You're right, because he also doesn't see what the big issue is with qualia. He agrees with Russell here: Russell held that there are “three grades of...
Yep, that's correct. He's very open minded and considers almost all approaches to consciousness. Others who use this term are misled by it, as if expe...
Newton was a materialist as pertaining to the physical world, the way the world works. In the essay, which I am now seeing many people not bother read...
Yes, his prose is meh, but again, in A Scanner Darkly, he steps it up, I remember this quote, which is fantastic, I think: “What does a scanner see? h...
Yeah, I don't know why. But, given enough time (though not necessarily forever), I can imagine how something can come from nothing. I can't imagine so...
I didn't pay (much) attention to order, he has like 8 -10 classics and then everybody has a few personal favorites, usually not on the list. I kid not...
From what I've seen, accounts vary. Sometimes they remember dreaming, other times, they don't. I'm guessing that it's the same as going to sleep every...
WHAT? :scream: :scream: That last sentence made me realize, I never came down from my high. Dick is absolutely fantastic. But his prose is not amazing...
Ah. Sure. No problem. I don't agree with Strawson's panpsychism either, though he's pretty clear with the terms "experiential" and "non-experiential"....
Sure. If you want some more info on some later date on this topic, let me know. Yes, Stoljar is interesting, but I've mainly focused on Strawson. So I...
Other animals, which have a communication system have a sound-to-object relation. So, for instance, if a monkey makes a particular sound, it means som...
It's subjective, "in here", but not it's a thing, it's more of a process. It's only an object in so far as other people see me as an object - here I'm...
:wink: I think Xtrix will have a good time arguing with you. I think you and I disagree on many, many things including most of philosophy and politics...
It is. But that's the thing, almost anything is conceivable (if not everything), but that leads to stuff like the simulation hypothesis, which makes n...
:sweat: I didn't have you in mind actually. No, of course, I perfectly well understand and respect disagreement with anyone, that's fine. If you aren'...
Nevermind. I don't want to get into endless debate. There's no problem if people disagree, in fact, it's welcomed. Others can build ideas on disagreem...
Well, if you have in mind anything like certainty, then all rules are off. I mean, it seems as if the only consistent "hard nosed" attitude is to be a...
If I don't postulate something in the objects that is not created by me and my cognitive capacities, then the only option I have left is that everythi...
Absolutely. We don't even know why certain things were selected. We can say retroactively, that X thing helped for survival, but that may be false. In...
That's true and my speculation may be totally wrong, things could simply emerge. Granting that, I must point to how counter intuitive this is, which s...
Yes, exactly. I speculate that, a being with more acute senses and intellect than us could perceive how physics leads to biology "up" to qualia. We do...
It's something like this, yes, the exact details in minutiae may vary from person to person, Mww would likely bust out a sophisticated vocabulary here...
Different interpreters tend to downplay certain aspects of his philosophy. Some don't particularly care for his idealism, others don't like to conside...
Yes, there's an excellent discussion of this topic by whom I consider to be the best Kant interpretation (who incidentally Strawson recommended to me)...
I don't think there are settled questions in metaphysics - it belongs to the field. I'm essentially a Neo-Kantian or a Rationalistic Idealist like Cud...
I'd have to do away with qualia as well as manifest, "ordinary", human concepts. Scientific concepts, if they are "on the right track", attempts to sh...
Maybe in terms of emphasising a word or putting a bit more weight to one thing vs. another, but nothing big. I get you. These actual things are really...
Sure, I agree, but I must grant "powers" (to use Locke's vocabulary) to the objects, such that they cause in us experience so and so, repeatedly. Thes...
:lol: I enjoy arguing with you and @"Mww", because, so far, it's always been pleasant we may agree to disagree without feeling mad or anything. I don'...
Well, if a previous culture was gone, and we recover it, we reconstruct (or attempt to) what we think their symbols meant, that's granting the point t...
Something would remain, yes. That's the belief in the external world. But what would remain would not be "buildings", "roads", "furniture" nor "cars"....
No. The gall is suggesting that mere animals can understand everything. We've gotten rid of God in most philosophy, but the idea of being all knowing ...
"It has become standard practice in recent years to describe the problem of consciousness as “the hard problem,” others being within our grasp, now or...
It's now part of a book called What Kind of Creatures Are We? which speaks of different topics concerning human nature, it begins with an essay called...
I cannot be grateful enough to Magee, he set me forth into philosophy, without him, I wouldn't have been were I am. He points out that the problem wit...
Actually, I remember posting this recently, I'll repost it here, it struck me as a very nice quote from Hume, proving your point. Putting aside the du...
He tends to rely on quoting others, we interpret if we think he agrees with the person he's quoting. Me personally, as I read this essay and say, Lock...
Do you have in mind ordinary objects (tables and chairs) or scientific objects (atoms and electrons)? I think there's a case for mind dependence on bo...
I would tend to agree, idealism or physicalism, to me, are essentially a terminological quibble in terms of the actual state of affairs. A whole diffe...
Yeah, the problem would be in knowing how much mind-dependence to attribute to different aspects of the world, as in, obviously other animals would ex...
This isn't an attack or anything, but, since I'm roughly a Schopenhauerian, can you tell me or if not, share a post in which you say why you think he'...
Chalmers' says a lot of things, but I wouldn't be surprised if he accepted this formulation. It may be abandoned in terms of being called the "hard pr...
Correct. That was poorly phrased, we can say that Newton's laws work on certain scales, Einstein's "happiest thought" was essentially a thought experi...
https://www.sjsu.edu/people/anand.vaidya/courses/c2/s0/Realistic-Monism---Why-Physicalism-Entails-Panpsychism-Galen-Strawson.pdf pp.20-24 is the part ...
Sure! If you are interested, I can see if I can find you an article - or a part of an article - in which Strawson talks about the problem of life in r...
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