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What is more important: simplicity or induction?
We could differentiate metaphysical simplicity from explanatory simplicity.
Metaphysical simplicity is what you're talking about: the number of entities existing in reality. This has issues: shouldn't ...
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What is more important: simplicity or induction?
Occam's razor is the central principle of induction.
Theoretically, we seek the simplest explanation - in terms of the shortest and simplest formulas - that exactly matches and predicts all of the ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole)
The most common idea is called Common Sense Convergence. Although there are variations, in general humans tend to move towards, adopt, favor, defend and justify things that work for them and feel ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole)
It is impossible to answer this question without identifying the subject of this qualification (right or wrong).
A human individual or a group of human individuals
History of humanity as a whole
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Type of mapping between subjective experience and the physical configuration?
Mathematically, a map is a triple formed by the domain, the range and the rule.
Unfortunately models from neuroscience are still far away from formalizing the relation between subjective experience ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole)
"What is the most common idea behind right and wrong across all religions, philosophers, and beliefs?"
There isn't one. There is a huge variation. This is the central question of what is ...
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How can syntactic manipulation give rise to understanding?
Producing outputs is not equivalent to understanding, which the Chinese Room Argument proves. In fact, generative AI has shown us a modern example of exact (or perhaps near exact) mimicry not being ...
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Are these two radically different kinds of psychological concepts one representing behavior (to mean) and the other cognitive (to understand)?
In semantics, there are two broad views: internalism and externalism. Externalism is the view that meaning bearers cause meaning, that is, meaning is a property of words, whereas on the internalist ...
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Can an entity predict itself?
From your comment:
How can a simple question be so much easily misintrepreted[sic]?
The simplicity of asking a question does not always correlate to the simplicity of answering it or even ...
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What is more important: simplicity or induction?
Descartes and Solipsism
Solipsism follows inexorably from Descartes. A simple reductio ad absurdum (or contrapositive or modus tollens) suffices to get us out of that mess.
i.e.
If
Cartesianism ⇒ ...
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Which WILL is right or most important?
We probably just want to go straight back to Socrates here and say that all of these are aspects of the will to The Good. Each of the thinkers you've listed focus on a particular tool or mechanism — ...
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Which WILL is right or most important?
There is no fixed criteria for ascertaining which WILL is right or most important. It depends on your inclination and the aspects of human existence which you find most compelling. For example- for me ...
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Which WILL is right or most important?
Will to meaning and witll to knowledge come to the same. How far Frankl and Vivekananda are related is a quite different question: Frankl was speaking from the space of much deeper torment — What's ...
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In a very specific sense, what are the precise reasons why someone would not be able to verify whether or not their judgment is delusional?
Metacognition
This thing is about ability to think about one's own thinking. In people with delusions, metacognitive processes can be disrupted, meaning they have difficulty reflecting on and ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole)
Humanity involves collective cultures , societies and civilisation that humans have built. There are different moral and ethical values. Therefore we can not talk about absolute right and wrong for ...
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In moral philosophy, how do researchers perceive what is right and wrong (and why)? (For humanity, as a whole)
There's also the "Golden Rule".
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them.
Source
There are various sayings and translations that have a ...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
You ask:
Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies.
I think your question is prescient, but I think the terminology &...
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Is our consciousness evidence of the existence of a true ontology that underlies many "conventional" ontologies?
You say :
Thus, our specific conscious experience is a distinct thing in the
universe, determined by some features and patterns in the brain, not
by our wishes, frameworks, or worldview.
Conscious ...
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Type of mapping between subjective experience and the physical configuration?
If you hear a song, you have the subjective experience of it. Do you really believe that by specifying the physical configuration of the radio that is transmitting the song, you will ever get a ...
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Illusionism in the philosophy of mind
I believe you have misunderstood Dennett. He is not arguing that qualia are 3rd person. he is arguing that qualia do not exist. From Quining Qualia:
At first blush it would be hard to imagine a ...
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Exploring the Concept of "No Mind" in Eastern Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Foundations and Implications
You ask:
How do different philosophical traditions conceptualize and articulate the nature of no-mind? Are there commonalities or divergences in their approaches?
Form the perspective of a ...
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