So why do we refer to a distinction between imagination and sense perception in terms of outer and inner? Well, for one thing, our ordinary concept of...
Do we perceive raw data and synthesize reason out of it or do we perceive events already pre-interpreted by us? In other words, do we hear a series of...
You commented that I offered I wrote:” Matthew Ratcliffe , in his book, Experiences of Depression, wrote: In depression, “The person feels alienated f...
This still sounds like feeling is a mechanism separate from thinking-cognition, as if we can manipulate it independently of cognition, or even remove ...
It was Kelly himself who wrote “ Some have suggested that personal construct theory not be called a psychological theory at all, but a metatheory. Tha...
I believe anti-natalism is an ethical position, and like all ethical positions , there is no God’s eye view, no ability to channel som eternal divinel...
“ So if I find purpose in your suffering I get to cause you to suffer?” No, if I find purpose in MY suffering , and know a great many other people in ...
“I predict your moral premise cannot be enforced therefore you shouldn't have it". I thought your moral premise was about preventing suffering? Don’t ...
“ So what you're saying is that we ought procreate so that the future people can be used as a means to reduce/prevent the suffering of the already liv...
“This is another natalist trope.. that because people don't commit suicide all over the place, that must mean that because people don't commit suicide...
“"Not yet born", is a poetic turn of phrase - there is no referent for the term. I'm not speaking on behalf of anyone or anything (literally), which i...
“A life starting and continuing are different. The choice itself of "Well, you just have to live this out or kill yourself" is an unfair choice, cold ...
is your goal the elimination of the human race? Because not procreating on a wide scale isnt a zero sum game. You’re trading the potential suffering o...
“ Preventing suffering takes precedence over the creation of pleasure, especially when not creating 'good lives' does not harm the unborn. It's an unj...
So conduct a poll. See what percentage of the population thinks it would have been better if they hadn’t been born, and whether there is too much pain...
Reminds me of something Heidegger said: Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning ...
“ The Other just is separate--it is our responsibility to bridge that gap through expression and understanding (where does Heidegger conflict with thi...
Here’s a summary of positions that I contrasted with George Kelly’s approach in my paper, Challenge to Embodied Intersubjectivity( google it if you li...
Public and private: For many who follow Wittgenstein public requires other discursive partners. either present or internalized. Because the public is ...
Which paper couldnt you ready? Was it the introductory one with abstracts from various other papers? You’ll see that the end of each abstract contains...
Here’s my take on anti-natalism. I begin from a psychological analysis of the concept of choice, freedom and will. To choose anything, or to have one’...
A being can continue to be itself differently. Ain’t that what self-organization implies? A being that continues to be itself over time not identicall...
“The individual (feelings, intention, cause) does not change the senses of words. They may use a word (concept) in its different senses, but they are ...
Can two people, sharing the ‘same’ context of use, still end up with slightly different sense of meaning of a word? Does not a single individual, alon...
“ though I don't think this is the place for this discussion, facts do exist apart from us.” I suspect that everything relevant to this discussion and...
Lets move away from physics and biology for a moment , and concentrate on human behavior. This is where different notions of self-organization , and t...
Attunement is the way we are affected by the world from moment to moment. We find ourselves alwasy already attuned in some way or other with respect t...
I read some of Niel Thiese's work after you mentioned him. His notion of self-organization differs from the phenomenological approaches in a number of...
“ Objective significance is a different animal. Take for example a battery-operated watch on somebody's wrist. The battery matters for without it the ...
Do you make a distinction between feeling and emotion? Feeling is another way of talking about the way something appears to me , the fact that any con...
Many recent theories of self-organization, at least those aligned with enactivism and autopoeisis, assert that the activity of the self-organic system...
It wouldn’t hurt to bring in Heidegger’s notion of befindlichkeit, which has variously been translated as attunement , mood, affect and feeling. Heide...
Chalmers retains core reductionist assumptions in his approach. From Zahavi: “ Chalmers’s discussion of the hard problem has identified and labeled an...
It will have accomplished a vast amount. A huge range of behavioral phenomena, cognitive as well as affective , are now badly understood due to the li...
Unless a discourse is able to derive physical causation as an abstracted modification of a more primary hermeneutic process, it fill fail to come to g...
A non-dualist explanation has been arrived at, taking various various forms, but as far as I know by only a handful of writers, which includes Heidegg...
Can we "imagine a place without time"? Is the imagining a process that unfolds sequentially? That's time. "Would any events occur?" An event is a diff...
Piaget wrote that the nature of nature was to overcome itself, the point being that from Piaget's point of view there is no dichotomy between the aims...
You could just substitute for God a 'radical otherness' to assure that experience doesn't become captured within a prefigured organizing frame. Even w...
I wonder if the the metaphors of violence, competition and force here are unconscious. Sounds vaguely fascist to me. I think removing the divine shtic...
There are competing interpretations within ancient contemplative traditions of what happens during non-rem sleep. Some have argued that there is no th...
The parts of a body are of course only parts in the abstract. They are separated arbirtarily from the whole in which they function. The organism is fu...
The phenomenologists argue that the notion of objectivity is constituted via intersubjective relations, which makes objectivity always relative to a s...
Derrida deconstucted the modern empirical notion of the random alongside its opposite,determinism, in order to show that this binary presupposes certa...
Good question. Of course, couldn't one ask the same question of Kant's categories? Husserl was well aware of the chicken and egg difficulties inherent...
That was my omission. Husserl makes a distinction between a lower stratum of constitution, in which I form 'real' objects out of syntheses purely of m...
Wouldn't it be nice if philosophy were this easy. Then we could put it in fortune cookies. Seriously though, do the qualia represent physical data of ...
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