It is that which discloses such things as gravity and raditation and sub-atomic particles, amidst innumerable other things. It is the subject to whom all this occurs or appears. The ‘unknown knower’. — Wayfarer

[T]he mind is not ‘a thing among other things’ — Wayfarer

... to head off the common notion that science seeks a "view from nowhere" ... Rather, science seeks a view from anywhere. A point worth making in a philosophy forum — Banno

It is one thing to say that things unperceived are not the same as we perceive them to be and altogether another to claim that when unperceived they don't exist. — Janus

Two women on the ticket is, unfortunately, a loser. — Mikie

The question is, why does he want to preserve that relationship? — Igitur

Survivor of an FBI entrapment case, more like it. It was planned by paid FBI informants. More deep state crooks elevated by deep state dupes. — NOS4A2

[C]onsciousness is the source of this reality, and probably all reality except base reality, which is consciousness itself. It could be that consciousness created something that then creates reality, but we don't know. Consciousness may be able to create reality by its own volition. — Sam26

The rules of chess encompass all the possible games of chess without themselves being one, and a game can provide examples of the rules in action, without being them. — tim wood

Does the color “red” exist outside of the subjective mind that conceptually designates the concept of “red?” — Mp202020

If there is no mind to experience and conceptually designate “red” does red ever aquire an inherent existence independent of a third party mind?

[D]o you think physics describes logic? — Shawn

First Order Logic is a subset of Axiomatic Mathematics ... First order Logic, a subset of axiomatic mathematics, doesn't exist. — Treatid

It doesn't matter ... the meaning of death, who cares? It's not the concept that matters it's the experience! — Sam26

Are you critical of the subject, 180 Proof? — Mark Nyquist

just dogmatism, mere dogmatism. — Pantagruel

How do you know (i.e. corroborate) that you or any other agent is "conscious" if "consciousness" is completely, inaccessibly subjective?
— 180 Proof

cogito, ergo sum — Wayfarer

The issue with consciousness, is that you must first be a conscious agent to create or provide any kind of explanation. — Wayfarer

Most of what people tell us about their sensory experiences is trustworthy... — Sam26

Life is largely anecdotal [sophistry]. — Pantagruel

Science has no trouble depicting the world as it was before the evolution of h.sapiens, for instance - an empirical fact - — Wayfarer

Biden was not removed by lawful means. — fishfry

Philosophy should be about how best to live. Whatever does not inform that, however interesting and creative it might be, is just a diversion in the form of speculation. — Janus

The precise point Schrodinger was making with Schrodinger's Cat. — Wayfarer

... perhaps unrealistic Idealism is not too far off the mark. But I prefer the unfamiliar term Enformationism, which has no history of philosophical [cogency or self-consistency] politics to elicit incredulity and knee-jerk reactions. — Gnomon

Notice I said "live in the world", NOT the world itself. — schopenhauer1

NOS4A2
And you're happy to let Americans live however they like. :up: — frank

I am outraged that people are given power based on race and gender, yes. — NOS4A2

Logic doesn't work by the principles of logic. — Treatid

You are not a serious person. — AmadeusD

I waa a courtroom prosecutor ... I took on perpetrators of all kind: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped-off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type. — VPOTUS Kamala Harris (D-CA)