THE LIVING PRESENT
Time is commonly conceptualized as a series of now-points. That kind of time is dead and inert. Call it punctuality. It is a mathematical abstraction for making calculations. But we […]
Time is commonly conceptualized as a series of now-points. That kind of time is dead and inert. Call it punctuality. It is a mathematical abstraction for making calculations. But we […]
Physics tells us that we don’t apprehend the world as it really is; instead, we experience the effect it has on us. Coming at us from things is electromagnetic radiation, […]
I’ve been grappling with a series of interrelated questions: How, where and with what do the physical sciences begin? Why do they begin there? Should philosophy start in the same […]
We said last time that demons, as Dennett describes them, are background processes, unthinking subroutines that handle specific tasks distributed across several areas of the brain. There is no specific […]
Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained propounds a “Multiple Drafts” theory of consciousness that replaces the Cartesian res cogitans, or mental substance, with a Joycean machine. For Dennett, the self is a […]
Common sense readily understands that a self can’t exist without a world, but it becomes slightly more difficult for common sense to grasp that a subject can’t exist without an […]
I don’t mean that he’s an arrogant person: his conceit is entirely methodological. Everything is a superstition, an old wives’ tale (as he only half-jokingly says in a recent lecture […]
We continue asking the question of being, approaching it from ever new angles and fresh perspectives. This time we want to focus on its supposed obviousness. If being is so […]
You can try to claim that the universe is more amazing than consciousness, but the universe is only amazing because someone is conscious of it. Can anything be wonderful without […]
The first person is conveyed in immanence and directly accessed only through introspection. In contrast, neuropsychology studies the objective interrelationship between brain function and cognitive, behavioral, and emotional states. This […]
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