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- Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:33 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Why is reality 'mental' + the questionable 'thing-in-itself' (two questions)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4267
Re: Why is reality 'mental' + the questionable 'thing-in-itself' (two questions)
Nonetheless, it avoids any mind/matter dualism, or some other mysterious ontological category which is nether mind nor matter that gives rise to the categories of mind and matter, and which BK would no doubt claim is not as parsimonious as a Mind-only ontology. Well, the ‘mysterious’ third option c...
- Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:03 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Blood Transfusions and alter formation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4898
Re: Blood Transfusions and alter formation
But I also think that it makes more sense to infer that all cells within an organism (whether animal, plant or funghi) are also alters. Possibly organelles within cells, and even lower levels than that, as well . I suspect that would lead to the combination problem - how individual cell subjectivit...
- Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:18 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Blood Transfusions and alter formation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4898
Re: Blood Transfusions and alter formation
Metabolizing organisms as alters follows from the ontological position of mind as the only fundamental reality. Idealist has to explain the apparent reality of living and non-living things. Non-living things are explained as the ‘dashboard’ of perception (material stuff are actually subjective proce...
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:37 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does Anything Matter?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3455
Re: Does Anything Matter?
I could never understand how “ every conscious entity is participating in an ever-evolving relational process ” is compatible with the view of life on earth as a product of Darwinian evolution. Death is the inevitable end of my conscious life on earth. How does the idea that I am actually a ‘dissoci...
- Wed Jul 07, 2021 6:50 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does idealism square with intelligent design?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4268
Re: Does idealism square with intelligent design?
Does idealism support Darwinian Evolution or Intelligent design? I think Idealism cannot support Darwinian evolution or Intelligent Design. Science can only describe how matter behaves, from the outside. Suppose consciousness is actually directing evolution. How would it look like to science? It wo...
- Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:12 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2138
Re: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
I don't disagree with the conclusions you state above, but what are we gaining from simply asserting those conclusions? I believe we need invent new ways to talk about consciousness. Science has progressed from phlogiston to space travel in less than 400 years but philosophers are quibbling over th...
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:07 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2138
Re: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
Ashvin, only thing we know is that it is our own thinking activity which enables us to know how we gain knowledge I agree with this. the means of gaining knowledge itself, i.e. our thinking activity, presents to us as immanently explicable when we choose to observe it How do we observe our own think...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 2:15 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2138
Re: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
Ashvin: "The problem occurs when we try to separate "objective" knowing from some other type of knowing, presumably "subjective". That is an artifact of the modern age" Any discussion on the nature of knowledge is tricky because we do not know what exactly are the “mind...
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:10 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2138
What is this 'Consciousness' stuff?
Some physicalists believe consciousness is an illusion. This view, though contradictory to our experience of consciousness as fundamental, is based on an irresistible logic. How do we know something is real unless another person can independently verify it? Real stuff must be objectively representab...
- Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:30 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Seeing the truth is not conductive to survival
- Replies: 175
- Views: 11993
Re: Seeing the truth is not conductive to survival
Insightful comments. I doubt higher order mental functions have made us any better at survival as a species. Cockroaches seem to be doing great without meta cognition! Analytic Idealism maintains a strictly Darwinian view of evolution as far as I know. Does it make sense to say subjective processes ...