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- Sat Sep 04, 2021 5:41 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
- Replies: 22
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Re: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
Here are two simple questions - when you form the picture of triangle by way of thinking, what is the meaning you perceive in the triangle-form? Do you suppose the meaning you perceive is essentially different than what I perceive? Let's say, for purposes of this example, the meaning I perceive is ...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 10:18 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6651
Re: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
Ashvin, Mathematics is possible because thought forms associated with mathematical objects can be represented on a piece of paper without ambiguity. That is not the case with the perception of red colour. What are the thought forms associated with seeing red? I think two people, unless ‘like-minded’...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 11:13 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6651
Re: Phenomenology and Praxis: Philosophical Questions Not Asked Enough
1) What is the relationship of perception (sense-impression) to cognition (meaning)? Are they dependent on each other and, if so, in what specific ways? Has that relationship remained static or changed over human history? Ashvin: We could talk about specific relationship between two entities in a m...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Survival value of Consciousness
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1787
Survival value of Consciousness
‘Survival’ is the cornerstone of Dawinian theory of evolution. Organisms struggle to survive and reproduce. Conscious experience must have some survival value, otherwise consciousness couldn’t have evolved. This is a strange way to understand life. I can’t be sure about other organisms, but at least...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:21 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Problems with the body being the external image of experiential states
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2296
Re: Problems with the body being the external image of experiential states
I'm referring to the contours of our physical body and its organs, processes, etc. I thought that was what you were referring to also. Sure ... so-called 'corporeal construct' would be short-hand for all that, which is all phenomenal representation of deep primal idea construction in uncaused, irre...
- Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:43 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Gödel’s Infinite Candy Store
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6229
Re: Gödel’s Infinite Candy Store
Consciousness having a hidden mathematical structure is an intriguing idea but I don’t see how Gödel’s theorem and Idealism can be connected. Incompleteness theorems applies to formal systems where the primitive symbols have no connection with the world of experience - the symbols are not ‘about any...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:00 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Descartes’ Placeholders
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2476
Re: Descartes’ Placeholders
For the record (but not really germane to the topic - just saying one needs a better analogy), there is nothing "unnatural" or "mysterious" about so-called imaginary numbers (or particularly "real" about so-called real numbers). I get your point. There is nothing myste...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 5:56 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Descartes’ Placeholders
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2476
Re: Descartes’ Placeholders
Now, the aim, or what I propose should be the aim as it is the natural unfolding of experience, is to integrate rigorous sense-world knowledge with rigorous knowledge of spiritual realms. They are, in essence, one and the same. Agree with the essence of your points, but I am sceptical about ‘rigoro...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 5:48 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Descartes’ Placeholders
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2476
Re: Descartes’ Placeholders
Excellent analysis, Shajan. I don't see any way of getting away from the dualism of "what MAL is" and "what MAL does" (thinks, imagines, creates, dreams, wills). Thanks. I think dualism is a reflection of what we are as meta-conscious life forms, but we could transcend our duali...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:42 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Descartes’ Placeholders
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2476
Descartes’ Placeholders
Conceiving the universe as composed of two distinct substances res extensa and res cogitans was essential for acquiring reliable knowledge. Mind-matter division was an important step forward in man’s quest to understand the nature of reality. There were gaps in the Cartesian world picture, but they ...