For me the critical factor was social awareness. I do believe that fundamentally, both in terms of our humanity and our consciousness, we are part of ...
Yes, but you have to believe that can't be easy. I suspect some people are just morally more evolved than others. Edit: you can practice morality, the...
I think as soon as you ask yourself the moral question "what should I do" you have challenged yourself. I'd suggest that, most of the time, morality i...
Ok. But should demandingness be a positive or a negative criterion? Aristotle says "he who can learn things that are difficult, and not easy for man t...
I just read von Bertalanffy's book on Systems Theory. Near the beginning he talks about how metaphysical theories are validated by their "elegance". A...
Personally, I constantly remind myself of the vast scope of "cognitive biases", mental prejudices to misinterpret data in specific ways, and make an e...
Yes, this is one specific interpretation of some of the results of systems theory. Although the meaning of consciousness between contexts may not map ...
The consciousness for me that seeks the optimal outcome, balance, the sense of well-being that comes from having helped another, perhaps that consciou...
Maybe not everyone is conscious in the same way. This would explain why some people so steadfastly refuse to abide by others' attempts to encapsulate ...
As far as I can tell, your assertions about consciousness relegate it permanently to the status of a nescio quid. You affirm that there is a conscious...
There wouldn't be a distinction between minds and consciousness. That is just continuing to use the false-dichotomy from the material-mind paradigm. T...
Exactly. Stoicism is not supposed to be an ongoing battle, but an acquiescence. You don't fight with your own expectations, you examine them and learn...
I think you are using "system" in a non-technical, everday usage kind of way, and it sounds like you are focussing mostly on the properties of a syste...
No, again, the whole point is that the concept of a "system" is the most generic and fundamental. Properties are features and functions of systems.......
"Chaos and Complexity in Psychology" - finishing today "Essay on Philosophical Method" - R.G. Collingwood, underway "Analysis of Sensations and Relati...
Hmmm. It is really about recasting the questions in a way that fits the best explanatory paradigm, essentially a paradigm shift. It's not that conscio...
The top level system is whichever system contains the entity being evaluated from an internal/operational perspective. Every entity is simultaneously ...
No. Simply another emergent phenomenon within a nested-hierarchical system of complex-adaptive systems (CAS). Explicable with respect to the propertie...
I would suggest that actual goodness is superior to theoretical goodness, in the sense that the purpose of goodness is exactly to be realized or enact...
Consider molecules. Molecules exist...now. But in the early universe, not so much. So while the universe was a mish-mash of fundamental forces, did mo...
It's in the Introduction to Systems Philosophy. That was the only one of the systems books I didn't buy - it was over $200! When I first read it I was...
It absolutely does address the hard problem of consciousness. The solution is called "biperspectivism". It is quite neat. I've read a number of books ...
Actually that is the generic definition of emergence in systems philosophy. Systems philosophy is based on the validated premise that systems of all v...
My personal belief is that, phrased as a question, as Socrates did, the observation has merit. I believe that people are in some sense misguided when ...
This is a pretty common position among ancient philosophers. If the good is by definition desirable, why do men do evil? Socrates for sure. I found th...
What worldview? Everyone's worldview is unique. All anyone has are the principles and strategies he lives by. People can (and often do) misrepresent w...
Ok, then you should in good faith make an effort to learn and adopt stoical principles in a way that makes sense to you, and then decide if they have ...
I wouldn't say so. If you are ascribing some kind of independence to subconscious phenomena that's a pretty large leap. Undoubtedly buried 'subconscio...
Isn't this just a lot of rationalization to account for distracted driving? I'm having a hard time seeing this as exemplifying a cognitively significa...
That's right. Poof, there's mathematics. Poof, there's history. Consciousness is doing a LOT. You are absolutely right in that coming up with a compre...
Why is being in the state of becoming? It sounds like a variation on Zeno's paradox, which is based on the error of assuming that both distance and ti...
What is LEM? Certainly traditional logic does not currently encompass the newer forms of 'action at a distance' relationships that are emerging in phy...
Pretty much the entirety of the human sciences, History, Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Economics, Ethics, Aesthetics are the products of t...
The entire point of the philosophy is its therapeutic benefits. That is the entire point of any moral philosophy. IF you do X, THEN result Y. The only...
Well, Stoicism is a moral philosophy, which suggests principles upon which to base one's life and one's actions. So nothing could be more relevant to ...
Stoicism really seems to attract a lot of skeptical attention around here. The expression of stoicism that says the most to me is to learn to control ...
Interesting. You are kind of making the case for a 'cumulative empirical intuition'. Even though the knowledge you are talking about doesn't achieve t...
The world 'appears' deterministic at times at the human scale (e.g billiard balls on a pool table) but this in fact is only an artefact of approximate...
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