Metaphysician Undercover

Before and after are relative to the frame of reference. So if the two persons are of the same frame of reference, then the event will not happen for ...

If you don't know how to spell it you're probably not really the Camaro type. Then again, maybe poor spelling is part of the package.

I don't see how this psychology has provided any evidence to support your claim. I believe that the facts are quite obvious. There are two primary fac...

I don't think so, I've seen other animals get erections. Notice how the "de-sexualizing" described in your referred article requires effort, so it is ...

I'm glad you're not on my appointment list.

I'm with Hanover on this one, even though unenlightened finds it bizarre. However, I think it's more of a young man's, or even boyish, problem, and th...

That's a very unreliable principle. If I meet someone on the street who is unusually friendly toward me, I am very wary that the person is trying to t...

It seems we have two very distinct ideas of what constitutes cooperation. I know of no other definition of cooperation other than to work together. An...

I think Hume provides us with a very good approach to this problem with his discussion of induction and causation. We create inductive rules through e...

You don't seem to be grasping the incompatibility between "cooperation" and "competition". We cooperate, help each other, as the means to an end. So c...

It could be that these sports developed as training exercises for soldiers. But this brings up another issue, historically only men wage war. So we mi...

I don't think this is correct. "Fairness" based rules for competition are derived from equality norms, rather than cooperation norms. And equality nor...

How do you define "fair" in a competitive sport? Is it a matter of following the rules? How do we know if the rules are "fair"? Consider @"Mark S" 's ...

Sports, in general are very problematic. This is probably because sport is an entertainment based industry, and activity. And the inclination to enter...

Time is other than change, for a number of reasons. First, change is more specific, particular, it is something becoming different than it was. Time o...

I don't see how the timing of when I walk out makes any difference at all. The end comes soon... but not yet.

Frank, a person is not born with muscle bulk, one has to work hard and earn that. You ought to know this.

I'll just demonstrate this time. I'll stop the narrative, and the real self with its real identity will live on. The only problem is that since you on...

So we just went around in a circle. After making that big circle, do you see now why the narrative of the self cannot comprise the identity of the sel...

The fact that The Agent (that's what I'll call it for you) cannot be known empirical, does not prevent us from knowing it. That's what's described by ...

Ever heard of the straw thought phallacy? I think it's when one thinks there is a penis where there isn't one.

That's the issue, we do not properly know the source of this form of agency. But evidence indicates that we ought to accept it as real. So to portray ...

We've just circled around now, back to where we were. What I said at the beginning is that I think identity is more than just the narrative. That is b...

I would say that while we seek uniqueness we rely on sameness, as sameness is what we tend to take for granted. And maybe its because of the overwhelm...

I'm interested in bottom-up agency.

This is an indication of your faulty way of looking at things. The activity involved is described as pushing through rush hour traffic. The cause of t...

Well, if we assume this distinction, between "what one is and what one identifies oneself to be", we can see that there might be quite a difference. A...

OK, now to understand me, you need to recognize that "causes" cannot be adequately replaced with "prevents". This is because "causes" implies agency, ...

I would say that your idea of identity, as identifying oneself, is one step better than identity as identifying another. Yours is the identity which o...

You're not making any sense apokrisis, just demonstrating that you have no understanding of the first principle of general system theory, the distinct...

You are the one preaching idiocy. As a living, acting organism, I am a biological system. I eat my dinner, therefore this biological system is not clo...

This is not an accurate statement. The biological system itself, being an open system, is not constrained by the second law. The second law is not app...

Correction: Bad pancakes are a good excuse to up the amount of maple syrup.

I don't like your story, it doesn't make logical sense to me. I don't see why a thing must make the reflective action of self-identifying, in order to...

It really makes no difference how you make your pancakes, or what you call them, the only true rule is that they must be eaten with pure maple syrup. ...

Yes, you can, very clearly, think of things in this way. What I described to you, is done so with words, so it is impossible for me to end the narrati...

Kant and Schelling are for the most part consistent with theistic thinking. top-down causation of intentional acts is not consistent. The problem is t...

It is only by denying the reality of the agent, that the system can be presented as top-down causally, rather than the true bottom-up causation, which...

That's exactly why the theory is faulty. We know that systems of interpretance are just tools used by agents who interpret. To remove the agent (there...

This is the base of the top-down/ bottom-up division. The description "that we do cooperate" produces a top-down perspective on morality. However, tha...

I think "pseudoscience" is an appropriate word. It is a presentation of metaphysics which does not stand up to a critical philosophical analysis becau...

Why do you think it is a matter of losing everything? This is not the necessary conclusion. And this is the conclusion which makes you think that ther...

Yes, he has a deep understanding of the workings of biological organisms, and many clear thoughts. However, his speculative theory of biosemiotics is ...

I've discovered that any attempt to explain this to apokrisis, who retracts into a shell of denial accompanied by random ad hominem attacks, is pointl...

You set forward an absolutism of the future. This is very deterministic.

Even if rights could be absolute (an assumption which in itself requires justification), how would that be relevant to the human capacity to realize i...

Isn't that exactly what he did? If not, how would you describe what he did?

Well, If you cannot grasp the fact that the human capacity to realize an intended future state is not "absolute", then go ahead and keep your daydream...

Apology accepted, but I'm still trying to understand, maybe not even as well as you do. Unenlightened seems to talk about a losing of the self, I pref...

Do you accept that the human capacity to realize an intended future state, is not "absolute" as you claim Sartre affirms? If so, then you will see tha...