So, I am asking what does thought tell us about the nature of personal identity and about the underlying source of consciousness? Do thoughts help to explain the nature of consciousness? — Jack Cummins
Do thoughts help to explain the nature of consciousness? — Jack Cummins
So, I am asking what does thought tell us about the nature of personal identity and about the underlying source of consciousness? — Jack Cummins
my own trip on acid, which I took twice — Jack Cummins
I went up to a mirror and I expected to see a grotesque monster staring at me. But, instead, I could see the walls and the radiator behind me, but I was not there at all — Jack Cummins
dualism — Jack Cummins
Darwin-Wallace with biological evolution — 180 Proof
Those who admit my interpretation of the evidence now adduced--strictly scientific evidence in its appeal to facts which are clearly what ought not to be on the materialistic theory--will be able to accept the spiritual nature of man, as not in any way inconsistent with the theory of evolution, but as dependent on those fundamental laws and causes which furnish the very materials for evolution to work with. — Alfred Russel Wallace
Well then, my friend, you're still shadowboxing with that old strawman because, typical of most idealists (anti-realists, mysterians), you incorrigibly fail to acknowledge the distinction of methodological (epistemic, or scientific) materialism and philosophical (ontic or speculative) materialism. The latter is never at issue in science.... scientific materialism as a philosophy - the attempt to apply the methods of science to the problems of philosophy, and the belief that the laws of physics are the only natural laws. — Wayfarer
Would you consider yourself a metaphysical monist? — Manuel
"the problems of philosophy" (whatever the hell those may be) — 180 Proof
you incorrigibly fail to acknowledge the distinction of methodological (epistemic, or scientific) materialism and philosophical (ontic or speculative) materialism. The latter is never at issue in science. — 180 Proof
:lol:If you think that Frithjof Capra was a hack, so too was Victor Stenger. — Wayfarer
Science is not about "truth" per se; it's about reasoning to the best, unfalsified, good explanations of phenomena. And "art", by the way, is studied by biologists, neurologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, even mathematicians, etc, and, last time I checked, those are (still) sciences. Philosophers, IMO, ought to propose only speculations (i.e. interpretations and extrapolations) consistent with the best available scientific theories and data in so far as their inquiries are concerned with the meaning of, as it were, living significantly (as much as possible) in the real world with and among others. — 180 Proof
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