Strawson postulates panpsychism as necessary because emergence cannot be brute or "radical": there must be something in the phenomena by which new pro...
Yeah. Einstein understood that Newton's laws could only go so far, it had problems it could not account for, such as the orbit or Mercury. So Einstein...
That is correct. Chomsky, in this and other articles, thinks that Strawson's construction of materialism is one of the few that makes sense, given the...
Yes. Failing him and Hume, Locke, Priestley even, much later, Russell and many others. Our common sense understanding doesn't reach into the depths of...
These are from the essay. Yes and no. Yes in so far as scientists don't worry about a theory making intuitive sense, for example QM and Feynman's quot...
A bit more on intuitive understanding: https://cprtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/COMPLETE-REPORT-Goswami-Childrens-Cognitive-Development-and-...
On Mysteries: "Newton largely agreed with his scientific contemporaries. He wrote that the notion of action at a distance is “inconceivable.” It is “s...
Sure. I mean most organisms that ever existed and still exist are very simple structures, lacking perception and reason. It seems as if intelligence, ...
It's connected to the idea that the world can be fully known - completely, "in itself". It's not mentioned in this article, but one can point to Leibn...
Different people have different ways of approaching science. I think the issue here is one of having different takes on intuition. If you say General ...
I can only give you what I understand his view to entail. The point of this thread is to discuss the text. Not for me to explain it in his words - for...
Exactly. The point is simple. We are biological creatures, like all other biological creatures, we have a nature. Dogs have a nature, birds have a nat...
As I read him, his approach tends to be straight forward, he's always called it "common sense", and thought the term can be misleading, it's a good wa...
That's actually not far from being the case, in fact it's a plausible reading of this paper. About the world being unintelligible, in some sense yes: ...
You're right to point that out. He always calls it "common sense", which is perhaps the one thing I'd disagree with him. Not because what he's saying ...
I've read Priestley, Locke, Hume's Treatise and some Reid. The very clear impression I get from all of them, without doubt, is that qualia exist and a...
I think so too. His views should be taken quite seriously as his breadth of knowledge is considerable. Having said that, of course one if free to disa...
I should say, I appreciate the feedback and thought put into your answers, even if I disagree with some of it, you certainly posing good questions. Ju...
That's not particularly relevant to the bigger picture. You're right that we can get a bunch of data from all these fields and learn a lot, but we no ...
In this essay, he points out that Newton himself realized that the way gravity worked was an "absurdity" and that no person who was of right "philosop...
I'm not sure I understood this. Angels refers to the beings people believed in back then, who had infinite knowledge, perhaps thinking of God or gods ...
Alright, I'll start the thread and post the article, I'll give an introduction and then proceed as you wish, it can be a comment after a reading few p...
In case anyone is interested, I finally was able to get my favorite Chomsky article articulating his so called "mysterianism" online for free, without...
No... we are part of nature. That doesn't mean that the things we experience aren't a product of our cognitive capacities. I'd be very conservative in...
Simply that a keyboard is also something which we construct in our cognition, there are no keyboards in nature. It's also an idea. Nothing beyond that...
We don't really understand why most animals (if not all) need to sleep. There are guesses having to do with repairing or optimizing neuronal activity,...
The "keyboard" is a construction of the mind on the occasion of sense. I use it to try to approximate my thoughts via word use, such that what I'm thi...
I can give examples that more or less follow. Suppose that right now, I have in mind an idea I'd like to convey. I have a computer at my disposal, obv...
Here's the thing, I've repeated this too many times here, I don't want to bore people. Very briefly "materialism"/physicalism made sense back in the t...
It's terminological at this point. I think being a naturalist monist would be liable to least offense, depending on how you think of "the natural". If...
To be more precise, I should've said what "principle" connects our thoughts, or even hazard to say what law. Of course, there's something in the brain...
Sure, one need not agree with Hume's account of perception or the mind, to find merit in his thinking. What he could not do, given his philosophy, is ...
I haven't heard Russell or Chomsky speak well of IQ tests, if that counts for anything. I consider both of them to be among the most intelligent of pe...
We do things all the time that we don't understand. We don't understand art too well, yet we do it, we don't understand human psychology too well, yet...
Thanks for the clarification. Curious that you mention an "idiot" instead of a "person." The world's most educated experts have serious trouble accoun...
I assume I am mistaken in many things, this included. It's always a possibility. There's no certainty in the empirical world. I base my conclusion on ...
I likely have a negative IQ. Cant count for shit, nor spel neither. At best, such things can probably indicate that you are good in very specific situ...
I should say, when dualism was seriously proposed - and taken seriously - it was done as a scientific move on Descartes part. He thought he could acco...
If it had not been pointed out, I wouldn't have even considered there was "mistake" here. The artist might care and maybe an avid fan, I don't think o...
Absolutely. I mean, not really knowing what makes up 95% of the universe is a bit of a problem. Hopefully James Webb can shed some light on that. But ...
I mean, I know it's easy to criticize but shouldn't he have settled on Federal law? That's the most important one, usually. However this plays out, I ...
Well, in Hume's famous Appendix to his Treatise, he concluded that: "In short there are two principles, which I cannot render consistent; nor is it in...
It was a relatively minor surgery. He was out partying when COVID first broke, didn't cry then when he helped infect a lot of people, as well as encou...
What a clown. Good. People with that level of influence have more responsibility. Hmmm, interesting. I suspected something of the sort, in terms of hi...
Strictly speaking, mathematics is not a language. You can say "mathematics is the language of the universe" in a poetic sense, and that's perfectly fi...
@"Banno"@"Wayfarer"@"StreetlightX" Since ya'll from Down Under. I wanna know, do you think Djokovic's lawyers stand a chance appealing the governments...
We know a little about language, not much. I think it's "primary" use, so to speak, is to articulate thought to oneself. Communication is done by all ...
This variant is pretty crazy, everyone is getting it. At least it's less bad than Delta, but mutations are already arising. It's incredible that we ar...
Comments