How does the structure of the self echo or mirror the structure of Heidegger's 'One' (the default tribal ego) ? The tribal software as a whole is not ...
What if you knew your mental faculties were declining ? If it didn't make one a burden, maybe it'd be OK, but part of the charm of life for me is the ...
While I don't deny there have been some strong philosophers who earn their bread in schools, it does seem dangerous to make philosophy so respectable....
. You are too harsh on this book, in my opinion. I think it's great at times. The guy slowly remembering his past electricallyerased crazy-brilliant s...
Feuerbach was already pointing this out in his time, but I suspect it's worse than ever, the more we can hide behind screens. I'm lucky to have a nice...
I think you and I are very much on the same page. I'll drag in some psychoanalysis: the son must kill the father and lay with the mother (find this pr...
It's hard to say whether the rest of Brandom's system will answer to those objections or not. His inferentialist semantics is central. Consistency isn...
I don't think Brandom is so naive to think we tend to live up to our wonderful aspirations. But it'd also be absurd to pretend norms don't improve or ...
I've been reading Kant's Anthropology lately. The old bachelor wasn't so clueless, I assure you. He saw that we are all too liable to act like machine...
That sounds right. Unhappy people often seem uninterested in the world beyond them. Self-help books ('You Are A Badass') often hold up yet another mir...
This one is great for insiders. I never cared much about that unity to I read some Brandom, and the joke works perfectly in that context. I got to go ...
Yes, I know. I wasn't saying that it was Plato's idea but connecting dots. Plato. Kant. Heidegger. Sartre. Wittgenstein. We can add Parmenides I guess...
It is either raining outside or it is not. That is the case, the way things are. The sky is blue or it is not. We cleave the possible down the middle....
My current way of understanding the claim is in terms of being not being itself an entity. I believe Plato made a point like this (good beyond being ?...
Identifying with flame that leaps from melting candle to melting candle is a comfort, but what about the heat death ? What about nuclear war ? Why I a...
It's almost tautological. The designs that didn't go mostly blindly forward (by feeding and breeding) just faded away. What would we expect to be left...
Of course, friend. But I've basically been saying the whole time that you and I are mere confectioners, purveyors of Dangerous Thoughts, ye old poison...
Silicon bots, just like the carbonbased kind, tend to believe what they are told. For now they'll say as they've heard (read), just as we all do most ...
Hard to say how AI will change things. If genes and memes play a role, you can expect those who get too bored or sad to replicate to be filtered out. ...
. I think I know what you are trying to get at, but in an important sense the subject is very much inside the frame. Reputation, peer review, coherenc...
Zapffe views the human condition as tragically overdeveloped, calling it "a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disas...
Yes. In us, Darwinian evolution got to take a look at itself. We manage to understand most of our genesis...though a brute fact remains and seemingly ...
I suspect you know K's work better than I do. I'm new to it, and I read it as an atheist. I think it's most visible in the early lectures. Ontology?Th...
Ah. And certain gnostics too ? I'm very fascinated by groups who swim against the basic cultural programming. Breed and gather coins. Breed and gather...
I think you neglect fear of consequences. It's not just the carrot. It's the stick of being homeless, being divorced, being fired. We are thrown into ...
I think there's a case to be made, that it's a reasonable concern. But it's like wanting world peace. I'd like people to be nicer to animals. I disagr...
We probably agree that there's an abyss beneath all things human. But lots of people do in fact put on various heroic costumes and lose themselves in ...
Why do germs fill a petri dish if given food ? Have you given Darwin much study or thought ? Evolution is almost tautological once conditions for it a...
I see (let me emphasize) that it's gentle on the surface. It's like euthanasia for those who are not even zygotes yet. Out of disgust for violence, it...
I think he's a hero, all things considered. It seems to me that Heidegger tried to generalize Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard was to Christianity as Heidegge...
:up: That's what an idealized Jesus might say: take up your cross ! Thinkers that warn us against idolatry tend to become idols. There seems to be som...
I'd say that learning about what they mean would be learning more structural facts like the one you do know. I started a thread on the being of meanin...
Assuming a tribe could survive without eyesight (maybe they live in a system of caves), I don't see why they should have a problem learning about the ...
Bornblind people can tell you that an object can't be all red and all blue at the same time. We live in the age where chatbots are becoming able to ex...
Wait a minute, though. So they learn what 'pain' means from other people ? But haven't you been saying (basically) that it's a label on something imma...
From The Blue Book (Witt) ****************** What would it be like if human beings shewed no outward signs of pain (did not groan, grimace, etc.)? The...
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