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Cool. I am (or really was) a musician too. Never been very political though. Always an outsider trying to understand (while some might say I should be...

I've been thrown off Heidegger a few times, but some itch always brought me back. I still can only really enjoy his work from the mid 1920s (I have so...

This is an exciting line. It reminds me of truth as disclosure. People can only argue about entities that are already mutually disclosed. But some spe...

Great to hear. I like some joy in humor in foolosophy. No prob. It's really about the ideas and not their source who usually turns out to have yet ano...

Exactly.

IMV you might be making morality too theoretical. A good example of this taken to extremes is Randian objectivism. Hume's is probably a better approac...

On the hearing/seeing issue, I think we might have a more sophisticated sense of time if we listened more to human discourse and looked at clocks less...

All beautiful questions. I like computer science, and my initial position was that computers could never experience qualia. But then I reflect that al...

Here's a question for you. How would it affect philosophy if our primary access to the world was through the ear?

Ah, shucks. Push around some objects! <smiles>

Yes, I know that book. I think you might want to specify more what you mean by 'nihilism.' Weren't some of them political idealists who risked their l...

If we say that meaning is not really shared, then we seem to be trying to impose precisely on the shared space of meaning. We use persuasive speech to...

Posty is fun. Where is @"Posty McPostface"?

This seems like a good approach. It does justice to our experience of a strange kind of shared space.

I expect annihilation, for the usual reasons which I therefore won't go into (unless they come up.) What is death good for? It scares us away from tha...

Is that so clear? How does one distinguish between mental and non-mental in the first place? What is sensation? How do we learn to distinguish between...

Thanks for the answer. I can relate to what you wrote. I might tend toward a different terminology, but maybe we have a similar grasp of the idea of G...

Here is maybe one of the more interesting unresolved tensions in your theory. At first it seems radically pragmatic. But you are honest enough to gran...

Now you are touching on what I am especially interested in lately! This is what we tend to do. We use different models of what it means to exist or fo...

Ah yes, I see where you are coming from. For awhile I was working on a theory of authority-- of the structure that all claims to transpersonal truth h...

You might talk to @"apokrisis" about this. I personally think it's on the right track. Our primary mode of seeing the world seems to be in terms of si...

*Anyone is invited to reply. Assuming that science is the best way to predict and control nature as it is familiar to all of us, does this reduce phil...

You didn't answer my question. Do you think science is deeper than prediction and control? IMV, saying that it 'reveals actuality' is already non-scie...

I like this approach to the spiritual. It exists 'within.' Right. And the 'object' of this knowledge and reflection might just be a 'how' of living, a...

I like this. I would just say that 'it' appears to us largely but not only through our concepts. Can we grasp the 'absolute' with concept alone? I'd s...

I like the ego and intellect as possible obstacles, but I think you are wading into hot water with 'something to obey,' even if I have a sense of what...

I think this is one of your central passages, and I tend to agree. On the other hand, I think it's reasonable to try to give an account of that urge t...

This does seem to be a useful perspective. But is it true? And if it is true, then would it not be true in its own way of not being true in the old-fa...

Hi. I think you presented lots of potent ideas in a way that fits them together nicely .As I see it, it's not so much a new theory of truth as simply ...

Of course. Of course. But surely you embrace some kind of duty to defend your ideas or the desire to promote them persuasively, at least within certai...

Sounds good, but that leaves us with 'it is what it is.' No, not even that. What does it mean for something to be? What do we mean when we say 'is'? I...

I'm no expert, but I'd say that they are related. (I can't guarantee that this isn't a misreading on my part.) As I understand the circle, we have to ...

Sure, I can relate to that. But this prioritization of agreement/disagreement over a sure grasp of what is being said is not my own preference. As Heg...

I understand that you may be getting tired of my longwinded responses, so I leave this here just in case a part of you is still a little curious. And ...

OK, I will try once more, and perhaps what is not there will be illuminating in its conspicuous absence.

I do indeed, because I both sympathize with the skepticism/resistance and think Hegel is worth with trouble --and because I love the opportunity to pa...

I agree that it's logically possible that I could walk across Lake Michigan. I think the tension here is between the machine-likeness of the argument ...

I'm not sure we really disagree on this issue, but maybe we aren't using the same terms. I underlined what were two compatible thoughts in terms of my...

It at least seems possible (if a little scary) that the globe could fall under the control of a specific community which makes its way of being and se...

M is very technical, very precise in his thinking. But so were the theologians, right? A machine-like technique (presumed for that reason trustworthy)...

Gotta work for a living, so check in with you lovely people later....

But I don't find this necessary being to beyond clarification. Yes, I get that, and well said. But there is a practical contradiction here. We don't l...

While I understand why you might say that, I don't think it's so simple. I will grant that the walk matching the talk might require some stable sense ...

Honestly I just can't see an important difference. Science is intelligible/understandable as science even for those who don't know math. The get the g...

I wouldn't personally identity coherence with settled opinion. I'd think more in terms of the walk matching the talk. Or of a life on earth that makes...

In Heideggarian jargon, we might say that science is exactly about Anyone's opinions. The time of science is the time of the clock. Of course I love s...

I am suspicious of the value of a certain kind of system-building, but then I also think we move toward coherence 'automatically.' So perhaps the issu...

I don't have literature alone in mind as that kind of 'Science.' Instead I might say that we 'live' this 'Science' already as we make sense of our exi...

Yes, I do grant that he makes a clever argument for that. My objection would be that this is finally like 'maybe we are all brains in a vat.' After al...

I respect that, and appreciate your sincere answer. IMV, if I can be equally honest, this is you reading your concerns into what for me is pretty clea...