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I wasn't presenting an analogy. I was pointing out that a reductionist would draw the wrong conclusion about a computer. If you don't know how it work...

I think the state is part of your identity. It's part of who you are that you belong to this particular group. In some cultures that state identity is...

A picture is worth a thousand words, though. Some have theorized that writing may have preceded speech, but I doubt it. We can pin point the genes tha...

Lovecraft invented an alien who doesn't understand the earth's devotion to individual forms, so it freely combines the patterns of the living things i...

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We need a brain explosion emoji.

Looks like a bundle of universals. An individual bachelor is a member of a set. The criteria for the set is a definition.

Philosophy has made you into a pretzel.

I've wondered about that. I read a history of a famous American guy once, written by a historian who was afraid the opposite would be true: that futur...

Thanks to story telling and writing, yes.

Good point. :up:

What are the transcendental conditions of the production of the idea?

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If you didn't know how a computer works, you might likewise assume that the software is somehow part of the hardware. "If the behavior of the computer...

That still affirms Geist as part of our world, it just recalls that it's a partial truth like everything else. Thanks for the source, btw. Pretty cool...

It's all a very complicated diversion. They're playing to the spy satellites. No one knows what they're really trying to accomplish.

Some political scientists say it was between the Civil War and the early 20th Century. I think some say it still is. I guess it depends on your outloo...

I'd like to ask Professor Chomsky if he thinks we'll eventually have a global nuclear war, or will we be able to avoid it?

:up: It's all becoming clear now. Thanks for explaining that.

That's just a state, not a nation-state.

:up: BTW, the more egalitarian and inclusive the US becomes the less it would be a nation-state. A nation is usually a group of people who have ethnic...

It's pretty clear they wanted to take Kiev. A lot of people were surprised at their ineptness, including me.

Again, your question had nothing to do with my remark. If you think it did, explain how.

Hot air like "Russia just wanted little chunks of Ukraine"? :wink:

Or Renaissance. This thingy on top of St. Peter's is a symbol of the individual, standing between the heaven and earth: https://basictoglamchic.com/wp...

Because your question had nothing to do with my comment.

I got a chuckle out of that. :cheer:

I see. Thanks.

Like a blueprint?

I see what you're saying, but maybe the dynamism we find in selfhood comes from multiple oppositions. Consider if you woke up in an emergency room wit...

Yes. How do you picture it?

Oh, ok. So when you said: "Of course elsewhere he puts this "thing-in-itself" outside the reach of our knowledge, thus the lack of faith in our ordina...

I'm guessing that some features of human cognition are innate, but triggered by socialization. Humans are different from other large apes in that we s...

I'm actually pretty straight on this point. Kant did not believe we have access to a world beyond our own conditions of knowledge. To the extent that ...

Yes.

This exchange clearly shows a case where agreeing on definitions would avoid cross-talk. By "knowledge," Antony means knowledge of a mind-independent ...

At one time it was mostly archeology. Genetics became a biggy later on.

I think it's feasible because we've already done something similar in the Bronze Age. We could return to that way of life, maybe if climate change wre...

Maybe it will be like the science of human origins. It draws from a variety of sciences to answer one question.

Maybe someday.

That is the most important thing, yes. :razz: I think Bronze Age economies were pretty close to communism. Farmers brought their produce into the temp...

All true.

They're a stabilizing force for Russia at this time, at the price of Russia's future submission to China. Biden has pitted himself against Putin's reg...

China has been playing the situation carefully. They want good relations with the US. Xi does, anyway. The balloon launchers apparently have other pla...

Neither

Elderporn :confused:

I think the most significant player on the scene now is neither the US nor Russia. It's China. Russia is now dependent on China. The way Xi behaved wh...

No. I just wish someone had introduced me to forex sooner, so I was doing that for you. I gave you the british guy because he's in your timezone and I...

You kind of sound like you're going stir crazy, so I'm sending you this link for a british guy who teaches forex trading. You can watch the videos, jo...

Thank you! Makes sense.