Philosophical Speculations

[/quote] - In addition to hard problem there are multiple inconsistencies and explanatory gaps between materialistic model of causal and local material universe and resent QM experiments. To get around those problems, materialism has to either give up on the causality and locality of matter, or adop...

From what I understand Bernardo thinks that while you are not looking there are excitations of m@l around you. One of the things I wonder about Bernardo's formulation is whether over time it has become more distinctive of the way we perceive reality outside and what it really is (as in Schopenhauer...

Also of note, regarding the sleeping state, in which this 'I' is experiencing its dreamworld, upon returning to the waking state there is a notion that this dreamworld ceases to exist, yet I'm not so sure of that. It may well be that. as Jung intimated, this subconscious realm is always active, 24/...

:!: But if I pass out unconscious on the chair, although there is no experience of chair, the apparent chair doesn’t vanish and leave me in a heap on the floor. [/i] Interestingly, it's also possible to be having a so-called OBE and experience the same imagery of 'your' body sitting in a chair, from...

I think this is fatal flaw in the parsimony argument that idealism makes. To get around this problem there needs to be an assumption of a mind at large that is perceiving what you feel as the chair while you are unconscious. Or that the chair you perceive is composed of little excitations of consci...

I’m not an expert here, which you’ll probably tell from the question! But I reckon you all can help with where my understanding is missing something. Reading The Idea of the World Ch3 and BK writes about the world only ever being known as images via all sensory modalities, on the screen of perceptio...

Around 1 hour in Bernardo says that what Freud & Jung meant by unconscious is not the same as what analytical philosophy means by the absence of consciousness. Is that because, in the latter, an absence of consciousness would be zero phenomenal experience at all?