Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47

Ravenheart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because non-conciousness with no brain activity is pretty simply “nothing”. Nothing is going on in you, so what you must be experiencing is nothing.

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  • Ravenheart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That makes sense in materialist metaphysics, but in recent decades materialism has become increasingly contested in philosophical circles. Philosophers like Bernardo Kastrup, Phillip Goff and David Chalmers being among the most prominent of its critics.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t respect people whose job title is “Sit in a room, and think about stuff”

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      as a relatively new philosophy nerd, please maybe show me some good reads by those folk? currently working through some Beaudrillard…

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      • Ravenheart@lemmy.zip ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Absolutely! Bernardo Kastrup: Materialism is Boloney Phillip Goff: Galileo’s Error David Chalmers: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness(This is his famous essay in which he coined the term “the hard problem of consciousness.”)

        I find Bernardo Kastrup’s case for analytic idealism to be the most compelling.

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