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Izat So

['Member']Joined: May 19, 2019 at 00:12Last active: October 09, 2024 at 21:353 discussions89 comments

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Dropped out of philosophy doctoral program over 30 years ago. No regrets.

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None, really. Don't like efforts to tune out more complex stuff to score chmessy points.

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This corpus fills a much needed gap in the literature. - Anonymous

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You must have misunderstood. I’m saying anti P.C. tend to be the less well off. The poorer majority. Scapegoating, distraction from the causes of thei...
January 21, 2020 at 01:57
the point is not that P.C. censoriousness is utterly blameless but that it is a side effect of a dirty political economic climate. And in spite of the...
January 21, 2020 at 00:32
P.C. Wouldn’t be perceived as a problem if the big money hadn’t pushed Reagan/Thatcher policies that vastly shrank the middle class. Censorious P.C. i...
January 20, 2020 at 23:07
to sum up my thoughts, the global billionaire mafia are hoping the people they have made poor by loudly pushing siphon up economic policies as if they...
January 20, 2020 at 22:52
Given the voice if anti P.C. is far shriller, louder, and more powerful, and the shut-them-down P.C. contingent is a small, youthful minority, and the...
January 20, 2020 at 02:08
Yes, God gets inserted into the universe to make us matter, but given the brief tenure of human life in relation to other life on earth and more broad...
July 14, 2019 at 13:38
If you take as a given that God is a necessary being - I'd guess the 3 major types of monotheism take God as a necessary being and theologians in each...
June 25, 2019 at 00:37
Retinal images are 2D. We perceive in 3D and no it’s not just because of stereoscopic vision. People have to learn to see and when they have sight tro...
June 22, 2019 at 02:03
You ask Neither. Except perhaps in the case of the fleecing of the flock by those American consumerist mega churches. But not because science has all ...
June 21, 2019 at 21:53
In a nutshell: Why do people mistrust the idea that we are thoroughly socially informed to the point of denying it, even given that it's obvious and c...
June 18, 2019 at 23:08
Our flexibility in making use of cultural tools is what distinguishes us from other animals. They copy, we practice and improve.
June 18, 2019 at 18:39
Merlin Donald's approach is to see culture evolving in stages that have ultimately allowed humans an open-ended repertoire of behaviours. He draws fro...
June 18, 2019 at 13:29
Even before tools there were hierarchies and related common understandings, danger cries, etc. Any social animal has a culture.
June 18, 2019 at 03:09
if by “the brain comes first” you mean as a necessary condition of there being culture at all, then who would disagree? On the other had if your view ...
June 17, 2019 at 20:53
Brains are a necessary but not sufficient condition for the evolution of culture. There is no ground zero for culture. All animals learn and social an...
June 17, 2019 at 19:38
Also dogs are evolved from wolves and came into existence through being domesticated over the course of about 40k years. They wouldn’t have existed wi...
June 17, 2019 at 18:06
It’s not mere coincidence if food availability has an effect on survival rates an on what genes are more likely to be passed on. I’m saying there is g...
June 17, 2019 at 17:55
of course you are right in that respect. Also false beliefs do have an effect, not the one we believe they have. Anti-Vax for instance. Here’s a link ...
June 17, 2019 at 17:37
I don't think you can always separate memes from genetic influence - how about "goat's milk is good for everyone" This affected genes that influence a...
June 17, 2019 at 15:55
Quite. Here is an interesting talk on the matter for anyone who is interested. https://vimeo.com/157414065. Prof Donald is not particularly charismati...
June 17, 2019 at 15:44
I think you should read more. Try Merlin Donald's A Mind So Rare or perhaps try your like with a search like this one at google scholar: https://www.g...
June 17, 2019 at 15:36
I don't see that you have provided any supporting claims, hence "naysaying". Meanwhile, you have not yet explained what a non-socialized human would l...
June 17, 2019 at 13:53
No, you’re merely naysaying and as I’ve said in the OP I’m not interested in disputing the science ( neuro paleontology and other areas of research), ...
June 16, 2019 at 21:41
Your assertions are thoroughly missing the perspective I’m sharing. If it weren’t for the ages of civilization behind you, which informed your upbring...
June 16, 2019 at 21:33
Yes, the brain would work but the person would be intellectually maimed until rehabilitated, which is sometimes not possible. https://www.youtube.com/...
June 15, 2019 at 11:18
OK before we get there, consider it like this: Your brain wouldn't work without the "cultural software" that gets installed as you grow, the cultural ...
June 14, 2019 at 12:23
Nice OP. But are you an ontological dualist or just think we need to look at the bigger picture?
June 14, 2019 at 00:49
Thanks for the timely excerpt and link. What strikes me about a lot of this activity is the pure pedantry of it all. I don't know about you but 80% of...
June 05, 2019 at 02:02
If you're of a certain age and avoid Fox news, you wouldn't think that all terrorists were jihadis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_in...
June 05, 2019 at 00:37
About that link between endless ranting about PC, beloved of the far right... Ignore it and make it about me being myself, if you like. Not surprised ...
June 04, 2019 at 11:48
Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker (2018) ISBN 978-952-7065-69-3
June 04, 2019 at 01:45
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/jordan-peterson-canadian-deference.html "It is worth remembering that Mr. Peterson can be more accurately d...
June 04, 2019 at 01:25
The other side, if you're prepared to stomach it at this point: https://www.thepostmillennial.com/major-new-zealand-book-store-bans-jordan-petersons-b...
June 04, 2019 at 01:11
oops https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-meets-jordan-peterson-in-budapest/
June 04, 2019 at 00:55
This came up on a social media feed. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/29/criminalizing-compassion-trial-begins-humanitarian-facing-20-years-p...
June 04, 2019 at 00:41
sure and what inspires that in your view?
June 03, 2019 at 01:36
I think we have a different interpretation of “concerns about PC” . They’re overblown because there are far more pressing issues than PC threats to fr...
June 03, 2019 at 01:25
Ugh. It's the opposite. Concerns about PC have been leveraged by the far right IF those digesting social media accounts do so in McCarthyist spirit. S...
June 03, 2019 at 00:51
There's something else going on here as well. For lack of words is a misunderstanding of nuance in favour of a pedantic reductionism. (Both in SP and ...
June 03, 2019 at 00:37
You might be confusing me or Maw with I like sushi here. No. For the third or fourth time, here is the position: And here is how it has been addressed...
June 03, 2019 at 00:26
:cool: Yes, you are right, sadly. Bannon, Trump's former right hand man, is behind a lot of it. Koch brothers as well. But I am sure there are also ma...
June 02, 2019 at 12:43
Yes, and they are borne out to my satisfaction by a wealth of scholarly critique and observations of his videos. Meanwhile, no one has yet answered th...
June 01, 2019 at 23:40
Yes, Marxism is one paradigm through which to view the world. The default that is not going to help us, however, is the position that treats society a...
June 01, 2019 at 23:16
IMHO, JP is a loon. So I have to wonder why he has so many fans, when his scholarship has been resoundingly critiqued. There are a number of sane arti...
June 01, 2019 at 23:11
It's not sensationalism. You've drunk the KoolAid. No point in the discussion.
June 01, 2019 at 22:44
You're clutching at straws. I'm not sure why you're not seeing that the point of this is not whether or not JP withdrew his plans for a website attemp...
June 01, 2019 at 22:08
From the article ssu quoted: "In a YouTube video posted to his personal account, he highlighted English literature, anthropology, sociology, women’s s...
June 01, 2019 at 21:54
June 01, 2019 at 21:49
Irrelevant to the main point.
June 01, 2019 at 21:45
Nothing convoluted about trying to avoid racist and sexist language. Several researchers in the field would disagree with you. Here's a reading list i...
June 01, 2019 at 19:34