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Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Monday, 16 September 2024

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: And the Deception of Perception

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By Keith Tidman   I t is a tribute to the timelessness of Plato’s ideas that his philosophical stories still echo powerfully in the contempo...
Tuesday, 24 January 2023

‘Brain in a Vat’: A Thought Experiment

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By Keith Tidman L et’s hypothesise that someone’s brain has been removed from the body and immersed in a vat of fluids essential for keeping...
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Monday, 12 September 2022

The Uncaused Multiverse: And What It Signifies

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By Keith Tidman H ere’s an argument that seems like commonsense: everything that exists has a cause; the universe exists; and so, therefore,...
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Monday, 25 July 2022

‘Philosophical Zombies’: A Thought Experiment

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Zombies are essentially machines that appear human. By Keith Tidman   S ome philosophers have used the notion of ‘philosophical zombies’ in ...
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Monday, 21 March 2022

Would You Plug Into Nozick’s ‘Experience Machine’?

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Clockwork Eyes by Michael Ryan By Keith Tidman   Life may have emotionally whipsawed you. Maybe to the extent that you begin to imagine how ...
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Monday, 10 February 2020

What Is It to Be Human?

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Hello, world! Posted by Keith Tidman C onsciousness is the mental anchor to which we attach our larger sense of reality. We are cons...
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Monday, 28 January 2019

Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

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Posted by Keith Tidman I’m a Platonist. Well, at least insofar as how mathematics is presumed ‘discovered’ and, in its being so, se...
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Monday, 26 November 2018

How Language Connects Mind, World, and Reality

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The Chinese characters for not only ‘meaning’ but for ‘connotation, denotation, import, gist, substance, significance, signification, ...
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