https://stanceofunknowing.com/ en-us ℗ & © 2024 Dan Bruiger Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. Dan Bruiger “The Stance of Unknowing,” is all about how we can know anything at all. Philosophy, from author Dan Bruiger. John Humphrey jh@johnhumphrey.com false The Stance of Unknowing Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. Have you ever wondered how electrical activity within your brain can give rise to the experience of a real world with you in it? In this first podcast, we explore how that is possible by putting ourselves imaginatively in the brain’s place. https://stanceofunknowing.com/what-its-like-to-be-your-brain/ https://stanceofunknowing.com/what-its-like-to-be-your-brain/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:15:00 GMT Have you ever wondered how electrical activity within your brain can give rise to the experience of a real world with you in it? In this first podcast, we explore how that is possible by putting ourselves imaginatively in the brain’s place. 14:10 consciousness, external world, virtual reality, metaphor The Stance of Unknowing Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. Have you ever wondered what consciousness is and why scientists and philosophers have such a hard time explaining it? In this episode, we’ll try to see why consciousness is elusive and how we can understand it. https://stanceofunknowing.com/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-2/ https://stanceofunknowing.com/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-2/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:15:00 GMT Have you ever wondered how electrical activity within your brain can give rise to the experience of a real world with you in it? In this first podcast, we explore how that is possible by putting ourselves imaginatively in the brain’s place. 10:37 consciousness, hard problem, explanatory gap, intentionality, brain, meaning The Stance of Unknowing Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. Have you ever wondered how it is possible that we can look at things from the inside or from the outside? Here we explore the concept of the black box, to understand what it means to be an observer. https://stanceofunknowing.com/the-world-as-a-black-box-2/ https://stanceofunknowing.com/the-world-as-a-black-box-2/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:20:00 GMT Have you ever wondered how it is possible that we can look at things from the inside or from the outside? Here we explore the concept of the black box, to understand what it means to be an observer. 12:19 black box, observer, input and output, self-reference, point of view The Stance of Unknowing Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. Some claims can’t possibly be true, while others can’t possibly be false. On the other hand, most claims that people make could be either true or false, and we are faced with the challenge to decide. Here we explore a particular kind of truth and its role in mathematics and science. https://stanceofunknowing.com/truth-by-definition-2/ https://stanceofunknowing.com/truth-by-definition-2/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:22:00 GMT Some claims can’t possibly be true, while others can’t possibly be false. On the other hand, most claims that people make could be either true or false, and we are faced with the challenge to decide. Here we explore a particular kind of truth and its role in mathematics and science. 10:52 tautology, governing laws, idealization, determinism, statistical outlier The Stance of Unknowing Dan Bruiger is an independent scholar, amateur astronomer, and author of several books and numerous articles. We live in an age that craves precision and certainty. Even information can be measured scientifically. Yet, it is precisely in an environment polluted by disinformation and cluttered with junk information that there is the greatest need to ask: how do I know what I think I know? https://stanceofunknowing.com/how-do-you-know/ https://stanceofunknowing.com/how-do-you-know/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:23:00 GMT We live in an age that craves precision and certainty. Even information can be measured scientifically. Yet, it is precisely in an environment polluted by disinformation and cluttered with junk information that there is the greatest need to ask: how do I know what I think I know? 14:14 certainty, reason, propositional thought, probability, law of excluded middle, conspiracy theories, categories