Pantagruel

I think the Gaia hypothesis also fits in here.

Actually, what was said was As I follow this, understanding brings something into thought, so is a synthesizing function, not entirely thought, and no...

Not everything that is in thought is of thought (objective knowledge). So if understanding is conceived as the synthesizing event (which it is here) t...

Popper takes a similar view of learning as eliminative of error in his perspective of scientific realism.

I guess it depends on how big of a gap is being bridged? i.e. how much new knowledge is being acquired.

In that case, understanding is definitely a synthetic or synthesizing function. As to whether it is a thought or an absence of thought, there is a wel...

Fascinating. You have completely failed to respond to point 1, that you have committed the fallacy of generalization, by employing the fallacy of misd...

1. This attributes the faults of specific individuals who claim to be religious to religion itself. You might as well say "Speech creates a serious pr...

Are you characterizing understanding as a discrete event (Archimedes' Eureka!) or as a cumulative state (the sum total of that which I understand)?

Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action Volume I: Reason and the Rationalization of Society Really been looking forward to starting this

Lucid dreaming does by definition requires that you be asleep, and not awake. You can't be awake and be dreaming at the same time.

Everything is external to everything else, by definition (A is not equal to not A). The relationship of one thing to another thing has no bearing on t...

Quantum Shift in the Global Brain by Ervin Laszlo

In The Open Universe Popper presents a neat argument that, if you try to introduce the Laplacean demon into a relativistic framework, the necessary in...

Agreed.

The function of science is to inquire and test, not to make metaphysical speculations (except insofar as it is planning to eventually discover ways of...

More inter-disciplinary, but the Royal Institution channel for sure.

Most of Bunge's stuff is ungodly expensive. Definitely something I want in my library versus borrowing though. Starting Quantum Shift in the Global Br...

I would say if you think you have mental health issues then dropping acid probably isn't the best idea.

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber

Yes, that is fascinating! The idea of this post was inspired by the notion that we are currently experiencing the results of our own (culturally embed...

I think the obstacle is education. Once the level of general education is high enough, I think it is reasonable to expect (hope) that enlightened self...

Thank you! Yes, I have meditated frequently throughout my lifetime. My goal is to achieve a 'zen' state of two minds, where you are constantly meditat...

Letting go is an apt expression. I came across a term while reading a book called "Yoga and Psychotherapy", it was "passive volition." I don't like wh...

I think you can't have an individual without a collective, and vice-versa. So to me it only makes sense that an 'optimization' of the relationship sho...

But it seems such a small step simply to recognize that our own individual best interests are always, always best represented by every individual work...

Added Critique of Dialectical Reason (Sartre) into the mix. I have theDeathgate Cycle by Weiss/Hickman on the go too.

I have received the Critique (plus a few companion volumes). Hoping to start this by Monday! Online families rock!! https://scontent.fyto1-2.fna.fbcdn...

I had an idea that consciousness is, in some sense equivalent with "the idea of consciousness" as it has evolved historically through culture. So the ...

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See the value of context? I have one to read specific to what we were talking about. However there is a queue, you're right about that. Context is kin...

Again, I only need to read one.

Will you have read the two books by the time I finish the one do you think?

Everything you said I addressed in the comment that you quoted. It's a reasonable first step.

Actually, I've read Being and Nothingness a great many times (which I mentioned and again you contradict), plus Psychology of the Imagination, Transce...

Yes, that is exactly what I said "addition to my reading list aside." Another peculiar quirk of your "reasoning", you seem consistently to claim that ...

Clearly this has particular interchange has been a waste of time, addition to my reading list aside.

Sorry, exactly how in-depth is your knowledge of the new "material freedom" concept, versus the original "ontological freedom"? Because Being and Noth...

Excellent! As soon as my finish my current book on Marx the Critique of Dialectal Reason will be a perfect fit. I love it when the books spontaneously...

No, thank you. The reading itself has been quite rewarding enough!

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You have a very selective idea about how to read, which is becoming increasingly evident. Moreover, it is not at all unusual for to consider later and...

That same article also says: "It is an open question whether and how to reconcile the early, ontological conception of freedom with the late, material...

Citation please?

So my interpretation of Sartre is borne of extensive reading and rereading of many of his books, in the context of actually consciously trying to shap...

Yes, that's why I appended the full quotation. I really think it pretty much sums it up. "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the wo...

Everything you said does not apply to Sartre. His notion of freedom is central and pivotal and includes certainly the concept of responsibility - that...

Sorry, that is all a non-sequitur. We are "condemned" to be free in the sense that we can not escape it. Our freedom is absolute and inescapable. "Man...

Yep, it was on our theoretically unlimited freedom, and that even under coercion we are technically free to choose. Pretty much sums it up, I can't re...

Now I'm really confused. It was the exact example that we have been discussing? I quoted Sartre. You disputed, then rebutted based on an interpretatio...