Terrapin Station

In my view there's no good reason to buy that there's an unconscious mind per se. I certainly buy that there are unconscious brain processes, but unco...

Both just seem to be psychological dispositions to me. And my disposition is optimism. Sometimes to a point where I call myself an "irrational optimis...

I prefer moral views based on "pragmatics." I don't care for principle-oriented approaches. They seem to lead to absurd positions. So political views ...

That makes an assumption that just in case words differ, the words refer to something non-identical, at least in lieu of an argument for them being id...

As opposed to your unsupported assumption that they don't refer to the same thing?

Good points, schopenhauer1

I was just using that term as a way of denoting the phenomenon at the location of the robot's circuits and the scientist's brain. I don't think we kno...

Both the scientist's and robot's blue has qualities that are unique to the blue phenomenon at their respective terminuses. The robot's blue isn't a qu...

How would "the world" be different from matter + its dynamic situatedness with respect to other matter? In other words, what are you positing addition...

Can't you type shorter replies so that a bunch of stuff doesn't get lost? I'm not going to respond to an ever-expanding number of topics each time. I ...

Qualitative/qualities/qualia are just the properties of something (with "qualia" being reserved for a specific context, of course). So how would how y...

Yeah, I have never quite understood either (a) the desire to eliminate (the idea of) qualia, (b) the notion that there's anything mysterious about qua...

The simplest way to put supervenience is that it's the properties of a collection of things interacting as a system. It's an identity relation rather ...

Since you might keep expanding this, I'm just going to do a bit at a time. A and B. Yeah, they're actual and they have various relations. You're makin...

Obviously if we're talking about the relation of A to B, it's not a property of just A or just B. The property in question obtains via how A and B are...

Change and/or motion. Or in other words, it's processes, or changing relations of matter. Whatever that would be. <shrugs>

Right, I think it obviously isn't all in response to other people. I more often get angry as a form of extreme frustration/annoyance at things not wor...

It's a problem if the dualism is positing non-physical existents. Why? Because there are no non-physical existents. People call other things "dualism,...

There isn't any universal meaning/purpose/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. There are certainly personal meanings/purposes/etc., and those aren't inadequa...

Haha--that's hilarious. Buy it for an already exorbitant amount, let it completely fall apart, then try to sell it a year later for a 60% profit margi...

The good can't be found anywhere else. It's just that people aren't so simple that they don't have conflicting goals/feelings.

I can't watch it, unfortunately, but the little bit I'm gleaning from comments and the short Facebook video come across to me like pandering to folks ...

I kind of agree with this, but from a perspective of thinking that a significant percentage of non-religious-oriented philosophical conclusions are ju...

Probably simply understanding that (a) subjectivity does not imply whim or disagreement or anything like that, and (b) agreement, cooperation, etc. do...

Wow--so only 100 months/just over 8 years to break even.

You start off well enough, but you go increasingly off the rails during the course of that post. The biggest problem is with your belief that there ar...

Your statement of "yes yes" was sophisticated? Hahaha. Anyway, the "how do I draw a tiger" question is a bit mysterious. I'd say, "However you want to...

Descartes would be wrong there. So he wouldn't know that, because it wouldn't be a true belief.

Well, "that which gives life" is biological processes. For one, how would it be the case that biological processes do not denote subjectivity? I don't...

I actually didn't offer a definition of objective (in the post you're quoting or in this thread.) The way that I define "objective," if I were to defi...

I don't know if he's comfortable with you speaking for him, but so then he means a "breath truth"??

What are you even referring to with "spiritual"?

Far out, man.

If only someone could climb Mauna Kea from its base. But yeah, what terms like "tallest" refer to is of course subjective.

Hmm . . . well, I don't really buy the principle of sufficient reason. But I suppose that's not important for the distinction you're making. However, ...

Thanks for the answer, although reading through all of that, I still have no idea what immanence and trascendence are supposed to be outside of a reli...

If only he'd spent less time with women of questionable virtue.

Now here's an unpretentious dude: http://www.ttahko.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kit-Fine.jpg (That's Kit Fine)

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I'm askig you this because you know far more about the philosophers in question than I do: Do any continental and/or postmodernist etc. philosophers e...

I have no idea what that's saying, really. God can create the world as God wants to create the world, which is an idea the topic creator explicitly as...

If you're at all familiar with philosophical discourse in an analytic context, you should be familiar with the "big question" phrase. And after all, t...

And indeed, I was not positing freedom any different than that. The only way to make the notion of freedom distinct from what I proposed would be to s...

Yes. Of course that would be a subjective assessment. It would even be a subjective assessment that Shakespeare's works are greater than your five-yea...

Yeah, I'm surprised. </sarcasm>

My post was about comments you make about whether something is on topic or not. My post wasn't about you deleting posts. (And now you'll say that then...

Yeah, but you think that everything is off-topic if it's not focusing on whatever "point" you personally want to focus on.

This. And what people mean by it is different things in different contexts. In some contexts, it refers to extramental or objective facts. In other co...

You don't know anything specific? What you ate for breakfast this morning would be specific, for example. Don't you know that?

Well, they go as far as making value judgments goes. Aka mistaking strong emotions, strongly held judgments and/or popular sentiments for objectivity....