Philosophy Now Forum

As usual, can't remember if I already posted this, but anyways, always loved this band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku1HJ2DI7Xk

Music is the product of a conscious being. The product is not to be confused with its creator. Otherwise we would have to agree that pottery is sentient.

It all comes down to this: good philosophy: materialism; bad philosophy: idealism.

And marxism is not an economic theory.

Everyone recalls Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddissey when listening to Also Sprach Zarathustra. Does anyone recall Ligeti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVYu5lyX5M

80's revival it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20

I would suggest that the difference between ignorance and stupidiy lies in the context of the information people get acquainted with and their voluntary actions regarding this information. If you don't get in touch with some information, you're just ignorant of it. It's really not your fault and you...

Isn't it odd how conservatives talk about the beauty of nature and then go on to deny climate change and promote wild savage capitalism.

You wouldn't expect Rush Limbaugh complaining about other people complaining. He's not only a right wing nut, but he's in a permanent rant against anything that doesn't fit his typically stupid views.

You can keep a watch on these conservative fools here:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/

We know what David Chalmers describes as the easy problem of cognition, or at least we know that there are mechanisms and processes in the brain that are associated with conscious experience. We don't yet know the 'hard problem' of how these processes generate conscious experience; Chalmers believe...

In which case, I would be a light bulb behaviourist. The point I am making is that we don't know what consciousness is. We do know that there are no examples of any consciousness that is not generated by a living brain, but then it is only by observing the physical behaviour of other beings that we...

Well, if you consider Gilbert Rhyl's Ghost in the Machine, it is absolutely true that we only have experience of other people's 'machine'. Each of us though has experience of our own 'ghost', which as Descartes pointed out, is the only thing we can be certain exists. Well, of course, that's solipsi...

... the truth is we simply do not know what happens at death. Reality is a very strange thing. The only thing we know for certain is that there is experience: of what and why is a mystery. I will have to disagree on that. As individuals facing our own death, we will be inevitably denied the empiric...