unenlightened

Excuse me. I'm reading through, and noting here things that strike me, personally. Hopefully others will drag me back to look more carefully at other ...

Speaking as one of the super-rich elite, I can explain it all to you very simply. Humans used to be the source of wealth, and back then, to own humans...

(or vice versa) It is a solution to paradox to rule it out as soon as it rears its head, on an ad hoc basis, ie. Rule: "if it leads to paradox it is r...

The idea is developed in the next chapter in a section relating logic and causality, that I have already put on my previous reading the Laws of Form t...

The impression I have is that his conception of pattern would be closer to information redundancy and thus compressibility. I say that because he talk...

If you confuse slowness and laziness, you will not do well with this topic. Laziness is the virtue that drives progress: by making things easier, more...

This, in case anyone wonders, is why my next reading thread is https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14707/reading-mind-and-nature-a-necessary-uni...

We are suffering from a prisoners dilemma. If only prisoners could learn a little solidarity... but alas we all have to learn it at once and some of u...

Update. I'm not doing a thread on 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind', after all, I'm going for 'Mind and Nature' instead. https://thephilosophyforum.com/di...

Since I mention this thread in my op, I feel it is polite to mention my new thread here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14707/reading-mind-...

Ladies, if you find the natural hierarchy oppressive and resent your physical inferiority, try the new 9 mm Equaliser. No more need to rouse your man ...

How many threads would this little quote feel at home in? Anywhere that idealism and realism is an issue, or being and nothingness. But this comes out...

Let us consider agriculture for a moment and give the hunter-gatherers a break. Whether it consists of domesticated livestock controlled by nomads, or...

Yes. On my part I was momentarily struck by a superficial connection between my rather feeble involvement here and my more engaging reading matter. Bu...

Speaking of books I haven't read, I just came to this fragment, and thought of this unhappy thread. Make of it what you can: https://monoskop.org/imag...

Sure, but please try and find a book you somewhat like, next time. :razz:

:lol: Thanks, but no thanks. Nature, History and Science programs have all the excitement I need.

I guess it is one of those sanctimonious Malcolm Muggeridge type "I'm going into all this in great detail for your education and improvement" type ind...

I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest we may have crossed a tipping point. The September temperature anomaly is "unprecedented". https://climate....

Google say: Form an orderly queue.

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All very interesting, but I am more interested in how the boundary is formed; the 'dash' between organism and environment. You say, "the organism inte...

My belief is that most everyone wants peace on their own terms. If only you slaves would bow and acknowledge my just rule and obey me, I would want pe...

So crazy shit becomes boring when normalised. Maybe the world needed to be appraised of this. Like how porn in general becomes ever more explicit, and...

I don't think it does. Equations are forms; Classificatory systems are forms. They use another language is all.

This translates in my mind into a description of the scientific method. The sensitive stage becomes the gathering of data and experimentation, and the...

Big up to he without whom the Earth might not move for us. Deceased. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03145-9 We are but the mould growing o...

Well i'm not very interested in your reality, so I'll leave it there, thanks.

But all that's just your reality. How do we know it's the truth? Perhaps you have not noticed, but you are on a roundabout of positivity here, because...

Hiya Tiff. Almost missed you way back there.I'm much too slow for the shoutbox these days. "A change in the weather is known to be extreme." But we ol...

Are you saying they are all incorrect? You seemed to be saying earlier that everyone has their own reality, and they can be different. Now there seems...

Two things you need: firstly to develop a cruel streak, and display it with pride, and secondly, a backing band. Let this song be your inspiration. ht...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/children-displaced-climate They did the maths, so you don't have to. 43 million children - and presumably quite a fe...

Well I agree with that, and already said so. And when perspective is extended as metaphor to include psychological dispositions and expertise and limi...

Something I only discovered in the writing is that subjectivity is necessarily prior to awareness rather than the result thereof. It is of course a ju...

I am strongly reminded of Pirsig, here, when he talks about 'quality'. (Which is a fair candidate for the first distinction.) there's a bit in the Zen...

Simply that there is a prevalent view that physics is all there is, and that this is mistaken. When something is called "subjective" or "a social cons...

Electro-mechanically, the square wave is produced by a circuit that when it is on, turns itself off, AND when it is off, turns itself on. So i imagine...

Fair comment. Mind you, that's not to say that writing it wasn't pleasurable.

I don't think that is a fair representation. Primo Levi records real horror; George Orwell warns against dehumanising ideology. But they don't wallow ...

Why did you read it? I haven't read it, and do not intend to read it. Ballard was one of my least favourite sf writers, and one reason was a sense of ...

Yes, you are quite right. Even the map-reading is not simple; the information is there in the contours, but working out what can be seen from where is...

Well, I would like to suggest that social and psychological situations along with social constructs are all real, but I don't have that map to hand, i...

I have flagged your post so a moderator will notice it, and hopefully sort you out.

It belongs to some random guy who runs it for his own entertainment and sponges off his friends to pay for it. Probably not for you, if you need offic...

Here is a good model of awareness as i find it: there is a blank space of unawareness at the centre, and the frame of the picture of which one is awar...

Is there awareness without content, or is the container produced virtually, or imagined, as the limit of the contents? "The subject itself" has plenty...

Amen to that.

Yes you do. you're using it right now to argue with me. You know exactly what is being talked about and for a free speech absolutist you're more than ...

So why haven't you?