Manuel

I don't know about the one per se, but your OP reminded me of Schopenhauer's porcupines: "One cold winter's day, a number of porcupines huddled togeth...

That's a good direction to go in. We'd want objects to be coherent, as we take them to be in manifest reality. Then when we bump into a new-ish smell,...

Thanks for the reminder. :cry: *positive thinking*

:lol: Is a distressed laughter, not mocking. Clearly, there's no real alternative. The future is unknown and we can only hope that efforts will make t...

Your analysis is accurate. You are preaching to the choir in my case, or close to it. The work is far from easy and change won't come without struggle...

Yes, the silver lining must be there, otherwise it would be a waste of time. I don't know if this is pessimism or simple objectivity, but the scary th...

Sorry if this comes a bit off left field, but related to the title of your thread, one problem with Climate Denialism or whatever one wants to call it...

It is fascinating. It's as if we have several voices in our head saying contradictory things, often at the same time. We can actually see real life ca...

Yes and I think Galen Strawson offers a good alternative (as good as any other) in his Real Materialism essay. Everything that concretely exists is ph...

There's the common usage of words, in which "will" is taken to mean volition or power to do something on purpose, or some similar association. If you ...

I think so in the case of animals. For knowledge to be knowledge proper and not just a very broad word implying ordered information or something, it s...

Yeah, you are right. I'm aware of privileging sight. You could ask the reverse question you are positing. And the answer might be that depending on wh...

Knowledge can be a problematic word when applied to animals. Innate dispositions might be better. The have a nature such that when an object induces i...

Yeah, I'm calling it a night too. I certainly agree with what you say. It seems our model should be a better liar, and we shouldn't be confused or sur...

YES. Reid was reacting to Locke - I think - and replying to Locke that primary qualities do not resemble anything in the object. We feel the effects o...

Yes, I think you raised an important point, the arbitrary aspect. What would be rational to expect of something to smell like? We begin (almost) alrea...

Sure, the point of this specific thread is just for that, whatever one wants to make of it. I think its innate, it's something they are born with, the...

I'm not too confident on this topic. It hit a nerve when I read it. I could be relying too much on visuals, because as I mentioned, if I look at a fir...

That's an excellent illustration of the general idea. Thanks for sharing.

Not quite, but it's an approximation. Assume that for some reason, you recover all your senses. Before you lacked all of them. Before you become habit...

Yes. But what about chemical composition is it that should lead it to produce the experiences that we do? When I look at a chemical, say a sleeping pi...

I tend to favor a type of rationalism in the philosophy of mind, which includes sensation as a important factor. I believe I can "think away" all prop...

I think the problem lies in thinking that what you mean by "physical" automatically excludes consciousness. Why? Why can't consciousness be a wholly p...

So the point in what you quote, as I take it, would be to avoid building bridges that fall. A system with a paradox is a kind of faulty logic system. ...

I'm interested in seeing more in detail what Turing said, not so much Wittgenstein himself. Mathematics, much less foundations of mathematics, is beyo...

Yep. Pretty much. That's why we say "it sounds like X, Y or Z".

Ah, thanks. :up:

Suppose you hear a particular sound, perhaps one reminding you of a glass jar breaking. You've heard glass break before, so you associate a particular...

Well, it's difficult. I suspect that, despite claims to the contrary, AN is connected with personal disposition. They happen to be the kinds of people...

Is there a transcript for this discussion between Wittgenstein and Turing? It would be interesting to see the entire conversation.

That it would be the kind of object of which one would expect that specific sound it produces. If we have not heard something sufficiently well, we wo...

These types of phenomena are rather eerie. But on hindsight, really highlight how wonderful our minds can be. How could it be possible for a plastic b...

One would have to explain how the fan induces the model to work in the first place. If that can be established somehow, then progress could be made. A...

Well, you've expanded on the usual notion of "family" that tends to come to mind automatically. It is legitimate to do so, because in a certain sense,...

So we have a definition of "democracy", which is good, it works for me. I also agree that large portions of the population are confused by ideological...

Yep, in fascist societies one indeed has to tow the party line or you're in trouble. What does loyalty to democracy mean? Belief that it should be the...

I'd like to know what "family values" are. It's often thrown around as a warning, but its meaning is quite elusive. Or, it could simply be a phrase us...

I think it's a semantic issue at this point. I don't want to go over my spiel for the 100th time, it will bore others. So let me put it in a different...

It is closely connected with the issue of language and thought. The question would be to what extent is thought exclusively connected with language? I...

Sure. History will finish eventually. Even if climate change, nuclear weapons or pandemics don't end us all in a few decades (at best), we have the so...

Battle against? You can say that, sure. Some like to distinguish between intrinsic nature and extrinsic nature, though I'm skeptical that we ever get ...

I agree with you that we should keep in mind the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, while keeping in mind that these very distinctions aren'...

Schopenhauer praised Vedanta and particularly the Upanishads to no end. Aside from him, not many of the classical figures in philosophy interacted wit...

Yes. I mean, I believe that some form of monism is ultimately true, that is, everything is made up of fundamentally the same stuff. I don't think the ...

It doesn't solve the problem of how consciousness first arose, unless you accept some form of panpsychism. Which is fine. I don't personally see good ...

I don't see how that follows. Take the number of people who've been born in the 20th century alone, we're beyond 7 billion people now. For the "replac...

If I understood correctly, it follows that other people with experience would remain. But not that anyone dying would be the cause of another experien...

I mean perhaps reading all those books you mention could help. They likely wouldn't hurt. As for me, it looks to me as if the "answer" to the issue is...

Echoes - Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBca3xf-j3o Overhead the albatross Hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling wave...

Well, that's true. On the other hand, it is a legitimate question to ask, does physics touch the noumena? In other words, does physics tell us about t...