Pantagruel

Scheler and others I've read make no bones about the fact that different causal rules apply in different realms. This is also my perspective. However ...

I guess the only way this question makes sense is: Are emergent properties more real than the constituent elements of the systems from which they emer...

Absolutely. Can you add an SD card to your tablet for more capacity?

Have you read his book Ends and Means yet Jack?

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

And I would counter with a quote from the final sentence of the book I just finished now by Max Scheler, in the final essay on "Idealism and Realism."...

Ok, but it does coincide with your theory that there could be a "complete agreement on matters sufficiently abstract that they remain insulated from t...

I have a question. You interpret database normalization as "a process wherein redundancy, inconsistency and generally artificiality are eliminated fro...

I wonder if people born deaf can hear in their dreams?

This may be a good thing. I think that a sensible balance is best, but you have to have that constant influx of information. There are a lot of books ...

Me too.

I think Nils is right that sight is more functionally important. And I would definitely miss reading, but I don't think I could live without music. Al...

But we tend to be involved in situations which reinforce our pre-existing traits. Most people go through their lives enacting some variety of the Freu...

Right, they are they antipodes because they are at the completely opposite poles. I may revisit Merleau-Ponty since you mention that, when I'm done wi...

Husserl said that Heidegger and Scheler were his two philosophical antipodes.

Yes, that's another valid realm. What the relationships between various types of realms of knowledge and the natural realm are is a complex question. ...

I'm currently reading Max Scheler's views on phenomenology and science: "the facts of science...are never encountered in the natural world view." I te...

Indeed. And some objects only exist in specific realms, e.g. a cup exists in the realm of natural objects, which are subject to direct interaction, wh...

Because tech has already solved so many global problems with no negative consequences....

Nice! That's on the shelf right next to me - must be a sign. I'm queueing this "up next"....

:up: Balance

It is about that, but you can only control you. Trite as it may seem, there's a lot of substance in the Serenity Prayer. I've wandered more than once ...

I have found for me by far the greatest insulation from the vagaries of interpersonal stress is the minimization of the ego. At some point, I just dec...

What types of things can make a day horrible?

Yes, it is relatively easy to climb to the peaks and enjoy the view, but inscribing that in some permanent form in the book of one's life is another m...

One key is that one must be open to transformation. Otherwise, a peak experience is wasted, or worse, becomes a hedonistic trap, and one ends up chasi...

Well, if consciousness is energy then it is subject to conservation, which means it could be recycled theoretically. Perhaps the brain may not be so m...

It's from a book on systems theory applications I read last year. I'll have to dig a bit. edit - it is actually from Capra/Luisi The Systems View of L...

One of the most interesting examples of self-organization I've read about was in the context of an experiment to simulate the genesis of life from org...

If consciousness is just some kind of complex energy formation then the fact that it gets "recycled" would be fairly straightforward. Certain constell...

Don't the entropies of thermodynamics and information theory pretty much converge?

But are we ever confident of that...unless we are the majority?

The way you phrase this question makes it ambiguous who the community is identified with. Is the community the "majority," which includes the rabid ra...

Plus some people just always have to say the opposite....

Tension creates energy. I think it's a feature of the universe to create itself in counterposing forces.

I have an excellent article somewhere on the eye-brain mechanics of the frog's eye - I'll try to find it and post a link Here tis. I remember when I r...

The aim itself is not objective but a subjective formulation, so the only way that it can "run away" from you is if the means you choose to employ in ...

If you view consciousness as a form of energy then it can be explained empirically. If it is a natural occurrence then it doesn't require "justificati...

Evil is antisocial, although not all antisocial behaviours are evil. Most evil people try to conceal evil deeds behind a facade of virtue. Which shows...

A perfect example. And a sphere has the property of rolling which a lump of clay does not have. So this is an additional property (reduced surface fri...

Interestingly, you used the term creative. I think creation implies novelty, hence something being added.

If I have a new experience, then my state of being is different subsequent to that experience and prior. It seems reasonable to view this as an additi...

Interestingly, I just started reading Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and it seems that the whole idea of the psychology of people who live according to wh...

Of course. The example I cited is from page 195 of the original MIT press hardcover.

True. And as I suggested, different people with the same physical capacities can nevertheless have very different abilities. Will and understanding ar...

Exactly. As Descartes says, "the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding." And yet not everyone discovers a bashing stick c...

I think there is an underlying drive and ideal for knowledge to be an organic whole, encompassing all dimensions of the actual life of an individual w...

The example is Searle's, from the book Rediscovery of Mind.

:up: I think this concept fits well with the approach of embodied or embedded cognition as well.

Yes, this is exactly the sense in which I cited Searle on intentionality and background abilities. Exactly. Situational awareness.