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Yah, but gbischitz has now been assigned "signifier of nonsense." But really. Signifier only of the inherent meaninglessness of all signifiers until m...

Ages ago. But the essence lingers. Like shit on a stick. :joke:

I completely agree. I think our Natures have been slandered by wrongful claims that it is tge seat of our (implicitly, uncontrollable) appetites.

I would say (especially since the OP brings up Taoism) that this "will" so-called, is just that, a thing so called. But more to your point, what if yo...

I think what Emerson readily expresses, "Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this", Chuang Tzu was aware of. That all of t...

Yes. The only question in which the answer transcends Mind. Yes. But you are here. You don't know it. Not for want of brilliant effort, but because it...

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Sorry. No. I mean, the presumably necessary conscious observer need not be the deceased individual whose experience of death we are "assessing". It si...

But not necessarily "him" in any sense of that word. Right?

I agree; maybe you mean this, but my modification might be, meditation is an exercise of the body/epoche an exercise of the mind. H's epoche is arguab...

Yes, I'm totally with you on everything preceding. It is a "dream world," which happens to be a label constructed by tgat very dream world, and so on....

I agree. And yet, I also think the "badness" of something is necessarily dependent on a conscious mind, to begin with. That is, though we might argue ...

I can get behind that.

Insightful! Everything--even value, thus, ethics--is "hiding" in the metaphysical. But where is the latter "hiding"? I know not actually hiding.

Yes, like out of body experiences, spiritual enlightenment/"salvation", ghost and alien summoning/sightings; all of which have similarly consistent re...

I loved this. Thank you. I am persuaded on the face of it. I can't help a couple of hesitations below. Your skill in logic/knowledge of the literature...

I must have confused you. "Business" is what we can't leave. Assuming the hypothetical staring at the abyss of being is even possible (if anything, it...

Assuming you don't mean "firmware" literally; sticking to the metaphor, what is the soul? Does it not also code the hardware so that it operated effec...

I'm not a scholar, if I'm being presumptuous, accept my apology in advance. Is it necessarily instilled in us biologically? Or is that a favored inter...

I don't think our biology thinks. No blanks to fill in because it's all blank. But you likely disagree. From a purely physical perspective. Ig must be...

Ok, all that might be so. But what was that fantasy? What was pug into words and captivating? What was the result of human imagination? Was it command...

As for our (that is yours, Constance, and mine) dialectic seeming never to arrive at a complete close here is another beam of light on the point of di...

Agreed. But that never stopped anyone (generally). Well put So well said! Or admits to having no access via existence, and so, gets on with the busine...

If it has been uploaded at astronomical speed and volume, with all the information that a reasonable person of reasonable intelligence is from infancy...

Is that as far as W went? Are you saying that , loosely Kant-like, he didn't want to get into the "reality" of the object and so, took the position, t...

Sorry! Just got to this part.

More than that. It's a device that constructs so called boundaries

That is a helpful distinction because it further illustrates point. Do one thing to an object, say, paint it: still one object. Cut it in half, maybe ...

Yes, what constitutes an object for us in a world structured by language, is a matter of language. But that doesn't mean there's no physical basis for...

If you are looking from the perspective that you aren't already these others; that is, that you are mistaken if you think you are an individual self. ...

sorry, I know you are receiving multiple notifications. Last one, just thought I'd say, because I know you may have alluded to this, most recently, wh...

Another way to encapsulate where I seem to diverge from what I assume to be the limitations of your more well grounded, logically, and thus, conventio...

Understood. Thank you. I understand that statement as applying only because, ultimately, any "ology" is rooted in epistemology, in the sense that we c...

Hmm. But is it in the constructions? Or is it in the Organism providing both the infrastructure and feedback? Yes, the interpretation is another "leve...

uote="Constance;910735"]The self is elevated, profoundly reified, and acknowledged as the very source of the divinity objectified by popular religion....

Fair enough. But who or what exactly is doing the hoping? And on whose behalf? And what will it see? And, to what end? And. How? How, any of it withou...

There are other options. Like, the matter which made up our Bodies was incessantly transforming, but they, in themselves, have a virtually immortal ex...

I think skepticism is the inevitable position, and philosophy, and philosophy forum, and this discussion persists because we are l intuitively skeptic...

I agree with you, there are "strong foundational" propositions; even ones which we can conventionally settle upon as having nothing preceding it but t...

Sorry. Maybe I pressed something. Anyway philosophy is brilliant. It keeps mystics grounded. There are a million charlatans for every Buddha. Yes. I r...

I completely agree. And, actually, philosophy, burdened by logic and reason, and all, is still the best path to unders

Yes! With respect. That expresses a lingering in the very thing that "metaphysical" aware-ing you're implying. That thing--yes, call it language (Huma...

Ok, fair enough, but with the assurance that you will know? Or notwithstanding your inevitably inescapable ignorance?

By remaining present. By being. By not being-knowing-and-becoming. But, yes, we are flooded, our brains, with images of becoming and it is hard, argua...

Agreed

And only "resolvable" as such. That is, within and limited to the framework of those "studies" and their specific ways of using language to reconstruc...

What if it only appears to us as a linear process x-->y, because whatever "happened" to x and to y was immediately post constructed as x-->y and re-pr...

Agreed. I hope I too was prudent enough to put "stuff" in quotations to highlight that it is not really stuff at all but, stuff-ing.

Yes

Whoa. A relief! I always thought of "Plato" as diverging from, even betraying, Socrates skepticism. Is there such clear evidence of this lingering-ske...