Arcane Sandwich

This is the most brilliant combination of Aristotle and Heidegger that I've ever seen. Kudos to you for accomplishing this in just one sentence.

@"Wayfarer"

It's the standard, mainstream interpretation of Hegel, and it's more or less correct.

No, Mok, that's not what I'm saying. Let me quote Meillassoux again: Notice that he says eternal contemplation. That sort of contemplation is impossib...

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Neither can I. I just believe in it.

Again, A.I. "art" is not art, just as a statue is not a living creature, even though it looks like one.

None of that is art. It may look like art, but it isn't art. When you see a statue, do you think it's a living creature, just because it looks like on...

An oxymoron. Machines are incapable of creating art, because they are art themselves.

If there's a God, I don't know if he's not listening or what.

A.I. art is worthless, friend.

Gavagai, and all of that jazz?

Salam alaikum, friend.

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I did what I did, because it does what it does.

It's definitely a possibility, Einstein for example can be described as vouching for a sort of Parmenidean "Block Universe", where the temporal series...

It is what it is, because of what it it was.

What happened to all of your "vibes" about the Elfin Queen and all of that "positive" stuff? You sound angry now. Sure, I'm a Darwinist myself. Did yo...

But mutationem means that it can change, that it can mutate. It has the potential (as in, capax) to do so. It is capable (capax) of it. What is that, ...

It is, but I'm not sure that he's right about that. Primatologists would disagree, for example. And there's evidence of mollusks arranging decorations...

I'm interested in essence, and I'm not a Thomist. Understand, Banno, that there's a holiday in Argentina called "Spanishness Day", as in, "The Day of ...

Why do you think that Heidegger's phrase "remanens capax mutationem" is important? Can you explain that? Because it has to do with both the concept of...

It's similar to the age-old debate about the etymology of the word physis. Essentially, it boils down to the following dichotomy: does it mean nature,...

Indeed. Not even the essences of fictional entities can be understood. The Being of Spain (Hispanidad), for example, is incomprehensible, even though ...

Indeed.

I'm very critical of Meillassoux myself. I've proven, in print, that his philosophy of mathematics is incompatible with Bunge's, for example. Not that...

Your erudition is impressive. Are you a priest?

Because we are no longer mortal creatures when we are in that state of contemplation. And since we are mortal creatures right now, we cannot comprehen...

Your Forum name read backwards would be Disagree-to-Agree. Ever thought about that?

You're very smart. I say that unironically. It is rare to find people of your intellect, nowadays.

But the Dodo was driven to extinction by the Portuguese. It's not the Dodo's fault that people wanted to eat them. They did not refuse to adapt, they ...

No, you do not. There is no joy in Heaven, you enjoy nothing. Which is why the essence of God is incomprehensible from the perspective of creatures, s...

Ostriches, and Ñandues, are magnificent creatures, and I will defend them with my words, since they lack the capacity to speak for themselves. No bird...

The same thing that Hegel means in The Phenomenology of Spirit, when he says that God is both substance and subject. Let me speak clearly, Mok. There ...

God is also a subject, as are we. A human being is both a substance and a subject. No, I am not. If I was, I would have said so. The concept of beauty...

In Heaven, the contemplation of God is preferable to anything else. There is no fun in Heaven. There is no sex in Heaven. There is no drinking in Heav...

But there's something else that everyone gets backwards, including myself, until very recently: how to correctly think about space in geo-political te...

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Do I have intellectual rabies?

Could be. Why not? I'd like to know what @"Count Timothy von Icarus" thinks of your comment.

@"Tzeentch" is Hungarian?

Ok, then what was that point that you alluded to here? Care to elaborate?

Well, technically speaking, it wouldn't be a belief either. It would be a divine revelation.

Hegel says it's both. And it's also a third thing, which is their synthesis.

Then why should anyone, including yourself, believe in such a thing?

Derail it, since it is important. Besides, to use a metaphor: paraphrasing Ibn Arabi, your opinion is simply a drop of water from the ocean that is th...

Not even in a Hegelian way? As in: 1) Thesis, 2) anti-Thesis, 3) Synthesis. A) Subject, B) Object, C) Absolute. I) Mind, II) Nature, III) Culture. i) ...

Ok, you're a skeptic then. It would be a scientific problem to investigate. And that would be your scientific hypothesis. Can you prove it?

It's a Catholic story. It's an allegory of Catholicism. Yes, they do. Catholics love Tolkien. Priests even compare Jesus to Gandalf. What Church peopl...