Philosophical Speculations

Grant, Thanks for the response, and no worries on the timing. The manuscript you shared reflects my position well. I think I should reaffirm that — as per my view — the mind doesn’t “recreate internally the total perceptual content which exists externally”, but falsely assumes that it does…(Hence wh...

This is not a simple symmetric reversal. When the process is reversed we have the chance to differentiate something which otherwise is always fused together. Some months ago we had long conversations with our friend findingblanks who turns PoF into a grotesque caricature for the simple reason that ...

A comment: I think we are getting confused with labels again. "No-thing-ness" and "I" are the words pointing to the same Reality. "I" is exactly "no-thing-ness" because it's not a "thing", it is "formless" because it has no form but it is ...

So, I only see two possibilities: a) I don't understand what Cleric is saying, and he doesn't understand what I'm saying. b) I do understand what Cleric is saying, and he doesn't understand what I'm saying. To get out of this conundrum, I guess we need to ask Cleric: does he think I understand what...

Look, guys, none of what Cleric is writing will make sense if you don't choose to have a little bit of humility, self-awareness, open mind, and see how your egoic prejudices are influencing all of your thoughts on this topic. Adur, you are especially projecting your own egoism onto Cleric here - &q...

Thank you Eugene! I totally agree with you here. I haven't read all your exchanges with Cleric and Ashvin (I simply can't keep up with the volume of posts), but in general I think I agree with your view. I usually try to take a non-confrontational stance, but I must admit in that post I got a littl...

Actually the "truth" is evident in Hoffman's desktop analogy. The icons for files on my desktop really do represent underlying files stored on disk. Depending upon the nature of the file, the icon may tell me about the structure of the file (PDF, Word Doc, etc). It may have a title which ...

Actually the "truth" is evident in Hoffman's desktop analogy. The icons for files on my desktop really do represent underlying files stored on disk. Depending upon the nature of the file, the icon may tell me about the structure of the file (PDF, Word Doc, etc). It may have a title which ...

Science is a method. It can test and discard ontologies. If our perceptions evolved by natural selection, then, according to the FBT Theorem, we should discard the ontology of physicalism . We should recognize that spacetime and objects are the perceptual interface used by Homo sapiens. They are ou...

As usual, you're talking about one thing and I am talking about another. My comment was about ITP. My quote from Hoffman was about ITP. There is nothing in your quote about ITP. Ok let's make this perfectly clear then so there are no longer any excuses: We encounter a startling “Fitness-Beats-Truth...