I think he continued to feed his dog Pedigree Chum. I mean, this is on my profile as a favourite quote: "Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page be...
What's interesting is trying to imagine ourselves out of existence or from the perspective of our non-existence when the concept of our existence is i...
My view is that the way to deal with people like Kirk is to engage them reasonably. Try to figure out what they are actually angry about etc. I had a ...
Yes, Nietzsche was a philosopher and I am a great admirer of his writings, which have influenced me greatly and contributed no doubt to my own clevern...
Let's give it a try then... The for-itself is that which makes of itself what it is through its actions----what it is is not pre-given, what is pre-gi...
His Wiki page contains some of the racist, anti-semitic, and Islamaphobic statements he's made. Of course, he was (apparently) a more vocal, rather th...
Nietzsche was a literary artist whose personal interactions were no more remarkable than other literary artists of his day. His special value lay in h...
Wasn't expecting that... Anyway, having researched Charlie Kirk, it appears many of his views (anti-semitic statements, racism, homophobia etc) are no...
I guess you're a deontologist on this, which is fair enough. And I don't even know if I can agree with myself on the topic, so I'm not in the stronges...
Another context we ought to problematize is context itself. Folks are very often going to react immediately based on political corner, no? When I firs...
The assassination of political figures becomes retroactively justified and therefore simply justified depending on how history works out. The assassin...
(Last point: I'm not trying to provoke anyone here or disrespect Charlie Kirk's family etc. Charlie Kirk is more or less just a name to me. I'm trying...
Also, I've looked through the thread I haven't found much in the way of ethical arguments one way or the other. The fact that it was a murder is irrel...
Yes. I don't know much about Kirk, but many unambiguously good people get killed around the world daily, particularly children, sometimes with the com...
Just a quick point for now. Definitely not (at least not literally). This is part of Luhmann's project, actually---to extend Maturana's concepts from ...
Yes, and your examples were very interesting in that respect. A system must be less complex than its environment and it reduces complexity through a k...
(No meaningful difference can arise until all those differences arise coherently. A pure environment contains nothing to establish difference. Differe...
Here's my version as simple as I can make it. Do with it what you will. A system can be seen as a "coherency of differences" as follows. Difference A:...
I didn't say they just were that. I said this: And I also clarified what I meant. You asked a question. I answered with a definition and a detailed fo...
I don't blame Mikie for his reaction (he didn't ask the question...). I'm reading a compilation of lectures by Luhmann at the moment, so these ideas a...
Just to add to that: We can only establish a difference by being some form of coherence that is different from the difference. Coherency in this obser...
We are mostly singing from the same hymn sheet then. But I think it's OK to educate kids in how to use technology if they understand its situatedness ...
I think that's right in the sense that a fish doesn't actively experience water. It's too fundamental. On the other hand, water is an essential part o...
Ha, let me clarify by commenting that woke is the anti-Coke. Uncle Sam drinks Coke and sprinkles golden urine on his flock. Satan drinks woke and piss...
Yes, but I am not that difference unless I am the system. The system itself is the observer here. The definition needs fleshing out for sure. There ar...
Woke just is Satan. Satan stepped into the soul of the oppressed and told them to open their eyes, and they did so not to God but to Beelzebub. They b...
Yes, see Nikhlas Luhmann. Systems are coherencies of (self-recreating in the case of autopoietic systems) differences between themselves and an enviro...
Good. I like Sartre as an "in" to this approach to consciousness and I'm not particularly bothered by the critique in this context (also, my relative ...
(Addendum: Non-resistance, vain resistance, and productive resistance. Non-resistance does not recognize the problem and embraces humiliation. This is...
Adding to this (hopefully for clarity) and then I'll come back with some specifics relating to your comments: In the mirror, we see the grammatized se...
Unfortunately, it's almost inevitable now that Al will become in the near future THE general authority. So, thinking will no longer be a practical nec...
Skipping the Nietzsche debate for a more general comment relevant to this: It seems the way the “glorification of crime" often functions ideologically...
AI is result-oriented. Intellectual development, and particularly philosophical intellectual development, is process-oriented. If you just want to pos...
(To put my "way out" another way as it is vaguely worded above: It is to performatively reverse this situation of being-under-judgement by becoming th...
Definitely. As hinted above, what can go wrong is at least in large part a hystericized reaction to being judged where one performatively tries to out...
I agree with this. I don't think I have said anything that suggests I don't. But if I appear to have, let's thrash it out. (Ok maybe "utter particular...
Of course, we don't need Sartre specifically for this theory, we need only the socially installed other at the level of prereflection, a theoretical d...
@"Joshs" @"Moliere" Interesting back and forth. I know Sartre is polarizing and has been accused of completely misunderstanding Heidegger. The Husserl...
(Incidentally, if you look at this through a systems theory lens, the corollary of non-positional awareness is something like the structural coupling ...
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