I would argue that every time you use the word ‘greed’ to describe another you are failing to see how they legitimately justify their actions based on...
I.Q. is not the measure of social intelligence you need in order to see the correlation between what we call morality and intellectual development. Ev...
Unless of course labels like ‘greed’ are our attempts to blame others for our failure to understand situations that seem justified from the ‘greedy’ o...
Nice label, but is there really any coherence in its definition other than people doing things that seem to be in severe violation of social norms? It...
You have offered a story of genesis , unfolding from the physical to the biological to the social. The detailed twists and turns of the structural inn...
Not sure what you mean here. I would say that my determination of my friend’s perspective and motivation is a process of trying on for size different ...
He had been sober for about 5 years after a long bout with alcohol and was trying to complete a graduate program in psychology, while aiming to transi...
The most hellish fate you could wish on someone is not homelessness, which people cope with in a wide variety of ways, but severe chronic depression, ...
Living with a terminal illness , and dying generally , isnt necessarily a monotonous unrelieved trajectory of suffering. It often has the same texture...
If one believes the world with which a person interacts is basically static , that the situation they find themselves is fixed and unchanging, then su...
Yes, the clash of metaphysical worldviews is a cultural, political and aesthetic power struggle. But ‘power’ here doesn’t mean that persuasion is blin...
Isnt the relevant question, who in particular wants to, as you say, assimilate QM to a more familiar everyday metaphysics? What if it turned out that ...
On the other hand, one could argue that the accusation leveled against another of ‘unsound critical thinking skills’ is often a convenient way to blam...
One could make a similar argument about rival scientific paradigms. But if a new paradigm , by organizing experience in a new way, can ‘solve more puz...
I quickly slapped together a set of fuzzily articulated thoughts, not being sure how interested I was in actually getting into this topic , and you in...
How easy it is to track an effect is a different issue from whether we agree on the fact that there is such an effect(harm) in the first place. That w...
And , more importantly, whether a tech is ‘dangerous’, and what makes it so, is far from obvious when it comes to the concerns of many neo-luddites. W...
“We have learned differently. We have become more modest in every way. We no longer derive the human being from “the spirit” or “the deity”; we have p...
Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. Technology creates new options and possibilities. One can use those new options (including weapons) for co...
It’s very confusing stuff. Derrida has said: "The iterability of an element divides its own identity a priori, even without taking into account that t...
For Derrida it’s relative to time . The same self is already an other with respect to itself moment to moment. Paradigm shifts in physics aren’t a goo...
“The word ‘truth’ is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.”( Richard Rorty) I suggest if there is anything to tie togethe...
In addition to world events , I think we tend to under-appreciate the effects that seasonal change has on our moods and dreams. While Forum members Do...
You may find this from William James to be relevant. “Direct acquaintance and conceptual knowledge are thus complementary of each other; each remedie...
How about the idea that the norm is an averaging, and thus flattening of individual differences?Perhaps as a culture we’re just beginning to explore t...
Ah, but you’re not strictly ‘binary’. That is, I subscribe to the view that we all occupy unique positions on a gender spectrum. What we call the gend...
Do you agree with my post? I took you to be denying Moliere’s point that “ people who have had to deal with being accepted might know a little more th...
Can we ‘want’ to want? Can we choose to will what we desire? This is not to suggest that what ‘drives’ reason is a fixed, pre-wired, unchanging mechan...
Yes, but performance in the sense of a purely socially constructed set of choices, or performance in the way that schizophrenia or Downs syndrone or a...
Molieire hit the nail on the head. There are participants in this forum who reflect a widespread cluelessness in the wider culture that we can be born...
Your second paragraph seems to contradict your first. You start by appearing to argue that people believe that they are very much committed to the tru...
Our perceptions are in themselves perspectival biases. “…whatever perception we have of the world is shaped by our efforts to organize and integrate a...
And perhaps that social part is already shaped by inborn gender disposition rather than being dictated solely by culture. “Instead of the young being ...
Priming experiments show that there is a great deal of overlap among neural patterns that are involved in semantically related items. If shown a word ...
I was focusing mainly on her paper , The Moral Baby’, which mentions empathy and compassion extensively i. the context of cognition. “There are severa...
Let me try and articulate what I think are problems with Wynn’s thesis: I think she begins with unexamined assumptions concerning concepts such as com...
I am linking description (space of reasons, account, value system) , to scheme , scheme to pattern and pattern to reciprocal network of relations. Tyi...
Ok, I’ll go with that , even though there are other ways of describing their functioning. Getting away from a computational approach to neural modelli...
No, they function by instituting normative patterns. This they have in common with our propositional terms, because their organizational basis is the ...
Neural networks instantiate patterns of normatively oriented practical engagement with a world. One can also think of these patterns in terms of forms...
If one interprets this in Davidsonian terms, then the ‘thing in itself’ equates to real physical properties. I agree with Rorty and Putnam that descri...
Many scholars argue that for Wittgenstein the very structure of language makes radical doubt impossible. “Thus we arrive to the end of Wittgenstein's ...
Keep in mind that the ‘weight of evolution’ refers to the fact that patterns of mating behaviors barely changed for millions of years among species of...
So then Davidsonian non-reductive physicalism rather than Putnam’s conceptual relativism? And the moral implications are perhaps that , like the boili...
You know what else is unusual about our relationship dynamics in comparison with other animals? The fact that one could write a treatise on the myriad...
You have to get past the idea of drive as some kind of simple mechanism, with cognitions in a one-way relation of subservience to them. Have you read ...
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