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Seems like a simple question to me. I think you're prejudging your own, imagined interpretations of a straight answer. You have a great opportunity now, and that is to expand the concept of original source material. What exactly is, original source? It's a philosophical question. Or, you can dodge ...

No not familiar with Mr. Smith or the guide or guides? I've spent my life reading original source material, and only now discovering the benefit of secondary analysis. Do you recommend any on Hiedegger? What ancient and modern languages do you read and/or speak in order to access original source ma...

No not familiar with Mr. Smith or the guide or guides? I've spent my life reading original source material, and only now discovering the benefit of secondary analysis. Do you recommend any on Hiedegger?

Hey Arising_uk, Many thanks for the tips.

duszek asked, But how about Husserl ? I once started reading a Routledge Philosophy guidebook to Husserl and I did not finish it. Should I buy it and read it while I am still alive and without demetia ? Would it promote my views on life substantially ? Found a copy of William Barrett's Irrational Ma...

Hi again. Are you sure that it's philosophy you're all interested in? Current events and speculation seem much more likely to be your province. For those who are also interested in philosophy let me say, understanding how your mind works changes everything. Truth is a kind of pleasure. The freewill ...

OK, I watched as much of the video as I could stand. Blah, blah, blah, just another 'scientist' making claims that someone smarter than him will, at some as yet undetermined time in the distant future, build a robot that thinks like we do. (It smells more like faith than science.) He fails to mentio...

Greta wrote: I agree with all of that, aside from the claim that I didn't realise it. That is not the point. The point is: where physically are these imperfect mental models within the stuff of reality? In the mind? That means in the brain. Where in the brain? That's my perception of the thread's co...

Silence? Thinking about it? OK, here's something else to think about. Londoner wrote: I think it would be better if we avoided saying we 'see the visualized triangle'. To visualize something is not to see it. If you rule lines to form small squares on paper and number them sequentially, you can draw...

Trajk Logik wrote: Here's an experiment you can try. Touch your thumb and index finger one one hand together. Now close your eyes. Now move you hand about, up and down, side-to-side, and around. Pay special attention to the LOCATION of the tactile sensation of your fingers touching. Notice how the l...

thedoc wrote; I should amend what I posted by saying that our understanding of the physical process of thinking and perceiving has advanced from what the ancient Greeks believed. But some of the concepts that they developed are still valid. From my perspective, it appears that our current knowledge ...

raw_thought wrote: I agree. If I visualize a triangle there is no physical triangle in my brain. My neurons do not fire in a triangular shape etc. This is a huge problem for the eliminative materialist. Since an EM believes that only matter exists he has only two options. 1. There is a physical tria...

Thanks for the kind comments. I can supply a copy of my 2008 book as well as my current work in progress, which I keep online for easy access for interested parties. mindexamined@gmail.com

As briefly as possible, I want to outline three concepts of mind. First, the concept that mind magically and inexplicably produces thought and behavior. Plato started this idea by connecting Anaxagoras’s nous or thought idea with the Egyptian ka or soul idea. Plotinus, the Roman, Christian Platonist...

“should you decide to stay.” Well, ForCruxSake where else would I go? You are my people. Thanks to all who have taken the time to indoctrinate a newbe. I’ll be taking Walker’s advice and will now post at the philosophy of mind section of this forum. Give me a couple of days to read the threads and t...