"I am denying that there are any such properties . But… there seems to be qualia.” A bit later on Dennett states that, concerning colors and their sub...
Yes, it's a big part. But the terminology is cleared so that the discussion becomes fruitful. One thing is to be in similar terminological area, that ...
It's true that experience covers many areas. The one area in which it is not prone to doubt, for most people anyway, is that we have experience, we ex...
Not for every single word. That would take forever an be pointless. No, in philosophy we try to clarify or elucidate the phenomenon in question: free ...
Depends on which philosopher you have in mind. But let's grant that. By granting it, you are going to have to justify why you are using the (now) tech...
It's a part of it. But all he's saying is that Dennett is using the word "consciousness" in such a way that it excludes what most people take consciou...
Well, if you can tell me what Dennett says consciousness is, then there's no issue. Dennett takes Strawson to be his most vocal critic and said that S...
Hmmm. This is "the given". I mean, would you say that sense-data or "qualia" aren't "already shaped"? I don't know if I'd call seeing blue or listenin...
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S5iANxYIYQ "Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen She ope...
It's hard to guess the future, though the problems you mention about Crypto contaminating a lot and that its value is subject to wild fluctuations are...
Whitehead had a point, philosophy consists of footnotes to Plato. Got to go back and reread some of his works sometime... Yes, something like that app...
That's my metaphysical bane. You could even argue that it's kind of in Plato with his ideas. There's something about objects as they appear to us that...
Which is why "things-in-themselves", or the "thing in itself", or whatever specific variety of this idea one ends up using, can be helpful in thinking...
That's a very sensible way of thinking formulating the problem, actually. :up: What do you mean by directly presented? I see a tree, it's a representa...
We postulates things all the time, not only in science but in day to day life too. I agree that something exists. I can't prove it. Human knowledge do...
It's the vocabulary he chose to use, as do many other philosophers, accompanied by the usual connotations people tend to have when they use them. The ...
Well that's your problem: you are being reasonable and looking at the evidence. I think it's important to keep in mind that nothing's set in stone unt...
Philosophy replaces religion inasmuch as you decide it does. If there is a philosophy which has a spiritual or mystical aspect which is appealing, the...
Because if one isn't careful, they will begin to think that they are looking directly at a brain and believe that non-mental activity (neuronal and el...
The general orientation. That what the physiologist sees is not the brain of the subject "neutrally", but instead that what he's actually seeing are t...
Yes. Your last sentence sums it up nicely. It tends to happen with first principles: we can only get so far before we have to say "this is the way it ...
Yeah, sure. They can be... cute, I guess. I visited a massive garbage dump a few weeks ago. I was actually surprised to see so many pigs. I thought th...
I mean if you as yourself can step outside of your own experience to look at yourself. No. Me neither for myself. We can try to trick ourselves into t...
It's a kind of distortion or forgetting of history that this is called the "hard problem". During the enlightenment when Descartes, Hume, Kant and the...
Yes. Agreed. Maybe it is using a term too broadly, but I think this is tightly connected to the neoliberal agenda, which, during this Pandemic at leas...
Apparently, now nothing. I don't expect insight from such a person in the form of propositions or articulable knowledge. Kind of trying to imagine wha...
That's fine if you want to use that way, which is its normal use I think. I think it could be used more fruitfully when applied to people who usually ...
I think that's true in many cases, not here. Why is the car mechanic who can fix a car engine that no Nobel Prize winning Physicist could not consider...
So then it is evident to someone who's on the outside when a "fake" is speaking to someone who is enlightened? Or do you need to be around such people...
"Intellectual", that's quite a funny word. Can be used as praise, as an insult or even neutral sounding. As far as I can see everybody is an intellect...
Well, a bit of good news at least: Dutch pension giant spurns fossil fuels as funds shift before COP26 https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-bu...
Sure. A good portion of it depends on the teacher being able to make this stuff stand out, which for philosophy can be especially difficult, given man...
Absolutely. The idea is to try to keep level headed about this stuff, otherwise anyone starts believing they have something that makes them really spe...
It's an interesting proposition and sounds different from what is usually associated with the term today but looks quite sensible. I think self-learni...
Didn't the Buddha sit and meditate for a long time under a tree? Parts of that tradition can be called philosophical. I do agree that sitting in a roo...
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