The Great Whatever

Actually, it appears to me to be insane because it is.

This is insane.

This is not something that you need any philosopher's work to see. It's just pointing out that any purportedly intentional experiences are themselves ...

No, you feel hunger. Nothing about suffering a muscle contraction will let you know that you have muscles. Feelings are not information about the obje...

Well, all I can say is I feel the same way. There is absolutely nothing radical or new in what you are talking about. It is old hat in the oldest sens...

I'm not sure who you're supposed to be criticizing here, me personally or the general Henrian program that uses the term auto-affection, but in either...

If we're looking 'from the inside,' then no: the point that hunger doesn't tell us anything about any objects at all, not even our own bodies, prevent...

Just to clarify on this point – an important thing to note here is that hunger is not a notification in the sense of providing the organism with infor...

I'n not going to reply to this, because I don't think it matters. The point was just that if you stop something from feeling hunger, it can die as a r...

No. How am I even supposed to respond to this?

You can starve or overfeed-to-death an organism by messing with the biochemical processes that make it feel appropriate hunger and satiation.

Auto-affection has not had any real mainstream proponents aside from, basically, Descartes, and maybe you can find echoes of it in Husserl's self-cons...

Seeing is first of all the feeling of light, color, and contour. Derivatively of this we then say that we see 'things.' We always see things by way of...

I'd prefer not to do Sense and Reference because one, I think probably people will be overly familiar with it (I'm sick to death of it myself), and be...

If a rock was not aware of its environment, how could it possibly do what it does?

I don't think there is any such thing as awareness that's not self-awareness. All feeling is feeling of oneself, of the movements of one's own body. Y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnjNI3zAhXc yeh yeh

One of the disasters of phenomenology was making intentionality foundational, and so failing to see how anyone could relate to themselves on any model...

"Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections con...

As I understand it, the standard libertarian line on this would be that gangsters or feudal lords just are little states – or conversely, that the sta...

I haven't read it. But offhand my experience is that Gnosticism has several unusual religious elements that make this hard to swallow. For one, it doe...

But again, this is not a coherent criticism unless you take humanism for granted. What does 'value in relation to the whole of humanity' mean, and why...

What I'm saying is that it didn't come from its decay, but from its arising and development. Although I was referring more to humanism than scientific...

No, you see, they're not arbitrary, because they're culture specific. It's trying to unbind them from culture that makes them arbitrary. Your universa...

I'm conflicted over Christianity because it is part of my heritage and something that deeply resonates with me. However, it has within it the seed of ...

I take humanism to be the valuation of human beings for the sole reason that they are human beings, a valuation that can't be augmented or diminished ...

Why would cultural value be relevant? Does approval of something make it genius? Clearly not. Does disapproval of something make it not genius? Clearl...

It isn't much different, in that instead of an abstract human, we have an abstract conglomeration of demographics, and those demographics just prolife...

I don't care. I'll be dismissive of what I think deserves to be dismissed. Hegel was certainly an apologist, if you've read Phil. of Right. I've read ...

Postmodernism is largely a reaction to, as well as a symptom of, humanism and secularism, part cry for help, part nihilistic game, part genuine observ...

At best, it can only act as retrospective apologetics, which is what Hegel was interested in. Granted, whenever something happens, it always seems nec...

It does not. The point of 'humanism' is the value of the human in the abstract. There is no human in the abstract. Equality = leveling off. Cultures a...

Nah, cultures are literally dying off by the year. I don't really believe i the 'expression of the individual,' I guess, in that there is no individua...

In short, culture. Men don't live on bread alone. A society considered merely as an abstract multicultural material superstructure isn't livable. A bo...

No, I think it's more that in any society you're going to have a core of people who that society 'is for,' who are at home in it and feel they were ra...

Alright. I just wonder about what's hiding in the 'social order,' and why sexual appetite is supposedly such a problem.

I'm not sure what society needs, and I haven't given it too much thought because I don't think it's my problem, but whatever you mean by conservatism,...

I'm not a humanist or a liberal or a secularist, so I have little sympathy for the current signs of good breeding in the world of thought. In my wette...

I may be being flippant about this, but I just don't see how this addresses my post. All I can say is that we're apparently not talking about digital ...

Suppose you introduce a boundary by separating one piece of a continuum from another. By hypothesis, we are now at least treating the continuum as dig...

...and where does the boundary get introduced?

But, the digitization was supposed to be effected by the introduction of the boundary?

This raises the question of 'where' the boundary is set, given that by your own stipulation there is no preexistent 'place' for it to go (a boundary c...

How about this: for any analog measurement, a digital measurement that allows an open interval of an infinitesimal works just as well, down to an arbi...

I never said it was, just clarifying whether the project is only of interest to someone with Kantian presuppositions. If you don't have them, whether ...

Do you think that ordinal numbers aren't used in scales? Don't even the cardinal numbers by definition impose a total ordering?

So in other words...numbers don't imply digital...? I don't understand what your position is. You seem just to have denied this.

Do you think that ordinal comparisons cannot be described by number? Not sure what to make of the quote. Temperature and pressure are numerically meas...

Yeah, it seems that what is digital is the computer as model, not as implementation. We are uninterested in intermediate voltages and so purposely ign...

What do you think 'analog' means? Do you think that something analog is incapable of 'making distinctions?' Surely, even if a bucket of water is in so...