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If everything is unitary existence, presumably, there would be no individuated beings that are "becoming" (always changing, always lacking something),...

Well, that is where I think Schop's metaphysics may break down and why I brought up the idea of "illusion" a while ago. Illusion, in the previous thre...

I just explained how this shift of framework can happen. This is a tacit agreement, but with explanation. Why would you then proceed to elaborate as i...

Even if that was the case, it ain't going back any time soon. There can be an argument that we were too preoccupied with survival lifestyle where the ...

Humans strive-for-nothing. We are constantly turning our boredom into pleasure and entertainment goals and ensuring our survival (in whatever economic...

There are two things here: 1) Deprivation and 2) Instrumental nature of existence 1) Deprivation- We are in a way, this "Will" that keeps needing and ...

So it's a brute fact. Cool philosophy man. Really? That's it? I guess everyone can close the books on the mind. Case closed. I'm glad that was figured...

Oh, so you are saying that it is another state altogether- sounds familiar. So, instead of outright dualism, it is a hidden dualism. Gotcha. Now you a...

Yes, a theory or replicators and much much more. A very rich and informed theory. That is still physical processes. Where at the end of the explanatio...

It sounds like you are making compassion this monstrous dictator. It would be compassionate for the do-gooder to realize that a life straining at ever...

NO, my point is that they do NOT treat it is unique. They UNDERMINE it to be just another physical process. But that seems unjustified based on how un...

Yes, so it's about as "silly" as panpsychism isn't it? There is this mental stuff which just "exists" but it emerges from non-consciousness at point X...

That makes no sense. I get that "emergence means the presence of a new a different state". But it does not follow that non-conscious never BECOMES con...

So where is experience IN the triad monism? If it was always there- panexperientialism. If it "comes about" how is it "semiotics doing their thing" on...

Indeed we are not all saints, nor is it usually in our capacity to do so. Schop did have some ideas on character that could be used as a model here. H...

I am not Schopenhauer, though I bare his name on here :). So, I don't identify with all his conclusions though I can sympathize where he was going wit...

I think this is almost a bit of a repugnant conclusion of compassion. If everyone was busy always fixing everyone else's problem, the instrumentality ...

I would agree he is a pan-experientialist. Pan-experientialism is related to panpsychism. But if you do not agree with that, I can use pan-experientia...

I would argue that animals do have subjectivity- they have a "what it's like aspect". It may not be self-awareness though.

So, you are going to bypass this problem by ignoring it and go on to more answerable problems? Then you are not answering the question at hand. The na...

So how then this does not answer the question at hand by bypasses it to go to an easier problem.

Yes, there is incoherence, but it is coming from the semiotics side, at least as I see it at this point. How is by positing "triad" vs. "dual" you are...

Good points.

Then use "sense" or basic perception if experience is too vague or too complex a notion for your material cause. Oh come now. A baby or animal doesn't...

You misinterpreted me. I never meant that each of the trinity of the triad is there in some formless way, but that it is indeed the material root or c...

This is a really thin distinction if any.. But I'll go along with your pseudo-distinction if that makes you feel better or to have a better grasp on t...

I guess I will give a similar response to Willow.. How is the panpyschist that different from a pragmatic semiotic theorist if both take experience as...

But these three things are given as brute facts then, and are not explained except as "just there" and essentially this conflates to panpsychism but a...

Sensation and logic are what then? The same part of what system?

Then same response as Apo.

I notice you self-justified "Logic" with "logic" and moved the topic away from sensation. You said: "So if the world is logically 'structured' then th...

No, I am not saying we were aiming at anything except our own existence. Who said that? We are always just maintaining to maintain. Some people get th...

I don't get how logic is sensation then. I'm all ears.

How about that it is constantly pointing to a map and not the terrain? If the logic was the terrain.. then please let me know how logic magically turn...

Unrest, agitation, need, want, not getting, getting and needing and wanting more or more of the same is one level. Striving-for-nothing is another lev...

Actually I guess we both agree that no one "ought" to do anything so that is not necessarily the case. However, your justification does in fact lead t...

Yes, good to know. So there is a start. We both agree, no one "has" to do anything, although I am making the claim that it is worth looking into as to...

One non-empirical aspect is the "what-it's-likeness" of an individual organism. It is only empirical in that the individual person is the only who can...

So why does this tragicomedy have to be carried out in the first place? Why must there be someone to live out the "journey"? This seems like a hidden ...

The problem is one of changing a system run by the very people whose interests would be frustrated by its demise. So, if an organization is committed ...

I understand what you are saying about movement being an evolutionary development that "helped" survival, however I am having trouble understanding ho...

Too bad life as we perceive it is not eternal.. Just because we can make thought experiments does not mean that our humans-as-lived experience becomes...

I call this concept "instrumentality". It is the idea that we are striving-for-nothing. I mean that in two ways: 1) We are striving-for-nothing meanin...

Poetic, but where's the sense in it? Get the pun :D.

So what makes movement in humans or animals different than movement elsewhere?

We have a full account? We have two things without the actual thing trying to be explained- the correlate itself between the two. I just do not think ...

I don't know where you get that from. You are saying really contradictory things. First you said that hard problemers only look at descriptions (model...

How? That's not necessarily true. That is a false dichotomy. Hard Problemers just do not make the category error of explaining experience by simply re...

I agree with you about the idea that sensation cannot be simply stated and have it understood without the context of being a fully embodied being who ...

This last sentence seems to not say much. In order to know life, there needs to be another life form that understands what it means to have firsthand ...