Philosophical Speculations

Hi all As you will probably have seen on the thread Dana started about moderation, I’m planning to hand over the ownership of the board. Ashvin has expressed an interest, so along with some help from Cleric, we are planning to do the transfer over the next couple of weeks. I don’t expect things to c...

Hi All I hope you’re all doing well. It’s not just Dana wishing to step back from the board. I’ll keep it all going for the time being, but am looking for someone who wants to take over the hosting. I can help with the transfer but you will need some basic knowledge of hosting / ftp etc ongoing. Som...

I’m with Bernardo on this. The only way we can make anything living is by taking bits from living things and changing them or adding to them. A robot is something we create … as in we make it using our knowledge. If anyone can provide the code these ‘xenobots’ are running, or create one without star...

I’ve only sampled a couple of chapters so far, but this is pretty good for anyone interested;

Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition

Presumably Harris does a fair bit of meditating? It seems strange that someone who produces an app on meditation, can so badly miss-understand the experience and the understanding from people who have spent their whole lives doing it? People who don’t understand even the basics of what idealism is e...

Bernardo, I have been listen to a few hours of podcast where you explain your views and also listen to an audio version of your book: The Idea of the World.. I would be interested how you would I interpret from you metaphysical / ontological views the progressive and noticeable loss of mental capac...

Thanks for sharing. This is how my language speaks. True (tosi) is as actualizes, as realizes (toteutuu). Cf. intransitive middle voice of proto-Indoeuropean, which is not same but similar and still exists at least in Classical Greek. Modern European has mostly lost the middle voice has only active...

Simon, thank you for sharing that from Borella. I am not going to pretend I followed all of it, but I think I followed most of it, and from what I did follow, it sounded spot on. There are some minor issues I have, such as the actual-potential distinction which may be unnecessary if we think in ter...

I find it very interesting how your inability to understand our position is proof of the core tenet of that position - that Thinking remains in your " blind spot ". It's like the person who abstracts from consciousness, abstracts from the abstractions of consciousness, abstracts the abstr...