unenlightened

I have a fairly strong argument for the conceivability of philosophical zombies, based on the premise that folks can very easily mistake a clearly non...

I prefer the (presumably) false taste of Scotland myself, but I try to wait until the sun is over the yardarm... “Oats. A grain, which in England is g...

Apparently the toffs add cinnamon and cream and blame it on the French, as they do with all their indulgences and perversions, but the only thing the ...

Not to be confused with Neither is recommended for breakfast. But eggy bread is. Soak slightly stale white sliced bread in beaten egg and fry in butte...

I used to live in French Catalan country and even learned a few words of the Langue D'Oc, now long forgotten. Lived in the shadow of a Cathar castle -...

It's only just begun.

I don't remember that bit of the quote. If only folks would do what I want, I wouldn't have to bully them so much. Saith the Lord of the flies. Who ar...

I don't understand at all; it's beneath me. I could understand up to my knees, or at a pinch, up to my neck, but very much more would be over my head ...

I remember the good old days when 'defence' meant trying to stand your ground and chase the enemy off your territory, and attacking the ground your en...

With luck, it's more that the rest of us (US) are regaining our minds. Trump is preparing himself for jail by channeling Nelson Mandela. He would go t...

Certainly. What one should do in these circumstances is die. It's very clear; Jesus did it and he told his followers to do it. And everyone can unders...

Still looking for the moral high ground? The moral high ground, preferably with a deep surrounding ditch of historical persecution and subjugation, is...

Everyone agrees, of course. Except the enemy.

As if there is more than one kind of person. "The blood of our civilians is sacred, but the blood of your civilians doesn't count at all."

Blood. The righteousness of of any people is directly proportional to the amount of blood they are prepared to sacrifice. That is the agreement that m...

It's the same old cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, goodies and baddies, traumatised and traumatising, innocent civilians and guilty terrorists. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrFzqu4QHk

Except the Welsh, of course.

Everyone is English because the sun never sets. Believe!

You keep saying interesting incomprehensible things: Explain yourself! What is the usual, and what is the other? I can guess on behalf of the realist ...

Yes, that's about right.

Chat GPT, thou art a woman.

Something that might help to clarify matters is to analyse somewhat the nature of desire. What is the source of this force or drive? If I can dismiss ...

It isn't real 'til it's happening in the US. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314607120

I noticed this, that seemed related to the topic. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120

You did, but I think you are not quite right in a small but important way. The potentiality is in the observer, not the changes.

DNA "is" (functions as) a recipe, an algorithm, a memory, in relation to an organism - environment matrix. Example: a human zygote has DNAprogramming ...

They are changes that make a difference to a seagull that nests in the cliff. They are differences that make a difference to a seagull that nests in t...

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-gaza-war-latest-hamas-palestine-sky-news-live-blog-12978800 I'm not sure what the assessment is independent of exact...

One of the things I like about Bateson is the way he bypasses "consciousness" to a great extent, and bypasses ontology, in favour of process, relation...

This seems rather problematic to me. I suggest that the cliffs experience erosion the way I experience being operated on under general anaesthetic; wh...

I came across this in my reading that might just satisfy you that the title was at least not intended to be understood tautologically.

It's that "only" that makes all the trouble. It suggests that there is a perspective of absolute nothingness that we have overlooked all this time. It...

That is very much the feeling i have too; both for the academic world at large, and in my own understanding. Here is a small example of one particular...

Is this not a direct contradiction? As the therapist proverbially says, "the lightbulb has to want to change." But honestly, I don't understand much o...

That question suggests, (rightly I think) that perversion is in the seer more than the seen. That is, the first perversion is the cleaving of the indi...

Thanks. I was snarky back, so apologies returned less 10% for provocation. :wink:

I have to take issue with your link quoted above on one issue. I do not believe Bateson was a determinist, and I certainly do not believe that determi...

Really now? You actually have to ask again the question I have just explained why I cannot answer as if you cannot understand plain English?

Alas, there is nothing I like about Trump. But your analysis of the situation is otherwise about right. The moral vacuum gets filled with poisonous no...

I don't find it easy. I know roughly where we are, but I have little idea of where we would be if everything was different. Probably none of "us" woul...

Oh, dear. One way moral rights is a rather old-fashioned look these days. Not that the other side is any different, you understand. But if you can't e...

One suggestion is that Hamas might decide to martyr themselves in order to become the heroes that brought about the final battle that would drag in al...

One suggestion is that Hamas might decide to martyr themselves in order to become the heroes that brought about the final battle that would drag in al...

Hi there. I'm not sure what you are saying there. Maybe have a read of the introduction, and see if the topic interests you.

And vice versa? It looks to me as if the alignment of ethnicity and religion leads to the externalisation of negative affect, to the extent that the o...

We unfortunately are unable to eliminate collateral damage; You are murdering innocent civilians; they are terrorists.

Life is perverse. It consumes itself in renewing itself. Mind would like to rise above life, but does so only in self-denial - aka love.

Yes, he is close to Hume. I discovered further on, that he even mentions George Spencer-Brown, and in his book that I've been discussing, there is an ...