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Julian August

['Member']Joined: September 29, 2023 at 12:32Last active: June 30, 2025 at 15:38None discussions13 comments

Bio

Im a young man from Norway thinking and writing on my own about the preconditions for self-aware cognition in terms of its dualistic conceptual nature, I am also concerned with how and why the self/ego were created, how it is sustained and how this is reflected off the mass-cultural behaviour of humans in the west.

Favourite Philosopher

Kant, Schopenhauer, Hume, Nietzsche, Hegel, Leo Gura, U. G. Krishnamurti

Comments

In: What does it feel like to be energy?  — view comment
Energy, as a concept, is either derived independently or dependently on experience, energy could very well precede all experiences as I am sure a dual...
October 14, 2023 at 10:54
In: Reading "Mind and Nature: a Necessary Unity", by Gregory Bateson  — view comment
Hello unenlightened! If the reference of two things are dual then either reference would be impossible without the other, it would therefore be someth...
October 14, 2023 at 10:28
In: Argument for deterministic free will  — view comment
The question concerns instantiations of freedom, no amount of formal systematising could give us evidence for these instants if they have not been exp...
October 14, 2023 at 09:57
In: What does it feel like to be energy?  — view comment
In physics the concept of energy is used to describe the sufficient reasons for the behaviour of observable entities that are supposed to underlie the...
October 14, 2023 at 08:57
In: Aquinas on existence and essence  — view comment
I am new to the forum, perhaps it is a norm that if a name of a philosopher is relevant and explicitly referred to in the OP that we do not comment ab...
October 14, 2023 at 08:24
In: Ideas/concepts fundamental to the self  — view comment
When I think directly about the idea of my own self, which were formed primarily through the first ten years of my life I will often notice that it is...
October 14, 2023 at 08:10
In: Aquinas on existence and essence  — view comment
I would not need any expensive evidence to show you that you have denied each of the stories you have told yourself, whether knowingly or performative...
October 14, 2023 at 07:33
In: Aquinas on existence and essence  — view comment
The actual question is whether existence is possible without a subject opposed to each of its own predicates, such as in the case of us humans. We kno...
October 14, 2023 at 07:07
In: A very basic take on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem  — view comment
What the theorems tells us is that the knowable consistency of our choice of axioms depends at least on us limiting ourself to a less-than-complete se...
October 08, 2023 at 00:33
In: The Mind-Created World  — view comment
When it comes to physicalism, which is really what is asserted then.. Consider impenetrability, the proper essence of physicalism, it can neither be r...
October 07, 2023 at 23:40
In: What is Logic?  — view comment
Hey @joshs thank you for the good response, let me reply back here with how I understand (or don't) your notion of a non-propostional logic! It is har...
September 30, 2023 at 21:22
In: Is maths embedded in the universe ?  — view comment
Math is a continuation of the dualistic nature of concepts in general, there are only ambiguous and foggy dividing lines between language, its syntact...
September 29, 2023 at 22:04
In: What is Logic?  — view comment
Logic is not a formal system, a formal system is a logic. Logic are necessary conclusions, when we say that something is "logical" we say that it foll...
September 29, 2023 at 21:32
In: Would time exist if there was nothing?  — view comment
Hello SimplyG! If time only occurs in relation to change happening in space then you have answered your own question (whether time exists if there was...
September 29, 2023 at 15:25
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