Terrapin Station

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Yes, but inauthenticity of the difference between sexual identity and class, on the the use of cultural narrative to challenge the status quo of the o...

In reality, by the way, speaking as a musician who has been on lots of albums, it's not at all as simple as us thinking, "If the album was sold, that'...

You said: "I visit a music festival and purchase a vinyl disc. This musician might take this as a symbol that this type of music has pleased me, and p...

Re your argument, you're substituting a claim about necessary beings with claims about identification. I'm not sure why you'd not realize that the two...

You said you might buy an album after hearing the music (live) and not liking it. I was curious why you might do that.

Part of the brilliant argument here is that "You're using the word wrong above," "You're simply deluded." :lol:

Why in the world would I think that a tree is subjective/mental? Why in the world would I think that a perception of a tree, or knowledge of a tree is...

You're basically assuming that if someone is familiar with Kant, then they need to agree with Kant, rather than thinking that Kant was very confused a...

So which Kant argument do you take to support your representationalism? Think about and answer these for a moment: When you taste something, is it you...

I'm curious why people do things. I'm just curious why you might buy an album of music you don't like.

Just curious why you'd do that.

Maybe it would help to focus on being more comfortable in situations where you're not in control?

You mean that you might buy an album of an artist you saw at a festival despite not liking the music you heard?

There are different stances in philosophy of perception. The view you're endorsing is one of them. It's known as "representationalism." As you say, "w...

It might be worth contemplating why you have such a need for control of everything that you'd rather die sooner while having control of it than live l...

Under physicalism, the argument is incoherent/inconceivable, because the properties of anything are determined by its physical constitution (including...

I haven't read every post and I didn't see people arguing with you about that, but yes. That's what a p-zombie is.

Obviously "perception of x" is different than "x," no?

Right. Particular ranges are what we're calling colors.

C'mon, man. Don't do that stereotypical Internet crap. Let's have a serious discussion. What's the reason that you believe representationalism? This i...

And that electromagnetic radiation is what we're calling color out in the world.

"The brain has arrived at a conclusion" "Introspect and seem to find x" "Our cognitive machinery accessing internal models" "An elaborate story" ALL o...

Good post above (your second-to-last post now) that I agree unfortunately doesn't really clear up what Dennett is claiming very well. And yeah, it's w...

I don't know that much about schools outside of the U.S. (and just for context, I graduated high school in 1980, and then did university kind of piece...

There's an interest in keeping the machine going the way it was going, which is why P2P file-sharing was fought against so much, for example.

You're the one being obtuse. I told you that I do not agree with "you don't see the tree." I said that I believe that claim is ridiculous. I asked you...

Well, first, lots of artists have been taken advantage of by managers, agents, record companies/studios/dealers/gallery owners etc. You don't have to ...

Meaning can't be literally "embedded" into anything. What especially artists realize is that one is producing stuff that works as a "meaning catalyst"...

People usually create artworks because they're enough of a fan of the medium that they want to learn how to perform that medium themselves. Most peopl...

It tells us what we're actually doing when it comes to creativity.

Again, I wouldn't say I'm describing it as something else, something that's not creativity, something that's different than creativity, and I wouldn't...

So, to use what you mention just above, a tree is an example.

Cool. Guess we can't really proceed then. <shrugs>

lol--that's nothing that I'm claiming (and it's rather ridiculous). At any rate, it's not an inconsistency to disagree with something that someone els...

What I was referring to was the issues with invoking "explanations"/hinging any arguments on whether there are "explanations" for something. The comme...

That's a bunch of different things. We can't really paint them all with the same brush.

Is it too much to specify an inconsistency?

A pronoun substitution for the objective world. The objective world is the nonmental world. You observe it via your senses. There's no problem there (...

Aren't you coming from something of a continental background? My confusion would be because of that. A lot of continental stuff makes very little sens...

They're not at all an "explanation of what I mean by explanation."

I have no idea what that is saying, really.

Sometimes I work in a work-for-hire/journeyman capacity. Sometimes I work in more or less democratic or partnership capacities. Sometimes I'm the cont...

Early on, I wrote: "What I mean by 'rearranging' is that with the car, for example, you're taking some metal and plastic and rubber and electronics, e...

There's nothing problematic or inconsistent about it. Among the things in the world are brains, shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, etc. It's a simpl...

No, I'm not saying anything at all like that.* It's simply that we can create categories like "Fender amplifiers" as opposed to "everything else," or ...

That's very simple: you observe it via your senses.

I've made a living as a musician, composer and arranger since the early 80s. I've done a lot of film work, but not only. I've done some film work outs...

So what do you think that I'm doing as a creative person other than what I'm describing?

I'm not in favor of anyone having to advertise/"register" criminal backgrounds or inclinations period. if someone is too dangerous to be around everyd...