Philosophical Speculations

Let me just list out some points I think your arguments are putting forward and you can tell me how accurate they are. Please ignore the terms used if they differ from yours, because I am asking about the core meaning underlying them, i.e. the function in your overall philosophy. 1. In ancient time...

Thanks again, and once more I ask your indulgence as I try to learn these things. If you think this is bad, you should see me try to string a video together. Oddly enough, I do have GarageBand down pretty well. Well, maybe because creating music is more vital to you than creating rhetoric, and perh...

Perhaps we can’t, because I believe you are misrepresenting my arguments at every step. There probably is no path forward, which is fine. Let me just list out some points I think your arguments are putting forward and you can tell me how accurate they are. Please ignore the terms used if they diffe...

... It is also a gross error to suggest I remain trapped in dualism. I propose that consciousness is a physical part of Being, just as everything else is. It is the idealist who is trapped in dualism when he tries to claim consciousness as non-physical. I have every desire to continue this conversa...

I find it hilarious that everything an idealist says about consciousness, you say about being, only being is temporary whilst the idealist is eternalist. Your idea of consciousness as some sort of amalgamation that you can step outside of into your world of 'being' and then observe separately from ...

Hi Jeffrey ... For ease of reading, I've taken the liberty in some recent posts in this thread of clarifying the quoted passages, so as to make them clearly distinct from your replies. The issue is that some of the code is being omitted. For future reference, you may want to check out the BBCode gu...

Alright. Well, like I said, this is spitting image of Kant and Schop. What you write in bold could not make that any more clear. That could also be a quote from BK, which makes it even more strange that you are critiquing him. Anyway, I think our respective positions have been made clear, and I hav...

OK, so would you then admit it tells you nothing about the Being of consciousness or idea? Perceiving that these "components" or "energy" is "prior to" consciousness tells you nothing whatsoever about the deeper Being of energy or consciousness, correct? No. Consciousn...

Alright, let's get more specific to clarify then. You say, " living beings are made up of protein, water, polypeptides, etc, which alone do not display life ". For you, is that simply the phenomenal appearance of whatever deeper underlying processes put it on the 'screen' of our represent...

I’m using “naive realism” in the usual understanding of the word, but if you want to use it differently that’s fine with me, just tell me what you mean by it. My position in no way assumes reality is anything like we represent it, and rejects the notion that our innate reason is applicable to reali...