The Epistemic Contingency of Knowledge, Reason, Logic, and Meaning on an Idealist Metaphysics
Introduction The major metaphysical worldviews of today–physicalism, dualism, panpsychism, and idealism–can be categorized in a number of waysRead More…
Tag: dualism
If reality is intelligible, and it must be intelligible, then idealism must be true
Introduction The discovery of a “theory of everything” is most notably a goal of physics. The problem of incompleteness (Gödel, 1931) arguablRead More…
Artifacts of Perception: How Limits on Computation Produce Entropy, Time, and Space
The arguments herein are in large part owing to the Essentia Foundation’s “Entropy is in the eye of the beholder,” by Dr. Gabriel Proulx. A goaRead More…
The Consciousness-Reality Integration Theory (CRIT)
Introduction Current studies of consciousness present a profound challenge known as the “hard problem of consciousness.” This elusive issue peRead More…
The epistemic challenges of the meta-problem of consciousness
The meta-problem of consciousness Philosopher David Chalmers elucidated the hard problem of consciousness in 1995. Namely, there is no way, Read More…
The Hard Problem of Consciousness as a Blocker for AI/ML
One of the most infamous challenges for the mainstream physicalist paradigm of today is the hard problem of consciousness, also called the mind-body Read More…
Defining Consciousness in Philosophy
There are a multitude of definitions for “consciousness,” most of them lacking. In this article, we discuss the philosophical definitions, as tRead More…