Pantagruel

We get what we are essaying to conceptualize. If you assume the conceptualization entails the non-existence of the thing then perhaps it is the concep...

How We Think by John Dewey Dewey never fails to satisfy, like a cool drink of water on a hot day.

Perhaps the possibility is a function the belief itself.

Like the JWST crisis in cosmology? I have a pretty good grasp of what's scientific and what's not. I'm not aware of any science that contradicts the f...

Life? Sure. Consciousness? No. They are not necessarily equivalent. Perhaps Consciousness is emergent from Life.

I agree.

:up: Personally, I'm especially interested in the concept of causality qua instrumentality, and the instantiation of knowledge in the physical form of...

Sure. Democritus imagined atoms were real. And there was evidence. It just wasn't available to him at the time that he imagined it. But his imaginings...

Maybe. Does this entail or imply that there is nothing after death? Consciousness can and does transcend the limits of individual physical entities. Y...

You say. I say, the logical concept of god is what is logically possible to each and any given individual person, based on that individual's experienc...

The relevant empirical facts are: 1. There is a spectrum of consciousness, with beings more and less conscious than each other 2. There is no good rea...

I don't think that proving a negative means one must prove all negatives. However I do think that the only negative that can be proven is a determinat...

I personally don't believe there are different kinds of consciousness. Yes. I set some transcendental conditions of consciousness based on certain rat...

I don't and I didn't think that was what I said. I assume that is the goal of the people developing it and in particular those who are part of the gov...

I just had a chat with gpt4 about how the commoditization of life in modern society can only impede the emergence of the next new state of consciousne...

Thanks for clarifying that.

It sounds as though you yourself hold some rather specific and rigid beliefs that likewise are not entirely objective in their genesis.

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Llana of Gathol (Barsoom #10) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Synthetic Men of Mars (Barsoom #9) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/scientific-realism-selected-essays-of-mario-bunge-9781573928922.html

9 million people die from starvation every year. Should we lay these deaths at the feet of capitalist corporatism? Because I surely do.

The collection of essays is available as a PDF here: https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/scientific-realism-selected-essays-of-mario-bunge-9781573928922.htm...

I just read that essay. It's what you would expect, surveys the various takes on causality across the socio-scientific spectrum. Concludes with an aff...

But then for anyone who seriously asks that question, the inherent goodness of existence must precisely be in question, must it not?

The only sense, the only sense in which any of this makes any sense, is in the sense of the Shakespearian question. So if you are actually contemplati...

Does this not seem like a case where the whole problem just typifies the fallacy of the excluded middle? Like there is a right and a wrong answer? If ...

Hang on. If good is what should be, then morality is an evaluation of what should be. Sure. If anything, that exactly contradicts your conclusion that...

It seems like all of your subsequent reasoning devolves upon this set of specious reasonings. First, even if there is an objective morality, it is inh...

Scientific Realism: Selected Essays of Mario Bunge by Mario Bunge

New Worlds for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H.G. Wells

When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology by Alfred North Whitehead I expect this will take a while....

Definitely not suitable as an introduction to systems theory. What it does is excavate a comprehensive set of laws that govern systems behaviours and ...

Yes. And plagiarising and blending everything into a single, monotonous shade of techno-drivel.

Unto this Last; The Political Economy of Art; Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

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It would seem that "the study of" connotes the act of reflection upon the topic or instance of something. So it can rightly be construed as an extensi...

The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back Patrick Hoverstadt I've either been looking forward to or dreading this book. Subtitled "33 Systems...

I like this formulation better. :up:

I just spelled out the positive argument from Durkheim plus the relevant modern supporting evidence. I don't see how what I supplied requires any addi...

This is part of the thesis of Durkheim's book Suicide. It has been supported by academic studies, including this one which concludes, among other thin...

In what sense does the study of value instantiate value? You can study anatomy but never practice medicine. Arguably, the practice of medicine instant...

Do you think that other people with different experiences might be capable of forming such a concept? Not everyone is capable of conceptualizing equal...

So are you rejecting the concept of god that you perceive as being advocated in the world around you, or are you rejecting the most reasonable concept...

What I'm saying is, assuming that UBI is successfully implemented assumes that it is successfully funded, through taxing the wealthy. Which in itself ...

Exactly. But the hypothesis is that UBI is successfully implemented. So what happens as a result of that is at least in part altered by that. It would...

But does it not stand to reason that implementing a UBI - globally - would have to be achieved through methods which, at the end of the day, would ten...

Doing my best.

No, my argument is that the specific historic descriptions of "God" are approximations, in exactly the same way that most concepts are, limited by the...