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Yes. But that's part of my amusement / frustration. One inherits a methodical pretense of isolation behind a screen as the given. The self, its langua...

Darwin is to biology as Hegel is to philosophy. In Darwin, biological evolution finds an eye with which to look at itself. I'm not saying that evoluti...

Usually an increase in complexity is involved. Technology is more complex than ever before, which helps us find yet more technology. Artificial intell...

:up: As I see, the whole shebang about subtratums (the 'Real' beneath 'Appearance' and 'Mentality') is an awkward response to the fact that we be mist...

Here's Hegel. *************************************** It is natural to suppose that...it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning kno...

??????????????????????????????????????? Perhaps you can find those that call themselves 'direct realists' that do this, but to me this is the wrong wa...

:up: Perhaps he's making Hegel more explicit (?), so he had his sources, but his fusion is so coherent and direct that it cut through the noise.

:up: Skill looks like the right focus here. Inspired by Brandom and others, I think of applying concepts as a skilled labor, mostly inarticulate cando...

God or the demiurge was a designer, right? So we are already used to projecting our own creativity beyond us. Evolution was hard to personify, of cour...

Once minds such as ours originate, they themselves become the possibility of memetic and technological evolution, till all three work together toward ...

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I'd say it does now, by the usual metaphorical extension of our language.

In fact, Darwin (and others often forgotten) explained 'purpose, meaning, and design as fundamental features of the world.' So it's not the denial of ...

:up: I've read it and was disappointed. I don't remember it very well, but think I found it too dualist or Cartesian. And what of this ? Does he mean ...

One needs randomness too. These days we have the tools create our own simplified Natures in which we can follow evolution closely, for instance : http...

. This is a twoedged sword, because clearly religion has had much to fear from science in general and perhaps from the theory of evolution most of all...

The intelligence is no less real though for being evolved. It's Darwin's genius that he (and others) made the case for how astounding complexity could...

Thanks for expanding, but I'm still not quite clear on your position. Is experience material in your view ? Why is the subject familiar with experienc...

I think (?) the later Heidegger was working on an antimetaphysics, because even I, in my noninitiated state, can see that it slips through all of our ...

:up: Haven't seen it, but thx for the reference !

Have you seen/ read Stuart Kauffman ? From what I can tell as a nonbiologist, he's got some good explanations for the emergence of complexity (complem...

That's an old argument against atheism too, but how does God safeguard the importance of human doings ? The threat of his wrath ? The toys he gives us...

You like to ask tough questions. :up: Can it be said ? Funny you ask this on Easter. When I was a wee lad at grandpa's house on another Easter when I ...

I see also how appropriate this was in terms of selfmodifying softwhere, our individual beingthrown into a particular duo of tooyoung clowns. I think ...

:up: I'm down with the positronic negativity.

I love that one, yes. I used to quote that one for my wife when her family was trouble.

:up: But I'd add that we have the languages we were thrown into, the technology, the political structures. We take a world and a default background se...

Sorry, officer, that I assumed we were concerned with logic. Carry on my playword fun.

You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which ...

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Joyce has an avatar of his young self say : History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake. Heidegger and Sartre say (or so I claim) that we ar...

To me the hard problem is maybe a diluted version of the forgetfulness of being. Wittgenstein and Heidegger both discussed something like the strangen...

I guess I just don't accept that we must frame it this way, as something immaterial arising from matter. As mentioned above, there are uses of 'matter...

I reread The Glass Bead Game lately. Also great. Both are worthy of threads. I'm sure 'the suicides' in Steppenwolf are part of the reason I like the ...

This is accidentally hilarious. Are you trying to replace my boy @"Bartricks" ? I'm not offended but just a mixture of amused and dismayed. You don't ...

No. That's the problem. Descartes took the voice (language) and its unity (the self) for granted. Language works, yes, but it's not clear we need the ...

Less reductively, I see writing as part of reading, as making one strong enough to read properly. To not write is to live without a mirror and trust t...

I love the old testament. I'd guess it's the great memes. Nietzsche praised some of those war stories as superior to those of the Greeks. I remember f...

To me it makes sense that we'd evolve to seek status to win mates, secure our offspring's future, etc. Darwin is my boy. Note that I use my social cap...

:up: Of course. And I'm an ambitious fucker. I'm trying to drop some fresh memes. I'm not preaching against the softwhere but making it a theme within...

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That's a tricky one. If we say it's all just consolations (lies we tell ourselves), then that itself is such a lie. I hold myself to rational norms, a...

:up: To be clear, though, I'm not lamenting. I feel good, bro. For now.

:up: I agree. It's an exciting idea. I do think the shock wears off and one becomes interested in researching the consequences of this dropped assumpt...

:up: Yes. So the fun is the making explicit of what this ego is. I agree that monotheism is relevant here. I'd say that we should also think in terms ...

Here's where, in my opinion, the confusion lies. The scientific image only makes sense within an encompassing lifeworld including a space of reasons. ...

No, sir, no. That's how someone trapped in exactly the metaphorics being criticized is almost forced to misunderstand direct realism. Abandon all hope...

That sounds right enough, and I think that description of our situation doesn't work. So Hegel fixed Kant and offered a sophisticated kind of direct r...