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I find the part about the evolution of language fascinating, especially the speculation surrounding it. The FoxP2 gene, mirror neuron system, plastici...

I think Chomsky (or at least some nativists) might argue that the very ability of the performative act is some sort of innate language acquisition cap...

The deepest truths often lie at the surface, while the shallowest lies can sink to the depths. ChatGPT wrote the above. Here's another: ""One cannot t...

Why this?

The limits of my language are not the limits of my conceptual inflation. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should speak at great length and in con...

I’m very familiar with the homuncular fallacy. Why is this linked with Wittgenstein? Are there really modern sophisticated theories that don't take in...

Including Wittgenstein. All preference no philosophy, he is. “I don’t like discussing metaphysics. Now here’s some obscure aphoristic text you need to...

Just too damn broad. It's like Wittgenstein doesn't do the heavy-lifting of identifying his targets so everyone has to do it for him. Lame sauce. I to...

Ah, as expected, he's just railing against his own previous work and basically Russell. As usual in these Wittgenstein vignettes, on closer inspection...

Thats exactly my point to you. You present these ideas of Wittgenstein and Sellars without context of what ideas and who they are arguing against. So ...

In any of these debates, I think it is wise to explain not only the theory, but what and who it is opposing. Wittgenstein was opposing "Blank person w...

This is sort of akin to Schopenhauer, no? "Will" is a monistic entity that is "felt" as if disunified. Of course, how the many is one, and why the fee...

Hello Professor Chomsky, Do you think that the debate between theories of "innate cognitive structures" (like the "merge" function), and theories of s...

I can agree with that. It is a necessary construct. Hunter-gatherers are more communal but they are not completely different minds. They are not the b...

Yes, but not a social fiction. There's a difference. It is at the least entailed in our species, not our culture.

Eerie how their description fits the internet age so well.

Not category error. Similar conclusions perhaps. There is something about human consciousness which is tragic. You are saying that the tragedy is a fi...

Sorry to go over well-trodden ground. Just keeping up with the thread.. Although I guess it's not really Zizek's "consciousness" theory as much as his...

I think Guy Debord is similar there with his idea of The Spectacle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle As it says here:

Zizek is a continental guy. Schopenhauer, Hegel, Marx, Lacan, Kierkegaard, are all on his radar. It's the well he draws from. There's a strong traditi...

But in general, his philosophy acknowledges the play between authenticity and power structures that help us internalize habits of thought.. Things tha...

That is how they enjoy(ed) it. The enjoyment is not knowing. The Tao and Nirvana and Flow state we are always seeking. Broken tool man.

Zizek might not agree. Anyways, pessimism goes part and parcel with being human. while our cultural and social environment may shape the way we unders...

No, I don't think you do because you are cutting out the rest of my quote, and it seems deliberate. In other words, how is this not a Cthulu god, one ...

Eden = no self-awareness. No ability to be uber-deliberative and to thus be existential. There was a time when there was no break.

I am explaining what it's like to be the creature that can do things it doesn't want to and can do things existentially driven (suicide). Even other a...

I think it is definitely sequitur. Correcting wrong characterization from your non sequitur. More coming hold on..

You give too much credence to this romantic notion of the romantic reaction to the industrial revolution. It was there in Ecclesiastes and Gilgamesh. ...

It's all self-motivated though. I choose to internalize as much as it is habitual. That line is much greyer than both camps like to admit. Using @"apo...

I never said you don't understand statistical mechanics, but as I said to plaque: I agree with you to some extent but then you try to put the order wh...

Never said we weren't part of nature, but just a really asymmetrical one that is out of sorts with the other parts. There is no justification for why ...

It all goes back to the Zapffe's break in nature. Talk about a break in symmetry! Humans have created a huge asymmetry. When meaning itself can not be...

I don't think it's that slippery a concept. People make it so because it doesn't fit in their schema of how things are.. You see molecules, neurons, l...

But you never answered it. Let me lay it out again... You were sort of engaging here?

Ok sure. Well one major takeaway here is if you were content in the here and now you don't need to do activities that engross you. Engrossing means yo...

@"plaque flag" @"180 Proof"@"Wayfarer" Hey, I lost the thread of this thread I think.. So we are discussing various things. I see the word tautology a...

And thus simply reproducing and homeostasis can't be the dividing line of what matters as that is misapplying. Rather, feeling or awareness, etc. And ...

But we don't incinerate the living (or we shouldn't) and anesthetize the dead :smile:.

You'd have to explain how we don't know very well what we mean. Examples or something of the sort.

Humans do, because the feel something towards those plants. The plants don't feel something though. Or are you saying they do besides the events of re...

Not sure why this is a bigger deal. We usually say that some things can sense and be aware of things and some things can't. You disagree? On a sort of...

Yes animals with a first person perspective, but of anything else? Photosynthesis?

This is obfuscating. What do you mean we don't "know" this?

No I get that this may be a definition of life, but I mean, what makes it have more primacy than any other event?

It's a hard problem in that we know that there are things that don't sense the sky as "blue" or sense at all and we know there are things that sense. ...

Slightly more complex enduring patterns. Why give primacy to photosynthesis over the strong force? What did electromagnatism and gravity and basic ele...

Yes true. He does put primacy on the internal aspect. The subject for object, object for subject etc.

A replicating thing that has patterns has a thereness (as in a point of view?). What makes it different than other events in the universe if it is jus...

Magical “thereness” generated like the engine that could something out of nothing. Illusions that are not explained etc.

It matters to the subject. Doesn’t explain how or why that answers the hard problem or explains it away etc.