unenlightened

I thought the Greeks invented it; City states - civility, all that. Unless it was Freud, who fleshed out its discontents in prurient detail.

Well speaking as a psychological philosopher, I'd say he is an emblem of the crisis of modernity, what we in the trade call a 'crashing bore'. The Sim...

Ok, sometimes it's not hard. But how would a real barber tackle that? Build a wall round it maybe?

It's so hard these days to tell real barbering from fake.

The second was Facebook, but what was the third?

https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/koenigsberg/essays/index.html

No true philosopher would make a video like that.

Never click on a blue unenlightened. You might just tip him over the edge.

I was reminded of A Case of Conscience at first, but on reflection, a better guide is the dystopian Brave New World, and by contrast, Huxley's utopian...

Something, though, must make the dream or the hallucination 'yours'. I'm certainly not aware of your dreams, but I am aware of mine, otherwise I could...

Well perhaps I have hyper-imaginative empathic syndrome, and find myself taking on other people's psyche whenever they post about it. Or perhaps not. ...

I generally agree with you. The state of psychiatry is very close to the state of science in the era of witchcraft - i.e. nowhere. That 'we' normals a...

As in, "I don't think" is a performative contradiction.

If you have dealings with real idiots, or whatever politically correct designation one gives to the less intellectual amongst us, they tend to be less...

Ok, Harry, I'm done, here. You find the appropriate word to express your relation to your dreams.

I came across this on another thread, and thought of you.

Yes, a hallucination is making shit up, and if one is unconscious of any shit, made up or real, one is not hallucinating. I cannot hallucinate X witho...

Well I disagree. I have tried to indicate why. Words for things that are not open for comparison fail to have content.

Ok, let's go into that a bit, though it seems like a non-issue to me. Suppose Temple or you or anyone is walking down the street and meets a friend, G...

I confess sport interests me very little, and my list was the result of a 30 second google search. But it served as an answer to your rhetorical quest...

the current world record for the greatest depth reached in free diving is held by a woman. In 1967 Beryl Burton cycled further in 12 hours than the me...

Exactly. It's called pure reason, and it has limitations. That's what it means for a proposition to be analytic, that it says nothing about the world....

How can you be aware after the fact without having been aware of the fact? Stop making shit up. If I hallucinate pink elephants in the garden, then I ...

One must be aware of a hallucination or a day or night dream in order to have it, no?

No. Even if there are no blue dogs, no blue things and no dogs, still all the blue dogs are blue dogs, just as all unicorns are unicorns.

Well I was hoping for some of the actual words. But still, the point can be made, I think. What you get is some words that describe a feeling that lea...

So the first rule is that philosophy club shall be anarchic or perverse? I would give my vote to 1. Play nice.

No, let's go there.

So how did you find out that was the name for it? I'm chronically shy and misanthropic; Have I got it?

This is kind of straightforward. I know what a car crash is without having experienced one, but experiencing one is very different from knowing what i...

When I am conscious I detect edges. We agree about that much. When I am conscious I can touch my nose with my thumb. I bet you can too. I do not, howe...

He could ask you, and you could tell him. Wittgenstein is the man for this conundrum. It's the beetle in the box. If you only have your beetle, and I ...

Then we agree. But your rhetoric serves to blur the distinction rather than clarify it. Change the example: I put 2 rabbits in an empty hutch with som...

These are not arguments, they are examples of explanations one might make if there turn out not to be 3 beers in the fridge. The point is that how man...

You're just wrong about this. How many beers are in the fridge is settled by opening the fridge and counting the beers, and the result of this experim...

Well let's have a little go at this. Language works by means of distinctions: beer is distinguished from not-beer, otherwise we don't know what we are...

One of the beers might have been pregnant.

If your name's Banksy, that's because it is unanswerable, but in this case, it looks as if a political art work has been answered with another. The fi...

I'm with the unimpressed pigeon.

I'm not sure where you are getting your certainty about what happens when we are unconscious. But never mind that. But you are continuing to disagree ...

Oops. Kinda cute though.

It's not unrelated to this, too:

Yes. It is a small point intended to clarify that redundant does not mean without function as might be inferred from the constant use of 'true' in exa...

I'm not sure what your point is here. That states of mind affect the brain is surely even less of an issue that that they affect the immune system? As...

A note on redundancy. While "It is true that it is raining" means no more than "It is raining", falsehood does not work the same way at all. "It is fa...

Can I take a moment to elucidate the nature of the placebo effect? There are boundaries. One cannot proverbially by taking thought add an inch to one'...

Let me see if I can show it to you, because it is significant. When you look at the screen, various processes occur that interpret the scene, most of ...

One can usefully say that the purpose of X is Y, and perhaps that the purpose of Y is Z. But if one is not to go on forever, or round in a circle, the...

I understand, it's an interesting topic. Quite a good example of the non-conscious is the automatic visual processing that an artist has to learn labo...

How dare you get on with your life and ignore us for so long! But we'll forgive you, because we're so filo sophical.