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we are trapped within cartesian substance ontology in a very perverse way. the very process (thinking) upon which Descartes premised the certainty of ...

I seriously doubt that qualia of conscious experience of you as “I” can happen without THE APPEARANCE OF resonating with other external embodiments/mi...

because they keep trying to sell me extended warranties for my auto

Seriously? The thread is not about "information and meaning." Instead, it is about information and "the meaning of life." And when it comes to convers...

My understanding of what Kant meant is rooted in my interpretation of Heidegger's response to the same question as set forth in Basic Problems of Phen...

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There are many a great philosophers who also wrote about government, e.g., John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and many others.

I can provide information regarding all things I find meaningful. On the hand, the world is full of information the meaning of which I care not.

interesting. it does strike as somewhat of a cart before the horse type of thing. though information and meaning are certainly related, I would not co...

For Heidegger, existence is one of three modes of being; the other two modes are ready-to-hand and present-to-hand.

This is the philosophy forum. I have no time for those who are unable to explain what they claim to know.

philosophy as industry

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Objectivity is an illusion. You cannot be more on the inside than we. Objectivity is not intended to be a space in which to live. Instead, it is inten...

Seriously? Flailing in the wind are we? At no point did I suggest our experiences are presumed. Instead, what I said is that YOU are presuming our exp...

Your underlying presumption is that our experiential mode of being is capable of grasping ultimate reality and therefore our experiential mode of bein...

This is a false dichotomy. Ceasing to think is not a choice for a sentient being. Think about it even if you lack the experience (you cannot do otherw...

This is a good post and I agree with you. though I am still skeptical that this is an issue amenable to philosophical resolution. Still, it does force...

this is a good post.

so it has gotten to the point that people are arguing: 1. we define free will as A; 2. we have A. Therefore, we have free will. And to think people sp...

how convenient that must be. and that is what is known as garbage in and garbage out. I hereby define the greatest philosopher of all time as Arne and...

no matter how you define it, either you have it or you do not and arguing settles not the issue. it is philosophy as industry and you are only proving...

what I am saying is the explanatory framework is not within the mechanistic paradigm that accounts for the being there of being in the world. And unti...

seriously, moot discussions take place all the time. there is no necessary connection between the mootness of a discussion and whether the discussion ...

Either you have free will or you do not. Discussing the issue is not going to decide the issue. If you believe you have free will and you do not, you ...

If you believe you have free will and you do not, you could not have believed otherwise. If you believe you do not have free will and you do, then tha...

now look who is venting their frustrations. an either or command. relax, dude.

or you could look to getting a sense of humor.

7 and 8 and in particular 9, paragraph B, clause II. And you are welcome.

though that is consistent with socialism, that does not establish socialism as its foundation.

when you start down the road of philosophy by reading The Republic. . .

Only after I have had my coffee.

No. It is inconsistent to post as your first discussion a discussion that has been done to death and then expect people to go easy on you. I always we...

then why don't you just say "I'm trying not to complicate it."?

Philosophy as industry.

what does that even mean?

Zeno's paradox, like your paradox, presumes the universe to be analog. However, if the universe is digital, then there is a discrete (finite) number o...

so we only matter if the universe depends upon us? Could you be more anthropocentric?

then I suggest you give it some more thought.

You are just begging the question. If I define the real me as "a compilation of my tastes and experiences", then according to you there is a real me/t...

you are trapped within the "in time" paradigm. Forever is by definition not "in time." Similarly, most religions consider God to not be "in time."

We make things, like computers, from entities within the world that we are in and they work within the world that we are in, for one, and two, we have...

I do not know what that means. I am always open to enlightenment.

I am uncertain as to whether eternal and infinite are synonymous. I suspect their relationship to time may be different.

and therefore. . . ?

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I have no reason to believe our modes of access to the universe are comprehensive.

I have no reason to believe that our modes of access to the universe are comprehensive.

who said the existence of God is an empirical claim? And besides, are you seriously suggesting that our access abilities are absolute? garbage in, gar...