Mongrel

smoke and mirrors

So all the lives happen simultaneously like dandelions growing out of the same spot.

But Saturday repeats once a week.

Plato believed in reincarnation. I think he would agree that the self is word magic.

I didn't understand the question... "What sort of thing is x?"

I don't know. What sort of thing is a point particle?

Same soul. It's not confusing. It's just not your cuppa tea.

Same person different name. What's confusing?

What's your view? Is all mental healthcare voodoo and word-magic is just better voodoo? Or do you think the scientific approach is actually detrimenta...

That's cool. Where is Purgatory supposed to be, anyway? In another dimension?

Indulgence, huh? I'm not gluten intolerant so I think I'll be ok.

So far so good. A lot of it is familiar to me. Fink has a bug about scientific approaches to mental health. I need to talk to him and straighten him o...

I don't think we need to burn anybody. After the skin is incinerated they can't feel it anymore anyway. A ceremonial burning. Totem. Crucify a broom m...

So what do people do if they're on a gluten free diet? Just go on a Jesus free diet as well? Oh.. I'm reading the Lacanian Subject by Fink. It's reall...

Maybe meaning is use implies interaction between subjects. What if the subjects are themselves spoken by a mechanical language?

Those who want a world leader are looking for a country that can maintain peace. Russia doesn't have the ability to do that. I think China probably co...

Oh. I missed that part. You're good, then. :)

Wouldn't quotation marks signify an utterance? How could you know the sense without knowing the context of the utterance?

Around Ceasars murder... there were quotes. So it was kind of bizarre considering the title of the thread that a discussion ensued about the reference...

Exactly. Whereas the original question in this thread involved quotes. I think you have a tendency to ignore the significance of that.

Awesome. Thank you.

They're bigger on the inside than on the outside... that's the weirdest thing.

Do you recommend those lectures?

I first read this as "Canadian is butter." Ever read Lacan?

Some yes, some no. Both the British and the French repeatedly pressed the US to take a leading role in the Cold War. I don't agree with Trump on much,...

Oops.. due to Cavacava I've become interested in the corporealization of words... maybe Lacan? Phenomenalism will have to wait for another day. Any re...

The SEP article defines mental representation loosely. That was the meaning I was using. I think I'll just go back through Bundle Theory. Are you fami...

I was wondering if you meant the voice is hardware (the walls and ceiling of the station) or software (the dance of the travelers through the station....

For us, maybe. There's a town down here called Etowah. Even experts don't know what language it comes from or what it means. There's a theory that it ...

Not as much as some people do. It blew my mind the first time I met someone who claimed to experience that internal voice constantly. I didn't believe...

Nova Scotia. It's totally meaningless! You should start a campaign to rename everything.

I recently noticed that Canada isn't as big as it seems to be. The earth gets smaller and smaller the further into Canada you go. It's like a dimensio...

If I understood correctly, you're describing one theory of mind that involves a sort of grand central station. When you say the vehicle for interactio...

You allow qualia, but not as mental representation. Then explain again what sort of mental representation you support?

Frontal lobe disorder probably wouldn't go over well with the faithful. The topic sort of starts with realism about mental representation. Maybe it co...

It's not a greater thing. It's little bubbles of red silk poking out of black wool. I've got a dye called "oxblood red." Oddly, it isn't what's normal...

One of the things this view commits you to is qualia. Before I try to change your mind about that, do you really accept qualia as a form of mental rep...

Hi dude! You're expressing my usual attitude. We see ideas. I was just exploring the opposing view.

So you don't see mental representation that's totally non-conceptual as a viable viewpoint?

I've been doing a lot of fiber art lately and I've had a number of episodes of a kind of paralysis where an image of something that hasn't happened ye...

So it's an entity that sees, hears, tastes, feels, and responds to the world, but it never sees that, hears that, feels that...? What takes the place ...

Never argue timidly for a smacking good idea. I'm not sure who's getting smacked with it.

To be lazy, Chomsky.

smh

Maybe not more mystical, but darker, less rational, monks who've never read a bible, church services that are just continuous and people wander in and...

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Say she was talking about his murder and subsequently said "his death" in a way that it was clear to her listeners that she meant his murder. I'm sugg...

But what if somebody meant his murder by "his death?" Wouldn't the reference be the same in that case?

Really? Surely there is at least one interpretation of Wittgenstein that allows first person data about the experience of speaking. But don't you agre...

Precipitates... like rain from a cloud. That's what poetry does. It precipitates.