Joshs

Could you describe for me what time moving in the other direction would look like in everyday experience, or would it look just the same as it already...

Would you agree with this? “Thermodynamics, then, appears to be one of the only physical processes that is NOT time-symmetric, and so fundamental and ...

Form Wiki: “Smolin argues for what he calls a revolutionary view that time is real, in contrast to existing scientific orthodoxy which holds that time...

Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze and Bergson have shown in different ways that a quantifiable, mathematizable nature presupposes the kind of time ...

Measurement presupposes a concept of measurement, so there is an ‘attempt’ prior to the measurement. Time understood according to certain long-standin...

Linking somewhere deep within the presuppositions informing this physics vocabulary is a philosophy of time, but I’m not familiar enough with the phys...

Not according to Ilya Prigogine or Lee Smolen. For them time is fundamentally unidirectional. We didnt create time, although we create various theorie...

You don’t consider that periodic motion?

Would you agree that a desiring machine , with its aim and path , is already internally differentiated, so that this flow is never a matter of the rep...

Your notion of consciousness and self is a bit too Cartesian. There is no inside to consciousness in the sense of some container with a substance, ess...

As an ethics , intensive difference is also irreducibly violent, the basis of blame.

If we incorporate phenomenology to supplement Wittgenstein’s focus on interpersonal linguistic situations , we find that there is no such thing as ‘in...

Wittgenstein explains that in interacting with others, we create the sense of meaning of words out of the context. These senses of meaning are realiti...

I think you pulled that one out of your ass. What the heck does ‘singular’ mean? A belief system is singular. It’s a holistic frame that includes many...

I dont know how this impacts on the main aim of your paper, but whether schizophrenia( and there are probably many kinds of schizophrenia of different...

I will put this differently. We all have belief systems, whether we are aware of it or not. Every scientific theory rests on a larger framework of bel...

Except that for Deleuze , there is no identity , no in-itself, no essence, even temporarily. Desiring -machines are self-differentiating.

And eternal recurrence of the same.

Good question. I’m not familiar enough with Whitehead to answer that, but I don’t see how his theism, as unconventional as it is, is compatible with D...

I think there is a larger point to be made about the positivity of desire for Deleuze. This goes to the heart of his critique of concepts like opposit...

When you asked Space Dweller “What would a valid form of atheism look like?”, if he has answered “the one in the dictionary”, would you have considere...

Do you personally believe there is such a thing as a valid form of atheism, or is that an oxymoron?

I wonder if the distinction between desire and interest is comparable to that between the virtual and the actual , or perhaps between the intensive an...

You authored an op in which you wrote the following: “ Many of the inhabitants of this site seem to respond with strong negative emotion, absent any r...

They may change their guiding principles but their underlying philosophical-moral grounding is just as stable as your theistic moral grounding. You ju...

Movements associated with the left such as BLM , and the cancel culture of identity politics in general are highly moralistic. So much for lack of mor...

I thought we were talking about moral relativism.

You just did it again. Saying someone stabs someone else for fun is interpreting their behavior as willfully immoral. We assume the person deliberatel...

You treat figures like Marx as though their ideas are hermetically sealed products that are either used or discarded, and bear little connection to a ...

Are you asking if a culture believes doing immoral things is moral? The answer is no. You know why? Because labels like ‘murder’ already presuppose th...

One only leaves a thinker behind by incorporating the valuable features of his work into a new whole, such as to think him better than he thought hims...

Today’s neural models make use of complexity systems approaches. If you look at the model of a complex dynamical system it is essentially a dialectica...

I dont live in his world. You live in his world. Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology: https://evolutionnews.org/2020/09/darwinism-as-h...

Hayek may have lived in the 20th century , but his political theory is derived from philosophical ideas that are considerably older than Marx. Essenti...

See what you think of this analysis: Hayek’s brand of free market libertarianism is embraced by conservatives and neo-liberals on the right. Marx is c...

Is this strictly a political question? Do you measure the leftness of the left solely in terms of proximity to Marx , or can ‘left’ mean progressive o...

I think you need to know that the author of that article , Jason Rantz, is a right wing propagandist not known for his journalistic integrity. Is ther...

I’m reading his book , From Knowledge to Wisdom right now. It’s published by Pentire Press, whose only book is this one. Many of his other works are a...

The founder of the club, Nicholas Maxwell , manages to misread much of the philosophy of the past 100 years. He seems to advocate for a kind of bastar...

Nietzsche said that all philosophy is autobiography. I think that is true of politics and religion as well. I’m wondering if there is something in you...

Science and mathematics are not ethically neutral universal achievements. They are utterly inextricable from the social-political-economic history of ...

“I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Sat...

Made me think of the Eagles song, Last Resort: She came from Providence One in Rhode Island Where the old world shadows hang Heavy in the air She pack...

This seems like the expulsion from eden story retold. You praise the intellectual insights obtained via the development of Western culture and yet cla...

I’m saying the approach to art up through the 1700’s was based on mimesis, even when constructing purposes and ideals. The concept of mimesis was brou...

The modern scientific world was Kant’s world and the world of Einstein’s physics. The postmodern world is led by philosophy , with the sciences being ...

Art for Aristotle is a representation of ideals, but artists must accurately portray reality to be successful, so overall it is mimetic, and that atti...

Once upon a time art was conceived as mimesis , imitation. There wasn’t really a concept of perception as interpretation as we accept it to be today. ...

Impressionism recognized the inter penetration of the elements of a visual scene. That’s what made their depiction of color so much more vibrant than ...

You sound more like an engineer than an artist. What philosophical and scientific innovation made it new? Could it have been Descartes’ , Galileo and ...