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Sorry friend. Clearly I am not communicating my thoughts effectively. Instead of addressing all of your points which equally reflect that my submissio...

No. I definitely do not think that, nor is that what I intended to suggest. In fact, it's more the opposite. I'm thinking that the "laws", any and all...

Mulling over. Some helpful points. Thank you. Will respond after tge events of today.

Nice. Thank you!

The physical act triggered by the Organic drives might be immutable. But to simplify it (at the risk of wandering away) all of the "associations" huma...

I can live with "artificial"--thank you. Is the reason artificial fits better connotative or denotative? Is it for e.g. that "artificial" properly opp...

I don't get it. It seems like you're providing more "evidence" that what we've constructed is not natural. I mean, I agree with you. Patriarchy (insti...

Yes. And those natural drives are the source, in Reality or Nature for the Fiction which we construct. I would speculate that the human's version migh...

I can agree that you have given a very reasonable assessment of the very same processes I am referring to. And, sure, we can stop there and dig no dee...

What is the "I"? That seems to me to be the root of the problem. What even is "certainty"? This is not a perfect thought experiment but the point migh...

Yes, as in, what we* are is just a stand-in(s) . Not what we breathlessly pursue, the thing itself. *we, referring to those selves we live through, Mi...

Unfortunately for our unquenchable desire for "truth", you are correct. Mine too is an invention of Mind. But so is Love, and Peace and E=MC² and look...

There is a meaningful distinction. Appearances are the doings of human Mind, Reality is accessible to the rest of Nature, in the doing and being of re...

Or is it that that barrier, i.e. language, is not (just) describing what we know, but constructing it? It is, in that case, the root/structure/nature ...

You were "brought up to... therefore..." I am suggesting that the "brought up to," has collected structures of Signifiers in your memory which autonom...

"I seem to have" I completely understand your point. However, to me, what makes daydreaming a spectrum (and similarly dreaming a seemingly obvious lac...

Are you sure? You speak of volition but that is an illusion affected when the Subject "I" is "entailed." When you think, so-called "consciously," day ...

Here's one I neglected to address. Whether or not you misunderstood me, I cannot fairly say, owing to the ambiguity of my language, which, notwithstan...

Besides my ambiguous terminology, there is a further aggravating factor to my speech. That is, I am ultimately proposing it too is Fictional. I think ...

@ludwig v Thank you. See my most recent post on this topic, if it is of any interest/provides further clarity

The problem lies in the possibility that "seeing," as in organic sense of sight, is one thing; a thing presumably accessible to all organisms with sig...

I am not necessarily using any philosophical dialectic, although I recognize how that creates a barrier between ideas I might express and readers in a...

Yes. Exactly. Isn't that exactly what eventually but (almost?) inevitably happens when there are gaps in the Language structures. Not, these "silent p...

While I am not prepared to state that my Truth is devoid of any relationship/connection/source to/with/from a Universal or Transcendant Truth, call th...

The following is a simplified reply owing to present time constraints and a reluctance to provide more info than you are after. Mind is structured by ...

Thank you for clarifying. Apologies for any misinterpreting.

Reason: (simplified) that set of Laws/Dynamics/Process/tools including such as Logic, cause, linear movement, justification used to arrive at and sett...

What do you mean by the Real world? Physical things? Is Reason a thing outside the Real World? What things are real (not as in, accessible to our perc...

Ok. Do you think there is a cause for Reason? Or are some things exempt from the need for cause? Or, back to the original question, is "cause and effe...

Yes. The precise exercise doesn’t fit as well for the Subject as it does for Free Will. But it's the same finger pointing at tge same moon.

If the quoted statement is true, what is the reason? Isn't Reason itself the reason (I.e. the rule internal to Reason that there must be a cause)? I t...

I really like what your exercise reveals for me. C is the only one with any functional value. If free will didn’t exist C would revert to B. So yes, i...

So... if a philosopher arrives at a hypothesis of the Absolute Being of all beings; and derived therefrom, a corresponding morality; a strict deontolo...

Persuasive! Mulling it over. Thank you

And yet, out of/in reaction to Hegel, emerged, arguably, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, existentialism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, Marx, and Marxism, the...

What if the pursuit of "God" as so defined, is akin to the pursuit of Being, or the Being of all beings? Is it truly the idea of God that is abhorrent...

I can accept that. But if they are both (potentially) racist, and oppressive, then so? What is the significance so great that it merits differentiatio...

Thank you for clarifying, and sorry for my recklessness. I know far too little about Berkeley to justify my claim above. I was admittingly using it as...

At the end of the day, they're both human made. Let's look at it, not from the Ominous Subject of God. Let's whiddle it down and see how they're both ...

I think Berkeley was (unwittingly(?)) referring to human Consciousness. For human Consciousness:; anything not perceived in/by Human Consciousness, do...

Isn't logos the beginning of everything humans experience, and therefore not inherent/imbedded in Nature? (And I'm not referencing so-called St. John)...

If you're hinting that a hypothesis of Mind constructing all meaning is negated by the fact that there are universals we all agree to, that question w...

If Descarte's Real Self is an “I am,” a being within Being, unwittingly Fabricated and Fictional; and if—standing upon the shoulders of those, like He...

I agree. In fact we do share Real Consciousness with all other organisms once you remove the uniquely human experience of Mind from the equation. Real...

:up: And, ironically, the "what" of the "what is there " is the Language of the wondering. But The what of the True Being, that which we are truly aft...

We are trapped by the ghosts of philosophy past. Per Hegel, nothingness is indistinguishable from indeterminate being, And As both nothing and everyth...

Thank you. Informative. And I agree with you about Plato, ultimately. I am being hyperbolic owing to my appreciation for silence. . . And yet, I chatt...

Having read your thread, I like your take. My earlier comment about epistemology was in jest, and yet that seems to have been your read on these Daois...

Thank you. I've never seen that "extended" (?) version. Zhuagzi, the Father of epistemology!? I'll check out your thread!

Maybe the "walk through" mysticism from Western Philosophy is being done "backwards." Maybe the approach could be to reflect on the concepts of import...