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OK, are you singling me out now for not getting homunculus funkulus? I think I should be forgiven for said transgression.

Not sure what you’re getting at here. And the humunculus references are not helping.

What is PanMaterialism? I Googled it and found nothing.

What these viewpoints have in common is a propensity to stop short at an end. To exist within an idea and to know it from within. I feel as though giv...

I more or less agree, full scale materialism is a bit ridiculous. It sounds like what you are really concerned with is existence itself. When we consi...

I hold that there is no such thing as two words that mean the same thing.

The purpose of the question was to ask you, 'do you consider consciousness to be something explainable via the scientific method, or something also ac...

Imagine you were able to develop a scientific model of consciousness that was so effective, you would put all the world's psychiatrists out of busines...

So do you thereby think applying the scientific method to an individual by a scientifically informed individual is superior to being psychoanalyzed by...

You're right, I am not that informed on scientific explanations of consciousness, as opposed to scientific inquiry pertaining to consciousness, becaus...

You have already posited the subject as existing in the line 'the organism has to establish a boundary...' So the subject is then object, since all th...

Yeah sure, but you aren't hu-mansplaining consciousness, are you? I have no problems with rigorous scientific inquiry.

Could you clarify, are you saying subjectivity is fundamental to what organisms are or what is fundamental to what organisms are is subjectivity? In o...

Thanks for sharing, it's an interesting article with a stupid title. But I find this some and what @"wonderer1" is saying extremely interesting. What ...

I agree, but where does the grounds come in to elevate the subject to such ultimate precedence? After all, once consciousness becomes subjective it be...

If this is the aim of your work, an excellent topic. You are onto something here... This speculation is where a problem of logical extension is occurr...

In the end, doesn't the sponge have just as much to do with consciousness and mentality? Of course the sponge can't have a point of view, if what you ...

Yes, exactly. In evaluating the premise – based on the idea that it is part of one functional philosophical system among many equally valid and having...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like the question you are asking is something close to, 'Does the idea of a philosophical system detract from t...

So in your view ‘reasonable claim’ inherently involves a claim that can be countered. Is this really characteristic of it being reasonable, or only of...

And why does this take the form of a question, when none of those concerned are interested in looking for a truth that they are not already in possess...

I think you ought to narrow down a little more what you are referring to by 'self.' We can talk about self as a representation, a logical function, or...

Yes, but you have pulled a switcheroo on the word 'value,' which is here supposed to mean 'applications to.' We're not talking about science as having...

For me, the 'just so' is a product of both the orator and listener. It is our quickness to accept scientific statements along with their baggage that ...

And so being reason as it is, what are some of the ways this is taken in itself? What were these confused people really trying to do in these subjecti...

If we take reason as the logical thought process of an enlightened individual, then yes. While I agree, that historical and political decisions are mo...

Its a big statement to say history and politics don’t follow reason. Care to unpack that one? And why, do you think, they do take them?

This is the one and perhaps sole case where that does seem to happen. As you said, What more personal property do you consider yourself to own, in the...

Are we talking decay of the head or the heart?

Note that in most parts of the world this already happens. Consider public education. In your view, the state should back off and thus allow the stron...

All fair points. It’s sort of a question of whether the state should involve itself in the moral life of citizens. Lycurgus of ancient Sparta became k...

Good... good... feel the hate swell within you. It will bring you great pleasure to strike me down. And all the while you come closer and closer to th...

They may be right, but it's impossible to believe they tell the whole story here. You shared some positive viewpoints on the topic, but they don't tel...

It doesn't seem that complex. A certain drug has neurological effects that span gender, race, and personality. For one, they instill a sense of the tr...

But that's what I'm most interested in. The 'that's that.' When something reaches pure independence, it is where the reasons are the most strong and s...

I mean to say that pleasure always has both moments, the negative and positive. For instance, how often to you feel pleased at taking a shower, or hav...

OK, it sounds like what you're saying is that drug use should not be illegal, but drug addiction should be. So anyone should be free to do drugs so lo...

True, but this is only half of the story. There are some who take comfort in normal behaviour, but honestly isn't this point a little old fashioned no...

As you make it sound as if this concern is almost totally obsolete and void. After all, in the future society - even current society - being unpredict...

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. If one feels pleasure, another must feel pain. What the real question is, is 'Would a world based on competit...

How so? I observe the point that governments don't want individuals addicted, but there must be more to it than that. After all, the decisions in gove...

One might think by consciousness we are talking about all that proceeds from human existence and perception. Whether that be conditioned by existence,...

This presupposes a subject-object dichotomy, since we have already classed the positional subject as ‘not object.’

How is it that an absolute inwardness is not positional ? Does an inwardness not presuppose a content or a negation thereof for it to be directed to?

Does it make someone smart just because they can learn easily? Someone who can learn to advantage themselves is considered intelligent, but if they re...

Exactly… this whole thing is about violence and libido. It has nothing to do with the inward subjectivity other than in the form of a featureless surf...

If so, it will be nothing more than a reflection of its human creator, subject to the same limitations that we willfully accept in an unthinking manne...

This ambition to make a machine with subjective thoughts suffers from the fatal flaw that it assumes that its creator has an unmediated idea of subjec...

OK, but what is need for the term 'universe'?

Are you looking for an infinite thing, or something determined to be infinite? It sounds like you are trying to classify the infinite using what Hegel...