(2020-02-06, 07:29 AM)Chris Wrote: Courtesy of the Daily Grail - here's another new article by Kastrup, entitled "Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved," on the Institute of Arts and Ideas website:
https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-ca...-auid-1302
This is a pretty good commentary of Kastrup's article and the attempted refutation by Coyne.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
And here he is again! In a blog post at Scientific American, telling us "Yes, Free Will Exists":
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/obs...ll-exists/
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
Vindicating Schopenhauer: Undoing misunderstandings of his metaphysics
Quote:Arthur Schopenhauer today is best known for his psychology, ethics, aesthetics and prose style. When it comes to metaphysics, however, his philosophy has been considered “so obviously flawed that some people have doubted whether he really means it” (J: 40). This is tragic, for I believe Schopenhauer’s most valuable legacy is precisely his metaphysical views: they anticipate salient recent developments in analytic philosophy, circumvent the insoluble problems of mainstream physicalism and constitutive panpsychism, and provide an avenue for making sense of the ontological dilemmas of quantum mechanics. There is certainly nothing “obviously flawed” about his views; much to the contrary. Had the coherence and cogency of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics been recognized, much of the underlying philosophical malaise that plagues our culture today—with its insidious effects on our science, cultural ethos and way of life—could have been avoided.
This essay is but a brief summary of some of the points discussed in my upcoming book, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, where I clarify and summarize Schopenhauer’s ontology. Although the issues touched upon below required a book-length treatment to be done justice to, I’ve sought to present at least the main lines of my argument here. Be that as it may, in such a relatively short essay it is impossible to be thorough and anticipate rebuttals. Therefore, I urge potentially skeptical readers to peruse the book before concluding against my case.
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Matter is nothing more than the extrinsic appearance of inner experience
Quote:Where does this idea of using quantities to define the world come from? It’s not difficult to see: quantities are very useful to describe the relative differences of the contents of perception. For instance, the relative difference between red and blue can be compactly described by frequency values: blue has a higher frequency than red, so we can quantify the visual difference between the two colours by subtracting one frequency from the other. But frequency numbers cannot absolutely describe a colour: if you tell a congenitally blind person that red is an electromagnetic field vibration of about 430 THz, the person will still have no idea of what it feels like to see red. Quantities are useful in describing relative differences between qualities already known experientially, but they completely miss the qualities themselves.
And here is where materialism incurs its first fatal error: it replaces the qualitative world of colours, tones and flavours—the only external world we are directly acquainted with—with a purely quantitative description that structurally fails to capture any quality whatsoever. It mistakes the usefulness of quantities in determining relative differences between qualities for—absurdly—something that can replace the qualities themselves.
Next, materialism attempts to deduce the contents of consciousness from the matter in our brain. In other words, it tries to recover the qualities of experience from mere quantities that, by deliberate definition, leave out everything that has anything to do with qualities in the first place. The self-defeating nature of this manoeuvre is glaringly obvious once one actually understands the magic mainstream materialism is trying to perform. This is precisely why the hard problem isn’t just hard, but impossible by construction. Yet, instead of realising this, we get lost in conceptual confusion and hope to, one day, heroically prevail against the hard problem. It would be an inspiring story of human resolve if it weren’t so embarrassingly silly.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2020-03-14, 07:23 AM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
BK himself posted this critique on his forum, so figured it might be of interest ->
An Open Message Regarding Bernardo Kastrup
Here's what Kastrup had to say ->
Quote:Probably -- almost certainly -- he is right... In my defense, I am at least partly aware of my limitations and those of what I am trying to do. But I do it nonetheless because I think we can have a better cultural narrative, conceptual as it can only be, which may open us up to the actual experience. After all, the intellect is the bouncer of the heart. But yes, only the experience is ultimately transformative, not the words and theories. I have been very open about it for years, in multiple writings and interviews.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
Quote:Full Interview ► https://bit.ly/KastrupEp1
Dr. Bernardo Kastrup is a 9x Author, Philosopher of Ontology & Mind, an AI & Reconfigurable Computing Scientist, leading the modern renaissance of Metaphysical Idealism, the notion that reality is essentially Experientia
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2020-07-28, 10:28 PM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
Quote:Part 1 of my presentation at the European School of Theosophy: Materialism's mistakes.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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