Tag Archives: Kant
Mind Over Matter
In a recent Scientific American article dated April 19 titled “Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?” Bernardo Kastrup muses over the fact that inexplicable lab results may be telling us we’re on the cusp of a new scientific paradigm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardo Kastrup, Kant, mental realm, objective knowledge, Paradigm Shift, physical realm, Quantum Anomalies, Schopenhauer, scientific observation, Spinoza, subjective knowledge, Thomas Kuhn
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The World as Form and Function
Reality is created by observers in the universe – John Archibald Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (1911-2008) Today I am revisiting the views held by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Idea (1818), and his rejection of naïve realism, or what has been … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmos, evolution, form, function, Kant, life, matter, Schopenhauer, thing-in-itself, universe, world
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The Subject Defines the Object
“Nothing is an object unless there is a subject to consider it.” While not questioning the existence of objects when not directly considered, in “The World as Idea”, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) says that we only know the world in relation … Continue reading
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Tagged Descartes, ding an sich, distiction between subject and object, Kant, Nietzsche, Perception, sensory organs, stream of consciousness
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