fdrake

Maybe one part of "what's missing" is regarding the scope of useful condensations of the information. On a day to day basis you don't have access to s...

Aye! I think much of "manifest reality" isn't physical strictly speaking; as in you don't gain too much knowledge about a social institution from the ...

I agree! I don't think it's a problem, it's a cost of doing business.

:up: Inferring what exists from what we do seems backwards to me. Like "If you wanna know what exists, look at what people do!". But like... I wanna c...

@"Olivier5" If you're just gonna mock our guest, you'll be deleted.

Yes! And I found it ridiculous even though I love Deleuze. I find shitting on Deleuze from afar distasteful, what I found distasteful about the semina...

I don't think it's possible to answer that question generically? If you're doing ontology, and how you frame things / your conceptual approach is a dr...

My own answer: systems. But it's funny isn't it, everyone is compelled to agree with the Quine quote, but it leaves so much out. Two philosophers coul...

I deleted it because I couldn't tell if you (Olivier5) meant it in good humour or not. Since David seems to have taken it in good humour I guess it's ...

If you're used to reductive or emergentist physicalisms, Spinoza's parallelism will seem unintuitive, and like it doesn't give "primacy to the body". ...

If necessary conformity between the law and some natural right is required for a law to be a law, that seems easily violated by differences in laws ov...

I don't think so? Combination of (1) English is second language (2) isn't used to arguing on forums (3) isn't used to Spinoza (4) is coming at this fr...

:up: Not your fault, again. The practice of responding to a very detailed post with a single question is a time honoured internet tradition, and I ten...

While I have a lot of patience for earnest inquiry, I do demand that you engage with what I wrote.

No. Does cycling (consciousness) contain a bike (ideas)? Note, I didn't write involve a bike, I wrote contain a bike. Ideas are not "thinking things",...

Thank you for your in depth answer. I hope you don't mind me following up on (only) this one point: (above quote from linked document for context) The...

Me too. "The best way to learn a subject is to teach it".

If you want the type, I've given you some kind of answer to that - the interaction of ideas associated with a body; the human mind = the idea of the h...

I think he agrees with that claim. Ideas interact with ideas. Bodies interact with bodies. You don't get causal chains like "this mindless stuff inter...

I think the difficulty you're having is trying to understand Spinoza's perspective without shifting your own frame of interpretation. When people inte...

:up: I didn't intend to give the impression that I was criticising your exegesis, I think we agree on "Spinoza 101" things! My intention was to refere...

If you asked Spinoza "how come God has the attribute of mind?" he'd respond like he does in the Ethics: That's a much different question from "why is ...

Well, there's an argument for why they can't interact causally at the start of Spinoza's Ethics. It's not as axiomatic as I stated it to you, but it i...

Bluntly, I think for Spinoza "they just do", thought is part of the essence of God, rather than a derivative property coming from the combination of f...

It's not really your fault that you're being misinterpreted, people have a habit of "not understanding" something as a means of criticising it. Expres...

I think that's an uncharitable interpretation of @"Pfhorrest", but I do understand the vibe.

Panpsychism has everything being conscious or exhibiting consciousness to some degree. Spinoza's metaphysics does not have everything being conscious ...

Maybe? Hostility to the frame something is presented in can look a lot like hostility to the truth. I think, based on skim reading and brainfarts, tha...

Degree of truth -> truth value is no longer boolean -> doesn't resemble usual conceptions of truth. If you needed to parry the attack on "absolute tru...

Two thrusts of research in the last half century have been the thorough chronicling of how human rationality is riddled with irremovable biases and ho...

A few things you might want to read around: "ressentiment" in Nietzsche from the blowhards can use this to punch down angle. "bourgeoise morality" is ...

I have a lot of contempt for truth. It's extremely over-rated, it needs a lot of scaffolding to emerge, and whenever it really, truly is what it is - ...

Cookies specifically? No idea. The books "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", Christopher Wylie's "Mindfuck", and reading about nudges (and hencefort...

It's more about writing and organising it, dates etc. We need multiple people to be quite attentive all at once while we have a guest (so we need mult...

:up: I think CEO tech bros might fantasise that workless world, but other people don't (in the short term). Sweat shops don't seem to automate like fa...

I think that's true of Marx, but do we have any reason to believe it's true of reality? If we grant that there is a tendency toward automation (which ...

So: :up: (IMO) Up to precisely what's meant by "reliability", anyway.

:up: If you repeat a measurement under the same conditions in an experiment, the goal of that is usually to take an average; establishing concordance ...

Lemme give you a value theory answer: no, so long as human labour is required in the production process, that socially necessary labour will be distri...

Stahp.

That's okay! Try again some other time. @"Baden" has a really nice OP writing guide here. Good night, Joe.

I'm moderating a philosophy board because I have the ability to respond even handedly to people who are upset with me. I decided to close your thread ...

Closing this.

Am I right in thinking that the major distinction you're drawing between national identity and race is that, ultimately, national identity is a contin...

On what basis are you separating out the national identity stuff from the racial, ethnic and ideological stuff? What makes national identity less susp...

I think what you're not prepared to cede is the "good heart" of protectionist policies; which ultimately is taking care of a community and protecting ...

It's a slope, yes. The nationalism enables the bad stuff so well it gets branded (rightly) the same. Your framing makes it look like that is all natio...

As a neo-marxist, postmodern destroyer of freedom who broadly agrees with you, I still wouldn't mod a nationalist like a racist since there are social...

He explains this in the Ethics: tl;dr-the divine intellect is the clockwork of the universe, its thoughts are the formation of patterns and what it me...

Yes. Grappling with his ideas more thoroughly will make what you previously thought seem weird to you. :razz: