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In the spirit of remembering Beck, this album with Rod Stewart still rankles my chains.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_KcgJoQI0&t=74s

Brilliant. I had no idea this existed. A parallel of the harmony and the pacing.

It seems to be an algorithm that takes three reactions to Heidegger's language and reconfigures them to fit different contexts. I have made several at...

One thing about that movie I will never forget; Javier Bardem was entirely too good at playing his role. I cannot watch him in other movies because I ...

I completely agree.

I don't mean to accuse you of losing sight of something but to suggest there is a gap between Husserl, for example, and Chalmers in regard to how the ...

Ah yes, the power of subtraction. Like my old Sifu said while teaching martial arts: "if you are genuinely interested in self-defense, try not being s...

Righto! I have seen half of that list. I better get to work on the rest.

I read Chalmers to be saying that consciousness could be investigated as a scientific phenomenon if the 'powerful methods' stopped insisting upon redu...

My favorite from that album is Guinnivere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT9EKqXDl68 It still feels like travelling from one place to another.

Yes, they are worthy.

Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, for sure. Some I didn't see listed by others: The Last Picture Show Solaris by Tarkovsky Richard II, with Lawrenc...

In regard to my challenge to your 'grouping' idea as it relates to having an opinion, I considered your following remarks: After all that, it is diffi...

For sure.

Hah, I would never have thought of that. You win.

Them being nicely sliced between layers of bread and mayonnaise suggests a more hylomorphic stance.

Is Algernon's compulsion to order cucumber sandwiches a valiant leap for the transcendental or an acceptance of his worldly conditions?

I get why the summary says that but it does not reflect a careful reading of the book. With the possible exception of the son, all the characters oper...

The scale is a significant difference. They are not the same event. I do challenge the idea that the difference was the result of a "weak moral anchor...

Killing Jews was a crowd pleaser well before the Enlightenment. The Crusades had people doing it at home as well as abroad. For example: The Pogroms o...

That is an interesting question. The first thought that pops into my head is the movie The Last Picture Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZx_vQc...

I think of it more along the lines of John Keegan in his A History of Warfare. Advances in technology has long been a part of why certain methods succ...

Machine guns. Bombs and Missiles. Industrial Project Management. Mass Media. The shrinking of the world as a shared space. Ennui.

You translated my phrasing into other words with your question. I will think about the best way to answer.

It is presumptuous to assert that the ideas are coherent outside of the context of human thought and experience. On the other hand, it is also presump...

I am not able to pull together a report to something able to answer the question of 'being qua being.' Looking at various ways of talking about it are...

It is a description that shows the result of only considering "groups" of individuals and their opinions to adequately represent people living togethe...

The chicken looks tempting.. The squash look like bystanders reluctant to remove their name tags.

The expression: 'absolute power corrupts absolutely.' was made by Lord Acton to strictly refer to those who took advantage of their place in society t...

Your account of the Chora presented in the Timaeus reminds me of a passage in the Theaetetus: The translation does not fully capture the Greek in rega...

The word 'polity' does not mean a grouping by means of a shared property. The first meaning given in the OED is: "Civil organization (as a condition);...

What role does science play from that perspective?

I think that for Godel, the matter of valid forms of demonstration was paramount. Aristotle certainly was concerned with the matter but also saw first...

Which piece? The flow charts keep dividing into new flow charts like cell sex.

To some extent (currently in dispute), the desire to find out how Nature works is the desire to learn something beyond the aim of accounts given merel...

He is taking aim from the balcony, not rebutting your thesis. I carry an umbrella in case it rains.

I quoted you and tried to make sense of it. I am not trying to put words in your mouth. If one rejects any kind of "thinking alike" in forming politie...

Of course it is for you. Just like the meatloaf was. That did not come out right.

I stand corrected. There may still be a connection since you relate the perception to a childhood trauma.

You are up to speed.

You have wandered into a vast field of lost culture. Run for the quickest exit.

Jeff Beck.

Time for some Cline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nil375hi4tg

I don't understand how your thought experiment connects this question to the results you express interest in. The proposal suggests we are experiencin...

It does increase the statistical likelihood that you have the capacity.

I see the pig. But was thinking more armadillo. It's a Texan thing. You wouldn't understand.

Trained language experts are up to speed on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH9eqYCQqWg

Was that an instance of a Richardean paradox?

I was trying to figure out how your view of society worked. You declare the self-identification of persons as participants in a group to be meaningles...

I agree. The emphasis has been on what can be confirmed by shared and repeatable experiences. The point Chalmers is making about the use of reductive ...