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You're right. I was over zealous and reckless, even wilfully blind. I agree with many of your comments on this.

Assuming MH takes the position above, including the example about stone, lets make it his own, why is it we must view MH as describing the Reality (of...

Yah. We think war is always functional because, of course, there are measurable, manifest effects. But it does not rule out more functional approaches...

It can be. In Mind, that is the surfacing form triggering a feeling which Signifies, the Signifier "surprise." But I wont dare elaborate. What really ...

You are unwittingly (sorry, I realize how that might be taken. But let me assure you, we all unwittingly) describing the dynamics by which the Fiction...

My friend. We are the hive mentality. History moves as one. It always has and always will. Never-ending the minor variations. Mind Universal is Histor...

I note, without judgement, that your responses to these questions are entangled with matters like "wrong" and "right" and suffering. I can only presum...

Criteria: credibility of witnesses in that, are there inherent biases, or incentives to lie. I note you have addressed this in your reply to other pos...

Actually, I submit Body alone. Mind, though it exists, is a system of empty signifiers displacing the Body with its empty Fiction. It happily amuses m...

Firstly, I sincerely admire your writing, at least in this particular response. And whether I fully understand/follow/agree or not, it is inspiring in...

Or, there is no "choice." Everything is interconnected. Every action is a reaction to a trigger(s); the same principle applying to each trigger. Is th...

They do to me too. Convincing or not, they are edifying. And much more than I know has likely been built upon, or because of, them. I recognize this m...

...unless Descartes was stating the discovery from his meditations is that "he" is a thinking thing. In which case he could just as easily conclude th...

Very informative. Also, dishearteningly, so. Logic. Damn! It seems there is no place for the thinker to rest their weary head.

I fully agree with you. At the risk of offending, I think the poetry metaphor applies to much metaphysics. Perhaps not in the conventional way we view...

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Query: why not thinking is existing in the present; beyond that, "I" and "one" is constructed to suit logic/meaning? I'm not disagreeing. I'm wonderin...

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I think the "problem" with Descarte's thought experiment is the "I". There are likely a few reasons but I'll focus on one. The problem of Time. You ar...

I sounded curt. Sorry. Now that I quickly familiarized myself with what you meant, I already realized my presumptiousness. What I was saying can be se...

Unfacetiously, I don't know "what" my overall thinking on the matter might be labeled, if labeled it must be. But if the concept expressed in that sen...

:up: That is Mind. In one of its seemingly infinite possible forms of becoming. Right on. And yet, did it occur to Moore, brilliant as "The Watchmen" ...

Though there is value in it, and I mean this respectfully, why restrict the discourse to an analysis of the present state of scholarship? Take dogs, f...

Nice. A perfect remedy for thanatophobia!

If there is any modicum of "you" in the afterlife, what is that "written upon"? Presumably, even for dualists, the Brain provides the infrastructure f...

Then, at least a partial answer to your original question, "what can I know with 100% certainty," is "concepts." Generally, concepts can be known with...

I think you are correct. Note the pattern though: I am therefore I am. Descarte's conclusion is flawed because it was to narrow. What defines us as Re...

Are you certain regarding the certainty of 100% certainty?

Don't you think it's no different than for any language/linguistic tool? A person who believes the answers to her questions regarding subject x are be...

I was carelessly using Soto as an analogy. I.e., like for Soto, the reward in Zazen is not in the purported goal of Satori, but rather, in the sitting...

The question has a second, and more apt meaning if the emphasis on "existed" is interpreted, not as "were there any (existentialists)" but rather, did...

As it is for just sitting, in Soto Zen, the reward is in the doing.

Yes, I see that he personally could not "transcend" to the leap. I meant for SK, ideally, a leap from reason, also a suspension of the ethical; all of...

Wait. Why missing in Kierk? Isn't that exactly his point? Arriving at belief through reason is "inferior" to arriving by a leap.

I cannot say what Sartre would contend, but climbing upon his shoulders, at least, I can see this. The biological being, I contend to be the only ulti...

Yah, like in Nietzsche's, Heidegger's, Sartre's et. al. call for self actualization or authenticity. Yes. The actual, not the becoming (of Mind and it...

I found your entire reply very edifying, sincerely. I see the tie-in with Heidegger, and the basic struggle which similar "existentialists" addressed ...

I am with you on this. Presumptious of me, but I will briefly detail why I think so. It's a bit problematic to bring SK into this because his knight o...

How do you imagine an intelligent animal presents that "I' or "self" to itself? To clarify my question, for me, its easy, I use those words "I" and "m...

My, potentially unique, perspective, for what it may be worth to you. By self reflection, you are already creating the conditions which may be contrad...

Acknowledging I do not have access to your full story, may I suggest: Breathe, that is really your "life." Is that failing? Eating? Being? That other ...

I've learned a lot of valuable things to help guide my thinking from these posts. None as compelling as your quote above. I'll be more careful. Thank ...

I think that is what I have been--apparently ineffectively--saying. That Mind decides what is good or bad; ; and that accordingly on issues like the o...

Ok, but that's actually my point. What do you think of this? Yes the materials are Natural, it complies with the Laws of Nature. But it is the Eiffel ...

Now I think we're just approaching the topic in different ways. Obviously that's fine. We agree people shouldn't dictate others' sexuality. But as to ...

This is interesting. Assuming that what I'm really getting it is that Nature is (ultimately) Real, and Mind is artificial (formerly Fictional) . In th...

That might be helpful. But the following question may also illustrate my point. Beavers build dams; bees hives, birds build nests. Natural. Prehistori...

Ok. Then so I understand, these social values, they're natural? Your disagreement is not in the "social message," but relates to how I arrive there, r...

Ok, but how do any of my points suggest archeology/anthropology cant? Or how does the fact that they can trace the root of our laws etc. suggest they ...