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The "silliness"(if we are to call it that) of panpsychism is insisting consciousness emerges out of all existing states. It's a question of over quoti...
August 29, 2016 at 07:33
Sartre is a bit of a miserable one. He’s acutely aware of our existential nothingness. Whatever we are is only a meaning insisted upon by ourselves an...
August 29, 2016 at 06:29
I know that what’s dualism holds, but emergence rejects the primacy of consciousness. Since consciousness is a new state of the world, it is never the...
August 29, 2016 at 04:58
You are arguing: 1. Experience doesn't make sense in the same realm of bodies and other objects. 2. It is not bodies or any other object. 3. As a resu...
August 28, 2016 at 23:23
My qualia is part of my existence. We can't discuss someone's qualia without talking about a part of the world which is them. It is unique. There no o...
August 28, 2016 at 11:05
I agree. What you say about radical contingency is true: anything in the world might have been at anytime. Nothing is ruled out bar logical contradict...
August 28, 2016 at 10:54
Indeed. God and Christ are possible states of the world. Most "supernatural" beliefs are. All most do is propose an existing force which acts upon the...
August 28, 2016 at 08:25
Ah, I see what you mean. How the universe works could have changed back and forth any number of times. Under radical contingency, what defines each st...
August 28, 2016 at 08:04
The entire premise of your argument is that my qualia (my being) can be given in someone else (their being). Supposedly, the virtual reality generator...
August 28, 2016 at 07:24
Ehh, given Pierre's clarification, don't worry about it. He's not arguing radical contingency-- more like a "fuzzy" metaphysic dependent on what exact...
August 28, 2016 at 07:19
Just about the opposite. The point of radical contingency is logic (or "laws") do not constrain the world. States of the world are defined in-themslev...
August 28, 2016 at 06:54
That's incoherent. Any other person or instance virtual reality is not my experience. Even if the replicate my ideas and experiences exactly, they wil...
August 28, 2016 at 03:26
Such reasoning is a category error. The identity of qualia is a logical one, not one of causality. My qualia cannot by anyone else by definition. If t...
August 28, 2016 at 02:48
Still missing my point. The mistake of standard modal logic is to slide from actuality to possibility. To treat the actual world as if it's the same a...
August 28, 2016 at 02:37
Precisely. The question is considered incoherent. There is no relevant answer. It's a waste to ask it. Experiences aren't generated separate to the tr...
August 28, 2016 at 02:03
My point is actuality doesn't contain possibility. If we are talking about an actual elephant, then we cannot say: "being mammal doesn't equal being a...
August 28, 2016 at 00:18
To say otherwise is a contradiction. If is is possible I may turn myself into a tiger tomorrow, then the world may work differently than how it does n...
August 28, 2016 at 00:08
I didn't say that forms expressed in actuality were not also a possible world. I merely said that possibility does not equal actuality. Any possible w...
August 28, 2016 at 00:04
There is no difference between those two. Both are logical possibilities. Each is a possible state of the world. Turning myself into a tiger is no les...
August 27, 2016 at 23:51
Your are more right than you are giving yourself credit for here. Paris is the capital of France is a fully analytic sense. If we are talking about ou...
August 27, 2016 at 23:46
Actual possibility is an incoherence. Possibility is, by definition, not an actual state. We can't have X which exists as maybe X or distinct state of...
August 27, 2016 at 23:39
Yes, but that doesn't mean is is in conflict with possibility. Modern forms of determinism frequently drop (and rightly so) pre-determinism. Necessity...
August 27, 2016 at 23:36
I already said. Are social systems and individuals such that individuals particular ethnic group is denied opportunities, has the agency disrespected,...
August 27, 2016 at 23:29
It's the nature of mind/body dualism. Since the mind is considered a different realm to the body, what mind/body dualism cannot take seriously is the ...
August 27, 2016 at 02:11
I would make a version of that objection too Why does my self have to be reduced to a homunculus within a body at all? Why exactly are we proposing th...
August 27, 2016 at 01:53
The most often argument against homunculi is it results in infinite regress. Each instance of experience is given in terms of the identity of a differ...
August 27, 2016 at 00:32
Semiotic theory is really more of a tri-aspect monism. The triad isn't replacing the dual substances of mind body dualism. It's a different sort of lo...
August 26, 2016 at 13:52
I think you misunderstood what I'm trying to show in my response. For me, suffering a headache is good, because I was trying to demonstrate that any f...
August 26, 2016 at 13:03
I know. You didn't interpret the triad as formless. The problem is you envision parts of triad coming out of fundamental formless substance of mind an...
August 26, 2016 at 12:40
I should point out that apo is using "brute fact" differently than I am. I mean it in the sense that experiences are thought to be state of the world,...
August 26, 2016 at 05:07
In that sense, there isn't really fundamental matter or experience for the semiotic theorist. The world is vague, not specific forms of the world. Min...
August 26, 2016 at 04:58
Panpsychism doesn't say matter is mind (that would make it entirely idealism). It says any matter has mind (experience). This distinction is sort of i...
August 26, 2016 at 04:38
Well, I was arguing his metaphysics. Logical realm-- things of the same type which are connected and interact. Sort of like either "mind" or "body" in...
August 26, 2016 at 04:20
Strictly speaking, sensation isn't logic exactly, but rather dependent on logic. Our experiences and feelings are the result of many systems constrain...
August 26, 2016 at 04:12
Striving-for-nothing is a great description of life. It's also not suffering. This is the grave mistake some within pessimism make. When I go to crick...
August 26, 2016 at 04:03
I'll sort of defend apo here, if only for a moment and because mind/body dualism is terrible. I'd say you are strawmanning. No-one said logic turned i...
August 26, 2016 at 03:51
Apo's? It conflicts with the popular sides of the metaphysical divide. The materialists don't like it because it denies their separation of logic and ...
August 26, 2016 at 03:39
In the sense that we will endure suffering to get something we enjoy or want, yes-- a needle beats a continuing illness any day. Pessimism doesn't den...
August 26, 2016 at 03:28
I mean that apo views metaphysics as casual-- the logical expressions of semiotics act to form the constraint of the world, to constitute which states...
August 26, 2016 at 03:01
In my experience, apo targets any metaphysic which places itself outside causality-- those which identify logical relationships are not an action of c...
August 26, 2016 at 02:47
So I can say that the suffering if the poor and ostracised individual "isn't that bad" because someone else is being tortured on the otherwise of the ...
August 26, 2016 at 02:32
Your didn't talk about any of that. The comments were directed at how the suffering of the childless family wasn't as bad as they felt it was. In that...
August 26, 2016 at 01:57
Not even that. Attachment to pleasure is fine, sometimes even to a point of a neurotic search for gratification. People function with obsessive hobbie...
August 26, 2016 at 01:35
You do it in the next paragraph: All these are dismissals of their suffering. At every turn you say their suffering doesn't matter, that it's not real...
August 26, 2016 at 01:20
A black officer arresting a black person (whether guilty or not) is part of the society which is restricts opportunity, disrespects agency, takes powe...
August 26, 2016 at 00:59
That's the transcendent fiction talking. In this understanding, you are ignoring the suffering of the living and treating like the absence of future s...
August 26, 2016 at 00:42
The living do keep score, however. Death is no balm for the suffering of the living, only way to prevent new instances of suffering. Suffering is not ...
August 26, 2016 at 00:09
Racism is an act or acting system which is a restriction of opportunity, disrespect for agency, dissolution of property or expression of power over on...
August 25, 2016 at 05:43
That's what I enjoy about writers like Zappfe and Ligotti. In their analysis of human life and suffering, they clearly show suffering is a meaning. Al...
August 25, 2016 at 04:36
I should clarify what I was trying to say about final cause. Final cause isn't an empirical state or distinction of the world. Someone suggesting fina...
August 25, 2016 at 01:23