I think we have good reasons to believe that matter thinks, so there isn't a mind-body problem. — Manuel
Yes! :gasp:I think we have good reasons to believe that matter thinks, so there isn't a mind-body problem. — Manuel
I guess subjective isn't quite an opposite to objective. So I guess I mean objective that doesn't have emotional connotation or anything that isn't pure information, and a version of objective that refers to objects and objective ideas, but allows emotions and other non pure data to leak in. And have there be a spectrum between them? — TiredThinker
There is no objective reality. It there were, who would be able to tell? It would be their own view (reality), wouldn't it?But isn't subjectiveness basically the filtering of an objective reality? — TiredThinker
There's no absolute knowledge. "Objectiveness" means not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice. It means based on facts, unbiased. That is what we can do at best: try not to be influenced by those factors. But still, our knowledge is based on our reality, which is subjective, as I described above. We can't do better than that. So, what we call "objective" is actually subjective! :smile:Isn't the difference between objective and subjective just how well we can know anything absolutely? — TiredThinker
:up:↪Pantagruel For me, it's Spinoza's dissolution of the MBP with property dualism. — 180 Proof
(Subject)ivity vs. (Object)ivity. The meanings of these two concepts are evident when you study their etymology, oui mon ami? The former is of the subject viz. you, me, us and the latter is of the object viz. the thing that's under examination. — Agent Smith
Why, may I ask? — Agent Smith
Indeed, that's one way to look at it, but running with a diagrammatic approach I can also see a spectrum with 100% objectivity at one end and 100% subjectivity at the other and a continuum in between. Agree/disagree? — Agent Smith
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