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- Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:04 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Is necessitarianism true under idealism?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 425
Re: Is necessitarianism true under idealism?
I'd answer your question, but then I'd have to kill you.
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:43 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What is a belief? Who is believing?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1959
Re: What is a belief? Who is believing?
A belief is a thought that at the moment of consideration, we find pleasing or satisfying, it doesn't necessarily mean anything more than that. Interesting question re WHO is the believer, because we can find thoughts such as 'I believe such and such , , , ', but can we find a believer independent o...
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:37 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Falsification of Scientific Theories of Consciousness
- Replies: 77
- Views: 7280
Re: Falsification of Scientific Theories of Consciousness
At the moment there are no scientific theories of consciousness, how matter becomes conscious; not any half-assed hunches or wild untested crazy ideas . . . so considering whether falsification of any theories is a bit premature.
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:41 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Rupert Spira "The Ashes of Love"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 764
Re: Rupert Spira "The Ashes of Love"
must be out of print - selling on Amazon now for about $800
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:40 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10970
Re: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
If I have to choose (and I don't think one has to choose between two options), a shared external world seems like a simpler explanation since it doesn't require any inference about a mind at large which I know nothing about. I can infer a rock but I don't have any means of inferring a mind at large...
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:55 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10970
Re: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
As a starting point, both idealism and materialism are beliefs. The existence of the rock as something external to experience is an inference. We can see and touch the rock, but we never find 'the rock', there is only the seeing and touching. We could also infer the shared nature of experience - we ...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:11 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
- Replies: 78
- Views: 10970
Re: I'm A Materialist, Change My Mind
To a Materialist I could ask please pretty please show me this 'matter' of which you speak . . . needless to say this matter/material would have to exist outside of experience, outside of being aware of it. Of course this is not possible - no one has ever produced or found this matter, so matter rem...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The Kalām Cosmologicacl Argument
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1184
Re: The Kalām Cosmologicacl Argument
I could come up with a pretty believable proof for the existence of sunsets - but until you've seen one any and all arguments are non confincing. After you've experienced a sunset the arguments are frivilous.
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Rupert Spria's sweet blind spot
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1745
Re: Rupert Spria's sweet blind spot
Watched this interview a few times, very enjoyable. I think it odd that Sam questions the wisdon of extending claims about human consciousness to reality, yet has no difficulty extending such re scientific observations, scientific observation which also occur in consciousness. The difference being t...