. Good point ! Looking back on the era of the Young Hegelians and before, there's a definite purification of the God concept so that the obviously irr...
Nice ! We using the ordinary 'magic' of language for that right now. Amazing ability we've evolved biologically, culturally, and technologically (give...
My metaphor is misleading, I see. The 'ghost' just refers to the popular idea of a solitary consciousness. One philosopher (Ryle) called this 'the gho...
It really as something as simple as science or literature or music or philosophy. To do these things are to interact with something bigger than the in...
I try to adjust my talk to the conversation, but sometimes I can't help having too much fun. There is a beauty to the simple style a person can find i...
The 'spine' of that sleptogram is: He failed to give a meaning to his signs. My cheery theory is that we never know exactly what we are talking about....
Right. And the people are just worshiping power, not virtue, in that piece of the story. They'd worship an air conditioner. If Baal was asleep, I gues...
Pretty solid rule indeed. Yes indeed. Time's change. I like reading old books. It frees my mind from being stuck in today's little vocabulary. I also ...
No kidding? The dude is the loudest voice on the right, last I checked. The Selfish Gene is an exciting/good book (you might like it, given your inter...
And ? We've got 'scientism' and 'woo woo,' a couple of cartoons mostly. This seems like a digression, unless I fit into 'scientism' somehow (which'd s...
If you're actually talking with people and your feelings are engaged and you are actively using your faculties (which you clearly are), then I think i...
If the self is 'too familiar,' then we have a 'pre-ontological' grip on it already, and presumably we'd try to develop a knowledge of what functions a...
From what I've read, it emerged as the idea of the one true or living god in context of a bunch of gods that were declared phony. You make a nice poin...
Let me clarify. You've talked as if there's a threat of theists being silenced by some gang that includes Dawkins. I've said that you haven't made a c...
Think of 'em as viruses waiting for a host, like 'private language' and 'language on holiday' were once waiting for hosts. Then think of skulls as bag...
Y'all know about the Cauchy sequence construction of the reel numbers? Ignoring needless technicality, every real number is an infinite stream or rive...
FWIW, most of my encryptions can be sounded out. I think of it as a kind of pixelation. Joyce messed with spelling and proper nouns in FW, but that ma...
I like it. He also wasn't selling it. He was out their alone, trying to tell the truth about truth, also trying to find words for new ways of feeling ...
I think we both love Nietzsche, yet it's hard to see how the dark prince himself avoids the categorization of sophist. Perhaps a defense is that he's ...
Hiya ! 'Publishable quality' might mean something different in philosophy than in math. I'd bet dollars to donuts there's a journal out there that you...
It seems influenced by his work, which IMO points in many directions, given its fragmented and exploratory form. There's a strong behaviorist streak i...
The meaning of our master words is no small issue. 'Just what the word says' seems to refer to something like the average intelligibility of a deconte...
You are telling me exactly what I've been saying, that the metaphysical subject is a fiction or a convention. I criticize the idealist for only doubti...
I'll grant you that background assumptions and attitudes probably play a role in what is researched. But hopefully you can see that there's a rational...
I was thinking of this. I should emphasize that 'of course' I think our nervous system is necessary for 'consciousness.' But the 'physical' is not so ...
But that's just my (and probably basically his) criticism of qualia. Why is a square not a circle? That's the hurt problem of conch-is-this ! Riddle m...
Bingo ! In both cases the unity and systematically of the cosmotheology they reflect ? God is a paint at infinity ? I like the name of your deity. Hod...
Too easy to understand, the identity of world and my fantasy of it, a baby's dream...regurgitated capitalist egoism perhaps (with the good stuff too, ...
He's first rate, still one of my faves. Ah, but my dear Schopenhauer, you tell me the brain is an illusion or representation...thrown up by the brain ...
Folks are sensitive about 'conch is this' and very much attached to 'the heard problem,' perhaps as a last hiding place from the demystifying astonish...
You neglect, though, that the 'metaphysical subject' is itself a mere invention/convention, just as is the 'physical' that's simultaneously invented a...
Can't speak for others, but some of us are not afraid to admit we just don't fucking know. Upon a little reflection (though against the grain of attac...
The following QUOTE may be helpful in making sense of the mound haunting mutter and mutter hunting mound. === As Anatole France say in The Garden of E...
@"lll" just suds their with cheers born fume is ice. Or there sad @"lll" with jeers porn out a size. Pour pour @"lll" just soot there with far in a si...
I'm surprised you find it so offensive. It's connected to 'folk science,' I'd think, along with 'folk art' and 'folk music.' I'm pretty sure you think...
Hey, Joe. I'm sorry if I was too rude or taunting. You did sorta ask for it, but I really don't want an ugly vibe. So good luck on your future endeavo...
Indeed ! Because perhaps it flatters the physicist to assume so, or there's just no time to' indulge' in such 'useless' chatter. I know a mathematicia...
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