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We see this Hegelian insight (which he surely got elsewhere) appear in Feuerbach, Yorck, Dilthey, and Heidegger. Predecessor generations have been dis...

Nice burn ! Even if I like some of 'em.

He puts responsibility, entitlement, and authority--which is to say our sociality--at the very heart of rationality and meaning. We live and move and ...

Human babies don't survive without help. If a human doesn't learn a language, I don't know how much we can say about them in this context (they would ...

There was a tribe of mute jellybears once, and when one jellybear pinched its own nose while looking at another, that second jellybear would give the ...

My view will make more sense if you grasp the claim-making self as a social convention, as part of that enacted symbolic realm. So the person that see...

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:up: This does indeed seem to be much of what folks find offensive, a simple recognition of our 'historicity.'

If you are interested, Brandom is great on Hegel (and it address what's above.) *************** Hegel denies the intelligibility of the idea of a set ...

If it fits in at all, where does consciousness fit in ? Does it play a crucial role ? Perhaps you've already said it and I didn't understand.

Any thoughts on Stuart Kauffman ? He seemed legit in a couple of video lectures.

At the moment, I think he saw us as historically constrained (timebinding) but otherwise freefloating creators of our own mutating normative essence. ...

I actually did read it. I think I understand the importance of the 'junction' (basically free to ride.)

Is the second law basically mathematical ? Something like the law of large numbers ? Is it basically the fact that there are more states that we call ...

The young philosopher is always already thrown into a set of famous philosophers and their approaches, their pet themes and concepts --- and these inf...

In other words, we are not a thing like a rock or even a honey-badger but instead a living concentration or accumulation of three thousand years of re...

Making a case for the trip from Hegel to Heidegger in terms of form-of-life, Geist, das Man (a generation) : from Hegel : https://www.marxists.org/ref...

I hope you feel better soon. I was punched by a bad case in the early days, two weeks watching Twin Peaks.

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:up: Thanks for the recommendation, and I hope you do get around to writing more.

Seems harsh ! Trying to explain how reasonable creatures emerged in the first place from simpler conditions is perhaps the most spectacular use of rea...

:up: Yes. The point is that the building blocks of such sentences are relatively stable. Strictly spreaking, I wouldn't include intentions inasmuch as...

ROBERT BRANDOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyuCt18aPM A great systematic philosopher working today...making deeper sense of Kant and Hegel...help...

If only life were like that ! It's true that you can often provide elaboration. But you can't use slurs or cry fire or decide that words mean whatever...

At the moment, I really like Brandom's approach. Words/concepts are not semantic atoms. Claims are, because people are held responsible for them. Word...

Concepts / semantic rules are like hot metal that can be bent. We can all push on the norms, but only by mostly obeying them. If you talk totally craz...

I suspect that is how new poetry / philosophy is born. Someone feels differently, 'abuses' language, uses a tool the 'wrong' way --- but it feels good...

I think self-evident truths are supposed to be the fingerprints of the Divine.

<another option> To make an argument is indeed to appeal to norms, often within the quest to modify those very norms. Our concept of the rationality i...

:up: This makes sense to me, and I guess it doesn't sound like the thereness of the there, or the transconceptual redness of the rose (which may be no...

Do you think Dawkins gets how this happened right ? In general ? Is all this delicate complexity the result of millions of years of research and devel...

:up: I was probably going too far. Hegel is a mountain. Could you elaborate on the bold part ?

He was saying that we do use such talk, that 'I' has a use in our language.

Sure. A law is something set down on the ground in a certain place, a marker. The original metaphor is mostly forgotten, though we still talk of layin...

In my view, we as a community do this. We always inherit cultural software from previous generations (down to the meanings of the words we use), and t...

Perhaps this residue is what is meant by vagueness.

:up: Yes. I think you see what I am getting at. There 'seems' to be a residue that can't be scraped. But maybe it's nonsense to say so. Weird stuff.

I don't think so. I'm just curious about the boundary, what might count as surprise. What you are writing is helpful and appreciated, just to be clear...

I think Hegel may have been trying to update Spinoza. The World is God, and We are God's eyes, God's spies, God's neurons. Note that he saw the World ...

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:up: That is awesome. Thanks ! Beautiful stuff.

I also think it starts pretty simple, maybe with worldly objects, but then we can make lots of metaphors which drift into literal concepts as we use t...

Thanks ! What I meant was that the self (not the body) is a learned performance, a piece of training, something like software that runs on the body's ...

:up: Ignoring AI for a moment, do you think it possible in principle to create simple synthetic life, such a nanobots that make copies of themselves ?

Just to be clear, I'm 'worried' instead that we humans are not conscious, that we are 'only' computers.

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:up: Yes, that makes sense. That's just it. I lean toward mind being 'just' 'material' or embodied, patterns of human doings (noises and marks and fac...

I was recently thinking about just this structure, which is really as beautiful as it gets. Philosophers used to talk about whether rivers could be st...

This is how I understand what Heidegger means with gossip / chatter. Deflated average generic tribal soul. We depend on in it. It is almost sanity its...

That's just it. ******************************* We want to say something that can't be said. Aconceptual or subconceptual thereness of the bloody glow...