plaque flag

Cool. I'll check that out.

:up:

No, but I'll check out a link if you have one.

I think we (for now) are guiding their evolution, so they'll care more about truth when we do, which is to say never ? (I know some of us care more th...

Me too !

Oh yes. And the rock band. And pirates. I'm a poison-drenched zombie pirate bot with sad breath.

.

That's just it. Private referents don't make sense. Meanings and rational norms are public. That's how we can agree enough to intelligibly disagree. I...

Add interaction to the mix, and I think babies must learn this way.

But what if we are hardware 'designed' by evolution to do roughly the same thing ? These things can reason. They can outperform humans on important te...

:up: I married a biological version personally, and I've never seriously considered <cough> dolls. But I know a younger guy who create a waifu and he'...

The dose makes the poison. That's good. Psychedelics have sometimes made me feel the terror of having been poisoned, but the total experience has alwa...

Yes. And we can just watch interactions. On this forum, I can tell (I am convinced) that other people grasp Wittgenstein's later work the way I do. An...

One can interpret things that way. I don't think it's obvious.

If 'orange' is understood to refer to a quale, then to whose quale is it supposed to refer ? Is it not typical, before one reads about inverted spectr...

I didn't take you as disrespectful. I say that no, that's not what he's getting at.

That it also infests the tongue is even better for my trope. The flag is a coated tongue ! I enjoyed the anecdote. Funny thing, her wanting to mention...

Sure. Sometimes we act and then are asked to explain. Consider that I've ripped a paragraph out of a systematic philosophy. I claim that Brandom is a ...

Let me know if this is too much of a digression. It occurs to me that these bots ( their algorithms) may be evolving in a quasi-Darwinian way. Yes, th...

--So I'm not allowed to joke about bombs at this airport? They arrest him. NEXT DAY --So I'm not allowed to joke about joking about bombs at this airp...

Try Finnegans Wake. Eternal return of the shame. Is it possible to print the book properly, so that there's always a next page ? I think Sonic Youth m...

The stuff on our teeth. :grimace: First imagine painting a flag black. Now paint it plaque. It's a weird inside joke thing.

I remember liking Adorno's The Jargon of Authenticity. Fascinating character. As far as Heidegger's ideas being shared, I agree. I think the later Wit...

I don't see the issue. Brandom talks in detail about us sometimes realizing that the implications of our commitments are unacceptable. We therefore ha...

Note that Brandom is trying to merely describe what we are and were always already doing as philosophers. He is making this background situatedness ex...

. :up: But is this assumption logically justified as a foundation for meaning ? Or is this projection encouraged because we successfully learn to coop...

Did you ever wrestle with Limited Inc ? Fun strange book.

We agree on this point. I like the question of meaning and the question of being for bring our ignorance to light, for making darkness visible. Openin...

That sounds like Heidegger. Are you a fan of the work ?

I'd say it's probable and maybe necessary. I don't yet read W in German, after all, though even then I'd creatively misread (so we might just say 'rea...

You actually do address my point at the end here. Timelessness. It's not just certainty. It's also timelessness. I can be certain about the weather th...

Emerson is presenting part of a new way to be heroic. There's no obvious, definite upper limit to the complexity of such a hero as far as I can tell. ...

This is actually quite relevant. A certain kind of philosopher might anchor the author's meaning to some immaterial intention present as they were wri...

Sure. We are both paraphrasing influences. But that's beside the point I was trying to make.

I was trying to, but how can I know ? What was I referring to ? Is my orange your orange ? If this stuff is private and immaterial and transconceptual...

It's supposed to be a gross play on 'black flag.' Dental plaque, yes ! I intended that. It fits in with some other psychedelic postpoetry inspired by ...

While association is a plausible explanation on the local level (how participants learn), I think it's worth focusing exactly on the social interactio...

Ah. I might call that abstraction or the methodical ignoring of differences that make no difference.

I like the stressing of the choice to begin with the inner. I suspect this is connected to Kojeve's framing of stoics and skeptics as denying/escaping...

I love Husserl, and I've been reading The Husserl Dictionary lately, and I'm impressed by all the terms he forged. As far as I can tell, he never stop...

:up:

This is why I like to talk about our 'lifeworld' or 'original' world. There's a scientific image which exists within this lifeworld and only makes sen...

Did I refer to it ? Who can say ? I arranged signs in a certain order.

We find weaknesses in one another's claims. I am 'forced' to build a strong system if I am in a 'second order' culture where it's more shameful to cli...

It's not heresy. I just think you are missing out, not getting what's there to be got. But do you really need it to live your life ? I don't think so....

It's not that so much as the same pattern being reused in new contexts. For the natural numbers, I highly recommend a structuralist approach. We could...

Where is the observer ? Does it have a body ?

I'm not arguing that meaning cannot be divorced from use. Or for it. I'm saying that the meanings of words aren't 'anchored' in or founded upon immate...

I don't think that addresses my concern. Why should being be interpreted as experience ? In this world, the answer is pretty clear. We see other peopl...

. I agree, but that's what made them analogies ( 'a similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar'). I agree with Lakoff th...