Some kind of minimal 'being mysticism' seems to be sketched here. From the outside, it's just wandering at a tautology (any tautology will do). I don'...
I appreciate the friendly words. It'd be great to hear your thoughts on Popper's swamp, which has hardly been touched. Observation statements are tric...
Is the hard problem of 'consciousness' a confusion? Or an attempt to point at something elusive? 'Why is there something? Why is there anything?' Is t...
I apologize for the insult, and I regret losing my temper. We've discussed this topic before, and it wasn't a terribly pleasant conversation, so your ...
I'm aware that one can stretch the term. Recall that I've insisted on a perhaps necessary ambiguity when it comes to specifying the 'practical' founda...
The move from one to two would be decisive. In the practical world, we need to track bodies, feed or age the right one, so merely changing one's legal...
I feel you, but we have no data to support/falsify such a conclusion. I don't deny that it's as impractical as lots of other varieties of metaphysical...
I just thought this was too obvious to be worth mentioning. Perhaps the fault is mine. Let me try again, summarizing some exploratory hypotheses. (1) ...
These qualities seem to apply to both the individual 'subject' and the tribe's self-understanding as a whole. That fits a distributed operating system...
Yes. And I generally agree with the other quotes too. Let me stress again the distinction of body and ego. The 'ego' is an 'effect of language' or a h...
Glad you mentioned that. I love Gadamer on this. This suggests that 'self'-knowledge is a necessary byproduct of interpreting the other. https://plato...
You were correct (genuinely philosophical) to start discussing (not simply pontificating about) what makes a claim wise (or rational or trustworthy.) ...
By their windmills ye shall know them. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote Perhaps the best abbreviation for someone's heroic ego-ideal is t...
'Hello. I'm Nick. I define a wise (philosophical) claim to be one with epistemic support. Now, given this uselessly vague definition, I challenge you ...
I am trying to draw your attention to the fact that you are basically repeating a mantra. You are making a trivial deduction from your pet definitions...
Trivialities, Nick. Read some more philosophy. You'll see folks articulating and discussing what it means to be rational, wise, scientific, and so on....
Your 'valid' critique was a few pejorative adjectives, a few platitudes, and a few links to books/videos that maybe were supposed to supply the actual...
You have hardly provided any facts, just recycled deepities about the sorry state of philosophy. That seems to be all you have, this obsession with th...
This is the kind of grand-vague-trite criticism that I'm trying to point out. It's a conspiracy theory. Those postmodernist circles are engaged in an ...
What if the meaning of 'pain' is everything 'around' the otherwise ineffable painfeeling? The 'pain itself' is the hole in a donut. The dough is buyin...
It seems to me that you are mostly repeating platitudes. It's unfortunate that you didn't participate in the Popper thread. Basic observation statemen...
Marketing of above: Beware postmodernist circles ! Don't read the books yourself. That'd be difficult. Buy an easier book that assures you that you ar...
I think I'm seeing your role in the drama. You are a debunker and a reformer, yes? Are you 100% sure you are qualified? Do you consider Ayn Rand a gre...
Yes, and though statistical tests can be used to suggest fishiness (maybe you accidentally manifest a pattern), they never prove genuine order. A fair...
Another helpful quote on the strange relationship of ego and language: //////////////////////////////////////////// With regard to the superstitions o...
It's a fact that lots of classic battles are still raging under the tent of philosophy. To take one side is to think the other is wrong or at least le...
And you tell us this on a philosophy forum...using the field as a comforting pillow and a way to seek validity ? Perhaps you've described thinking in ...
:up: Our knowledge as a species is so great (mirroring a super-differentiated economy) that the individual is forced to blindly trust a system which n...
:up: Folks hate math and love interpersonal drama. As you know, some people like the weird stuff about QM woven into their new religion of virtuous al...
I think it was the The Celestine Prophecy or some similar book that denied (meaningless) coincidences, as if a Creator stuffed the maximum amount of a...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/#TranEgoDiscInte This seems like a good description of so much of life. We are immersed in what we are doing...
I can only make sense of it as a description of our nature, how we do science/philosophy. We look for reasons (exploitable relationships between entit...
I'd say that 'pain' tends to (try to) point at some secret inside of a person. So it's real-for-them. I'd say that 'real' points (endlessly and terrib...
I'm thinking we tend to aim a word like 'real' socially. If something caused lots of people pain at the same time, it'd be called real. But if you suf...
The 'self-knowledge' of the 'distributed operating system' is also distributed. The 'subject' with 'experience' is a body plugged into a 'dance' with ...
Maybe. But I remember that folks were even afraid of pragmatism once. McLuhan's World city is new. The algorithms keeping us in bubbles is new. As far...
Exhibitionism. It seems like one of the ingredients even in the scientist/philosopher. TikTok has a mystical subculture, conspiracy theory subculture,...
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