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No it didn't.

The US is widely considered by political scientists to be in decline. That's not a result of Trump. It's just that the world changes.

https://i.imgur.com/vjS5E1T.jpeg This is how things have gotten in the US. Our money is all worn out and it has chocolate inside of it.

That's exactly what I think. Where ontology leaves practical matters behind, it's a wild goose chase.

One of these days you're going to finally get that this a concern for you, not Americans. There's nothing stopping the world from doing this. The tric...

The second article is about ontology. I think you and I will probably land in the same place regarding that topic. I think we can hold off unless you'...

Plato would say you're remembering the wisdom of the Anima Mundi.

The US is an oddity in that most countries in its position would demand tribute.

Dualities necessarily appear to us. We think in pairs, up/down, left/right, male/female, etc. In every case, the meaning of any word contains it's opp...

Good question. The ancient Greeks couldn't accept the idea of nothing. As a result, they didn't have the idea of zero and their math was limited becau...

So I think it's true that Heidegger's philosophy amounts to a-humanism, which in the wrong hands becomes in-humanism. But why were there so many wrong...

Heidegger would agree that nothing exists necessarily. One happy moment of agreement between continental and analytic philosophy.

He would say the ultimate truth is the Absolute, which is a state of unity in which there is no thought because there are no divisions. Thought is the...

Thought is necessarily dualistic. Implied is some unified world beyond thought. This is Hegelian. He's an example of the way I think.

The question goes back a long way, at least to Plotinus, who was an idealist monist. Monism of either variety has this problem, and seems to require e...

Ok. It's odd that you're not even willing to look into it.

I just thought maybe you'd want to get a correct understanding of the scientific views you're discussing.

I think if you look into it further, you'll discover that I'm right. Energy is a scalar number that measures the capacity of a system to do work. Ther...

I don't know Kastrup's answer, but there is no scientific definition of life (according to Robert Rosen). What we're referring to by "life" requires t...

Energy is a number, not a substance.

yep

Energy isn't a substance. It's a physical construct, which means it comes from the analysis of an event.

Schopoenhauer believed subject and object are two sides of the same coin. That insight goes back to Plato. You're in danger of calling all of philosop...

It's a model you use to make sense of what you're experiencing. If you find the model is wrong, you update it. Davidson said it's like a web of inter-...

An objective account is in 3rd person. It's like a novel written in 3rd person, a God's eye view. I think the answer to Josh's question is that a stat...

This is why I suggested we leave out the word "reality" because it connotes mind-independence. Russell was a neutral monist, and the Tractatus has the...

A very high percentage of the stuff you post is completely wrong, like maximally bonkers.

The next few years will be interesting. Vance commented that he's fascinated by Bernie Sanders. I hope that's a good sign, because Sanders is a fundam...

I would say leave out the word "reality." Wittgenstein (in the Tractatus) is saying that the boundaries of what we call the world are precisely the sa...

That's so me. I wish I had a giant shell like a clam.

Just note that this not any kind of phenomenology. It makes the thread a little confusing if you smash up differing philosophical approaches.

What if instead of skin we had bony plates that get thicker with age. People would have their plates professionally buffed and maybe put decorative ca...

I wrote a whole freakin' essay. :grimace: Modal logic's touchstone is the way we think about the world around us. Simple stuff like: "What if I'd neve...

That's weird that you brought up Schop. He would confirm that you and Heidegger are two facets of the same diamond.

I haven't read Mein Kampf, but Steiner mentions it more than once in explaining the climate of post WW1 Germany. I don't think Hitler was a populist. ...

Yea, it was an end-of-history narrative. Ironically, it's twin was Communism.

It's probably more that he was a creation of the same forces that crash landed in a Holocaust. The problem for the misanthrope is to figure out how to...

I was trying to understand what Habermas and Adorno were detecting in it. I guess I didn't explain that. :grin: It's phenomenology peppered with diale...

Sorry, I misunderstood. :yikes:

Don't know. I've mainly been trying to figure out how Being and Time connects to Heidegger's fascism. I read Wolin's Heidegger in Ruins (2023), and it...

I'm partial to phenomenology. The OP is not accurately describing it.

Chomsky is pretty thorough-going, but he is a mysterian. Anyway, I was calling out Wayfarer's assessment of phenomenology. It does not start with the ...

Is that also considered to be a social construction?

Chemical treatments for mental illness seem to show that consciousness is not primary. Though I think the issue really comes down to the way we talk r...

Sounds good.

My criticism was going to Wayfarer's assessment of phenomenology. Phenomenology is a philosophical approach, not a position on the nature of conscious...

Sure. Those are still cases where primacy goes to materiality. Drugs and alcohol are other cases of it.

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Yep. Whales evolved during the Eocene. That's a fact.

The intuition that consciousness arises from biology gave us the first substantial progress for diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Woul...