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"Physicalist reductionism I take to be the view that the physical story about what is going on in the brain and the world with which it interacts is in some sense the whole story. " [source: http://consc.net/event/reef/lockwoodgrain.pdf] Interesting lad...states that physicalist reduction as a...

From an abstract regarding Husserl's Hyle .... "In the Logical Investigations, Ideas I and many other texts, Husserl maintains that perceptual consciousness involves the intentional “animation” or interpretation of sensory data or hyle, e.g., “color-data,” “tone-data,” and algedonic data. These...

No I haven't...I've struggled with Being and Time

"Nor a cause for anguish..." is an interesting afterthought. I guess I don't experience any mental or physical suffering from encountering the "unthinkable"--I feel I must say this to clear up any further misunderstandings. I am of course always interested in what others would describe as an...

(1) "shocked...how little you seem to feel your own existential reality" On the contrary...I feel it immensely...which is why I put so many asterisks next to the words and componenets in the statements constructed by the very entity examined. (2) "I can't identity with what you call 'the...

Funny..did I come off as saying the opposite (of your state summary thesis above)? I think I agree wholehearteldy in what you have just said in the above. The harder part is the huge asterisks that must be placed next to the *we, *sprouts, *upward, *existence, *sensible/*tangible and...

Assumes "god" as an entity which has consciousness and yet is omniscient...I have already proven that omniscient beings cannot have consciousness, because what consciousness fundamentally is ...is something that must change over time in order to experience existence...change over time can only...

I am not one for confrontation ... but I sense a little confusion and perhaps a bit of a reproach for my very wine-induced comment. You rightly answer with "huh" ...perhaps I should go back to the basics? Maybe I will understand the foundation of consciousness by spinning webs that only a...

Resolved by the very mechanism that allowed the question to arise within the unknown entity we are questioning to begin with? Maybe it is just a step on a ladder to nowhere (pardon the analogy)....the very steps that lead the witness to questioning has already provided the background answer...

Sorry for my late reply, Constance. I spend a lot of time sleeping, eating and working (priority implied). Let's start with the first retort: Agreed...except for the "illusion" part. An "illusion" is a phenomena registered that isn't in our reality what it seems. The problem with using...

My axiomL "Axiom: In order to comfort yourself with the "glitch" of understanding within your own consciousness, you must by definition reject the full nature and background that makes your consciousness (as a phenomenon to your "self") as non-existent. " (1) The very reality that underlies the...

Right the brain creates a simulation of what-is but is in itself a part of the very framework it is simulating. That means that the simulation is not like what we typically call a "simulation" in the world of things we try to model through some isomorphisms learned through the same--i.e. it...

A non-reductive object aids comprehension only as a component of something comprehensible. Thus a non-reductive object is the end of comprehension. In simpler terms the non-reductive "thing" is a precise (nice and accurate) limit of comprehension and understanding.

It's not about rejecting the "no such thing as objective and subjective states" but about absorbing them in a framework that shows them to be facets of a kind of "world" from which such terms can be "thought" as "extant." Subjective idealism is an attempt to create the whole background of...

I literally laughed for 5 minutes...at your last sentence. [that's not a bad thing...] Thanks :)

"what I take from Allen is that involved in the mbp is the phenomenon of self reference. Being trying to understand the origin and nature of being. " I would be interested in seeing the mind-body-problem dissolved by self-reference. Any takers?

It is not pure subjective idealism because you aren't (and cannot) exist in such a world without others who share the same world. What you need to realize is that the destruction of the classical "objective" and "subjective" are not actually a destruction of the basis and background the allows...

They "exist" as constructs of the relations that extend beyond the very categories (i.e. fictions) created by what you would call your own mind. You cannot reject what your mind must accept as an agent to pursue the reality of existence. Let me help with something that you will not like...

The source of "Dasein's" as a label for the same's experience in the embedded temporality and spatiality created by the very relations that evolve into the matrix of being is in itself an extension ... positive science and history are collaborative and persistent concentrated objects by the...

Good point. I wanted to be sure to avoid that confusion by using "word replacement" as a kind of mind experiment rather than treating it as a synonym. Loosely speaking (because I am actually kind of rusty with my Heidegerrian internal translator) the term "being" is something that arises from...