Philosophical Speculations

Hi Ashvin. Thank you for your contribution. Thanks for adding these thoughts on the discussion, Guney. I am traveling now but will try to post some of my thoughts soon. I think you are generally correct about the deeper nature of the obtscales involved, although I perhaps see a wider strategic ...

I want to share some comments from a Substack discussion with JW (his stack is found here ). I believe it is also quite relevant to the discussion in the other thread. It seems that many diligent thinkers in our time, sooner or later, make their way to the bottleneck of cognitive life, as they ...

Your Eddington quote makes a strong point: physics idealizes toward a colorless, non-stereoscopic observational base. Whereas you previously argued that the human-scale perspective supplies only a small fraction of the constitutive weight, now you are presenting the converse. Regardless, whether ...

Sorry I've been very busy the last few days and I'm part way through compiling responses to your's and Cleric's latest posts. It has certainly been a very fruitful exercise working through all of this. Actually the thing that set this thread off was in relation to things Christian. I attend a study ...

Steiner's physical-world assertions, where they conflict, aren't being unfairly held to an alien standard; they're being outvoted by the totality that supposedly constitutes the fact. Anthony, Another question came to mind. In our previous discussions, you were also concerned/skeptical of the SS ...

OK, we dissolve the epistemic/ontic distinction. Empirical facts are constituted by the totality of agentic perspectives along the scales, with ours a minor contributor. It's all lenses, no reading is true in an absolute sense. But it's a hierarchical epistemology with some perspectives more ...

I will elaborate a little on the above to address the Sense 2 suggestion in bold more directly. Here is a standard description of 'how the Moon formed': ... Before I make further responses to what you have written in your last couple of post, I want to make doubly sure I understand the sense of ...

Nice Homer dialogue! I need to answer a clarifying question pertaining to the above snippet. There are 2 senses this can be understood: Sense 1 — the trivial: any knowing is done by a knower, through its faculties and concepts; there is no view from nowhere; all observation is theory-laden. This is ...

Nice Homer dialogue! I need to answer a clarifying question pertaining to the above snippet. There are 2 senses this can be understood: Sense 1 — the trivial: any knowing is done by a knower, through its faculties and concepts; there is no view from nowhere; all observation is theory-laden. This is ...

Lou was in poor health when he was still active here on the forum. Today I tried to seek some information about him and found this: https://www.kswild.org/conservation-efforts/remembering-lou-gold May his journey through the spheres be blessed! Thanks for alerting us, Cleric. I wish him a fruitful ...