Alas for the indirect realist, whenever there is a demonstrable difference between the objective and the subjective, it demonstrates that there is an ...
Well, speak for yourself. I see colours in the apples and don't see my brain at all. I see apples out there, not in my brain, and the apples are out t...
In the paint shop, maybe. Let's not get into the fine details just yet. Some of us are trying to grasp how we tell a red apple from a green apple, and...
Yes I do know its the wavelength of the photons that are absorbed and reemitted from the surface of the goddam apples because the goddam apples are re...
Bite the fucking bullet man. How do everyone's eyes get to signal the same apples as red? Is it telepathy , or is there something about the apples tha...
If you were colourblind, then you as a perceiver would not be adding red to the apple - you presumably claim. But all your colour seeing friends would...
My wife and I have a relationship. Where is it? I beg of you in the bowels of Christ to consider that a ridiculous and meaningless question such that ...
Is that a real head you're talking about, or an indirect impression as of a head? This is the problem I think you have, that I say there are red apple...
We realists call that 'an illusion'. It's not a real red visual cortex, the way a red apple is a real red apple. This is a very useful distinction for...
Yes. If there was an intermediary representation, presumably in my brain, I wouldn't be able to see it, because 1. it's behind my eyes, and 2. it's pi...
Indeed. stuff is coloured in relation to light and eyes. But to say that one sees by means of light and using one's eyes, is not to say one sees indir...
One of the important uses of zero is as a place holder; a ten and a unit is distinguished from a hundred and a unit by the insertion of a zero - 11 an...
"What's your argument?", says this naive realist. "Are you claiming that because I cannot see in the dark, things are not various colours?" We have va...
Is anyone willing to learn here? Or are y'all determined to win. It does seem to me that the more one grits one's teeth determinedly, the less free on...
Almost. I'm saying it has a self refuting prophecy. I'll try and explain very briefly. In most science, the situation is that the objects of enquiry d...
You might want to look at Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism. This sort of stuff is not much considered these days, because it does not sit well w...
Jung wrote a lot, and I have read a little. If I understand it aright, then whenever one makes an identification - in Jung's case for example maybe, a...
Like I already said, it's what I do. Are you asking for an account of my life? It doesn't include a lot of church-going. I haven't noticed people doin...
When thought does not look, then there is only observation, without the mechanical process of recognition and comparison, justification and condemnati...
The homeless have been robbed of their home which is the same Earth that the rich think they have exclusive right to. Some people think there is some ...
Indeed. I have worked most of a lifetime to afford a garden of my own. Up to now I have worked as a gardener for others, and borrowed or rented variou...
That is a very materialist view. I put my faith in truth and justice without having to believe they exist or prevail. If I lay down my life for my fri...
Faith is what one does, not what one thinks. Some people faithfully go to every match of the local team. The faith that moves mountains consists of ar...
I fear what you are lacking is a contrasting un foolish everyday from which to celebrate a holiday. Perhaps we should rather institute a Feast of Wise...
One of our neighbours a few doors down likes our Boris. We're selling up and moving. Trump is the mother of all Trumps. Therefore @"Jamalrob"'s wife i...
Right. The difference is one of principle and psychology, rather than of mere economics, but I think it has important implications, and it is those im...
Why?I just created that worthwhile post; reward me. Everything is given for free. We come into this world with nothing and helpless to even feed ourse...
So a footballer who gets paid thinks football is work, and a footballer who doesn't thinks of it as leisure? And a charity shop volunteer isn't contri...
You see you talk with forked tongue. I respect myself because I contribute to society; I get a job because I am hungry. I value people playing footbal...
Playing football is meaningful work? Dancing is meaningful work? Play is meaningful work? Then there is no need for employment at all, we can all choo...
Arrangements emerge from there being lots of stuff. Thus: solidity, liquidity, gaseousness, are group properties. One molecule of H2O on its tod is no...
Yes it is wrong. It is wrong because it is contradictory as I pointed out earlier. The whole thrust of the development of civilisation has been from t...
You still have all the expenses either way. People got to eat. Most people these days are totally unproductive. They cut hair and play football. So if...
Good luck proving a contradiction in a cloud of unknowing! And here, with all respect, I rest my case for the prosecution that all argument as to the ...
At the end of his life, it is still the act of faith that is of central importance, and both pleasure and suffering are 'trifles'. I think the nearest...
What's so terrible about that? If playing football and painting nails are valid options then why not going for a walk in the park. - Oh wait, that is ...
Well given the overwhelmingly positive results there, it tells me that it would be a great idea, that it would not lead to lots of people just doing n...
Comments