Category Archives: Elaborate

Cosmoscope II

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

From Chalmers’ Locke Lectures, Oxford 2010: Definitional Scrutability: All truths logically entailed by base truths and definitions. Analytic Scrutability: All truths analytically entailed by base truths. Primitive Scrutability: All truths a priori (analytically?) scrutable from truths involving primitive concepts. ____________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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Some words…

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

So, in a sense I trained myself to read by recognising patterns and derived meaning from those patterns. That causes me to come upon the problem of how it possible for language to allow us to communicate while remaining intrinsically … Continue reading →

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Finding meaning in the meaningless

Posted on September 13, 2009 by

Agent Smith:  Illusions, Mr. Anderson.  Vagaries of perception.  Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect, trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! So, believing as I do that it is impossible to remove bias.  I … Continue reading →

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Decoherence Entropy Collapse Entanglement Planck Time Yadayada…

Posted on July 21, 2009 by

D.E.C.E.P.T.Y. Sigh…

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C’est la meme chose… toujours

Posted on July 17, 2009 by

Here is the usual photo of me At One.  While I don’t remember exactly what I was thinking, I am quite sure I was thinking clearly. Since no one thought I would be “thinking” anyway I was left alone…in peace…to think.  … Continue reading →

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Artefacts of Emergence

Posted on February 16, 2007 by

Artefacts of Emergence Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf.   Well, here is the question after what I would call a productive day [even though I had a headache for most of it]. Do I need to spend the time to … Continue reading →

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James-Mysticism

Posted on February 11, 2007 by

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html Lectures XVI and XVII MYSTICISM  One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness; so for us, who in these lectures are treating personal experience as the exclusive … Continue reading →

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Functionally Specious

Posted on February 2, 2007 by

However, I disagree somewhat with their conclusion.  Even if it is a contradictory statement that we sometimes experience things “as both ordered and present” it IS so and it does happen.  We have to try to figure out what causes … Continue reading →

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Nature of Sensory Experience

Posted on January 29, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/#1

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Sense Data

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sense-data/: Sense data are the (alleged) mind-dependent objects that we are directly aware of in perception, and that have exactly the properties they appear to have. Critics of sense data have objected to the theory’s commitment to mind-body dualism, its … Continue reading →

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