javra

As regards the historicity of the yin/yang, this makes sense to me. Thank you.

In your view, is all this talk about strength/weakness—as the terms are interpreted in western cultures—historically accurate? For example, just becau...

To be clear about my personal stance, the duality I uphold is other than Cartesian. It’s not easy to adequately define in a few words, but it is akin ...

Unless one endorses substance pluralism, wouldn’t everything then hold the material identity of A? This then would make individuality indiscernible. T...

I am forgetting: you’re a materialist/physicalist. If I understand you properly, the past no longer exists materially. My current label of choice is t...

We’re again talking past each other. If Joe (say, via some form of conscious or subconscious self-deception that occurred yesterday) now honestly reme...

Then also address this part:

So the things that the doctors remember isn't? And if those things also are, then isn't there a commonly shared past independent of the individual's m...

Yes, I’m aware of what it is and its mechanisms as much as any other. The issue is in expressing the different between there being a past for the pers...

I’m not sure how to do this without dreary examples, so I’ll use forth-person: One is fine up until the day one gains amnesia. When one is fine there ...

But hey, no cheating: what about your claim that the past doesn't exist? Care to embellish this some.

Right, you’re not one for universals. I was instead thinking in terms of all of us sharing a common understanding of basic aspects of reality, such as...

Different topic but: we can and do share unspoken understandings. You disagree? Still, what I was trying to get at is that the past yet holds presence...

I've no way of knowing. But a lot of his lyrics indicate that he's well read.

I keep on coming back in my thoughts to a Tom Waits lyric: “time is just memory mixed with desire” To argue the past no longer exists in some ontologi...

I agree with your conclusions regarding logical identity, but disagree that the Ship of Theseus is an issue of material identity. Suppose Theseus take...

thanks. Only read Bohm so far. Might give Bergson a read.

I’ve expressed this in other places: I’m by comparison anything but erudite when it comes to the in-depth physics of time. Not to say that I’m utterly...

I believe I understand what you’re expressing. And, at least as pertains to my current understanding, I'm in agreement with you. Yet there is the issu...

Please expand on this if I’ve misconstrued you. My position is that within nitty-gritty metaphysical analysis (or, alternatively, in contemplating som...

The quote is reminiscent of David Hume’s view. Imo, emotions is an umbrella term for many, in some ways different, aspects of psyche. There are emotio...

Hey, I’m all about Heraclitus’ flux. So I don’t subscribe to B-series time either. Nevertheless, when we address past, we all use the notion of change...

My own argument would be that, as with the Ship of Theseus problem, the parts of the chair can change but as long as the whole, the gestalt, remains u...

I wasn’t knowledgeable of this. … Them community-lovers. (there’s sarcasm here somewhere). Although I understand what you're referring to, I yet want ...

Yes, we all know how that goes in certain academic circles. There the making a living part that goes hand in hand with reputation.

Though nowhere near as eruditely as others, I investigated Bhom’s views after first discovering this experiment. This in what then were my attempts to...

This is the experiment that got me to change my mind about hidden variables some time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser...

Thank you for the invitation to do so. Cop out though this may be, I’ll not now expand on the perspective. This, basically, because I get lost for wor...

No need, and no problem. :) Or maybe not. What objectivity is is something we all hold an intuitive sense of ... but different folks, imo, will crysta...

Just so it’s said, I wasn’t intending to be ironical-ish in any way. I could try to make a better case for what I hypothesized. But this isn’t the pla...

Whether evolution does or doesn’t hold a telos would be part and parcel of whether existence does. But, via induction, I suppose that evolution might ...

I get what you mean by comfortable pessimism … in some ways reminds me Pink Floyd’s “comfortably numb”. The active pessimist would be active in trying...

I like that. Rather than a geometric point, a sphere whose volume is in perpetual flux may be a better mapping of the present’s breadth. This fits in ...

It’s interesting to me that when taken verbatim, the same can be upheld for a metaphysics of presentism. I’m not confusing your metaphysics with that ...

I want to break this down into what I take to be the bare elements. There’s domination imposed upon sentience by sentience as a good, and then there’s...

We’re in agreement with this. I think what most of the others are getting at is that, were the present as we experience it to be real, our non-illusor...

Hey, I agree. But to some reality pretty much is equivalent to mathematics, thereby making nature the product of maths. For such, maths—or at least th...

Even proteins (large molecules). So in the normal functions of a cell, some of its microscopically observable parts can hold particle-wave duality whe...

If it’s of help, another way of asking this: Is nature the language of maths or are maths a language of nature. Science can’t answer this one. Neither...

OK, before we go down the terrorism route, by some of the argument so far presented all acts of altruism then belong to the DSM (The Diagnostic and St...

But now we’re addressing different species of thought, regardless of how analogous they might be in their structures. The One is termed so due to bein...

I’m for now presuming we’re on the same page in this regard: It’s there because we can point to it as abstraction via use of our reasoning as a pointi...

In referent to this and to other previous comments concerning quantity and quality: I agree that quantity and quality co-occur with domains of space a...

I’m on board with this position. Although one has to grant that once it is turned into a proposition—rather than it being direct experience—it can the...

There is nothing contradictory between a hierarchy of morals and there being an invariant, objective good. Most everything else in your comments is th...

Here’s a different hypothesis: we suffer when we don’t get out way. In accordance with the word’s etymology, to suffer is to carry (a load), to be bur...

Didn’t at the time have anything significant to add to this. But I don’t want it to slip by without complementing it some. There’s a vast difference i...

Regarding this and a few subsequent comments, when addressed biologically, the sense of fairness would be something inherited through genotype. The re...

All valid questions, but tangential to whether or not the Golden Rule stands on its own or is a product of agency so willing it to be (see below). Let...

I’ll take a leap and proclaim we’re using “independent of” in different ways. You understand it in terms of “severed from” and I understand it in term...