Ah, you are a follower or fan of Wittgenstein. Then we will probably disagree. Words get meanings in several ways- it’s context dependent. I don’t see...

Sure, all those things you point out are true, there is a tremendous amount of filtering, selecting of information, unconsciouss processess and so for...

:clap: He got me into philosophy and his ease in explaining philosophers is unparalleled. I am forever in his debt.

Which objects do you know of that exist, but do not affect us? If something exists, that doesn't affect us in any way, then I don't see how it could b...

It's not intelligible to a rock, so far as I can see. Other animals don't seem to have concepts, so the issue of intelligibility doesn't arise. It's a...

Nope, it is not. The idealism I defend, posits that the world we belong to, this world here, is only intelligible to creatures with the capacity to us...

Berkeleyan idealism is hard to defend. So is something like Hegel's idealism. Even worse is the whole Chopra-like industry. It's very different with p...

Kastrup is very interesting, though his notion of "depersonalyzed complexes" referring to objects is not convincing. I much prefer Raymond Tallis, who...

The computer analogy breaks down quickly, so while it has its pedagogic value, it is limited. But then I agree with the content of your post, so I'm n...

Those are hard questions. If we look at most living things virtually all of them lack reason. Maybe higher mammals have some glimmerings or sparks of ...

At bottom pure experience? Sure, I agree with you that there is no good evidence for this. The given is a fascinating topic, though Sellar's own argum...

I mean I am a rationalistic idealist in these topics, so the idea is far from foreign. As for the analogy, there's a limit, it's fine for a video game...

I agree that it's with organs like eyes and ears that we acquire data of objects. These sensations evoke in the mind/brain a powerful interpretive app...

It depends on how the veil of idea is formulated, if it as was done by Locke and Hume, I don't see it as a trap, but then it is also misleading to cal...

I have seen it and it does not address the issue. It goes against what he is saying, if he is giving evidence that our senses mislead us, why trust th...

I think Raymond Tallis put it best when he said that if Hoffman really believes we didn't evolve for truth, but only for survival, then why should he ...

I don't see how it is possible to "bypass" emergence, of any kind. Just as liquid can arise in a specific combination of molecules, which lack liquidi...

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I take it that this quote from Hume could be labeled "indirect realism": "Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase ...

Actually, what would be interesting to consider is a situation in which we cannot die, no matter what we tried to do. I wonder how things would play o...

The sense of your life mattering while you achieve things only holds good for a moment in time, afterwards, those that know you will mourn, family and...

And I actually have you to thank for that, it was a discussion with you that made me got my thinking and vocabulary correct on the topic. :up:

To say that indirect realism implies something like, we only have access to our ideas, or we only have representations or arguments along that line ar...

Absolutely, with the only caveat that we incorporate sub and unconsciousness processes in addition to those that are accessible in experience, through...

True, but we aren't dealing with the "average person" here, who usually does not care too much about the science stuff, much less philosophy. It's not...

I think this whole debate is better thought of in terms of "mediated" vs. "unmediated" perception. We run the risk of saying funny things like I indir...

You are correct. There may be a person now or in the future who may come up with a solution to the problem, we cannot rule this out. But we should kee...