The case for survival is not fringe; it is courtroom-solid, and logically it's inductively solid. — Sam26

Are they [objects] as real as conscious beings; or more real, if one takes a materialist stance. — Jack Cummins

Klingons are from this galaxy. — Patterner

Which is more 'real' in descriptive understanding? — Jack Cummins

Likewise, it could be questioned is panpsychism is a metaphorical analogy or an epistemological model of underlying processes of nature?

What I wonder about most in reading ideas of Spinoza, and others, including [Sc]hopenhauer; is to what extent ideas like reincarnation and resurrection are symbolic primarily. — Jack Cummins

I would say that I I have some sympathy/ empathy with substance dualism. — Jack Cummins

The idea of reincarnation (and resurrection) overcome this duality. — Jack Cummins

If you think that still isn’t enough, then do the intellectually honest thing and name a stopping rule ... — Sam26

if you think testimony isn’t evidence, then you’re not just wrong— — Sam26

P naturalism? As in physicalist naturalism? — Manuel

One might even argue that philosophy (if we include political ideologies) may have been been responsible for more deaths than any other pathway. — Tom Storm

For instance our senses largely point outwards, towards the world, so I am unable to see what is going on behind my eyes [ ... ] If that conscious periphery gave us enough information about the body [and brain] I’m sure consciousness wouldn’t be a such a mystery, and ideas like panpsychism wouldn’t even be entertained. — NOS4A2

I think [Berkeley] believed it to be a completely useless concept. — Metaphysician Undercover

I reject the idealism/realism dichotomy — Banno

The way I see it, the fact that we all experience the same world can be explained only by a collective mind we all participate in or an independently existing material world. We cannot know which alternative is true, the best we can do is decide which seems the more plausible. — Janus

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Not really sure what this is trying to convey. The[re] are several coherent realist perspectives on QM which don't invoke any form of collapse, such as Bohmian, Many Worlds, Stochastic mechanics and possibly others. Your response just seems to me like someone pretending that these theories, which all reproduce the correct quantum behavior, don't exist. You have clearly put yourself in an echo chamber where the only releva[nt] opinions on QM are those of subjectivists, wooists, relationalists. — Apustimelogist

To go back to fundamentals: I guess one thing you need to do is to define "consciousness", after which, you may find that the question is more easily answered. Until you do that, no answer is possible. — alan1000

The belief in objects having rudimentary consciousness goes back to animism. — Jack Cummins

As d’Espagnat famously observed[assumed], quantum physics suggests that “reality is not wholly real” in the classical sense presupposed by scientific realism. — Wayfarer

Ya, right, "I'm projecting." — Sam26

P1: Extensive Testimonial Database - Millions of individuals across documented medical settings report near-death experiences involving conscious awareness during verified clinical death (estimated 400-800 million cases globally, with over 4,000 detailed firsthand accounts in academic databases). — Sam26

P4: Objective Verification Protocol - A substantial subset of cases includes independently corroborated details ...

P5: Optimal Testimonial Conditions - Reports satisfy established criteria for reliable testimony: immediate temporal proximity to events, firsthand rather than hearsay accounts, credible sources without apparent ulterior motives, and systematic documentation by medical professionals and researchers.

@Philosophim Your critique of my work reflects a surprisingly limited and elitist perspective on philosophy, misrepresenting ... — Sam26

the inductive argument. — Sam26

Philosophy deals not with an object, but with its concept. And since philosophy speaks about the world .. — Astorre

I am not sure that the idea of spirit can be disregarded completely in thinking about the idea of soul. — Jack Cummins

Hegel saw spirit as being imminent in history and in his understanding of 'mind'.

Returning to the ideas of Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, AI is deprived of temporality and finitude, it is deprived of living experience. Today it is a complex algorithmic calculator. — Astorre

the nonsensical idea of a theory of everything, which is the idea that the universe is infinitely compressible into finite syntax — sime

Vincent J. Carchidi, “Rescuing Mind from the Machines”(link)

This essay, published in Philosophy Now ... — Wayfarer

Life is one of the most complex and concentrated existences the universe contains. It is a set of chemical reactions that does not merely burn out, but seeks to renew itself for as long as possible. And as such we, life, make the world into something so much more existent than it would be had we all remained inert carbon. — Philosophim

How can life be justified in spite of all the suffering it entails? — kirillov

"Entropy" and "Enformy" are scientific/technical terms that are equivalent to the religious/moralistic terms "Evil" and "Good" [WOO]. So, while those forces are completely natural, the ultimate source of the power behind them may be supernatural [WOO], in the sense that the First Cause logically existed before the Big Bang. — Gnomon

It is a mistake of category to believe that 'mental' is divorced from physical reality. — Philosophim

Perhaps - but, ironically, the whole question of the mind-independence of the fundamental aspects of nature has been thrown into question by this objective process. — Wayfarer

Our emotional state is usually in reference to what our expectations are. So, if you want to have the maximally positive emotional state, it is rational to lower your expectations to the minimum. I think a lot of misery in life comes from having high expectations which are not met. — Brendan Golledge

Wokism is just a collection of leftist overreactions and eccentricities. That's the actual punchline. — ssu

When you hamstring God by saying, "well, it might be metaphysically impossible for God to do that", you're making God sound very impotent. I get why Christians like Leibniz do that, but it's a very weak ad hoc move. Prima facie, this is obviously not the best of all possible worlds. — RogueAI

In short, religions disagree about what happens when I die, how to be saved, etc. Religions have had thousands of years to find the truth and have failed.
— Art48

I hope that helps. — Art48

You can't pardon the person that victimized you and be just: that would be mercy at the expense of justice — Bob Ross