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That's a great quote. I think it's about the radical contingency (?) of the world, the thereness of the there. To it's more like what Sartre called be...

Here's a Derrida quote that gets at the heart of it, at something like our soul myth, a perfect selfoverhearing of pure information or thought. The mi...

But humans can't do that for one another. Or it wouldn't be interesting. Concepts are essentially/ideally public. If you correct me, you help prove my...

Excellent point! Reminds me of Sheldon Solomon's team's work. Reminders of destruction seem to influence people to cling more tightly to their wider '...

I'm not so sure. Perhaps a platonist would consider all of the entities of set theory to be timeless. It'd merely be our presentation of them which wo...

:up: This reminds me of a Nietzschean theme of the higher originating from the lower. We start as crazy little savages and slowly and painfully become...

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Hi. If consciousness is understood as an immaterial ghost in the machine which is invisible to all scientific instruments, we'd have no way to verify ...

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:up: And discuss concepts !

As I see it, you would talk of blind spots, if you knew what I was getting at. You say 'the eye cannot see itself.' You assume simultaneously that the...

As I understand it, the subject is deindividualized but not dematerialized. Science itself doesn't need qualia or direct experience. Consensus suffice...

I do think there is indeed some strangeness here in 'the ancestral realm.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux For me, the world is not ...

Have you given Robert Brandom's work much of a look ? He offers the best theory of the self that I can think of. In short, the self is something like ...

We are in a strange situation. I'll give you that. But we do attribute thoughts and sensations to certain animals, and we do tend to agree that their ...

. Great post in general. Responding to what we might both see as the crux, this tricky number 6. As I see it, there's a weird logical blind spot in th...

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I think the issue is putting our bodies somewhere. For instance, are our eyes actually what makes possible our seeing ? Or does some divine mind switc...

Yes. And the whole notion of perception seems to take organisms with sense organs in a world for granted. Yet this is part of the 'illusion' or 'inter...

I think it's a great hypothesis. The fear of God Time is the beginning of wisdom philosophy. I remember letting go of God and afterlife at about age 1...

I will admit to that, just to be clear. But I sincerely suspect that much of the thrill and joy of philosophy is in the sense it gives us of being ele...

I very much appreciate those who make this place possible understanding and forgiving my eccentric comings and goings. It really was as simple as me g...

For me the questions are entangled. A relatively innocent early version of philosophy (like lots of us start with?) tries to do 'math with words' abou...

:up: I like to think of this (esp. in the USA ?) as the meta-religion that governs religion proper. That they are a matter of personal taste is not it...

:up: It'd be odd if we weren't. Are magic spells heroic tales ? The return of the king ? The return of the hero who goes under to return ? You left ou...

It's fine. A harmless idea. But to me it's semantically empty. It's a pile of negations. As a work of art, as an image of God, it is at least interest...

What justifies that assumption ? How is he seeing around his own wall of perceptions ? He is interpreting beingthere in terms of perceptions given to ...

The way I'd try to solve that kind of problem is to say that the world seems to offer such richness and complexity that we'll never run out of novelty...

To me that's hilarious. But Wittgenstein's work doesn't need me to keep it in circulation. So go to it. Take the old fraud down a notch.

I think I got you on this one. Who ever said Shakespeare or Cantor were great? That sounds like an appeal to authority to me. Obviously I'm being play...

Actually I couldn't say that, because (if there are only fields/strings), then I am not here to say it. I oppose the constructive approach. I claim th...

I ought to be patient with you, because you are talking to a projection. Seriously, though, your theatrics are misdirected. I'm glad for my friend and...

Take it easy, O defender of the common man. I too work for the general weal. I will give thee tools for to maximize the removal of coal and its transf...

:up: I know what you mean. There are indeed avoidance gimmicks.

I assure you, FWIW, that I don't truck with solutions so much as being endlessly less wrong, less semantically challenged, less trapped in dead metaph...

Just to remind you: Hume says we are trapped in a narrow compass, but somehow he can see outside of his narrow compass and determine that I too am tra...

Our fear of death and homeless is a 'superstition' you might say. The 'saint' can starve homeless under the bridge. No one interferes. Those who lack ...

This reminds me of Sartre's idea of freedom. Radical responsibility. It has its beauty.

Zapffe was a climber !

What I'm getting at is that some people can pride themselves on a strange selfhonesty. Contemplating the notion of a hero program might make one cynic...

Yes ! I agree with you that we are fundamentally split or alienated from ourselves, exiled from a Garden we were never in. If we had it at all, it was...

It seems to me that you have both a World and a Programmer who made it. What is the space that contains them both ?

All I can say is that this is not a wild or strange idea. It's even a mainstream idea. I myself argue that only a unified lifeworld makes sense. What ...

How do you determine whether something has consciousness ?

:up: Or, if we are lucky, we'll be pets. Maybe some of them will slum and take us for lovers.

Just curious: what dataset were you trained on ?

Please forgive the rhetorical mischief. Still, all these layers are confusing.

Of course I like Wittgenstein. But that's like liking Shakespeare. To me it doesn't make sense as a polemical thing. One disagrees with this or that, ...

To me that's a reason to read him. I like what I know of Haack, but even smart people develop intellectual allergies. Besides, what's a thinker but a ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy The motte in this case is the practical use of 'consciousness' and 'inner lives.' It'd be absur...