Ah. Then the question would be where does intentionality not arise in our mental life for Husserl? A state of dreamless sleep comes to mind. I wonder ...
Aboutness seems to be what intentionality is. These words seem to be inter-changeable. I'm sure some Husserlian can easily dispute that. I'm simple mi...
Hah. Yeah, that's one way to look at it, and something like that is probably true. I'd be nice for different people to inherent the Earth for a change...
Objects in motion take place within time, as it were. It's a very strange concept if you examine it from our perspective. Like the typical situation: ...
Well said :up: You raise good points. Here's my "but": I think some people are predisposed to feel and reflect more than others in the sense that they...
Whatever it is, we enrich it by experiencing it. Presumably - or factually - time was "happening" or "going on" before we were born. So we came out of...
However I may feel about having or not having children, I don't think most people could be persuaded about absolute AN. If they have a pre-disposition...
Our best bet of answering some questions, is to have a range of criteria that allows for better or more accurate answers. What these criteria include,...
It's an interesting formulation. The only concern on my part is that we try to avoid attributing self organization to the world, when it could be the ...
I'm sympathetic, the only caveat would be: this would be true if they have the same capacities for art that we have. Maybe they have an art we could n...
From Wikipedia. But I first read it in Hand's Cosmosapiens, I believe: Claude Shannon introduced the very general concept of information entropy, used...
Certainly. Nothing matters if you're starving. Once that and other basic needs are met, we're going to need something meaningful to give some sense to...
Not that I know. But then again, not much is known about him. Back then it was common for intellectuals or "cultured" people to know about everything....
Well then one can speak of naturalistic monism. I don't know why physicalism has to imply physics can explain everything. Another thing is to say that...
It can be. But life is multi-specialized, so we have to branch out. But your question is a good one, it's just really hard to answer in quantifiable t...
Maybe speaking in terms of "knowledge" is problematic, in terms of trying to find criteria that fall under this term. In English, this word is a bit d...
More than it being false, it's unhelpful. Call it whatever you like. There is not a single definition of philosophy and if you insist that Eastern phi...
I said you're view of philosophy of presenting or giving arguments to be too narrow. And it makes sense to speak of different traditions: Eastern vs W...
Yeah! Believe me, I know the feeling. :rofl: If it wasn't for a friend of mine who told me, I would've not brought a book to get signed. Unbelievable....
Yeah. He mentions that several times, especially when Kant is brought up, as he finds Cudworth's ideas more interesting. It's hard to find much litera...
Yes. He said the same thing to me. Not with Nietzsche, didn't ask him about that, but about Heidegger. He did begin to read his "Introduction to Metap...
:100: Though you have an advantage over me, I find it really hard to disagree with him. I can't speak about his technical linguistics, but overall, it...
Sounds very Chomskyian to me. Which is most excellent, he's just on another level in terms of intellect and arguments. He'd probably suggest Strawson'...
If it means something to you, sure. Otherwise, it shouldn't be a huge problem I don't think. Rudyard Kipling describe "what a man should be", I kinda ...
Excellent suggestions! I'm still waiting for the official Mainlander translation, but I thought his critique of Kant and Schopenhauer to be very, very...
Yeah, I posted a bit on that thread. And a :100: on this last sentence. Plato is awesome to this day. Crazy, having relevant things to say 2000 years ...
These are very suggestive. I'm not that brave. I've had other experiences, some in the course of ordinary life, others, well... in college :grimace: w...
I simply mean that if rocks and rivers were conscious in some way, then the way we treat things we consider to be non-mental, would be way too horribl...
Sure, this is a good place to think out loud. What you're talking about makes sense. In so far as we are conscious, we can say in very general terms, ...
Well, if you're a panpsychist you'd probably argue that rocks and rivers have some experiential or mental component. I don't think that's the case. Bu...
Sure. Dennett is a decent liberal, so far as I know. He's also quite entertaining in the examples he gives. His is a materialism of a certain strain, ...
Ugh. Him and the Churchlands and even much worse, Rosenberg. Total lunacy. I mean, if you want to deny conscious experience, fine. But then just study...
The most fascinating question of them all, at least to me. I think we tend to adapt metaphysical views based, to some extent, on what we believe to be...
Not in a while. Though some here would give you many very detailed arguments. Just open the book, read any page. Tell me those aren't arguments. In fa...
I have thought deeply on the topic. I even put my chin on the back of my hand and pondered. Which leads me to what you told me: So Lao Tzu makes no ar...
Yeah. Well, can't this topic come under the cover of, say, "what's it like to be in pain"? As in, we have an idea of what such a state consists of, th...
Sure, consciousness is an absolutely crucial aspect to moral considerations. I don't think this applies to "what it's likeness" though. Or at least, I...
Yes, what you quote there is true. That was a problem for Cartesians who by today's standards would be considered quite monstruos. Animal rights, thou...
Well it's good to know that all the universities and all the professionals and amateurs are wrong in thinking about Eastern philosophy as a tradition ...
Thanks for pointing that out. Wouldn't being in a completely dark cave and using a rock to try and find out where the walls are be akin to a kind of e...
Well, there are few certainties (if any) in life, so there's no way to know for sure. But based on probability and plausibility, I think this is the "...
The book is fine. I mean, I think it's good to put idealism back on the table. The main problem with the book has to do with him saying that science d...
That makes no sense. Everyone in the world is a philosopher then. I never said musicians and artists are philosophers, I said that they offer "provoca...
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