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I simply want to quantify the amazing heaps of boredom that the modern economy produces, and add that as a factor of disutility into the economic equa...

OR, encourage people not to have children, realize that most of life consists of boring routine, and that the supply and demand of the modern economy ...

And there is the major point. The output of boredom is soooo huge and most of modern people's lives consist of this. I guess it's worth living because...

Just think of the tiniest, minutest, insignificant little part and then realize that someone had to manufacture that, inventory it, ship it, etc. It's...

Representation of a physical attribute? That sounds like where you are sneaking in the ghost or the "Cartesian Theater". It usually happens somewhere.

Okay, I'll wait for it :D. If you want, add some more drudgery photos from drudgery jobs.

So what is your Boredom rate? a/h * hours per time period = B remember :D.

Then what's an example of a solution? Or do we just not debate philosophy of mind and problem solved? I don't see how the problem is not a problem by ...

I definitely agree with you, but my intention was not to say, "Hey, lets compensate people according to a boredom scale", but rather, "Hey, look how m...

Yes, I see this type of phrase a lot of rejecting the "Cartesian" conceptualization. But exactly does that mean? The hard problem still remains. It se...

Here is a potion of a Wikipedia article on Searle's biological naturalism: Immediately I would see that the first person ontology becomes the "ghost i...

Just need the basic inferencing capacity in place and the more advanced calculating becomes cultural learning. Caveman didn't need primes but he did n...

Why can't leprechauns be an abstract object? It may not be a mathematical object, but why not an abstract one? Being a set would be a definition of a ...

Recognize the two things versus one can be a pattern.

Yes, but how is that not a truism? Who doesn't agree with that? But is being done, is something different than "getting something done". We are playin...

Ok good. Sometimes I think these debates go down to "language as use" thing, which then leaves no room for "language as explanation". We use language ...

I see. Certainly this goes to the idea that humans have pattern recognition. Quantification is one of these. I guess the question to you is whether ab...

Well, what is the difference of the two in your conception? How are we not making everything just "use", and conflating words into each other, thus mi...

@"Banno" You are all playing a language game by equivocating explanation and use.

Not sure your non-sequitor there. The point is why would imaginary objects be equated with Platonic realm?

I think that is key with Cioran. We didn't ask for this, but here we are stuck.

What is the object referencing? Presumably reference is a "real" thing, but how does he explain this without being self-referential? If he says it is ...

But then how about my criticism?

If imagination is simply the mind combining prior sensory data or rearranging it to make up imaginary objects that are not correlated to the real worl...

Can you reiterate this for me? What makes neurons special as a carrier of chemical messengers, sodium/potassium gates, and so on? Further, what is it ...

Added more to the post above.

I think many Americans don't engage in much philosophy at all if you are to characterize it as a whole. I'm guessing that is most societies though, ex...

So these fields are essentially inert just so theories then and will remain so?

Due to our wills, our need "to do", we are always put in a stance of overcoming something. The existentialist understanding is that this overcoming is...

I'm not sure. @"Kornelius" what would be the difference between numbers and leprechauns in Frege's conception of objects? I realize that question is f...

Why laughing? I am just saying, Frege seems to think anything is an object as long as it is not a predicate statement. Thus, any old imaginary thing c...

C'mon you know that structural suffering is more than that. You move it to the contingent there. I don't know what "Baden gills" is. In it to win it. ...

Then they would just say it's the physical output of an electrical circuit opening and closing other circuits. This would be a physical act.

Someone would just say that numbers are objects like leprechauns are objects- made up ones. What would it matter if objects are objects if objects can...

Let's suppose I grant you this argument. I don't necessarily, but just for the sake of argument- what does this prove or not prove? I can always say t...

Yes, I guess what I find annoying is that I invest a bit of stock in these theories, and they give a good "just so" understanding of the phenomena, bu...

I'm sorry, but having trouble interpreting this. This is almost stream-of-consciousness.

It would be very bizarre for something like Corbalis' theory of gestural speech/mirror neurons to conflate with Terrence Deacon's semiosis theory of t...

But I would still say this isn't quite right in regards to structural suffering. Structural suffering means that the there are no countable minus-stro...

Sorry I should change the wording of this whole thread.. It isn't that language and consciousness theories at odds, but WITHIN the context of their re...

Just to clarify, in my OP, I meant language AND consciousness theories. They do not have to relate with each other, but they are examples of theories ...

Sure but predictable models like relativity, quantum mechanics, the clotting process, protein formation, etc. can actually be verified in outcomes. No...

A bit ironic from you :wink: . But "doing things with words" would be kind of arbitrary use of words. Doing things with forks and knives is not necess...

Yes, it's in comparison to other humans. So human achieves their capacity for X, Y, Z (e.g. jobs, love life, achievements and capacities in general as...

It is something else. Winners and losers here are not necessarily against other people, but against the fulfilling their own capacities. So some peopl...

That's great, so all these incomensurable ideas that don't seem to fit together to explain this phenomena? If you can explain a theory in one way, and...

@"Banno", I don't think you answered that one.

What I think Cioran does well, is he already anticipates the "average position" or "optimist" response and then completely demolishes it. Thus, an opt...

No, that is not what I said. Rather, what is a response in a world where there are losers and winners when it comes to actualizing capacities? The los...

Not all capacities are actualized, sorry. You gave examples of ones that can be, but certain whales will not actualize the capacity to find proper foo...