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It's definitely the truth. A person's totally paralyzed by a neuromuscular blockade and they're conscious. Not sure why it's cause for hostility.

Could be. I wasn't trying to give birth to a virile concept. Just tellin' the truth. Action and habit are irrelevant.

Habit and action are irrelevant.

I give sedation with paralytic drugs. It's just a fact. A person can be conscious though unable to produce the action necessary to breathe.

Me too. I don't think I could talk about that without going off on some weird, pointless tangent. How do you think about it?

Just sayin' There may be no action that testifies to consciousness.

Medicine is no folk craft. A person can be paralyzed and conscious.

Gaps need bridging. The lonely humanless world never needed such. But in honor of your hard work and expertise starting this thread: yes: somebody oug...

We just need another big monolith to turn us into star-children.

Maybe they do most of the time. We just pull them apart like taking a clock apart.

Totally agree. Post-structuralism is all right-brain: creative, convoluted, without boundaries (and so in Lacanian fashion closer to the only thing yo...

I'm not sure if the OP was meaning to question post-structuralism, or if I just turned it into that (for myself). But that very question reveals the c...

Group A talks among themselves: "Yes, yes...it's just so." Group B talks among themselves: "Yes, yes...it's just so." The two groups never communicate...

Oh good.

It's reflecting an odd scenario. I'm dropping grains of sand and asking "Is it a heap now?" Performance art. I think it would be more common for me to...

Ephemeral Southern Rivers. Woe... Have you read anything about how music and language are linked?

Yep. When I point out the way the river is a social construct, what I mean to say is that a physicist wouldn't be able to account for the distinctions...

That's true, but in some ways it's the Big Kahuna.

If you aren't lactose intolerant, I think you should go get a cone of your favorite ice cream. That's the best way to avoid these big questions. :)

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition. Do you believe that meaning is use? Or do you have a theory of meaning?

OK.

Fire and fury, buddy. Gigantic amounts of power.

The beginning of the story makes sense. The ending gets nihilistic. A river is a 'fiction on the occasion of sense' (Hume). Having noticed that (and i...

Is a river a social construct? Note that we could flood the Nile with alcohol, it's still a river. So it's not the water. We can divert the Nile, it's...

Abraham Lincoln received the nickname "Honest Abe" because of his decision to refrain from the rampant and outlandish lying common among politicians a...

Which creates an intriguing role for unconscious content. I'm reminded of Rumi's 'In the depths of our hearts the light of God is shining on a soundle...

Cool. I'm still struggling to make sense of his notion of alienation (due to the power of language to set out the real). Alienation from what? Is it j...

I guess there are multiple ways to analyze those stories. They all present a conflict between weak/good femininity and strong/evil femininity. The inn...

Sounds like we need a surgeon. :D

Who would our common enemy be? Aliens? Anyway, the US and China are joined at the hip economically. Kind of like Siamese twins... if one dies, the oth...

But Steinbeck was pretty strong in the creativity department, so bringing SX's quote into it... Steinbeck is to literary critics as the US is to the p...

It's just hard for me to imagine Steinbeck saying that... he's such a sweetheart in his books. Who knows what the real guy was like.

In some ways its hard to tell the parties apart.

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Well said back at you. Except I think the DNC probably thought Sanders was unlikely to win due to being too far left. They underestimated how much Ame...

China has been involved. It funds NK because it doesn't want a failed nuclear state on its border. I think Kim is upset about that movie: The Intervie...

Societies don't fail. They grow and evolve. Many features of contemporary human society are around 60,000 years old. You have mentioned in this thread...

Seems that would be a self-correcting problem. Society-X can't settle on whether shooting yourself in the head is dangerous or not. Society-X is now g...

It's worth visiting, though. Why the expectation of truth? Why not just expect smoke-blowing and obfuscation. Ignoring the value of these strategies w...

Could you unpack this?

And yet NK has nuclear capability in part due to financial support from China. Instead of feeding their people, they build ICBMs. Surely China has som...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM

Melchizadek is Meskalamdug, first king of the first Ur dynasty. The basis of Abrahamic tradition is Sumerian. Obviously.

I wonder if one can influence the unconscious. Suggest things to yourself? Do you believe in a collective unconscious?

N Korea will get physical. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-un-sanctions-nuclear-missile-united-nations.html?smid=tw-nytim...

1984

If it's incoherent, then how could it exist much less last?

"To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to g...

Well that's silly. Giant national debt. What's affordable?

I freaking love this artist