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Have you read Parmenides?

You've sort of persistently refused to give an example of a "weed" to help me understand what you're talking about. Could you help me out with that? U...

I see. For me, philosophy is mostly something highly personal, so I thought you were talking about personal weeds, not communal ones. Where a communit...

"Does not want growing..." That sounds ominous. Or am I making a mountain out of a molehill?

I was asking for an example of a weed philosophy might pull. Real weeds can give you a reading on the history and condition of a plot. If the soil is ...

I got into Plotinus before Plato, so now when I read Plato I'm interpreting it all through Plotinus. I'm curious about what I might be missing by doin...

What bores me is when that becomes archeological philosophy, as if getting the bones and dust in the right order is of any importance outside the muse...

@"unenlightened" New rituals come from child's play and dreaming.

I've chosen to be the King of the Universe. Something's not working.

So there's no separation between you and other stuff?

Why do we need new rituals?

What's relationship between you and the world?

You'd have to de-Matrix yourself to see that dinosaurs are fictional. Your opponent also lacks a vantage point to allow any more than conditional conf...

and poptarts

That's a sign of a stroke.

Gilgamesh sought immortality and finally found it on a lapis lazuli stele bearing his story carved in cuneiform. He's still alive 5000 years later bec...

@"fdrake" Flags are made of flux?

The symbol is in stasis like an eternal shore that ever-changing, mortal experience breaks onto over and over. The same flag means a million different...

:up:

I agree.

I wasn't presenting you with a problem. I was asking how far you go in reducing human cognition. You said: 'all the way.'

A computer running voice recognition software for a bank's customer interface makes excellent use of the information it gathers. Is anything else requ...

Terrapin claims to be a physicalist. It's not clear what that means. It's an unnecessary straight-jacket for the mind. Ontological anti-realism just s...

I wasn't talking about world-anti-realism. Instead, ontological anti-realism. At least it's a good place to start so you don't end up just trying to f...

Probably so. Your comment about Homer just put me in mind of trying to use other cultures as a vantage point on our own. At least seeing how we're dif...

Is computer voice recognition part of a social enterprise?

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. That's what I think.

Could be. All it takes is a community that sees it that way. Again, could be. I think women's issues stand apart because a woman's relationship to her...

It's easy enough to understand. All the descendants of those who were here, but not included in the "all men" who were supposed to be created equal wo...

My model is based on my own experience somewhere on the autism spectrum. I agree with Chomsky that a fair amount of speech and communication is innate...

Ok.

I get that you're a physicalist, but you also want room for various realisms. That leaves you redefining things like propositions and properties as (e...

That's why I like talking to you. You're incorrigible.

A phenomenalist says that all there is, is properties.

Then your nominalist physicalism is phenomenalism. :cheer:

That's phenomenalism.

All hail the Lord of Illusion.

But when we say two shirts are the same, isn't this a kind of shorthand for saying that the pattern, color, size, etc. are the same? The sameness you'...

The things mortals do, think, and feel, are often indistinguishable from divine forces. Absence of individuality isn't right. It's that individuality ...

But it wasn't an analogy. Imagine people sitting in a theater and sensing the rise of emotion in the crowd. Imagine that they all think of that rise o...

One way to interpret that passage is that the Achaians understood the rise of emotion as an external force. Moses Finley says that we don't know for s...

Do you believe everything is mind dependent?

What's the significance of the fact that the source of battle lust is a goddess?

Did he? Then eh, it's a free country. You're just irritated because your cause doesn't get the press it deserves. Or wait, do you really feel that way...

For life.

Yet most societies in our world are organized around an abstraction: money. And all of our amazing technological feats, sort of like the massive shell...

It probably won't inspire anybody to reduce carbon emissions. CO2 increases plant growth. We're dependent on plants, so. But as for an example in a di...

Per NASA, in the last 35 years, the amount of the earth's surface covered in leaves has increased by about twice the area of Australia. This is due to...

I don't think so. Your view is doing violence to the English language though.

I disagree.