Terrapin Station

The only moderation I'm in favor of is the prohibition of flooding. <shrugs>

Oy vey. Yeah, well if you say that complete nonsense is a fact it must be. Great argument.

Okay, but what sort of history differences are you suggesting in this case? Let's be a little more specific.

How would this not just amount to playing the game of whether you can respond to any suggestion by saying that part of any present change or motion is...

I don't understand why you've started your comment with "So . . ." You're not reading me to be saying what you wrote after "So," are you?

That you'd see this as suggesting that there's no present rather than saying "per this way of systematically thinking about things, it suggests there'...

The "morphing" is the present.

They don't require a period of time--they are what time is in the first place. Time isn't something separate from changes/motion. That's stated as if ...

Why in the world would you take it to represent that? First off, the whole idea of a real zero-dimensional point is completely absurd. It's a useful c...

I'd participate. I was hoping we'd do more "let's read a book together" threads.

There's an easy (yet correct) answer to this: no. Mathematics isn't the cause of anything. Mathematics is simply an invented language for thinking abo...

So you'd say that sibling 1 versus sibling 4 must have read or been exposed to something different that they're effectively regurgitating?

Would you mean "a point in time" in a mathematical sense, so basically something "zero dimensional"?

So on your view, you don't exist at present, and you can exist in the future? (If that's really your view, I'm tempted to not say anything in response...

I still need to answer your other post, by the way, which I'll do when I'm not on a mobile device as I am now. Anyway, particularity isn't a property ...

??? Sibling 1 is a pacifist. Sibling 4 is in favor of killing people just because they're on your property without permission. In your view their diff...

Okay--so it's suggested by the herd on your view, but how is it determined?

Counting the relation as a thing, you mean? (I'm not disagreeing with that, just clarifying that that's what you had in mind.)

In context, I have no idea what that means then. What does it mean?

So you'd say that awareness isn't in the past because you'd say it's in the past and the future?

You can't actually do anything in or even access 2D. As with many things, the idea of that is purely a mathematical construct, or it's a kind of game ...

With the first part, you didn't actually address, in my opinion, what I wanted you to address. Given your view that morality isn't relative to individ...

In other words, what I'm referring to is the awareness that you'd not say is in the past.

Your terminology feels very awkward to me, but that's simply because you're heavily rooted in Peirce's work, and Peirce was so idiosyncratic, whereas ...

In other words, the awareness that you're not saying is in the past.

I'm surprised by your humilty.

Well, assuming it's not just a bunch of bullshit. Which I'm not at all ready to assume.

"new global boundary conditions" "don't interact dynamically but act hierarchically" "dynamism becoming isolated" "becoming stretched across different...

I'd just clarify that it's a matter of dynamic organization. The aphorism arises out of the fact that people overlook relations and processes (or dyna...

Yeah, I like that perspective. Each part is also a whole, and then it's just a matter of how they interact. Combinations of wholes/parts aren't someho...

I don't use the idea of "narrative," partially because re the way you're using it, no, I'd not make any distinction between that and (phenomenal) expe...

What is experience in your view if not that present mental content? Do you reserce "experience" for something like "things that happen to your body pr...

How? What I'm talking about, that present mental content, whatever it is, is the phenomenal experience I'm talking about.

Okay, but that's what I'm talking about--the present mental content, whatever it is.

I know I had this discussion with Metaphysician Undercover before--maybe in the old place. At any rate, so MU and Real Gone Cat, are you claiming that...

But that's not what the paper is about, is it?

I parsed the phrase "absolute reality" as mostly "decorative."

I'd say that's an interpretation issue, not a perception issue. Re perception arguments in that vein, they undermind themselves because of the followi...

Actually, according to the Stanford article, Wong doesn't actually endorse V. He thinks that interference can be justified It's just that he'd say it'...

Re his comments on synonymy, Quine always seemed to me to be pulling the ridiculous rhetorical tactic where one pretends to not know what some common ...

That latter part would be about how the phenomenal experience hooks up with something that's not the phenomenal experience (specifically, how does the...

Unsurprisingly, there's absolutely no reference in the Wikipedia article to anyone who considers themselves a moral relativist who says V.

The problem there in my opinion is the culture of monogamy. In a culture where monogamy isn't the norm by polyamory is, then there's no issue there.

Let's call that "V." I didn't see who said that, but it's not correct. What's almost always the case there is rather this: ethical objectivists/absolu...

So the one study is right and the others wrong because you agree with the one and not the others. (Well, and plus the conclusions you've already reach...

Right, so you have no empirical evidence supporting your conclusion there, though?

You appeared to be saying that regardless of what people claimed re psychological benefits versus detriments, in reality, there were detriments only. ...

An individual delusion? So how would you explain this: we have a family with four siblings, who were all raised by the same parents, went to the same ...

Sure, and you claim that regardless, there was empirical evidence of negative psychological consequences in that study?

So in all of the studies, there was empirical evidence of negative psychological consequences, despite what the research subjects said and despite the...