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Yes, that's one interpretation of it, called the "deflationary" one by Allais. And sure, that could well be what Kant meant. That's not how I read it,...

Very much agree with the material/ideal distinction, I would even go so far as to say that the issue is merely terminological, not substantive, unless...

By "actual" do you merely mean they as a matter of fact exist?

aha. thanks man!

What is our brain made of? Literal ideas? That doesn't make sense. Ah, well, ok, if you are talking about NDE's, then just say you are a dualist. That...

We don't know if particles have feeling or not. There is no evidence that they do, but there's no evidence that they lack it either. Well, the point o...

:lol: At least most of that fad is behind us now.

It's an underrated song even if it's James Bond, he's got some great lines here. Yes, a majestic voice, tragic to see him go so soon.

That's the key isn't it? What's "many people"? If you have in mind people like us and people adjacent to us, then we are what, 5% of the population at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUXjWeWuVSk&list=RDtUXjWeWuVSk&start_radio=1 "You Know My Name" - Chris Cornell If you take a life do you know what yo...

I don't see how this example attempts to show what you're saying it does. Dead people don't experience things ok. Living people do, yep. Where's the e...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EVz2GBN3E&list=RD8eqcPsA_9sk&index=9 I dunno how to format this, but "Alter Ego" from N'to

What is the evidence for this claim?

There are lots of teens that pretend to be radicalized by Nietzche, most of the time it looks to be a fad. Heidegger often attracts a certain kind of ...

:rofl: That was funny and true. I think life difficulties are much more defined or informed by one's temperament more than what some intelligent perso...

So, a kind of "intuitive concept" (taking "intuition" in the ordinary usage of the term, not the technical one). If that's more or less it, then that'...

I don't recall being in such a situation explicitly, but it wouldn't be alien either. As in, you are in crowd of people who are crying over a sad even...

Hey M! Hope this are well with you. On to fun matters: Is "all bodies are extended" an assertion or is it a fact?

I think the example is way simpler. Yes, babies do what the video is showing, but that's not the same thing. It's very common, as in you are walking o...

It's the other way around. We assume that other people have consciousness "like me". Based on what they do or say, I can understand what they're sayin...

Marble House Murders by Anthony Horowitz Same Bed Different Deams was phenomenal. :ok:

It doesn't have a view - it doesn't care, it doesn't have insight. It's useful sure, but a person or people who know the subject matter will be more e...

There's also the risk that if AI is permitted with no restrictions, you'll see posts here by people using AI replying with AI, making the whole point ...

Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

“Shou’d it here be asked, whether I sincerely assent to this argument… whether I be one of those scpetics, who hold that all is uncertain, and that ou...

Ah ok. Got it. Thought the "p" was physical. :up:

P naturalism? As in physicalist naturalism? How is that a better term than naturalism?

Yes. It has to do with how we access and interact with objects that allows us to reason about its nature. But in so far as someone is going to say a t...

I don't think we will agree in this one about the molecules, as we are talking in circle here. We cannot conceive how non-mental mattter could give ri...

A system is composed of its parts. A single H20 molecule does not have the properties of water. And we don't understand how, by combining them togethe...

An image that captures our moment? There are plenty. Perhaps the AI video shared by Trump showing a riviera on Gaza, next to a nice beach. Which by th...

Do you have the intuition that prior to combination a particle contains water in it? I don't. We have a theory yes, but I don't know someone who says ...

I mean yeah, I think hanging on to something like hope be useful, but the evidence so far, in regard to this diabolical genocide and the climate crisi...

[ Maybe, but if what he want to write is stuff like his last book, then I just find it very boring. I might try After Dark someday, looks interesting.

I think I remembered you saying you liked Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color (Colorless) and La muerte del comendador.(Commendatore) But th...

That was the vibe I was getting too, thanks for confirming it. Too many books to read to finish one you are not enjoying. :up:

Had to drop the newest Murakami after reading 30% of the book, his quality has dropped quite a bit since 1Q84, this meditative side is very boring to ...

The weak emergence vs strong emergence is a bit misleading. It suggests that we have an intuitive understanding of the resultant effects of a given pr...

Yes that's what we think and it's very likely true. Strawson's point is different, he's not claiming a tree is alive or thinks, but rather that our in...

How so? I mean Descartes was responded to the reigniting of Pyrrhonian skepticism, trying to find an objective foundation for knowledge, but Descartes...

I am speaking outside an area in which I feel any confidence. My own feeling is that some were doing something close to "critical" philosophy - mislea...

That's a big if. It may the most any creature may be able to have. That argument could go either way.

Here I can say a few things, as my dissertation was based in large part on Galen Strawson's panpsychism. Granted that's only one person and there are ...

Yes, I've noticed it's toned down it's endless flaterry quite a lot. What's concerning is that some people want the old model back, as a "companion" o...

Agreed. Especially with the sycophantic stuff- people have been and will continue to be extremely deluded. But they can be useful if used with care fo...

Sure - I entirely agree, it should be trivial. Some people might disagree, as with everything else in philosophy. Now the only issue is if you are OK ...

There are many ranges to idealism, as you know. If you take idealism by the implication of the word, then the argument would be there is nothing in th...

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

In Ascension by Martin McInnes

So, it's physics? That's what the physical is? That seems to constrain things too much, there are too many phenomena that cannot be explained with phy...