Let’s talk about art as an example. Do you notice that prior to the Greeks, renderings of humans in sculpture were rigid, without movement and persona...
Gene Gendlin uses as an example of implicit consciousness driving a car: Currently we are said to be “unconscious” of the background. We can drive the...
What if my philosophy were true? How would it change the way you look at people who disappoint your moral standards? Im not just just talking about th...
you mean like in Portland and Seattle? All I can say is that the police weren’t calling the shots in Chicago, the mayor was, and she strongly supporte...
Good luck finding those mysterious hidden ‘liberals’ from past centuries. You won’t find them any more than you’ll find secret discoverers of relativi...
Unconscious doesn’t have to mean automatic and split off from consciousness. Enactive, embodied approaches to cognition reveal the body as integrated ...
Oh good grief , I live in Chicago , and have seen blm signs littering the wealthiest and most privileged neighborhoods in the city , as well as in the...
quote="James Riley;568708"]5 I would also add that it represented the most refined and ‘verified’ thinking among the intellectuals — Joshs How much of...
I would also add that it represented the most refined and ‘verified’ thinking among the intellectuals of Europe as recently as two centuries ago, just...
Perhaps such an awakening would lead to more deliberate behavior not because it was more ‘rational’ but because it went beyond the limits of rationali...
CBT, cogntive behavioral therapy, is based on the theory that emotions are the result of cognitve attributions that we make. To change our emotions , ...
Not as much as you might think. We don’t normally say to ourselves “I will now think about tomorrow’s meeting” unless we are sending ourselves a menta...
what we call emotion. is no more or less voluntary than thinking. A thought occurs TO is, we FIND OURSELVES thinking a thought. Only on reflecting bac...
Until about 150 years ago many, if not most, philosophers and scientists in Europe and the U.S. accepted as fact what we would now label as racist ide...
Objective proof is an illusion, since the object must be interpreted via language and there is no intersubjective translation manual, so say Quine, Pu...
Yes, we prove it to ourselves. Then we can stop wasting our time focusing on surface details of our model ( which is like arguing biblical verses with...
Your thinking is awfully reductive. Either violence is a product of genes or of socially imposed forms. That doesn’t seem to be any room in your think...
We should never have split off emotions from intellect. They were never separate to begin with. Some psychologists and philosophers have done away wit...
Often that which is hateful to you defines the very essence of that which defines the thinking that goes beyond you. Just about every innovation in so...
Being conflicted and at odds with oneself is another way of describing the idea that experience is becoming. Conventional ways of thinking about agenc...
I’m not talking about when the other person’s position really is incoherent. I’m saying when we disagree with someone’s point of view, it is often bec...
I’d throw out Popper in favor of Kuhn, abandon the idea that we’re aiming to mirror an independent truth , and instead view both positions as valid bu...
But this isnt a functional unity, and it isnt an inside as opposed to an outside. In sum, it is very different from Sarte’s notion of subjectivity and...
ONE what? Where is the unity in order to talk about a singularity? In what sense is a subjective multiplicity a unity? Didnt you just quote Nietzsche ...
There would have to be agency for Nietzsche in the sense of a subjectivity, since Will to power is grounded in subjectivity. The question for me is wh...
Steel manning won’t prove the other wrong because they may interpret their inability to understand your position as a result of faulty reasoning on yo...
Actually, it is precisely our intellect and intelligence that is behind what we call racism. If the problem were simple irrationality it would be a it...
But who are ‘we’ according to Nietzsche? “What gives me the right to speak about an I, and, for that matter, about an I as cause, and, finally, about ...
Some of the most important work in personality theory (Gendlin, Rogers , Kelly) offers a powerful critique of the concept of ‘real’ science , otherwis...
Ever notice how that image in the mirror is constantly changing? How that id card photo never quite captures what you or others think you look like ? ...
It may be cruel but hardly unusual. It is still the norm in many places. Until only a decade ago it was the new pronouns that were unusual. I wouldn’t...
That would work if there were a strong consensus in favor of the new pronouns, but this is not the case society-wide yet. It is currently concentrated...
How do you distinguish between philosophy and politics? Would you say that we use philosophical worldviews to guide our political choices? Haven’t you...
Isnt organization anticipative? And if so, doesn’t that make it intentionally oriented? Therex are mathematical definitions of information , like Shan...
More fundamental than 1) and 2), they do these things before what an organism is is an interaction with its environment. It is in the nature of self-o...
You have just hit on the key skill that is needed to produce peace in the world, being able to see the world from the other’s way of thinking, and bei...
micro-organisms do have motivation. They have bodily goals and aims, and interact with their environment in such a way as to maximize the attainment o...
Yes, but are you thinking that the world is one gigantic deterministic causal machine, and these are the factors you are talking about? Do you believe...
I am not thinking about it in an emotional point of view, I am thinking it in a logical , rational point of view. I think the issue here is, before yo...
Describe for me what the experience of being motivated is like in the absence of emotions. To be motivated is to make distinctions on the basis of whi...
So you think that criminality equals emotionality? That the motivation for theft is the satisfaction of an emotion rather than the pursuit of a ration...
You seem to be forgetting one thing. We can talk about coding for logic and coding fro curiosity-emotion as two entirely separate things. But we don’t...
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