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Peircean math is not utilized in a systematic way either. It's not taught as THE theory of everything that totalizes sciences. However, I can see your...

Yes I didn't watch it all the way through until after I posted it. I still think he had some interesting ideas about language games. At least you admi...

One of the big things philosophy can provide is systematic thinking AND understanding systems. These are things people are not prone to do on their ow...

It might be good to learn about Whitehead through Rorty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAWTYcwlEg

I like your ideas here about the unknowable nature of truth. What's even more interesting is despite this state, we are enmeshed in a system which cre...

I'm interested in your understanding of this as compared to Peirce, especially his aversion to substance ontology:

Finally, that's all I was trying to get at.

This has been my main point as well with app.

When we take for granted the already existing self, sure it seems so. What is this "me"? This "illusion"? If you go back to mere description, you have...

My disagreement is not necessarily with modeling, though @"Janus" brings up a good point that I'd like to see your response to. My disagreement in thi...

At what point does modeling not feel like something?

I am thinking more in terms of the Whitehead variety of panpsychism (i.e. panexperientialism). I am claiming to apo that the thing in-itself version o...

In other words, any semiotic process can be said to have internal states. Otherwise, what is it about animal experiences, that make that process ONLY ...

No, I don't see how you get blood from a stone. Causation is not the whole of metaphysics. Ontology of being. The umwelt has a point of view, I presum...

Okay, let's say: Possibility, brute reaction and habitual regularity. There IS something going on betwxit the three and that IS is consciousness. This...

It doesn't have to be selfhood. This is comprised indeed of complex interactionism- perhaps of the triadic variety you extol. It is the brute actualit...

It is precisely this that we are trying to explain, thus saying an event is composed of these other events doing stuff, isn't the full story. Why is t...

What is this "our" and "it"?

What is this "thing-in-itself" without simply referencing the mapped signs that describe it (i.e. not having circularity)? In other words, what is the...

As I was saying to the previous post, there is an anthropic tendency when thinking of the problem of being (why anything?). I am not necessarily again...

And the basis of much anthropomorphic thinking- the anthropic principle itself even. Berekely's subjective idealism also comes to mind, at least as fa...

Not sure if this link would help. He's using a lot of information theory and thermodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete_Nature

Are you familiar with Terrence Deacon's theory of language evolution?

Have you ever read any Whitehead? I think @"apokrisis" would blow a gasket that I even recommended him. But, he seemed to develop a philosophy of dire...

Okay, I was more commenting on your OP as a whole (with your particular comments) not just Nietzsche. I get it, he looked at things piecemeal and with...

Isn't this just "thing-in-itself"?

I won't create a new topic, but wanted to include some posters: @"darthbarracuda" @"Baden" @"Michael Ossipoff" @"NKBJ" @"matt" @"Posty McPostface" @"B...

Well, sorry but there is structural suffering, whether you call it "doctrinal" or not. There are things built into the system that are of a negative q...

So are there unstated assumptions here that themselves can be questioned?

This doesn't address the structural suffering. I'm sorry but it doesn't. I do appreciate your sincerity and passion.

Yes, there are also similarities in Zapffe and Schopenhauer's view of art.

I'm glad I can help! Though, I'm not trying to sour your view on humanity- individual people can do that on their own :). But, if it is consoling to h...

The problem of absurdity might be too translucent for many people to grasp; perhaps you may have to "feel" it. The absurdity of living every day is en...

Absolutely, this is the trend I see as well. I will think about this some more.

Yes I generally agree with this. Suicide is often about the ideation, but can never be experienced. Indeed I do. I agree, this is essentially the comm...

But that is a play/art and this is philosophy. So we are getting right at it straight on. Sure, we can make poems and stories about tragedy using all ...

I’m not sure if that’s aimed at my posts. I’m most interested in human existence qua existence- so I’m line with certain existential elements which wi...

Good question. It's not necessarily the outcome of of antinatalism. There is no way that all human suffering will be prevented by mass voluntary non-p...

@"darthbarracuda" To be fair, I brought up the teen/kid thing as a way we can both take that option off the table and move forward. At first you were ...

Besides being a bit romantic-y for my taste, this seems just a wee bit condescending (any time adolescent is thrown around we are really trying to cas...

Perhaps similar theme, but hitting it at different acute angles.

THIS is at the heart of what I was getting at in the other thread- the "always-having-to-balance" in the first place. As seen here: https://thephiloso...

Yes, you hit the mark yet again. This is the heart of what I'm trying to say right here. The deprivation that is above and before the good- the struct...

Yes! The honing process itself, the not already having but always striving is insightful in itself as to perhaps a lightpost into the nature of things...

Until it doesn't.

Thought experiment- what if everyone existed in order to help everyone else with no focus on the self? That would literally make the point of helping ...

Couldn’t help it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I disagree to quote Schopenhauer: ]

The problem is the modern workforce needs precision and detail-oriented tasks that are neither creative or inherently meaningful. A lot of times they ...

That whole article relies on faulty premises. There is a hidden understanding of the author that there is a debt individuals owe humanity. A debt owed...