The issue here is not merely terminological but conceptual, what is mental and what is physical? It's not as if there is an intelligible distinction n...
Hey man, I'm just the mediator. Don't argue with the messenger but with the bot. It will agree with you always. As for how it gets its name, we give i...
It's not as if we can be logical all the time even if wanted to. And there's no clear distinction between "logical thinking" and "imagination". One co...
Something like a thermostat in-itslef would be what a thermostat could be like absent human experience. This has similarities to Kant's "things-in-the...
Sure. Otherwise, one cannot make sense of the evidence and practically all of cosmic history. What if that is false somehow? Then we make everything u...
If you don't want to engage with arguments, why participate in a philosophy forum? There surely are other forums in which you can discuss this issue w...
Yep, it could be a circular thing. But I think it's impossible to find evidence for it that may corroborate the theory - hence leaving us in the same ...
We don't know. Akin to the status of time "before" the Big Bang. May even be a meaningless question we try to provide an answer, but hit upon a cognit...
Which is why his book is called "Consciousness Denied". He has some fancy neuroscience; he does write well - but the people who agree with him are jus...
He has always been extremely cringe-inducing in this topic. The level of irrationality and utter disregard for the most evident, clear, best understoo...
I suppose it's a balancing act, if you (or anybody) are harsh to all these enlightened posters, then less people might be willing to engage. But it ca...
What is the point with debating a supporter of a paranoid, ethno-supremacist, racist, genocide enabling state? Is it worth pointing out trivial facts?...
Agree with a good deal. Especially on the point of some newer members coming in with a ToE pretending great wisdom and exhaustive theoretical depth, w...
Great post Wayf. I may be nerding out again, but I think there's a very interesting argument to be made against positivism, that is in my opinion deva...
Finished The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi. The first part of the book was quite impressive, it's been quite a while since I found something new ...
I think there is a fact of the matter, that is, is nominalism true or not? If we only distinguished particulars, we would never develop a concept, no ...
That's a much better way of understanding the issue and I think your explanation is quite sensible. Of course, it becomes very tricky to argue that ce...
Up to interpretation, but as I take it, it's an attempt to make sense of concepts which we experience in individualized actualizations: we see a horse...
Maybe it's an emergent phenomenon, as some theories in physics imply. Or maybe it's irreducible and hence not explainable by anything else other than ...
This question can be misleading, as real, in English, is an honorific term: "Here's the deal." vs. "Here's the real deal." There aren't two deals, one...
It can be an interesting exercise so long as you are aware that it is what you are doing - a kind of poetry with some distinctive philosophical value ...
Am reading several papers on Salomon Maimon, probably going to read his Essay on Transcendental Philosophy sometime this year. Very interesting stuff,...
Moral systems are meant to be an ideal to strive for, more so than something that has to be adhered to 100% of the time all the time. It is supposed t...
If no evidence can be provided that makes the concept obsolete, then it could be an indication that is mental only. Alternatively, if we cannot but he...
It's a good question. I'd start conservatively and argue, what do we know about substance? Well, for one thing it is a concept, and in this regard is ...
Probably. I think after Hume, substance became very problematic, Hume of course denied we had a concept of substance. Interesting arguments for sure, ...
I've always been a fan of Locke's discussion on substance, it's phenomenal: "So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure sub...
Populism can (not necessarily) lead to authoritarianism in this specific version (neoliberal capitalism) of the economic system we have. It has been m...
We don't know. We have guesses related to problem solving, or the brain "repairing" itself, but this is completely speculative. The richness of the ph...
It wasn't a big why. It was admittance of the intrinsic unintelligibly of the world. And what was considered problematic by Descartes, Newton, Huygens...
Yes. But the point is that we have no intuition as to how this is possible. That was Newton's famous "it is inconceivable to me" quote was all about. ...
Some may assume that. It need not be accepted in these very terms. Naturalism can be taken as the view that all that exists is natural and no more. Th...
He doesn't say it's a really hard problem? That leads to the natural reading that it is an especially hard problem. I would grant it with one crucial ...
I understand the usual monopoly on the term "physical", that's Dennett and the Churchlands. But there are others, like Galen Strawson (without panpsyc...
Definition? I mean there is standard use "physical thing", sure, that usually means something we can touch. But in epistemology it means "physical stu...
Why is experience not physical? I agree that things "outside the mind" - outside consciousness itself are physical things and hence mediated through e...
Why do you think mind cannot be matter or the opposite? This needs to be argued for, not asserted. If the argument holds, then we can talk about the i...
We have experience, we infer the rest, call it what you will. I don't see why they both can't have an underlying cause, outside stipulation: physical ...
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