Philosophical Speculations

What's your opinion on this :) My opinion is that, as suspected, you're focused on some remark in a casual interview, while ignoring the larger comprehensive body of work that gives it some nuanced context. Sorry, but I'm not going to indulge in this kind of simplistic, transparent baiting, simply ...

I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt here, and presume that you have read a significant amount of BK’s overall body of work—beyond just cursorily fast-forwarding through some interviews—in which he comprehensively and clearly puts forward his own defence, and thus further presume that your re...

Clearly you are clinging on to the dying materialist-dualist paradigm. I am sure the unwarranted Cartesian mind-matter divide is unconsciously directing your thoughts on all of these topics. That's a whole mess of string to untangle and, normally, I would be willing to make an attempt, but it also ...

Clearly you are clinging on to the dying materialist-dualist paradigm. I am sure the unwarranted Cartesian mind-matter divide is unconsciously directing your thoughts on all of these topics. That's a whole mess of string to untangle and, normally, I would be willing to make an attempt, but it also ...

First point - I will quote the intro to an essay I wrote on this issue: Our spiritual (thinking) activity is the only activity where the phenomenal appearances and the noumenal 'thing-in-itself' are unified. This equivalence is known because it is our activity which produces the phenomena. For all ...

Well, you are wrong on both counts. Thinking is precisely the activity which can penetrate into its own activity, but it requires a lot of patience and discipline - we will not study a set of philosophical propositions by abstract intellect and suddenly arrive at the essence of Thinking. It must be...

Thinking is itself a mode of experiencing-perceiving, a means of penetrating into the objective reality of psychic processes and their relations, the dynamic relations of conscious activity at all levels - sub-conscious, conscious, supra-conscious - then these things will never be satisfactorily an...

Hi all, Hope you can help me understand something... Hi mincale. There is no meta-consiousnerss. You cannot be meta about consiousness. And either there is feeling or not. There is no experience in the present that it is missing but nonetheless felt without knowing it.You can forget the existanse o...

Hallo, nice to meet you, my first post here. I am not a fan of Katrup's philosophical positions, and i would like to begin the unraveling of the many problems i find in them. Let's begin with the other minds. Ok, there is an evident somethingness to begin with, some tastes, sights, smels ect. Not &q...