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Vessuvius

['Member']Joined: June 15, 2019 at 04:28Last active: April 10, 2021 at 20:308 discussions109 comments
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Bio

Thou art no fool, lest thy understanding wither ever more amongst the fleeting gust of dawn.

Favourite Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugo Grotius, Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Rene Descartes, David Hume (Most of the 'good' shit.)

Favourite Quotations

"I thought I told you, I Kant philosophize."
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
"He who delights in solitude, must be either a Wild Beast, or a God."
"Act only according to the maxim, whereby you can, will that it should become universal law."
"Life swings backward and forward as if akin to a pendulum, between pain and boredom."
"The victory of truth is always difficult, but when achieved, can be denied no longer."

Discussions (8)

Comments

In: A Model of Consciousness  — view comment
It seems to me that your model of Consciousness is unduly broad in that it incorporates a variety of systematical frameworks, such as may each apply i...
April 10, 2021 at 17:22
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
England is already confronted with the downstream consequences of this earlier decision, such as contraction or loss of economic growth, and these pat...
April 07, 2021 at 22:50
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
My understanding is that just a decade prior your country remained quite prosperous, and indeed, held a higher standard of purchasing-power than even ...
April 07, 2021 at 21:52
In: Is Totalitarianism or Economic Collapse Coming?  — view comment
While I haven't yet familiarized myself with that proposal of a possible social-credit system that you allude to, as applied within parts of the Commo...
April 07, 2021 at 20:49
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I am familiar with, albeit in a rather vague sense of how the so-called Cosmological Constant, with this latter term being interpreted in more modern ...
April 04, 2021 at 05:52
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I am curious as to how the current density would have any influence on either the physical possibility of expansion, or the degree to which it occurs....
April 03, 2021 at 13:54
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I think there is reason to note that while the conditions of that stress-energy tensor which is characteristic of a Black Hole are left unsatisfied in...
April 03, 2021 at 04:14
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I assure you there applies no leap of faith when one restricts analysis to moments after the Big Bang occurred, rather than before; this is because of...
April 03, 2021 at 03:20
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I am aware of how on a practical level the degree of redshift of a point-source as experienced by a distant observer increases to infinity in correspo...
April 03, 2021 at 02:52
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
You seem to have misconstrued my words; I know it to be the case that the rate of expansion is expressed in units separate from that of more tradition...
April 03, 2021 at 01:39
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
With respect, your question appears to me a rather senseless one. The available evidence indicates that it began as a tightly bound singularity, of su...
April 03, 2021 at 01:29
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
That is precisely the argument which I had sought to make earlier; while the so called light-cone of the universe is available to us, this applies onl...
April 03, 2021 at 00:58
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I assumed as much after having glanced over parts of your earlier exchange, despite having chosen simply to overlook it. But, you shouldn't feel yours...
April 02, 2021 at 12:06
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
I am not at all certain of what you think to have implicated any disingenuousness on your part; my purpose was only to illustrate the specifics of tha...
April 02, 2021 at 11:45
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
As I noted in my earlier argument, the effect of its expansion dominates at the scale of so-called cosmic filaments, which are some of the largest kno...
April 02, 2021 at 10:01
In: Did the "Shock-Wave" of Inflation expand faster than the speed of light?  — view comment
The confusion which so often results when one means to examine the expansion of the metric of space is because we conflate this, or otherwise treat it...
April 02, 2021 at 09:09
In: Does Labor Really Create All Wealth?  — view comment
I posit that as new methods of increasing material gain are made available to us, as well as an automation of those processes which have hitherto been...
March 31, 2021 at 10:34
In: Musings On The Subject Of Human Consciousness And Its Relation To Evolutionary Development  — view comment
I am of the view which seems quite prevalent among those with a specialized interest in the study of neural correlates, and the brain more generally, ...
March 31, 2021 at 07:19
In: Musings On The Subject Of Human Consciousness And Its Relation To Evolutionary Development  — view comment
If it is the case that you find yourself disinclined toward the idea of reading that which I have written, despite the dedication of so great an effor...
March 31, 2021 at 06:21
In: Is Murder Really That Bad?  — view comment
The beauty of viewing these arguments in the manner that I suggested lies in that personal concerns may be discounted at the start, with any one case ...
October 11, 2020 at 11:13
In: Is Murder Really That Bad?  — view comment
It seems to me that the imperative of not hastening by intent, the death of another, should be viewed on a societal scale; to be seen as a consequence...
October 11, 2020 at 08:50
In: Power determines morality  — view comment
The fault of argument seems to lie not in the claim of any right in particular being absent, but instead that in each case, the rule of the majority d...
June 25, 2020 at 01:50
In: Will A.I. have the capacity of introspection to "know" the meaning of folklore and stories?  — view comment
If for nothing else, I hold to the view that what quality most differentiates us, from other species, whether sharing a closeness of relation to our k...
June 07, 2020 at 23:05
In: Will A.I. have the capacity of introspection to "know" the meaning of folklore and stories?  — view comment
Its study fosters a desire to know, to understand, that is almost child-like in intensity. Which in some sense, would correspond to the retention of a...
June 07, 2020 at 08:20
In: Will A.I. have the capacity of introspection to "know" the meaning of folklore and stories?  — view comment
I would be wrong to argue that the nature of your motivations can be attested to, either on my part, or that of any other besides yourself. The worlds...
June 07, 2020 at 08:02
In: Will A.I. have the capacity of introspection to "know" the meaning of folklore and stories?  — view comment
I fail to see whether there lies a need to deprive ourselves of a discussion of the subjective, to further expound over our source of understanding, a...
June 07, 2020 at 06:57
In: Will A.I. have the capacity of introspection to "know" the meaning of folklore and stories?  — view comment
It seems to me apparent that existence of self, in the sense of both the tangible, as it applies in any case, and the abstract, that being as a proper...
June 06, 2020 at 10:14
In: Analysis of Language and Concepts  — view comment
That which we are to speak of as "Concept", I see reason to hold as the immaterial force by which our every representation of the objects of experienc...
March 07, 2020 at 03:27
In: Analysis of Language and Concepts  — view comment
It seems to me that what takes primacy in judgement, when one considers those choices of methodology that as a whole, are known as Linguistic Analysis...
March 05, 2020 at 12:47
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
Oh. I am sorry for that, truly. My intention was not to render any depth of understanding difficult to achieve, nor was it to impede your recognition ...
January 19, 2020 at 12:27
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
Whilst I can attest to the need for maintaining a certain brevity, at times, I nonetheless fail to see how my preceding exposition is of fault. Of gre...
January 19, 2020 at 11:54
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
The difficulty in establishing any objective basis upon which to found one's chosen analysis of the subject at hand, in this case, is that none may co...
January 19, 2020 at 00:37
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
Seeing as I have since grown fatigued((5:31 am)), and would rather not be forced to produce work that fails to concur with a certain idealized standar...
January 18, 2020 at 13:34
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
Nor yet speak of thy deceit as truth.
January 18, 2020 at 13:01
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
Indeed! Let us hope, that all those in observance of this exchange of ours can appreciate the great irony which underlies it.
January 18, 2020 at 12:48
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
In all earnestness my choice of prose serves only as an established preference, in relation to both form, and style. Beyond which, there can be found ...
January 18, 2020 at 12:36
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
I stand as an aged man before my time.
January 18, 2020 at 12:21
In: How confident should we be about government? An examination of 'checks and balances'  — view comment
I see reason to speak of the position occupied by any manner of society as tending toward certain extrema, in the absence of any governmental entity o...
January 18, 2020 at 12:10
In: The Notion of Subject/Object  — view comment
It seems to me the case, that each notion, the sum of which is expressed both by the noumenal, and objects of experience as they are in themselves, se...
January 07, 2020 at 10:51
In: The Notion of Subject/Object  — view comment
I would argue that the notion of both object and subject, within the most general of cases, remain correlative with one another, and necessarily so. S...
January 07, 2020 at 01:34
In: Flaws In Heraclitus’ Notion Of Absolute Change Or Impermanence  — view comment
The veracity of your claim of fault inhering within that line of phrase is contingent upon the way in which one derives any sense of the meaningful, t...
January 06, 2020 at 20:37
In: Reconciling b-theory with Aristotelian causality  — view comment
A precondition fundamental to what is defined in the present context as 'B-Theory', that being a sense of timelessness, is directly conflictive with w...
January 05, 2020 at 07:43
In: Reconciling b-theory with Aristotelian causality  — view comment
The general notion upon which you have come to expound seems to me a correlative with the doctrine of Eternalism. Which, as can be expected, precludes...
January 04, 2020 at 09:38
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
Firstly, I wish to offer expression of remorse for the vastness in delay by which my present response had hitherto been preceded. I have felt drawn by...
July 03, 2019 at 21:35
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
I intend to take heed of that which you have come to endorse, for its own sake, and mine. Despite the sense of confliction which had grown ever more p...
June 25, 2019 at 10:46
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
As have I adoration for the distinctiveness of your own form of expression, and am appreciative of the time which you came to devote, for my own sake ...
June 25, 2019 at 09:52
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
That much stands evident in my eye's. While I acknowledge that to be truthful, it is the case necessarily that one must grant admittance of a particul...
June 25, 2019 at 09:15
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
It seems to me that you have made commitment solely of failure to offer recognition of the truth to which each has hitherto come to pertain; that of w...
June 25, 2019 at 08:13
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
The vacuous verbiage of thine begotten foe wanders wistfully with warped whispers of the sanctity of sinful speech as conferred by virtue of the conse...
June 25, 2019 at 07:28
In: The Ontological Requisite For Perception As Yielded Through The Subject And Its Consequence  — view comment
Would your preference then, rest upon the course through which I appropriate that of which we ourselves had spoken prior, in prospect, and ensure that...
June 25, 2019 at 06:47
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