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How can you presuppose existence? What presupposes must exist or it could not presuppose. It is more of a transcendental condition, don't you think? e...

Well, if you receive data (which for you is "evidence") as an input, which is generated as a function of your actions, then that is a feedback loop. Y...

That I am in a dialog with the universe by way evidence, I guess would be one way of characterizing it.

See, and I thought that is exactly what my statement describes.

If there is "evidence" for anything (i.e. evidence has a cognitive and empirical value) then evidence is evidence of the naturalistic role of consciou...

I mean in the context of a comprehensive naturalism. Consciousness is part of a universal feedback system. The effects of your choices are real.

What you do matters.

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf Whether digital technologies may be impacting our capacity for critical think...

So the problem may only be that people lose sight of what is in their common best interest when group size exceeds Dunbar's number. If there can be an...

I'm sure you're not disputing the existence of groups, so I gather you are disputing the existence of an internal or organic solidarity versus an exte...

I recently read a book that extensively discussed consciousness in the context of brain injuries. In certain types of hemispherical injuries, a person...

Thank you. Temperamentally I am not predisposed to collectivism. I've come to it as a rational, pragmatic, and naturalistic recognition.

Collectivism could be said to have its origins in the more primitive state of "communalism" (not communism) typical of societies predating the more mo...

No bias there

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Given sufficient inflation, the cost of everything goes up. Including the costs of businesses that collapse and life-savings that are lost. Yes, even ...

Thank you! This does appear to be relevant to my objectives..... :)

Gracias!

I'm starting with David Held's Models of Democracy, but I'm still hoping for something more specific....

Deserve's got nothing to do with it. ~William Munny, in Unforgiven It isn't about what you do or don't deserve, it is about what you do or don't do.

The people - the democratic system - have put the institutions in place already. Whatever damage has been done has been done to the fabric of the cult...

I think the democracy is already subverted. It is a losing battle at this point.

I'm currently reading Rawls' Political Liberalism, which goes to great lengths to describe how the notion of justice as fairness emerges as a result o...

Political Liberalism by John Rawls Hopefully this will counteract the vile taste of the current debacle of Roe v. Wade in the US. I was absolutely mes...

We have the catalog of known cognitive biases. That's a pretty good tool IMO.

I never proposed that we should construct a scale. Essentially, a bias is a distortion, so whatever the degree of the distortion, remediating it (by w...

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Actually that is exactly what it means. It seems you are coming from some kind of radically anti-scientific bias. All in good fun I guess, but not a g...

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Experimentation requires quantifiable results. Statistical are quantitative.

It is a bias based on the fallacy of small numbers, by definition. It's a cognitive bias, so called, because it is a bias that is exhibited by a lot o...

Cognitive biases are quantitatively measurable. And, in some cases, awareness of the cognitive bias is sufficient to mitigate it. Consider the law of ...

Doesn't the entire problematic of this thread revolve around differing definitions of the word "metaphysics"? In which case, we are not really asking,...

Inasmuch as the question whether matter produces consciousness or consciousness produces matter is a toss-up I'd have to say 50/50.

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See, and I think that the primitive hunter who masters the art of hurling a stone over a long distance "understands" gravity extremely well. I think w...

Are you saying that quantum reality is somehow divorced from day-to-day reality due to its esoteric nature? Because I would contend (from the earlier ...

I think the more sophisticated version of the question is, can quantum effects manifest within our "classical" framework and I think the answer is tha...

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Yes, that is one traditional perspective with which I would concur. Popper for example. In this sense, all philosophy (and science) is inherently meta...

Think about the meaning of metaphysics - "beyond physics" If the known represents our best understanding of what is going on, metaphysics represents o...

Agreed. Philosophy is about expanding the limits of our understanding. Almost by definition, this coincides with metaphysics. The most interesting que...

Continental Divide: Heidegger and Cassirer at Davos by Peter E. Gordon I was going to pile Rawls' Political Liberalism on top of his Theory of Justice...

The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain by Ervin Laszlo and Anthony Peake

In any kind of strong naturalism (which I would advocate) information, if it is a feature of any realm (and it is) must be a feature of nature. I agre...

If you focus on the mechanics of realizing justice, but you can also read Rawls from the more theoretical perspective which analyzes justice as fairne...

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