Pantagruel

And yet we do allow parents to saddle a child with gender neutrality at birth....

"Unity through diversity" is one of the core concepts of Systems Philosophy as coined by Laszlo around 1970. It also matches your embedded micro/macro...

Actually that is the main point of SP - the fact that there are structural isomorphisms between systems of different types itself represents a connect...

Systems philosophy proposes a completely different solution, biperspectivism, in which the mechanical (reductionist) perspective is appropriate from t...

Yes, I spent much of the early nineties immersed in cybernetics and wrote a fairly long piece (60 pages) on personality cybernetics. I posted an annot...

Stoicism is about limiting your expectations, not controlling your passions I think.

"Introduction to Systems Philosophy" Ervin Laszlo - just finished "General Systems Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications" Ludwig von Bertalan...

Well...in general, we comprehend what is outside our perceptual scale via intellectual intuition. Consider the apparent retrograde motion of the plane...

I'm just finishing Laszlo's "Introduction to Systems Philosophy" which is probably the seminal work in the field. I have to say, it stands the test of...

Ethics in the sense in which it is normally used equates with "Normative Ethics" which simply put translates as "what people ought to do." So if somet...

"I am the eye in the sky, looking at you I can read your mind"

Yes, when I studied programming a few years back, I began suddenly to incorporate programming concepts (interfaces, classes, etc) into both my real-wo...

Kind of a biased selection with a lot of stuff wadded into "Other"....

"It is the beauty of systems theory that it is psychophysically neutral , that is, its concepts and models can be applied to both material and nonmate...

Jeremy Bentham, "Panopticon"

Since the self is uniquely available to introspection, introspection is, at minimum, a valid avenue of knowledge about the self. However just the act ...

Yes, it is about seeing the universe as a conglomeration of systems, basically.

Cybernetics is a good practical introduction. Systems philosophy is like a generalized theory of cybernesis.

Maybe not so clear. Consciousness is a feature of a complex system, not just the human brain, or body, but the entire environment within which conscio...

Absolutely. The contract is between individuals. The reason individuals enter into such a contract is that many people collectively are capable of muc...

I think it is innate human greed that is the enemy of social progress. Hopefully a new more socially conscious collective awareness is emerging that w...

In principle, that sounds fine. I don't know if it is something we can just sit back and wait to happen though.... :)

Yes, I use the term more as a gloss, as you say, for the actual state of affairs. But I like to think that, at its heart, there must be some sort of m...

So what does it take to mobilize the collective will? Look at D Trump or R Ford - demagogues don't work. We need to start with better education.

I think your intuitions are accurate in the larger sense - i.e. absolute zero - which would be the absence of all motion - has been proven to be theor...

Big Peirce fan. Thanks for the tip!

Then what is doing the resisting? What is resisting what?

Well, offering assistance to someone in need is essentially demonstrating empathy, so, yes I'd have to say it is empathetic. And I think if everyone d...

Actually, my philosophy and practise is pretty straightforward. Individuals have different sets of abilities and capabilities based both on innate dif...

Just because few people undertake to act empathically doesn't undermine its importance. It has been a conundrum since ancient times, if everyone desir...

Works for me. Then it becomes more of a social phenomenon. I'm still not clear on the reasoning behind being accountable for the unintended consequenc...

A person can have no idea of the consequences of his or her actions but still be "responsible" for those actions in the actual sense of having done so...

Why does responsibility require a response? If A does x, then A is responsible for the consequences of x. Why does this description require further am...

Systems Philosophy is a relatively new discipline which is a convergence of the scientific and, lets call it 'exo-scientific' perspectives. It utilize...

Seems like consciousness always appears as a feature of a system, within which it functions. This theory is known as distributed cognition (I've read ...

Russell's History of Western Philosophy makes a good introductory read and covers a lot of ground.

Yes

I think equating spirituality with awe and wonder makes perfect sense.

Hmmm. Yes, I thought that is exactly what you were doing!

To me, it seems that the distinction between "storing" the knowledge from an authoritative source and "knowing" must relate to the application of said...

But do you think they are different in the way two things of the same type are different, i.e. two oranges, or are they different in the way things of...

Nice.

If consciousness is awareness, not insofar as it or its effects are observable, but as a subjective state, maybe what I experience as consciousness an...

Yes, introspective-meditative traditions are quite another thing.. Other discussions I've encountered on this forum have been wholly unaware of this d...

Empirical knowledge is approximate. I'd concur with that.

I know that my house is built of bricks. But I don't know how to build a house out of bricks. Isn't that the refutation of your statement?

Yes, which is why alluded to knowledge being "embedded" in the world in which we function practically from day to day. I do think that this is the cas...

LOL! Fair enough.

Ya...so what do you do when you know the burden of proof has shifted, but the other person isn't willing to acknowledge it? Since you know it, then yo...

I really like your honest exposition of your own thought process because it is pragmatic, how belief and knowledge really 'work' in your experience. A...