I get that. I traffic in a different kind of technical language originating in a segment of the Continental philosophic community , and I sample from ...
Ah, but if the codes of the cognitive system are just tricks, that is, adaptive accidents , then first person points of view in the experiential sense...
What if we say that being an organic system means that the creature has a patterned way of interacting with its environment each moment , that essenti...
If you re-read all his posts carefully you may find as I do that he is pointing to a consistent and coherent set of ideas. It seems to me that showboa...
Merleau-Ponty founds consciousness in gestalt ensembles organized as figure against background. “The perceptual ‘something' is always in the middle of...
Does Peirce aim to derive the third person from the first person as a secondary modality or achieve a mutual affecting between them , a matching of al...
This concatenation of information as meaningless mark and as subjectively meaningful signal system sounds compatible with Dan Zahavi’s depoction of me...
Would it be fair to characterize your thesis as a kind of techno-dialectics? There seems to be a fair amount of Marx in it , with technology moved to ...
Isnt there a distinction to be made between growth defined in classical economic terms ( GDP, etc) and growth of knowledge( scientific, technological,...
I wouldn’t say it’s the number of experiences you cope with that produces growth but the manner in which you organize those experiences. And each usef...
I am tempted to argue that what you have here is akin to an attempt to use a hardware description to explain software patterns. It’s not that your mod...
Do you think Lalatos’ approach to the logical proof is consistent with the later Wittgenstein? I wonder i particularly about the notion of truth , as ...
The GR assumes that people choose to treat each other with disrespect. Because it focuses on intent, it also assumes that disrespect drives difference...
First I’d clarify the sense of the golden rule. Do unto ‘others’ only applies to others who are like you in certain key respects that pertain to their...
I believe that every major act of violence in history was committed by an individual or group who thought themselves to be following the golden rule, ...
The Golden Rule is a recipe for immorality, because it can be used to justify whatever prejudice one harbors. For instance, ‘if I were a homosexual, I...
You’d better be careful. Before you know it, you may find yourself being treated as the next dinosaur whom time has passed by. Foucault would have a f...
I think there are some interesting points that are being ignored here, regardless of Leghorn’s motives. For instance, the concept of competition has c...
I am much happier thinking of my self as something self-creating and re-creating rather than being created by a being outside myself whose knowledge I...
Prior to Darwin, biologists believed that God created each species to be exactly suited to its purpose. It was a simple, ordered scheme. They didn’t t...
God knows all the answers. You don’t. That means, unless you abdicate your self responsibility to live your own life. you’re going to have to get up t...
You can’t have self-acceptance without self-understanding. And you can’t have self-understanding without an understanding of your world, particularly ...
Seriously though. Aren’t you ever kept up at night tossing and turning over concerns about the future? Do you worry about getting older, about illness...
You seem to be be forcing these labels into the two categories you want to see them as. You want to describe worry over everything bad that may happen...
Yes, I think fear and anxiety can be usefully distinguished. Fear involves the anticipation of imminent, serious harm or loss. Anxiety involves the an...
You just made that up. Do you have any sources for this peculiar definition of anxiety? It seems to me all you’re doing is trying to distinguish a neu...
I appreciate that you’re making this claim as general and open-ended as possible. In fact , I suspect that the claim is so flexible as to run the risk...
As long as you realize that no mood ca be reliably induced by manipulating levels of single neurotransmitters. Neurohormones are involved in affect ju...
My understanding of the meaning of your utterance is just a sense that is produced via my construal of your utterance. That sense may include my assum...
Because ongoing experience is a carrying forward of a past. That past enters into, participates in, what occurs into it, even as that past is changed ...
There is, must always be something that is expressed, something that is repeated, but in so doing the repetition alters. But don’t make the mistake of...
Yes, if we think of convey via the metaphor of displacement in physical space. But instead we can think of words like convey , express , transport ,ar...
Isnt the painting itself an interpretation, and always a slightly different one every time we return to it , the same way that a novel or a poem means...
Sure. What I said about the evolution of a philosopher’s new idea applies also the the musician. Within their own medium , in struggling to compose so...
What does ‘my own’ mean? Empiricism and Idealism each have their own ideas about this, but in the end they are two side of the same coin. The social c...
In coming up with my first original ideas in philosophy, I didn’t know how to articulate them in words. Why?Because they were still too tentative , to...
Very true. Tell me more about how you transcend the subject-object binary. I don’t see it in any of your writings. Tell me how some of the cognitive s...
How does the visual image of the word ‘hello’ that you are looking at now tell you that there is a symbol embedded in it? What is a symbol? What is th...
If only words convey past and future , how is it that visual images convey the present? When looking at the painting, why couldn’t we deal with those ...
But don’t the components of a painting tell a story? When we look at a written word, we begin with the geometries of lines and curves and angles , and...
Im not relying on meaning in Wittgenstein’s sense, and I knew using that word would cause trouble here. For me there is nothing but use, and I also do...
I don’t think the Wittgensteinian approach completely resolved the problem because the idea of an intersubjective locus of meaning makes no sense with...
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