O yeah that was a good year there. Not that this one is bad. It was just a year that was maybe better. I was athletic then, which probably has somethi...
In general that's a lesson I've noticed could be taught more -- communist or otherwise, politics doesn't begin with the party, the idea, the nation --...
Communism is political, and material. Even if it be unfeasible or unrealistic it isn't a religion. It deals with power, and specifically power distrib...
I am sympathetic to communism, but I think we're too selfish right now, and that the limits of human organization are unknown. That we're too selfish,...
I agree with the sentiment. We live underneath the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. And the ballot box won't change that. What parties are good at is ...
That's because I'm attempting to remain at least realistic :D. Often times talk of "the state" in relation to even socialism is muddy. For some "the s...
Booo! More infighting and misunderstanding! :D I think I'm tracking -- you're not a dualist in terms of substance or properties. Maybe a simpler way t...
It's kind of hand-wavey, I'll admit. A loose notion of human nature to explain patterns, but I don't think we must be this or that way. The actual lim...
For myself, no. If pressed I'll say human nature leans bad, but contingently so. For one, it's not always easy to determine what is good, so there wil...
I'd separate the question of distinguishing direct from indirect realism and making that choice from the problem of consciousness. I'd also set aside ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box That's the highest I went in terms of classes in physics. Very fascinating stuff. What I found in refl...
Epicurus' ontology is difficult to puzzle through. The relevant excerpt, I believe: Mostly noting the similarity between bodies and space, and everyth...
So the brain has the properties of colour, shape, sounds, and smells. The apple, insofar that its properties are one of those, is in the brain. What a...
So it's real, but maybe conscious experiences' properties are different from the properties of whatever is outside of our bodies, and whatever is outs...
Just how you avoid what appears to be the problem for indirect realism: perception is indirectly connected to reality. So how does science get directl...
OK. So how do you get to the properties of objects outside of the body when shapes, colours, tastes, and smells are properties that are only inside co...
In my experience feasibility is an assessment from the perspective of the people in charge. But realistically we only need other people which we unite...
"properties", "manifest", "conscious experience", "cause" -- these are what I'd term metaphysics. Not in the literal sense of the mind being above wha...
I'd be interested to know Chomsky's opinion on the IWW's relationship to the future of political activity, if he's willing to share such a broad senti...
A main problem I feel in doing philosophy outside of academia is that it's difficult to maintain the same level of rigor and discipline. While minutia...
Which I think kind of goes to show that there's something of a choice going on between positions, and our choices are largely based upon faults we see...
Yup. Couldn't there be a metaphysics of perception? Isn't that the distinction between direct and indirect? Such as @"RussellA"'s worlds, where there ...
I voted yes. I don't believe human nature is fixed, and I don't believe human beings are bound by necessity such that a "system" is in place to make t...
I don't think I could define philosophy proper, or the philosopher -- but I think philosophy is wider than a particular institution of philosophy in t...
Nice. :) Similarly my exposure to the academic world of philosophy, and really the tools of philosophy proper, was in my undergraduate days. I'll note...
I genuinely believe that philosophy is good for an education. Rather than philosophy losing its way I'd say philosophy has a lot of unexplored fecundi...
One of my earlier thoughts on moral realism is a two-predicate analysis. "...is good" is simply a different predicate from "...is true". But if "P is ...
I wouldn't speak for @"unenlightened", as I believe they've been making the case well. :D But I'll share my thoughts. Any sort of moral realism which ...
I'm more coming at this from the continental side, where language-soup-as-reality isn't too far off (but put differently -- a reduction might put it t...
I'm not so sure. It's not the sort of thing we can check, right? What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to not have language while we imagine th...
Nope. PerceiverRPercipient was my thought. A relationship holds between sets. So there's the set of perceivers and the set of percipients, and the rel...
"directly connected" I'd say means there is no more than one relationship between a perceiver and a percipient. The relation itself may exist, in the ...
Only that our perceptions tell us about the real. They are directly connected to the real, in some relation. Because they are directly connected to th...
I want to float an idea -- What if both experiences of the dress are Directly real? The direct realist is willing to sacrifice the old pedagogical exp...
I like the idea of punk sages. Not the front men or the bands, but say a Pythagorean Punk. That's interesting! I think I'd say boats -- as a metaphor ...
Fair point. There's a tension in Kant that's related to this -- the tension between the absoluteness of one's maxim, and the allowance of exceptions a...
I'd say it feels like we need Platonic forms, but I'm not sure why I feel that. It's definitely a thought I've held at one point, but have come to let...
. . . According to the video China contained AI, and somehow they are bad guys in the presentation while attaining what the researchers want. Worth no...
Something of an afterthought on classifying myself as an anti-realist Direct Realist is that it seems to follow pretty easily from a denial of Kant's ...
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