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- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Under your assumption, experience other than your own consciousness is no more knowable than anything else outside your own consciousness since all you directly experience is your own. Other consciousness is merely an inference by analogy from your own. Exactly, it's inference by analogy (to what i...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:51 pm
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- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Mark Tetzner wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:56 pm
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
I am kind of bewildered by the above comment, because it seems that you don't notice that you are presupposing materialist ontology, with all of its abstractions, before interpreting the science and then hanging the rest of your philosophy on that materialist interpretation of scientific data. Phys...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
If you were BK, would you want to debate with some odd bod who thinks metaphysics is dead ... Well, in the unlikely event that BK were to chime in, it seems he would pretty much repeat the following ... I am kind of bewildered by the above comment, because it seems that you don't notice that you ar...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:36 pm
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- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
No, this is definitely incorrect. BK has never engaged in phenomenology or even mentioned phenomenology (Goethe, Steiner, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Barfield, etc.) as a basis of his own philosophical conclusions. If one starts with abstractions about "MAL", "consciousness", &qu...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Physical as in energy, not material. Because it is the most elemental thing we know it has to be the starting point. You cannot just skip energy and assume consciousness. If we take away energy consciousness disappears, I'm sorry JF but this is laughable :lol: End of discussion Usually that sort of...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:32 pm
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- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Modern neuroscience traces the brain activity as it constructs the meaning. If our brains don’t construct meaning, then how do we go from electric impulses to some valid intuition of the world? The neuroscientist Anil Seth is very good on this. I am kind of bewildered by the above comment, because ...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
JW seems to be on a mission to prove metaphysics a failed enterprise, given up by all the great modern minds - self-confessed failures- with whom he aligns himself. To him, the divine substrate is, and will forever remain, unknowable quantum foam (which, paradoxically, he claims to know a bit about...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Just the opposite. Our most direct and primitive perception is the shock. Any claim of consciousness outside our own experience is the metaphysical leap taken from the pre-conceptual shock. Of course, we all read Hume. But if we do not make such claim (or at least assumption) that anything may exis...
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Criticism
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Re: Criticism
Bernardo says that emperically we have no reason to believe that rocks or computers are consciouss, only the things that have metabolilsm are consciouss. Its basically his way of saying no to panpsychism and stop unwarrented speculations which he calls conceivability-traps. All the ATP-stuff: Under...