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Do you agree that the (existence of a moving asteroid prior to the existence of humans) entails that there was space before human minds? Because it ha...

If you say my argument is question begging, and I've made it into something like a syllogism, you should be able to tell me precisely in what premise ...

It isn't so surprising that the hard problem is unsolvable when the capacity to give an account attempting to solve it apparently undermines any accou...

Do you agree that the fact entails that there was space before human minds? Because it had to move in space to move. It's an asteroid.

Please indulge me and answer the questions. Is it false that there was a moving asteriod before humans?

Interesting. Terrifying potential for oversight and fake objectivity.

So you're looking for like a regex search procedure of legal documents to get the data out? Statements like that. I don't know how you'd learn the ont...

You'll need to come up with really clever operationalisation and get a lot of data from loads of legal systems and people in them to say anything rele...

So let's postpone the is ought gap for a second; studying moral sentiment will not tell you what is moral or immoral, it will tell you what people thi...

Wrong way to think about it. If you assume the time interval is an interval of real numbers, the measure (length) of any point is 0, but the measure o...

This was in response to (1), are you denying that there was a moving asteroid prior to the existence of humans? This seems consistent with your respon...

Ok. Tell me where this argument goes wrong. (1) A moving asteroid existed before humans. (premise) (2) Its movement requires a residing space to move ...

And you're positing that there's a universe in which it makes sense to say things like "stuff didn't have location or size before the existence of hum...

Dreams occur in a state of awareness with little to no sensorimotor constraints and diminished frontal cortex activation. Neuro-imaging data which con...

Breathe void life with black lung Eat to forget hunger Sleep to forget waking People to forget me I smile war An invitation To the hole I cover Edit: ...

Clearly this is a meditation on the role of trace and singularity in photography! *sobers up* I mean. uh... Yeah I like it it's eerie.

I imagine it's actually both ways at once, if you consider it retrospectively like this, rather than how stuff means stuff at the moment (and retrojec...

No. The union of all the points in that interval still lasts 43 years.

You're blindly following exactly what Meillassoux is criticising. Though, exactly the same thing happened the last time we talked about it. Edit: I sh...

I agree with this. The science angle is to leverage the empirically realist and 'non-intervention in science' intuitions that correlationists like to ...

I really like what this is gesturing in the direction of. But I don't actually know how to articulate it. Can you help me?

I find it a persuasive undermining. I think the force of it might be summarised as; if we only have access to the correlation between thought and bein...

I don't think Meillassoux' research interests overlap with Chalmers, or even approaches in analytical philosophy of mind. He's mostly situated among t...

The thinking and being are the same thing is kinda undermined by it. The thrust of the arche-fossil argument (in the first section of the book) strong...

In the guy's argument, the nature of the change between one and the other plays less of a role than noticing that at some point, there was no consciou...

Guy's French. I imagine the translator used anterior to reference the tense thing. Passe antérieur is sort of like a "before before" conjugation, like...

No. He's explicitly talking about dinosaurs and stuff.

I'm using anterior to be consistent with the vocabulary in Meillassoux' argument on the topic in After Finitude: I think anterior works, because natur...

Ok. I don't really care what you call it. There is a 'transcendental in-between', has it always been there? Or is it a uniquely human feature? If it's...

I think this misinterprets my point. I'm trying to lead you to the conclusion that even transcendental subjects must emerge from an indifferent nature...

These methodologies and their respective ontological commitments concern human history, no? Giving a central role to class struggle in natural history...

I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. The main highlight of the paper isn't that psychiatry is rubbish, it's that narrow minded focus lin...

You quoted yourself there.

I'm a bit familiar with Lacan's real through Zizek's appropriation of it, and Badiou's obvious inspiration from it in his term "evental subjects". I a...

No.

Thought alone can't, but it was never thought alone to begin with! Reflection isn't some isolated medium, as it can appear from the image of the armch...

I agree with that, but I think you're being a hypocrite a bit in the thread. I suppose a more polite way to put it is that you're suffering from a met...

Though I can imagine a fitting response which uses the 'counts as' the other way, so that an exemplar of a 3 variable word can change the standards it...

I think it's a good account for a static library of terms, but I don't think it gets at novelty very much. All words come from somewhere, and the comp...

You actually have to be very careful with how you transform variables to preserve their meaning. You could surject the real line onto {0,1} and lose s...

I don't think relativity tackles the problem, really. To be sure, it makes time immanent, which is a good step. It makes space, motion, time and mass ...

There must be ways of thinking and acting which attend to the nature of what they are concerned with. We have sensorimotor constraints that embed us i...

Plenty. Most of them, in fact. Most of nature does not resemble a city. You will probably equivocate here on the concept, but the concept is not the t...

You quote that a lot, but you never emphasise that it describes an ontic (real) conception of time immanently rather than an ontological (ideal) conce...

I'm not sure I agree with this. There are 'extra-meaningful' things operative all the time, the things we settle on as 'having meaning' in a conversat...

The desire for revenge is probably something that will always be with us, but considering how socially mediated the expression of that desire is, I wo...

An interesting way to arrive at the same conclusion as empathy. :up: At least, that's how I feel about it.

Revenge is usually a fantasy. A war with yourself in your own head. A invitation to re-civilise yourself.

Which is a shame, as they're all made of piss.

Well yes, in one respect they are. They're a stable object of an alliance of atoms that blows in the wind from atop buildings as a signal. Then they'r...