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The postmodernists are pointing out that Reason is a subset of value , and value is affective. Thus reason is organized and gets its sense on the basi...

You sound like an old fogey. Not a fan of classic Rock or Punk? The Velvet Underground were not very commercially successful, but there’s more of Niet...

That sounds like a silly argument. There are plenty of conservative Christian institutions in the U.S. where such readings of Nietzsche would probably...

Special pleasing my ass. You really need to improve the quality of the Nietzsche interpreters you read. I have a shelf full of brilliant Nietzsche sch...

Not as simple as you might think. Pleasure and pain are intricately bound up with sense-making oriented around personal goals and purposes. You cannot...

They’re truisms because they come by their ‘truth’ by not saying anything new. Better, pleasure and desire mean the same thing and that is why it is ‘...

These seem to be truisms. ‘Better’ is synonymous with ‘pleasure’ , which is synonymous with what we desire or prefer. What could be more desirable tha...

What is the ‘this’, the ‘here’, the ‘now ‘ , the ‘ it is’ which is being assumed as Reality. Heidegger began Being and Time telling us that we need to...

A variation of the popular conservative mantra: ‘science doesn't care about your feelings’. Or at least, that’s the story a certain era of science tel...

I think Kahneman’s approach is fundamentally limited due to his attempt to explain human behavior on the basis of an objectively normative model. Cogn...

It’s also a deeply flawed experimental paradigm in my opinion. Experiments like this , the supposed Dunning- Krueger effect, cognitive dissonance and ...

But why is this the case? Is it just a function of the obvious fact that the social sciences deal with phenomena that are much ‘messier’ than the natu...

I think when it comes to psychology, ‘great science’ is an oxymoron. The more psychologists and psychiatrists try to emulate the natural sciences the ...

The psychologist George Kelly wrote: “I often tell my students that a psychopath is a stimulus- response psychologist who takes it seriously.”

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I’d respond that that is probably your view as well. It was also mine when I was in college. Took me awhile to realize that it was a product of my own...

This is in fact how perception and imagination work. To say we believe something exists is , at the most basic experiential level, simply to have it a...

If a free will is determined , does this mean that you reject the concept of evil? From a deterministic perspective , what are the causes of morally w...

If life is based on processes that are completely determined then in a sense, yes, they are programmed. In order to understand living and human creati...

For me the issue isn’t ‘can we create life’, but why would we want to? Would you want to create the big bang, as opposed to understanding it or creati...

Is that because we have ‘free will’ , and that is somehow split off from, special and unique with respect to previous scales of evolution ? We dont ch...

And to create knowledge you need life , and to have life you first must have an inorganic word. Human creativity is not backward looking. We don’t rec...

Then you’re not reading the same scientists I am

Yes, life evolves naturally , and the human capacity for technological invention belongs to that natural order of evolution. Our aims and goals furthe...

All we do is place certain elements in proximity to others under certain conditions . We have discovered from trial and error that this leads to the f...

Then you and I support different philosophers and psychologists on this subject. Phenomenology , postmodern philosophies , enactivist cognitive approa...

Let’s think about why we would want to create a single neuron. You said this would be needed to produce consciousness and creativity. But you also sai...

I’m not one who believes there is a profound qualitative gulf that separates the living from the non-living. With the help of autopoietic self-organiz...

It is your belief in the truth of gods I have in mind when I talk about pragmatic relevance. To me the idea of something true outside of its relevance...

You are arguing that only living organisms are capable of creativity, because of their self-organization? I think the inorganic evolves also. Hydrogen...

Computers are naturally occurring processes in the sense that all of their parts are naturally occurring and behave and age the one would expect of me...

Witt wasn’t contrasting philosophy ( or reality) with language, as if language is always at risk of referring inaccurately or in a distorted fashion t...

I think the notion of truth that deals with what is or is not the case in an objective propositional sense is a profoundly inadequate way to ground a ...

If there is a single synthetic, law-governed truth of the universe and its laws, is this truth a description of something that exists independently of...

It’s not computers that can’t produce creativity, it’s the moldy models we use to explain what the computers are doing that are devoid of creativity. ...

You’re no fun. Maybe we don’t just observe it, maybe we co-produce it in a partnership between conceptualization and the constraints and affordances. ...

Words are not identities , they don’t simply refer to concepts. They always produce a new, contextual sense of meaning. It is not just a question of w...

And not just about the truth value but the value in a more genera sense. In other words, metaphysics isnt just about what is true and false in words b...

So there are lots of realities in terms of what is true in science, right? None is absolutely true, they are just pragmatically useful. Right?

Maybe your scientific description from beginning to end needs to be turned on its head. Maybe there is a different kind of science, one not based on m...

an How would you define the sacred?

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche presents a famous fable explaining the transition from polytheism to monotheism (or what he elsewhere calls “mono...

Count me among those who think it’s a mistake to treat the mind as a computational device and neurons as 1’s and 0’s. I hew with enactivist cognitive ...

Why do you ask? Is there a Smolen as well as a Smolin writing about time and physics? Or are you just saying I made a spelling error?

You like his basking in his anti-intellectualism? Right, let’s dumb down all discussions by shutting off reference to those who have articulated the i...

It would be called a discussion among continental philosophers, who use close readings of texts to buttress their arguments. Not so much on this site,...

This isn’t authentic time you’re describing, it’s a game being played within the bounds of a pre-given schematics masquerading as time. Authentic time...

Sometimes it takes philosophical probing to bring out hidden dimensions in what was taken to be obvious and common-sensical.

Obvious in the sense of obviously true or obviously problematic?

Only if it makes my orgies more enjoyable. Seriously though, I think D &G have done a brilliant job of integrating the conscious and the unconscious, ...