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Yeah yeah. But how else would you put it? I see food on the table, I start to salivate, and move towards it, I reach out to the sweetness, the oil gli...

It takes a particular kind of abstraction to think that we perceive things in their neutrality first, and then evaluate them, as if a two-step process...

I don't think there's any one 'kind of thing' we see. I mean, I'm mostly on board the embodied cognition train that says we see for the most part "aff...

Nah for sure, it's interesting to understand why 'properties' tend to be our 'go-to' when thinking about this kind of stuff. But I am honestly amused ...

Once you start to treat 'properties' as nothing more than a reification of the quirks of ancient Greek grammar, watching people treat it as an ontolog...

Mill was disparaging of the crowd - he was no friend of social thought and he was as much as intellectual progenitor to the atomization and destitutio...

I'm not sold on the idea of parallel institutions. I think it's important as a strtegic peice of the puzzle, but as Zizek pointed out, such instiution...

Sanders is a profoundly political operator. By this I mean that he's not just offering to tinker a little bit with the system here and there, patching...

The ruthless seizure of power.

Yes - point was that really shitty people - including HRC - know this all too well. This doesn't make them shitty people, its just the means by which ...

https://www.amazon.com/My-Turn-Hillary-Clinton-Presidency/dp/1609807561

The point is less that 'qualia can't be independent items', than 'stop thinking in terms of qualia entirely'.

What's even more fun is that if you actually artificially make someone just experience nothing but a saturated, unstructured color field - as with a G...

Clinton needs to be run over by a bus, ASAP.

This is true enough. Relatedly, my interest in this comes from reading Jodi Dean's Crowds and Party where she argues that the crowd represents a poten...

One thing that always bothers me about 'what it is like to experience X' questions is the assumption - at least it seems to me like an assumption - th...

OK. I've tried to do a split without totally messing up the flow of the thread, but some things may still be a bit messy. If there's anything that see...

Would you guys like a split thread about this? ('experience of...') It seems like an interesting conversation.

I think it's important to distinguish between the motivations of the two. For the theist, the whole problem bears on how a Good God can allow Evil to ...

Sure thing bucko :)

Not here to play twenty questions. Just to point out your idiosyncrasy.

The etiology of evil is irrelevant to the problem. Or rather, that's the question that demands solving, not the given from which it proceeds.

Irrelavent, although perhaps a different, derivitive problem.

The problem of evil is simply that there is evil at all. Everything else is apologetics. If you think Epicurus wrote otherwise than lol at you again.

Lol at anyone who thinks the PoE is a problem of procreation. Odd duck.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? In any case, your OP is not about the problem of evil, but something perhaps tangental to it.

But it doesn't, on your own terms: the evil must be there for innocents to be 'introduced' to it. What creates the problem of evil is the existence of...

Huh? Problem of evil is about the sheer existence of evil at all, not about forcing 'innocent, sentient beings' to live in a world.

Good? -- Michel Feher - Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

Agree on the emphasis on deindividuation - the crowd has a flattening effect, a de-individuating force that is most strongly brought out when the crow...

Partly its a weird dialectics of trust - I don't trust people to trust me (nor do I trust me) to not be another peddler of idiosyncratic theories. I c...

Yeah, it's a lesson I learnt from Isabelle Stengers: "The question of complexity... is truly a product of the analytical spirit. Analysis and reductio...

If I may: reductionism = context-invariance of explanation (changed/changing conditions do not/can not alter how something works).

I guess it's drawing on a well of resources that are already there; a well that's public, explorable by others, extendable (and already extended) into...

I don't know why people find this so hard to get. Like, is it something in the water? Like - you can believe in Harry Potter and Hogwarts and still be...

Yeah, PM is fine.

Required Reading. http://chuangcn.org/2019/09/three-months-of-insurrection/ "Years from now, we will continue to look back and marvel at all the incre...

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I actually hated that scene in the movie itself. For some reason it really left a profoundly bad taste in my mouth when I watched it originally. I sti...

Lmao.

In a broad stroke, I'd say that aesthetics deals with sensation, form, taste, and art. It's often associated with the study of beauty, but I think tha...

These look great! At some point I want to read Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History, and these look like they'd make for good companion re...

Ray Brassier - as always - put it best: "Religion obviously satisfies deep-seated human needs, but it has been a cognitive catastrophe that has contin...

Its kinda funny to me all these terrified theists who simply cannot fathom that atheism entails nothing other than the rejection of God(s), all clamou...

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I voted atheism and 'core', but for perhaps different reasons than some. In a nutshell I understand theism as a failure of explanation: all (philosoph...

Orthodox Marxism, then Council Communism, then Left Communism. Lowest were Utopian Socialism and Market Anarchism. One of the things that's really tou...

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff": "Less than a day after President Donald Trump bragged to supporters at a campaign-style rally in Minnesota Thursday that he ...

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff": "The desire to remove U.S. troops from Middle East wars is laudable, and shared by many of those criticizing Trump this week...