Noble Dust

Exactly, this is why I'm critical of physicalism, etc., because there's still some sort of motive behind it; it's essentially a religious belief. The ...

My most recent record: https://matthewanderson.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-tide

I love the gymnopedies.

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

A yes, that's the same story I heard.

Very true, and something we all do, but only to a point. No need to hold the various members of this forum, or another forum, or a university as the o...

I do the same thing, although clearly from the other side of the "isle".

I need to learn! :P

Says the guy who's never put his neck out and started a discussion here. >:O

Interesting, I'm pretty sure I have that.

Could be a mild case of it, I'm an audio engineer, but I was more referring to anechoic chambers where supposedly you can hear the sound of your nervo...

I see now I was misreading that part of the article. The idea of an actual computer projecting the world as some simulation is even more inane. Right,...

Your first quote is a misquote of what I said. Do you realize I'm critiquing descriptive ethics because I disagree with it? Feel free to engage in rea...

Really? I said In simpler terms: morally relative views do not equal relativistic morality. They aren't incompatible. I don't think it follows that be...

I like this Eastern Orthodox way of viewing God; it reminds me I need to explore that more. That concept of God is fairly foreign to me, but it's attr...

But surely that hypothesis about the computer is just some sort of vague metaphor, right, like I already suggested? If it's not a metaphor, then, like...

Yeah, true. I'm not really a formal idealist of any kind, though. I tend to loath binary distinctions like dualism vs. monism or idealism vs. realism....

I'm listening to that high pitched sound in your head when it's almost completely silent around you. What is that shit, your nervous system or somethi...

Well, my response may have been a little over-zealous. I was maybe reading a pet peeve of mine into your post. Apologies. I think I agree with this co...

What's so sacred about overcoming biases at the altar of Lord Science? I've never understood that. If the entire world shed it's biases and accepted a...

I know what descriptive ethics are; explaining the definition of descriptive ethics by posting a wiki article doesn't answer the question I asked you.

How does the fact that moral views differ lead to the conclusion that moral relativism is the most accurate position to hold about morality? Sportscas...

I disagree, I think this essentially elevates science to a religion; the highest form of knowledge whose feet at which all other forms of knowledge mu...

What are your reasons?

Thanks for the info.

I admit I haven't studied that hypothesis enough to know if or why they wouldn't be similar. I just imagine a "computer projecting a hologram which is...

Do you literally think articles like this are "aimed" at that goal? I just mean literally in the sense that they are very purposively aimed at the goa...

Yeah, I totally get that. I just think it's kind of amusing that this scientistic culture is slowly coming around full circle to a conception of the u...

Just finished - The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien Currently - Rebellious Prophet - Donald Lowrie Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9yW-3vFxA0

This is true of the American popular music scene. Maybe even of the art ("high") music scene. Certainly true of jazz, and probably classical too, for ...

I just started reading the Tao Te Ching today for the first time, and had a humorous and enlightening experience, so I thought I'd share. The first fe...

I guess it's pretty tangengial, but what about movements like gnosticism and theosophy?

>:O

So the question is, are philosophy forum members equally as entrenched as the common rabble? ;)

Right?? That's how I feel reading him as well. I give it a solid 9, for what it's worth.

By the way John, you really need to read Berdyaev's The Meaning of the Creative Act! Very apropos.

Aha, that brings clarity. I think we're essentially on the same page here.

Well, I'm also using it to at least include those things. lol. I'm a little bit confused. Maybe? I see the act as an inner, generative, spiritual proc...

I don't mean "can be", I mean there is a purity in the creative act. I guess the creative act is maybe a bit of a nebulous concept. I consider it a pu...

This is a strong argument.

Hmmm, I have to disagree. Show me an artist with completely pure motives and I'll believe it. Motives are a spectrum, not a binary "this or that". I d...

This seems meaningless. What's the point of noting that "all carrots have the characteristic of being a carrot?" There's no reason to bother saying th...

Good stuff, I was only asking because it seems that we're coming at it from different angles. It made me wonder whether you were involved with the art...

I think the important element missing in the annoying, age-old debate about solipsism is "belief". I know it's dirty word on philosophy forums. Maybe ...

None necessary! I appreciate the discussion. Yes, this is a contentious topic to me. On the one hand, I appreciate that the gatekeepers are in a sense...

Well, I guess I'm speaking as both an artist and audience member. But I was talking from the perspective of an audience member there - as I said, as t...

That's just it, beginning with the assumption that it needs an evolutionary reason to arise is a fallacy. Beginning with that fallacy always leads to ...

No, it's not this simple. So often, the artist isn't aware of how the audience will interpret the art. Dylan was confounded by how deeply his audience...

But by creating it, do we even know what it is that we're creating? Often times, no. Agreed, except we seem to have different estimations of the purpo...