Interesting, I used an almost identical example in something I wrote in the early ninties. I'm pretty familiar with the information theoretic notion o...
And I don't think that anyone seriously disputes that, because it would be a rationally indefensible position. So the question really is, how can an i...
I agree in principle with this statement, but it is an oversimplification I think. It is not capitalism, per se, that is the corruption point, but rat...
Laissez-faire economics is contrary to the principle of justice, that the fundamental rights of every individual are equally important. As well as gua...
Disingenuous...I said understanding takes place by (i.e. through) either intuition or science, I did not personify science. I don't agree. Saying that...
How much is understood by intuition and how much by science? Intuition preceded science. I would say the entire universe is essentially a medium for c...
Yes, Scientism is surely the most hypocritical prejudice of all. Clearly, not every phenomenon in the universe reduces to events that can be quantifie...
I think the whole debate is less about whether or not there is a god and the mutual differentiation of the groups of "those who believe in god" and "t...
I don't see were you have established this is a cliche. Karl Polanyi created the theory of substantive economics to specifically redress the problem t...
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, a great many social theorists (Durkheim, Weber, Scheler, Parsons) either observe or descry the onset and escalatio...
Yes, I'm getting a lot more from the books now, a lot of deep thoughts in there. My current reading focuses heavily on the social determinants of huma...
Just arrived - a nice set, although I wish it didn't have the Apple Tv logo on the covers. It's been forty years since I read the original trilogy. Re...
Even if that were true, every single ethical framework is a conceptual framework. There would be no basis for selecting between alternative but confli...
Well, when you think about it (as I think about it) "consciousness" is information about the world - or universe. I think of it as a naturalistic phen...
Or are social phenomena responsible for the evolution of the physical structures? There is no way you can decisively prove the direction of influence,...
Of course. What about the social dimension? You are assuming the neurological level to be fundamental. Why should it be more fundamental than the bioc...
You are implying that neuroscience is productive of consciousness. The reverse may very well be true. It's a question of what perspective you choose. ...
Even if consciousness reduces to neuroscience, what has that proved? All you have done is reduce one complex phenomenon to another one. That doesn't p...
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber by Anthony Giddens The Mantle of Kendis-Dai (Starshie...
If we were not responsible for our own thoughts then the statement "I am thinking this thought now" would be false. If it is false, then so is logic, ...
Haven't read this one but I am a sucker for Victorian Lit in general. Thomas Carlyle and Sir Walter Scott are a couple of my new top picks from last y...
The Sociology of Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas by Werner Stark edit: It is only through the conversation of man wit...
Sounds plausible. I'm just reading Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind and he touches on the issue of thought and the quantum realm. I'm a pantheisti...
Unlike you, I got bumped a grade ahead due to high iq (and general academic performance). Worse thing that could have happened to me. I think evaluati...
Dennett often utilizes language in a conflationary sense. Here, he's not saying so much that consciousness doesn't exist, as that it does exist, but h...
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