Mongrel

I didn't know microbes could talk.

Fleshing out the pertinent language game?

Tipping point for what? My guess is Trump is concerned and presently pondering military options.

Good.

Did you also predict that N. Korea would grow ICBMs? Considering your proximity, maybe you folks should pick a general to be your chief of staff (or w...

What other names?

Is there a statistically significant difference? Either way, the term wasn't invented to talk about genetics. It's about appearance or culture. Appear...

The narrative Cold War babies heard was that our nature had brought us to the brink of self-destruction. The whole 20th Century is an emotional argume...

Would you agree that the unconscious is made up of signifiers? That it's basically linguistically structured? Do you pay attention to slips of the ton...

Well, or just statistically speaking.

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If you can hear the bell it's probably not tolling for you.

I'm really liking Lacan. Its like I have a new box of crayons.

I still don't think we were in disagreement.

Yep. :)

It could be that John and I are in disagreement. Wouldn't be the first time. :)

I agree with the thesis of Fight Club. The test is whether the subject ever really gave up... abandoned all hope.

We could ask him. Or ask Nietzsche what it takes to becomes your own divinity. He went on and on and on about it, didn't he?

Yep. Brian Greene became is own mission-giver. I mentioned that Frankl did as well. ?

John and I are not in disagreement. Frankl became his own author while stuck in a concentration camp. This is all psychologically precarious stuff. Po...

When people ask after the meaning of life, translate "meaning" as purpose. If you're polylingual, you know better than to ask why it translates this w...

Look above. I quoted you.

It was probably an accident. You didn't mean to say "no" to Von Neumann. You meant "I don't know."

Sometimes most physicists are wrong. When Newton introduced the concept of gravity he was accused to dragging spirituality into science. Are you reall...

'you teach best what you most needed to know" I think that's from Jonathon Livingston seagull.

I feel that way too, but I also get this edgy feeling if somebody likes me... like I have something to lose now. One thing that gives me some peace an...

Could be, but there's nothing altruistic about it in my case. I think I'm just fundamentally afraid of people. What's your craziness? Or are you compl...

My insanity is that I understand it if people are mean to me, but I can't quite get it if they're nice. It's like it doesn't compute. I wonder what th...

I put it on myself to try to understand what they're asking. If I really want to know, I probe. Sometimes the results of that are astonishing.

Funny, I had just been reading about the Truman upset the week before the election. So it did go through my mind...

Busta Rhymes marathon

The issue is knowledge. A proposition may be true, but if it was asserted, then someone is claiming to know it. Knowledge internalism says that the kn...

That inner voice people talk about... is yours usually in first, second, or third person?

Your Joke Olympics score is 530.

Haven't seen much blatant sexism on this site lately. That's awesome!

The media I encounter uses bullshit to make money. Article after article dangles some tempting news before the reader only to fail to deliver in the f...

I think you're continuing to put the self and memories beyond the power of word magic. You have the self actively setting out its own boundaries. So y...

Do you have eidetic memory? Anamnesis.

If you reject reincarnation it's because that game isn't played in your community.

By any other name I'd still be me.

You're probably giving us too much of an active role. What are we?

Nixon comes already individuated at the beginning of the story. The causal chain might account for the use of a certain name, but for how parents dist...

I don't think so. Rigid designators and essential properties are connected ideas. Anyway, he was talking about stipulated possible worlds. We have a p...

What am I missing?

Why do you say that? I think it's an important part of his observations in Naming and Necessity.

That sounds like exactly what I should be doing.

But there is no having without the had. They create one another.

Do you mean about family health issues?

Here's what I think will happen. Due to a temporal rift, an angry Romulun will blow up the Vulcan home planet as revenge on Spock for his failure to s...

Me too.