Tom Storm

I would say that Kastrup would argue that Magee does not go far enough. For Kastrup all that is is mentation and for him mind at large is necessary be...

I tired to read books in Kindle form. I can't. Any articles I read I also ususally have to print out first. I have to have books - the feel, the smell...

Oh I see. Surely there must be several reasons. One being the attraction so many minds have for certainty and truth. Surely that quest has often creat...

Does he use this dream metaphor, I must have missed this? To be fair he doesn't say 'it is not real' he says it is not what we think it is. All realit...

Nice. Thank you.

I didn't say this as a physicalist but as someone trying to make sense of 'what it's like to be.' Maybe you can explain what it means as I am unable t...

Fair assessment. How do you respond to the claim that science is founded on a metaphysical position - that reality can be understood? Or do you view s...

Yes. People aren't much interested in morality as a subject, but they're happy to hold unexamined 'oughts' which can be used to judge others. Morality...

Sure. My answer was just a modest response to this: Which I think overstates the case, for reasons I have spelt out. But it was a small point. And you...

:100: :up: Again. :up: Nicely put.

Not relevant to my point. As I said, For instance, if you were involved in counselling or supporting people to recover from trauma (as I am) or a seri...

But each time it will involve (at the very least) watching and a sun. I agree that each experience is somewhat different, but so is each time we take ...

I spent a lot of time on his blog a while ago trying to nail down the story he is presenting to us. I'm not sure I have the precise reference, but thi...

It does look like he is trying to have his cake and eat it, but maybe that's how it appears when someone builds a comprehensive account. It's human co...

I don't think so. The issue here is that Kastrup would agree that conscious creatures emerged 'later' and the cosmological events or the 'reality' we ...

Maybe I'm not concentrating properly, but I'm struggling to understand what this thread is about. Is it clarifying who incels are and if they are some...

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Thanks. Thoughtful response. :up:

I don't know enough about the subject to make that case.

That's mostly true. You do see this is some alcohol and drug recovery programs, where people go around and apologize and even make amends for the wron...

The extent of my knowledge of the subject is Wiki and until this thread the only proto-incel I could think of was Nietzsche (sorry). I don't think the...

Yes. I find it very satisfying to listen to.

Nice idea for a thread...

I tend to agree. I think most people just intuit what they ought and ought not to do based upon their own presuppositions. I'm not sure moral systems ...

That guy... I knew the execrable Robin Hood song - some of the others I may have heard but I shudder to think. :yikes:

I had to look up both Pandora and Bryan Adams. I am now disgusted.

This is a very rich and fascinating subject to me. It seems to me that phenomenology appreciates this approach. There's a salient quote by Dan Zahavi:

I certainly see the 'constructionist' logic in your last paragraph. It's hard or impossible to imagine how we could separate our perception, cognition...

Well, I guess 'laws' does imply a 'lawgiver' in the crudest traditions of anthropomorphising. And 'laws of logic' are certainly seized upon constantly...

- Martin Amis

That sounds interesting. Creationist cultures do seem to have a crudity about them which suggest creation is ours for the fucking... if you'll forgive...

I think I may re-read it. I actually liked Night Train which is a short piss-take on a noir detective thriller.

No. It's cow belching due to enteric fermentation - which is the digestive process of converting sugars into simple molecules for absorption into the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vov9SAItc9A

I hear it's the belching that's the bigger methane problem.

Story of my life... I hear you, Brother. :cool:

The search for proof for the incorporeal is at the heart of idealism, I guess.

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Indeed - I should have said, 'is purported to operate throughout... ' etc. I agree.

I don't know either. Isn't Mathematical Platonism a common argument used to undermine physicalism (as opposed to QM speculations which we can leave fo...

No, that was a joke based on 'interest rates' not on my interest in the subject. But do such examples transcend physicalism?

But what if you are not interested?

Martin Amis has died at 73. Same cancer that claimed his friend Christopher Hitchens. Smokers... I loved many of Amis' essays and non-fiction. I wasn'...

Therein lies something of a problem. :wink: Where do you sit on the notion that maths is Platonic? As you know, some people maintain that logic and ma...

Small digression. Is there an example of an immaterial 'something' we can point to uncontroversially?

That's the million dollar question. Nicely framed. Would you consider yourself an idealist?

Good questions. I suspect will must be outside it if it is the foundation of all things including forms. But it's unclear. Are you sympathetic to the ...

Yes, that's kind of my reaction too.

I think that's a good point. Kastrup seems to be influenced by Schopenhauer and it seems that he has taken the notion or will and the world as represe...

I don't think I am wedded to any approach. Negative ethics has merit. Whatever we do in the morality space will be flawed and inadequate, just like hu...