Manuel

Well put. It's extraordinary that we imbue the "external world" with so many things. Properties, qualities, substances, richness, depth and on and on ...

I've always though Russell had it right in his In Praise of Idleness. I find this to be extremely accurate to my experience. I think it's kind of a ps...

:up: That's a pretty good sketch.

It's pretty bad. It's even hard to find words to say if one considers the very real consequences of this phenomenon. Making everything reducible to te...

:up: Absolutely. In a trivial sense, philosophy is the mother of the sciences. Which is true, out of philosophy came physics, biology, chemistry and e...

It helps me to think of it as a historical subject. We try to understand the world and ourselves. When we arrived at the scene, when the first human b...

I am way outmatched here in terms of knowledge of Plato, so forgive my ignorance, I won't be providing quotes nor anything like that. I'll have to re-...

Fair enough. :up:

Do cars, houses and trees exist mind-independently? No. But it doesn't follow that they're not real, unless you define the use of the word "real" to m...

Ah, I see definitions vary from "isolated" systems, to all systems. And it is frequently connected with the "arrow of time", as Sean Carroll talks abo...

I don't know if I'd call this "logic" as is understood technically. The weather may be cold for me but hot for you. This is a fine book for me but mea...

Don't hold your breath. Maybe, but communication would be a big problem.

Everything is quite sunny, literally. If it isn't extreme heat, let's get our electrical grid fried. Damn man, yeah life entails suffering and all tha...

Is this the same objective idealism of Peirce? Not to drag this into anything too lengthy, but what would be the basic definition? I know of "transcen...

Entropy is a good word because you can use it and nobody knows what you talking about. Some famous scientist said this and he was correct. To be fair,...

"Study nothing, except in the knowledge that you already knew it." - Clive Barker "What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into...

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There's no doubt that patriarchal societies form a large part of our culture, dominant even, and for this reason, we have the world we have, at least ...

One thing is to say that many people don't understand the political spectrum correctly, so they may call themselves "libertarian" when they in fact ma...

I can take away "the reality" only in the sense that reality can be honorific, as I've said elsewhere. If someone says "this is a real waterpark", the...

If you take that definition, then you will end up with your conclusion. I wouldn't put it like that, but I can see the legitimacy of defining it that ...

"This" meaning your approach, as I understood it. Sure, I mean, if we look at the ocean, the blueness we see and the wetness we feel are surely part o...

Yes, these authors tend to produce dense works that require persistence and patience, ideally, it ends up being worth the effort. Depending on the per...

Yeah, I do use it very broadly, in part because consciousness is over used these days. For me, the conscious part of the mental is experiential goings...

This looks to me as an attempt to (try to) clarify the phenomenal properties we add to the world. Yes, we grow into certain molds - set forth by natur...

If as such you mean "in itself", no. Of course not. Basketballs are the results of a complex interplay of the a-priori, which includes some aspects of...

If I follow, the "I think" that accompanies experience, would form a part of experience. And thus be a part of reality (for me). Yes, I'd agree with y...

Hmm. I think that in our common sense folk science, we think we are studying "thing in themselves", that doesn't lead to theories. It can lead to very...

I think this is our main point of disagreement. Not at all that I think experience is an illusion, I'm averse to eliminitavism of most stripes. I thin...

I believe I'm saying something of the sort when I say that the a-priori is part of reality. This can be spoken about in the language of computational ...

Interesting. And I can see your motivations from framing it as you do, for it is elegant. But I think things become fuzzy quite quickly in the a-prior...

Hey! Haven't seen you around in a while. Or it could be that I've been away. I have a question for you: What say you regarding a-priori knowledge and ...

:up: Not bad at all. And fits in with almost any field of enquiry, which is promising.

It gets tricky, quickly. We don't know if the beaver builds a dam with intent, maybe it does is automatically, the way a baby turtle races to the ocea...

I think I get your point or the gist of it. It might send you down the "wrong picture" of the world to think in terms of natural vs. artificial. I thi...

Essentially yes.

Yeah, sure. We can also be the dream of God, or the tears of a cosmic turtle or anything else. You've stipulated that there's no organic life, contrar...

Yeah. I don't even understand what an alternative to "natural" means. By "natural" I mean belonging to nature, not meaning reducing everything to scie...

Sure. But mind is too. Unless you assert that consciousness is only mind or exhausts the mental. If there is more to mind than experience, then mind i...

Why isn't the mental natural? The mind is a part of nature. The mental being immaterial is questionable. It arises out of brains, which are physical s...

Yes. Even our brains are models spun up by our experience, so it is counter-intuitive. Believing that the ocean is blue can be said in an epistemology...

I couldn't finish The Tunnel when I first tried. Wasn't in to it back then, am going to have to give it another shot. Yep, Markson's Wittgenstein's Mi...

That's the best way to read novels.

There are whole guidebooks for GR. Once it gets going it's crazy: characters appearing left and right, changes in prose from paranoiac to authoritativ...

It varies. Gravity's Rainbow is quite difficult. You need to be able to withstand not understanding almost anything for 240 pages, then it takes off f...

:up: Exactly. Assuming the attitude you are replying to also tends to imply that we shouldn't really talk about anything, we're only here to kill time...

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It's a problematic word as it is honorific in English. Like you can say there is the real deal or the real truth or even the real news. This doesn't m...

Yes. Technically we can agree that we take it to the case that the ocean appears blue to us under certain conditions - not at night, for instance. I o...