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You are specifying a lot of specific criteria which may belong to certain systems of socialism, but which I don't think can legitimately be said to be...
May 07, 2024 at 20:01
Are you equating concepts and fictions?
May 07, 2024 at 19:35
Whether or not the approximation has contradictions is irrelevant to the fact that it is the approximation and the thing to which it points conceptual...
May 07, 2024 at 18:35
And of course there is the role of faith in everything from epistemology to social reality. These institutional facts don't depend on the pre-existenc...
May 07, 2024 at 11:55
A lot of quibbling about "the god of the new testament" versus "the concept of god." This could be recast as a debate about the existence of atoms. By...
May 07, 2024 at 11:29
Which kind of atheism is essentially a socio-cultural critique, which is the most reasonable version of atheism I have heard. Unlike the nonsensical v...
May 06, 2024 at 22:27
You did not write the following? redicates of X entail search parameters for locating X (i.e. whether or not X exists where & when). Because it sure l...
May 06, 2024 at 13:32
It only proves this if you can definitively say that and where the missing item ought to be. Which is absurd. The only way you could say that would be...
May 06, 2024 at 11:43
A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells
May 01, 2024 at 13:15
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Rogers Searle
April 30, 2024 at 11:46
My HR hits 180 when I push. The 225 minus age calculation doesn't work well for trained athletes. However I did see a youtube last week that cited a s...
April 26, 2024 at 12:18
Perhaps like overlapping superpositions of possible states which gradually collapse into optimally configured forms? Oh wait, that's this universe....
April 26, 2024 at 11:04
I used to run a whole lot, but the further past 50 I go the more challenging it becomes. I would be over the moon to run a 28 minute 5 k these days. G...
April 25, 2024 at 22:59
This aligns with Nicolai Hartmann's "ontological strata" approach also, for another perspective.
April 22, 2024 at 11:01
The Mucker (Mucker #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
April 21, 2024 at 14:32
The difference being that the ecosystem is naturally holistic and exceeds our limited conceptualizations thereof, Whereas the economy is artificial an...
April 20, 2024 at 15:26
Yes, it would require the same type of freedom and environmental control and impact that every other form of life enjoys. However it seems completely ...
April 20, 2024 at 14:36
Outstanding, thank you. :pray:
April 18, 2024 at 13:09
That's just an abstract? Do you have a pdf of the full article? I'm in the thick of this right now in the context of the book Quantum Mind and would b...
April 18, 2024 at 12:36
Swords of Mars (Barsoom, #8) by Edgar Rice Burroughs,
April 17, 2024 at 16:24
Do you believe that human-constructed artefacts, which are engineered to correct errors in order to function within a predefined scope, are subject to...
April 12, 2024 at 22:15
Reasoning is essentially functional problem solving in an environment and is both a logical and a real antecedent of linguistic reasoning. Language em...
April 12, 2024 at 20:18
A Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #7) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
April 10, 2024 at 21:17
Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology by Alexander Wendt
April 10, 2024 at 11:40
Children of the Lens (Lensman, #6) by E.E. "Doc" Smith
April 03, 2024 at 21:06
The Construction of Social Reality by John Rogers Searle Beginning a foray into social ontology for the next few books....
March 31, 2024 at 12:21
I agree that this is one fundamental path to enlightenment. Whatever good ideas there might be are ultimately limited by the prevailing degree of soci...
March 29, 2024 at 13:40
For me the problem is twofold. There is this issue of political practicality, how can consensus be built to the optimum end. And then there is the ass...
March 28, 2024 at 17:13
Most people segment into liberal versus conservative, for starters. Democrat versus Republican. Again, are these more than words to the vast majority?...
March 28, 2024 at 13:54
Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson
March 28, 2024 at 12:06
Habermas I believe characterized constitutions as a kind of a catalog of the failures of a the old society which are to be redressed by the new. In Th...
March 28, 2024 at 11:54
More traditional political categories. My sense is that the upper echelons benefit by playing groups off against one another in order to forestall the...
March 28, 2024 at 10:47
Suggestions?
March 28, 2024 at 10:28
Again, as an ideological guide or norm, broad enough to bridge the traditionally divisive categories. I think the true divide lies between greed and g...
March 28, 2024 at 00:14
I'm really interested in finding a way to transcend traditional divisions. As mentioned, I don't think they are meaningful in the elite strata who exe...
March 27, 2024 at 23:22
Yes, this is the heart of the issue. What does a stated value equate to? It is easy to cite "traditional family values" as your gospel. But what the h...
March 27, 2024 at 22:17
You can look at mind as the manifestation of brain-consciousness. Or you can look at mind as the correlate of the products of the "sciences of the spi...
March 27, 2024 at 10:48
You keep saying this like it is a thing. What you are talking about is an artificial language suitable for application within a definite and restricte...
March 23, 2024 at 11:03
I would say that the process we are involved in now itself represents the development and evolution of meaning, which is integral to philosophy. Meani...
March 23, 2024 at 09:19
New Ways of Ontology by Nicolai Hartmann
March 21, 2024 at 11:38
The lack of what you call a "unified meaning" reflects a lack of consensus, hence a diversity of opinion. This diversity is the source of the richness...
March 19, 2024 at 11:49
"For how can one assign to perfection bounds that it cannot exceed?" ~Emile Durkheim
March 17, 2024 at 13:18
The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method by Émile Durkheim
March 12, 2024 at 12:54
Noogenesis: Computational Biology by Alex M. Vikoulov The Arabian Nights Husain Haddawy (Translator)
March 09, 2024 at 13:25
In the complex system wherein and whereby the embodied brain operates
March 09, 2024 at 00:39
No, I don't think you can reasonably argue that human beings suffer model collapse.
March 07, 2024 at 10:57
Yes, these results are in direct opposition. The degradation of neural net performance is specifically a failure of divergent thinking. Moreover, whil...
March 06, 2024 at 15:29
I think that some people believe that AI is hoisting itself up by its own bootstraps, programming itself, perhaps in some sense that is a precursor to...
March 06, 2024 at 01:36
Apparently we are going to have to wait until the rest of civilization catches up with Canada's progressive cannabis laws before we can think about go...
March 05, 2024 at 22:42
:up:
March 04, 2024 at 17:11