Oh sure. I'm perfectly fine with that. I think we only approximate too. I suppose it would be more accurate to say we are no longer led in mistaken pa...
And I think there is one modern problem that has been solved actually, substance dualism, the view that Descartes argued for. Though when he made it, ...
I think "experience" might be a good word to use. Experience being occurrent mental events or processes, what's happening now as you read these letter...
:lol: I'm probably passive in these respects. Yes, I've met people who say that certain experiences just made them change the way they view the world....
It's a fine line between clarifying a concept and being a slave to the definition you've given. As in, if I say consciousness is to be defined as what...
It's a hard question. We can ask what is a heart. Some will say it's an organ that's used to pump blood around the body. That's one thing hearts do, m...
The (mathematical) equations of physics seem to pick out extra-mental aspects of the world. Why this is so is a good question. But "by themselves", it...
Sure. We all vary in this respect. An experience can cause you to want to find out why something is so instead of just taking it as an established fac...
It's a good question. I think it depends on how you think of experience. I use it interchangeably with consciousness, so as to not repeat this very wo...
Given that that's what you reduce life to - a succession of painful events - then of course you're correct. If pain is bad, then so is life. But it is...
I didn't say it wasn't? But we should try and do something about it, if not for future generations, for all the animals we are killing for no reason o...
There is according to AN. Most people do not subscribe to AN. So it looks to me as if you wanted people to feel bad for merely existing. Or alternativ...
Future Starts Slow by The Kills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwudqTCkBis Got this song stuck in my head like a sound-worm. :cheer: You can holler, ...
I never got around to asking you a question you've probably been asked many times, but I'll take this opportunity if you don't mind. Math was always a...
This is an epistemic claim, correct? This isn't a factual claim about the world. As in we designate trees as trees and trees as belonging to forests. ...
I think this is a good point in general. Nevertheless if you spend a considerable amount of time developing a certain view, it should take an enormous...
Computer language is fine so long as one does not suppose the brain to literally be a computer, only in a different from. For clarifying purposes it's...
I think that using computers to analyze the mind/brain and the universe can be misleading in the sense that the brain does what it does and is differe...
That just means you have good tastes and we're on the same wavelength. :cool: There are many great lines in the song, such as this one. What I like ab...
I like the title, I think it's true. I like the type of the music and the lyrics are poetic. I think losing a few days is necessary. We pay way too mu...
I don't understand something. What's the endgame with these types of arguments? Do you want to convince people that life is a pain-ridden mistake or d...
Beautiful lyrics. :smile: A deep song, eh? I think I have one. :wink: Tangled in Blue - Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818 Early on...
That's what I suspected you'd argue at the beginning. I guess others here will be able to give you some ideas on how to think about this type of philo...
I'm not sure. If you give arguments as to what your arguing for or against, then you could say something like "Mind is fundamental, not matter." Somet...
Sure. Those who agree or sympathetic to Dennett and Churchland have to address this question, which they have to some degree. My physicalism includes ...
That makes sense. Thanks for sharing. I also think there may be an element of us wanting to feel better about ourselves so we put the good in some oth...
It's really hard to find a full quote, as the work is not translated into English yet, but this snippet given by spirit-salamander (who may be a poste...
Well if we attribute to God the highest and noblest, why not attribute to Him the lowest and most degenerate? If God were not only the author of the g...
And that's perfectly fine, but you need to give some argument as to why mind is fundamental or everything we need. Stating this to be the case does no...
That looks like different words for the same phenomena. Which is fine. No we don't. We just have experience, with little clue as to how it works at al...
I'm sympathetic to certain strands of idealism, but I think there might be something unclear here. What would be the difference between a mind and a s...
Yes, but I'm seeing that one is 5 months old, does that not count as bumping a thread? So any view that think that there is more to reality than what ...
I'm hesitant to say much on this, because I think we might be on opposite sides of the argument. But since I don't know that yet, I'll give it a quick...
Ah good. :) As for your other questions, I suspect "meaning" is not a linguistic "only" issue. In my case at least, when I speak of meaning "only" usi...
Simply put we are part of the natural world, not supernatural entities like angels or God. Being part of the natural world implies that our nature (in...
I think this is true as a matter of fact. Whether you call them "abstract structures" or "laws of mind" in addition to (or considered alongside) the l...
I don't know how deep ethnoscience goes, it probably varies somewhat from culture to culture, that is, some cultures may have more postulated entities...
Sure, but we can also point with our finger to denote something. Or with our eyes. No words are needed in these cases. In manifest (everyday, ordinary...
It's likely. Or as you said you'd need to come up with more examples or different wordings. Or we may simply have different intuitions about these thi...
An apple includes its seeds. By saying that apples on the one hand and seeds on the other are different objects is just a way of speaking about things...
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