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That's math, though, a game of symbols, a generalization of chess, one might say. One can be ultra-precise in this limited domain.

Plausible but vague and hard to do anything with. Something is gestured at. A Romantic poet might talk of the chains of rigid conceptuality scraping t...

I can't tell how ironic this statement is. I do think it's...metaphorically true....or not so crazy a theory...

Here's a taste of a 'non-religious' (?) example of 'the general theory of a the dominant illusion.' A taste of Berger, too. Why not? This is in Kojève...

Exactly ! Guy Debord opens his The Society of the Spectacle with an old quote from Feuerbach. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/societ...

I think we both need to be careful to distinguish between body and 'symbolic' ego. At times I've preferred an 'external' view, watching bodies learn t...

Agreed! Call it an overcorrection. I have toyed with denying qualia, not because I don't have the usual intuitions, but because these intuitions are c...

So a little boy talks to himself before he talks to mommy and daddy?

Well, sure, but this concept remains legible. I am criticizing a subjectivism that would construct the world from the idea of such a monologue. David ...

This may be so, and one can also go in the direction of 'art mysticism' and insist that concept is wrong way to grasp 'Reality' in the first place. On...

. This is an intoxicating story, which probably tempts just about everyone interested in philosophy, be it on the religious or anti-religious wing. En...

Just to be clear, I consider the impersonal we to be a kind of bottom layer. Of course we have personalities! But who are the great personalities? In ...

Perhaps you can help me with the point of view involved. For instance, is human philosophy conceived of as something like reality's self-knowledge? Ar...

I would say that yes. I am making a claim about human nature, postulating a permanent structure in human experience. Let me note that I agree with the...

I like Heidegger, to be clear, so I'm not sure what you mean here. The self and the other are equiprimordial, as I think Hegel saw. The starting point...

Sutff-independent is not intended as disembodied. I am just speculating that maybe there's nothing special about brain tissue. Maybe what matters is r...

Good quotes! Perhaps I'm not choosing the right metaphor. The issue I'm getting at is that philosophy tends to search for and postulate deep structure...

Thanks for the detailed response! If nothing else, the behaviorist motive seems laudable, if even some compromise turns out to be necessary.

Excellent post altogether. I'll just respond to some of it (dense and inspiring stuff, I have to choose.) I can understand something like the limits o...

Does the 'subject' always experience in terms of a tripartite structure? If Dasein 'is' time, then frame if not the canvas is ever-present. This 'prob...

IMO, there would be no difference at all. The phrase 'infinite-sided polygon' is typically interpreted as a circle. (Nonstandard interpretations are p...

Yes. And for me the issue of whether there are 'really' various infinities leads inexorably what we could mean if we say so. All roads seem to lead to...

That makes sense. He came too late, I suppose. Back to back to Kant...

To me this is plausible and useful, but perhaps Derrida and others destabilize this position. In any case, it seems close to the physical/mental disti...

I think the transcendental ego is mostly a failure, or let's say it succeeds until it's looked at sufficiently closely. I emphasize the metaphor as a ...

I agree that interaction will probably be primary. 'Wet' may not matter. Why should moisture matter? My money is on stuff-independent structure.

To me that response misses the issue entirely. It's too emotional for such a dry topic.

Yes, I suggested something like this earlier, that the self and other are created simultaneously from we-stuff, from 'one.' Yes, that's how I see it, ...

Ah, but who would dream it was static? We project/discover 'motionless' patterns in the motion (project being on becoming.)

Good stuff.

I don't know if it's truly an antipode. You still seem to present an eternally present tripartite structure or primordial form of experience.

What do you make of the convention of treating belief as 'that upon which a man is prepared to act' ? Or, in other words, of understanding 'belief' as...

Good point! So...would you say that reasoning is ultimately independent of language? Philosophy tends to be understood as that which should be especia...

For us as viewers, the organism, or both? I suppose both. Is your background in biology, btw? You seem to know some stuff! Your view reminds me to som...

Thanks. I've studied pieces of the field but others are blanks for me. I expect algorithims to get better, and this may turn out to be more important ...

Nice ! That makes sense. I like the emphasis on 4D and time. I acknowledge that the brain/non-brain distinction is an abstraction. I think it was appr...

Highly plausible ! We might form little subcommunities to (wisely) prevent homogenization. I love that film! Those are my favorite aliens from any fil...

This is bit dense, but it seems especially relevant . This is what I take to be the default view, that we can 'talk to ourselves' and know exactly wha...

Perhaps you could expand on that?

If you zoom in on the brain and look at neurons firing, where do you find thought? Is there something irreplaceable about human brain tissue? Or does ...

We might say that the self is that which is controlled toward homeostasis. The environment would be where this 'self' finds food and releases waste. W...

Dreyfus used Heidegger's work to argue against the hopes for AI back in his day. I think the approach was more symbolic at the time. I'm more hopeful ...

I know pretty well what goes on at the level of bits, and I agree, and yet...I don't know if we think either. Zoom in on our neurons and AFAIK there's...

I wouldn't use that exact word for it myself. I understand that (perhaps incorrectly) in terms of even a copper atom having its little allowance of 'c...

If the future wasn't constrained at all, then that'd be terrifying ! I've seen the idea that God may yet arrive, but then this God is not a creator bu...

Nice !

Perhaps you are right. We were supposed to have floating cars by now, right? If, however, a particular kind of 'AI' is especially profitable or powerf...

No. I just don't see why it won't happen eventually. We're near the beginning of the revolution. An economic/military arms race will only accelerate t...

Yeah, that's it! It's a very general technique. Let's say I have a differentiable function of ten thousand floating-point variables, then I can probab...

https://integrallife.com/always-already-the-brilliant-clarity-of-ever-present-awareness/ This sounds great, and I believe it describes a possible if p...