I don't particularly like advertising this but, it's relevant to the OP. As someone who has a PhD in philosophy, I must say, I think you are 100% corr...
Absolutely. And I have to say that I tend to sympathize with your views more than the bespectacled lab coat person. I think it is just clearly obvious...
Hmmm. I'd be careful in assigning too much weight to personal experiences of any kind, particularly those of spiritual or mystical weight. For one thi...
It's hard to say but, I don't believe it would be possible to think absent space. I mean, if someone chops our head off with a guillotine, we tend to ...
He's often misinterpreted, which is quite strange given that he was a very clear and fantastic writer. I mean sure, you can interpret him a few ways, ...
To be fair, he says: "It is indeed a ticklish business to force on man through early impression weak and untenable notions in this important respect, ...
Jeez man, that must be tough. I wonder what goes through your head, after dealing with people who want to kill themselves, when you bump into threads ...
Obviously the point is profit. But an "externality", as it were, is to make even more people aware that there's a problem with climate, which is being...
Peirce speaks about this quite interestingly. "Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the st...
Hmmm. Man, the more I read about climate change and realistic (meaning now, not in 5 years) solutions, the more complicated it is. It's very hard. Not...
Very good post. :up: Yeah, there's something about sight in combination with our sense of direction and other factors, that permits us to create a mod...
Yep. As to your question, no idea. Somehow we are creatures for which sight not only saved us from predators, it also allowed us to see certain aspect...
I'll have to read him again, since it's been a while since I read what I linked. He believes that many of these aspects sounds, tastes and the like, a...
If you consider gravity physical - which Newton did not, incidentally - but we do, I don't see why we can't say that the same "substance" which causes...
I'll have to quote Joseph Priestley again, who was working off of Locke's philosophy. He said this in 1777: "It is said that we can have no conception...
Well, another organism with a different nervous system could well have different faculties which we lack and couldn't even imagine. The nervous system...
That's fine. I mean, yes this is debated, I don't know why, but to insist that the colour experience red or the word "red" is 620 to 750 nanometers is...
It's an expression of monism, yes. It's implying that everything is a configuration of physical stuff. I say "physical" and not "ideal" because I don'...
Yes, there is a massive gap between out scientific knowledge of colours and colour experience. No idea. Unless the colour experience is already in the...
That's exactly what I caught my attention. What other possible way could a flower look like except the way it looks like? There are different flowers ...
Yes. I only stress that I think consciousness is what we are best acquainted with out of everything we know. I'm saying it's physical. But it's an ass...
I'm using Strawson's definition of the term, "(real) materialism", which says that everything that exists is physical. Though I've been debating if it...
Good terminology now. If she knew "everything about the physical aspects of sight", that would have to include colour experience. But she is not havin...
Because it states experience isn't physical. But nevermind. To get to the learning something new part: Mary has colour experience which she lacked. So...
I'm saying that the term "physicalism" as generally used is misleading. Chomsky discusses it quite well, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsLO...
I don't think the topic hinges on this despite the title, it's a misleading way to think about the problem. It's essentially asking if Mary knows the ...
Physicalism means whatever people who use that term intend it to mean. But there isn't one agreed upon opinion about the term. Some people, like Rosen...
Well, I can't avoid cliché's here: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Constant questioning, but mild confidence in what you're doing is...
We don't. All we can do is do what we think is best, given the circumstances we are in. If we are on the right path, so to speak, we will feel good an...
I haven't read this yet, but it is recommended by an author I respect and it looks interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Barbarism-Manifesto-Plan...
From James' pragmatism, which seems to me to be rather broader than Peirce's idea of it, it depends on what the abortion would imply for the person in...
Depends on the context. I only say this because many people have been moved or inspired by movies. Even if they do know it is not "real life", the gen...
I mean, there's no proof that we live in a simulation at all. Sure we have The Matrix or Brain in Vats as a movie and an illustration respectively, th...
It has to do with the fact that they shout in public people who wear masks, have pride in not being vaccinated, risk others by not taking them into ac...
No. There are various sources and many views on the topic. But the ones I mentioned reach a lot of people, so they have broad reach, especially Fox, n...
Hand-waving wasn't a complaint actually. The "good reason" part can be debated, but I can see how people come around into believing these things. It's...
They can always double down or enter into denialism or maybe regret it. But as you say, a top-tier shrink is needed to explain this shit and I doubt w...
These comments are from different threads. Having said that, for me and you on this topic, yes. To them, no, assuming you are referring here to people...
Yes, this is astonishing and goes to show the decay in political discourse and our relying on "team mentality". It's no different - in fact likely wor...
I mean at a certain point, given enough experience one reaches a kind of conclusion to one's "big beliefs" about the world in general. We might think ...
This is in practice, not terribly difficult. But when you think of what it involves, it becomes overwhelmingly complex. Putting aside the crucial fact...
Yes. I remember reading that part. I find it ironic that he thought that giving examples would make his thought more difficult to criticize. As if his...
Depends on how questions are framed, you can get right wing sounding answers or left wing sounding answers. But a democracy often means getting a pers...
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