idealism – Uncommon Descent

Science journalist: No kidding, consciousness IS a Hard Problem

We don’t usually expect science writers to be as straightforward as Michael Hanlon (1964–2016) was in 2014. The temptation to chase after the latest buzz is probably hard to resist when you know that that’s what the Big Ideas crowd really wants anyway. But Hanlon resisted.

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Physicist and philosopher Bruce Gordon on panpsychism

The main reason that interest in panpsychism is growing is probably the inability of materialism to provide a coherent account of consciousness.

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Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why idealism is actually a practical philosophy

Gordon thinks idealism (= reality is first and foremost a mental phenomenon) is defensible, reasonable, and too easily discarded.

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Simple, Unambigous Evidence We Do Not Live In An Objective, External Material World

When how I choose to observe a photon at a particular time and place can (1) instantaneously affect a photon a billion light years away and (2) retroactively changes the history of that photon (delayed choice quantum eraser), and when we have searched far, wide and deep and have not found any “matter,” we have Read More…

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Mind vs Matter: the Result of an Error of Thought

(I think we’ve corrupted KF’s thread long enough.) The entire problem of mind/matter dualism is rooted in a single error of thought: the reification of an abstract descriptive model of experience into an causal agency independent of the mind that conceives it and the mental experience it is extrapolated from. It is similar to the Read More…

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asauber I think people are suffering from the game/pretense of expectations or preconceptions being met/not met. Upon detached examination (see Michael... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
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jerry The existence or not of {forbidden term} has no impact on the validity of either evolution or ID. I’ve been... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lfp-55-defining-clarifying-intelligent-design-as-inference-as-theory-as-a-movement/ – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
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jerry Can we retire the term “junk DNA” since it essentially is a meaningless term. Why it is brought up I... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
chuckdarwin Relatd/49 Jerry Coyne is a secular Jew and emeritus professor of biology at UChicago--why would he be a spokesperson for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
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