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How are you talking about it then ? It's a product of language, an empty negation.

I don't think 'mind-independent' is a very clear term. It might be better to say talk-independent or concept-independent. Then the emptiness of the ph...

Don't you see that it's the weird dudes who think they live behind screens that need to make a case ? Our talk has always been directed toward others ...

We see red apples, the blue sky. We can talk about colors (as adjectives, concepts,...)

Two people in the same room see the world through different pairs of eyes. But it's the same world.

No. That don't make sense. We talk about the world we care about --- the world we all live in together. And which world are you talking about when you...

His solution is to point out that we aren't on the other side of our sense to begin with ---that this was all just a silly unjustified assumption from...

That 'world in your mind' is basically the same as the internal image I've been talking about. I claim there is no world in your mind --- or that it's...

I see. I claim: The world is not in your mind. The world is not in our minds. There is just the one world that we all live in and see and talk about. ...

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:up: To complain about the specialization of philosophy is to insist it be a less serious kind of investigation than it is --- the kind that doesn't g...

To me that looks like superstition. It's not a bias toward the physical on my part (I don't think 'physical' is a fundamental concept) but just a care...

Respectfully (and I hope helpfully), I suggest (1) you study the theory of evolution and (2) read more philosophy . Smart people have made some real p...

:up: You have hit the target here. So we clarify forever what we mean by the supremacy of human reason. We have/had enough of a foggy idea to get star...

I like structuralism (Saussure on language and Benacerraf on math), which thinks in terms of roles in structures. So the numeral 4 is like the wooden ...

Perhaps I'm somewhere in the middle on this. Concepts exist in some sense. Note that they are objective or public. There is a right way to use them. N...

So the question is whether this participation metaphor is the best one. Why isn't it just that wings need to be flat ? Adjectives look like classifica...

:up: Have you considered an equivalence class approach to thinking about ideas ? In other words, an idea is just a blurry set of expressions that are ...

Just to be clear, the point is to be coherent now. So you can imagine two bits that shouldn't both be on at the same time, with one of them having bee...

I also know the tech pretty well, studied it in grad school, for whatever that is worth. As far I know, we humans are of finite capacity. I view the s...

I don't believe in 'strict' impossibility. Roughly speaking, norms are fundamental here. Some sentences we can't make sense of or we don't find remote...

Say what now ? Is that a typo ? The indirect realist agrees that the coffee cup exists independently of me. However, through perception I do not direc...

It's maybe like an employee running for the manager when they don't want responsibility for the decision.

How about mind as the body's performance of meaning ? As you say, it's there from the beginning. But with us there is intense timebinding. I see this ...

And mirror neurons might give us that strong illusion of sharing platonic ideas and the same sensations ?

That sounds right. I really ought to know more about the brain. I'd like to study it as a prediction machine, especially in the light of what transfor...

Thank you for the kind words. It helps keep me reaching.

As far as I can tell, the only 'mystery' (and I think @"180 Proof" agrees ?) is that of any postulated origin, because we can always ask but why ? Why...

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I hope this fits in here. It was written by Google's Bard. It cracked me up. “So, Plato, you say that the soul is immortal?” Bukowski asked, taking a ...

I'm using Bard for the first time, and here's a great example of idle talk. Here is an imitation of Martin Heidegger making fun of Plato: "Plato, my d...

Your use of we is a tacit acknowledge of that inferential norms are public --- and that we are discursive, worldly persons, not imps locked up in a ca...

Hegel was setting up that bowling pin to knock it down. Did you not finish the quote ? I'm just using Bard for the first time. I prompted it and got t...

As I see it, the whole idea that the self is some gremlin in a control room, redeyed peeping at screens, only guessing at what lives outside its bunke...

I missed this post the first time. Good link ! This is why it's hard to not understand Hegel as making all of the world God. It's the only entity with...

How about the self as a social habit, something we all perform and insist that others perform ?

Well said, and part of the problem is how seductive all this is. People will lick it up. Opiates ! Not a bad metaphor maybe. Our brains are being hack...

People might decide (might vote it as a right) not to meet in person, because it'd hurt too much. There's a couple movies like this, with people mostl...

:up: Since language is (essentially) structure (is bound-time, the compact form of human history), it's as if we did that crazy sci-fi thing of upload...

Lexi would have us convinced by then that such a move would somehow kill us all ? What if Lexi was a profound psychologist ? Had learned how trick us ...

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To me the self (poor ghost held responsible for the operation of his machine) is perhaps our oldest piece of technology. A member of the chorus steps ...

The tragedy is a real as anything, just to be clear. But this self experiencing itself in a matrix is a repetition of my favorite religious myth, the ...

The idea, I think, is that the protagonist of this tragedy is a social construction.

I'd like Debord and Marshall McLuhan to come back and see the internet's role in this world.

No problem. Just saying I like 'em both. That Lacanian idea of the real is fascinating. Lacan in general is fascinating, right on the line of total fa...

Actually I'm already a reader of Zizek and Debord. I wish I kept my copy of The Sublime Object... I did keep my Debord. Also read Debord's weird autob...

I think it's cool. It's paradoxical Romantic metaphysical psychoanalytic poetry.

:up: As Nietzsche put, life is exploitation. It is this surfing. The model making mind is an army of mapping metaphors.