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Hi Tychic, Hypnagogue. Thanks for the feedback. I think it is important to get a good understanding of what Rosenberg means by the basic, raw sense of experiencing. In my opinion, Kind somehow misrepresents it. Perhaps the whole issue is claiming for a prior, the clearest possible...

Well, perhaps not everybody is happy with their jobs. When Kavafis retired after many years of working in a customs office, he said (happily): "At last I leave this filthyness" I think Kafka would have felt very much the same had he reached the age of retirement. It also reminds me of...

Hi Ulrich (koantum), Thank you very much to you (and rest of debatants) for this beautiful discusion. Sorry for the interruption, but could you please expand a bit more the idea of the world as an "incompletely differentiated spatiotemporal whole"? I think I grasp the idea, but doesn't it...

Excuse me Tychic. I've been a bit busy and couldn't follow the discussion. First of all, I'd like to clarify if possible wether you see a difference between the terms subject and self. I think that the term subject, when applied to humans, is commonly used as synonym of body or individual...

Hi Tychic, I've been thinking about your proposal of human suject/self. Still I fail to see it as too different from Rosenberg's, or, in general, from any proposal that considers a subjective aspect in phenomenal experience. The difference, I think, lies more in the value one gives to the...

Thanks always, Hypnagogue. Your post is, as usual, full of helpful explanations and also of new insights. I'll try to readress the points that I mentioned. As I said, all of them are more or less related to the question of how causation (in Rosenberg's sense) works. With this I'm referring to...

One of my main concerns along the reading has been to grasp a better idea of how causation, in Rosenberg's sense, operates. We have drawn a broad view of causation and finally associated it with 'experiencing' as carrier of receptive and effective properties. I was trying to understand now how...

The issue ot time keeps being a difficult one to handle for me, in spite of the new precisions made about it in this chapter (mainly in the section The Subjective Instant). "In the proposed model, natural individuals provide frames of reference for constructing spacetime, and distance in...

Yes, I understand (and I share the view) that in Rosenberg's theory experiencing is causally efficient. What I doubt is that this idea is generally implied in the common understanding of experiencing. For instance, do you think that the concept of qualia (or having qualia), when accepted, is...

Continuing earlier post. I'm sorry, Tychic, if I've muddled up a little bit the discussion mentioning the 'starting to propagate' question. I think that within Rosenberg's theory of causal significance we can not talk or rather identify anything as a 'starting point'. This starting point...

Hi Tychic, Regretedly, I do not have much time lately for PF. I'd like to discuss more carefully your points, but I probably can't. Anyway, I think that I agree with most of what you say. Here, I think, you very well express some point we have arrived at: -A first consideration or personal...

I'm afraid that Rosenberg's proposal is more radical than that. I'm not sure if we can properly say that they are different entities. Of course, it depends on the content we give to the term entity. But recalling the metaphor of the two faces of a wall, could we say that each face is a...

Hi Tychic! How good to know from you again! There are so many interesting points that you make in your post that it is difficult to address them all. I'd like to start with the idea of the panexperientialist neutral monism, composed of experiential/phenomenal properties according to...

In pg. 241, Rosenberg says: "The ontology implicit in the Central Thesis is a panexperientialist neutral monism. The fundamental kind is the causal nexus itself, and the nexus has multiple aspects: a phenomenal side, consisting of intrinsic properties that carry the componentes of the world's...

Thanks, Hypnagogue. I didn't expect such an in depth explanation. Of course it clarifies my doubts (and also makes them be rather naive :blushing: ). I have to go through your post more carefully. It's packed with thoughtful considerations. But you don't just only explain Rosenberg's ideas with...