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Respectfully, why ? Are you not reasoning from analogy from the fake world to the hidden real world ? In our fake world, you bump your shins when you ...

What is it like to be a cockroach ? Or a wrench on its first visit to Vienna ?

Fair enough.

Isn't it weird though to believe so passionately in something so methodically empty? In this context, I'd say, against that idea, that the envelope is...

I'm not yet tempted to call them conscious, but I'm not sure I'd call ants conscious. I'd say we are dealing with a continuum and that humans are abou...

I consider the idea a 'purely' mental space refuted or shown to be senseless ( via indirect 'proof'). My position is that we see and touch and describ...

Perhaps I've misunderstood you. Could you correct me and explain what 'consciousness' means for you ? Another question : How do we know it when we see...

Do you have any interest in Brandom ? His scorekeeping notion of rationality and the self is impressive. What is it to be self ? To be rational ? In m...

:up: Indeed, and infinite journey toward the horizon...hopefully with a sense of progress.

Yes. Turns out this is a great example. Same with some visual art. The spiel of justification is a necessary frame, secretly the essence of the work i...

How does the 'occult sphere' of Consciousness figure into this ? Why are people attracted to a position which I'd say is refuted ? Don't people want t...

We can't skip the semantic phase of this conversation. It's pointless to play with words without more of a grip on what we mean. For me to continue on...

You make a good point, but you take for granted that 'taste of vanilla' will signify, that we can know what you mean. If you assume some ethereal priv...

What exactly do you think consciousness is ? There's a tendency to think of it as radically other than something which is purely physical or material....

Excellent topic for discussion. I think we are thrown into existing, by parents that did as one does or the condom broke. Once the baby arrives, you c...

Just to be clear, I am not at all 'afraid' of spooky fantastic theories. My criticisms are semantic. Praise Jesus. I can say it without melting. What ...

I don't think you've presented a monism. Problematic quotes above.

Just to be clear, I wasn't referring as if leaning on authority. I'm saying that a strong case in those sources is made against a particular assumptio...

Matter is the shadow of mind is the shadow of matter. 'Pure' matter is as elusive and useless and canceling as 'pure' mind. I love Saussure for drivin...

Yes to all of this. As I see it, a genuine alternative to scientism is something like hermeneutic phenomenology. Heidegger's reputation is justly woun...

:up: And let me add that folks don't hate Plato (necessarily) because they hate Jesus. They sometimes just care about truth, and Platonism doesn't wor...

As I said from the beginning, mathematical equivalence classes are only a metaphor for nonmathematical concepts. And even this was only a hypothesis, ...

I don't think we really know what we are talking about with 'physical' and 'mental.' I do not dispute that we have a practical mastery of these terms ...

I think that this assumption is the wrong way to go. I'm not alone in this. See Ryle and Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Ryle's The Concept of Mind is pro...

Sure. But what does it mean to say so ? We who pretend to philosophy (who adopt a certain heroic role and hold ourselves to standards of rationality) ...

I'll drop it if you want, but the 'obsession with language' looks to me like a natural development in the dialogue. The presupposition that Reality is...

I think your point is reasonable, but you are ignoring that 'see' is part of a system of concepts. What does it mean to claim to see ? What do I commi...

Yes. And we can note why Saussure said a system of differences without positive elements. In other words, the game of chess would still be (essentiall...

I think (?) we are forced to speak in varying intensities of metaphor, within or upon a continuum of metaphor. At the moment I'd say we don't need con...

A little more from the same source:

Another approach to color and the like is to think how color terms play a role in the larger context of conversation. How is a claimmaking human diffe...

One more little point: if the goal is to clarify thought and ennoble existence and see reality whole and true, then hiddenness is not exactly the feti...

I like considering more than one dimension. Our human situation is rich. James' pluralism comes to mind. There are lots and lots of kinds of things, p...

:up: Or Kojeve. Or Hegel (as I make sense of him, the system is always tumbling.) I think instead of saying math isn't in space and time we should say...

I agree that we can discursively break the world up and think about the category or concept of a dog as apart from any particular dog. We indeed have ...

I wouldn't even say they are so different. They are just more abstract. We grasp objects (artichokes and aardvarks) as unities, which makes them count...

Do you not see the strangeness here ? The way this bites itself ? It's a strange phenomenon, the way this kind of skepticism that speaks (not you pers...

:up: It's also hard to make sense of the claim that only such objects exist, perhaps because that sense would not itself exist, unless as a physical o...

This is a classic view. It's the model-T of metaphysics. You should at least test drive something from the 20th century. :starstruck:

The body is arbitrary but a body is necessary. The dove found that it could fly faster in thinner air and was confident it would fly still faster in a...

We will probably never stop trying to figure out exactly what an idea is (what we mean by 'idea.'). I think they exist (whatever exactly that means), ...

I like the continuity you are emphasizing. Biosemiosis (such as very low level cellular signaling) also interests me, but I haven't got around to stud...

I think we are basically on the same page. Meaning is between and within us. The view I criticize seems to assume that the self is infinitely transpar...

Insane in the membrane ! But it's a free country till they sick the A.I. on our facecrime.

No arcane method, just philosophy (and dialogue in general and science and ...) I am trying to make my actual communication as clear as possible in th...

Yes, inherently fuzzy. But progress is possible. Enough ? Then close up the bar and let's go home. Because the point of philosophy is (I claim) more c...

Good questions ! If sincere, we have dialogue.

:up: This thoughtvirus had an innocent birth. The world is complex and it's easy for an individual to say something stupid and wrong. So we learn to b...

But how did you get outside your mind to see others' situations ? How can you make all these claims about what we can and can't know ? You won't even ...

That doesn't make sense, unless you want to reduce rational norms to 'habitually instilled associations.' What is being associated with what ? It can'...