To what degree can we really be said to know what we mean by 'qualia'? To test the effect of alcohol we'd look at things like reaction time, which can...
Yes, or I think so. We might hypothesize a human tendency to project an 'ideal adult status' on this or that figure of the present or the past ( such ...
To me this is connected to Wittgenstein's comments on sensation. We can also question the leap from us having the word 'consciousness' to the taken-fo...
As I see it, the issue for Dennett is that people typically don't know what they are talking about. One gets instead indignant hand-waving, the kind t...
. Is there something like the fantasy of an ideal adult that is frustrated here? Even our 'visionary' tech billionaires are riding on the back of a be...
It's humiliating to depend on that which we don't understand. At the same time, it's the special trick of our species to specialize in techniques as w...
Darwin stopped at what he didn't know. I read his bio lately, and he was exceedingly careful when making claims. His Origin is a fraction of the book ...
False dichotomy? Is it not more like a continuum that runs from '1 + 1 = 2' to 'vanilla is the best flavor of ice cream ' ? Note that comments about t...
That's a rich and circular line. 'Being is that on the basis of which being is already understood.' That's a tough one. Given the quote above, I think...
source Seems to be from Contributions, which I haven't looked at. But it's on the theme that I find central to Heidegger. A little more from that sour...
I find the centrality of metaphor highly plausible, so no issue there. But what exactly is 'lay rationality'? If not less disciplined serious rational...
I like to interpret idle talk as automatic talk, as bot-speak. One is governed by habits of interpretation so automatic that one takes such interpreta...
That's a big if. We love to get drunk on words, my friend. We may get the best high exactly when we don't understand, when perhaps the triviality or a...
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