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IVoyager

['Member']Joined: August 04, 2016 at 16:08Last active: April 16, 2025 at 16:011 discussions12 comments

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Yet we don't need to talk about the computer telling the story. For all its of-then statements are programmed consciously by a programmer, and realize...
August 25, 2016 at 12:36
I would argue that direct information exchange is the pinnacle. Telling a story suggests other connotations, the weaving together of something which m...
August 24, 2016 at 18:50
But one can have an a-utility understanding. For example: you understand that Gandalf loves his Hobbits. This is true understanding, but it is also us...
August 24, 2016 at 18:45
I get what you're saying. I mean, I'm ignorant of interpretive dance and I don't really feel a great need to not be ignorant of it. Same with Baseball...
August 13, 2016 at 18:07
@Wayfarer Did you have a chance to think about my response?
August 12, 2016 at 22:45
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You just won Philosophy. I think that existing-thinking implies existence. Existence implies being. Being implies the ability to be. This doesn't impl...
August 09, 2016 at 22:17
This is a fresh thread of thought, thank you very much for that. In another forum I mentioned wanting to think about an objective definition for philo...
August 07, 2016 at 04:12
Respectfully disagreed. Absolute is not the same as total; you conflate absolute with total. Total refers to the whole of the thing. "Ignorance is tot...
August 07, 2016 at 01:44
I generally agree with you. Actually, I'd say both kinds of knowledge are important. We need some specialists and some generalists. And when we have a...
August 06, 2016 at 22:38
It's interesting that I don't find much of what you said disagreeable, Wayfarer, but I do consider myself to be part of that analytic philosophy camp ...
August 06, 2016 at 22:36
Your sentiment is echoed in one of my favorite band's song "Kill your idols" "Cosmetic photogenic This pain is fleeting, ring out Mechanical the passi...
August 04, 2016 at 19:19
That was wonderful. Sorry this didn't have anything else to contribute but praise... But I can't make that better.
August 04, 2016 at 19:12
Hey man, we all do philosophy our own way. I don't dislike getting intuitive responses, but forgive me I can only do analytic philosophy. I think phil...
August 04, 2016 at 18:02
I would agree that ignorance isn't useless. But perfect ignorance doesn't work this way. As a philosopher I come to understand that I am very ignoranc...
August 04, 2016 at 17:45
If the brain is a composite of parts exchanging information cyclically, it's difficult to gauge where one process ends and other begins. I have an ong...
August 04, 2016 at 16:41