People are more or less born solipsists, and have to develop a theory of mind -- I'm not sure that an infant is ever 'looking toward someone else' in ...
I do, this is the ancient opposition between skepticism, which suspends belief regarding a possibility, and negative dogmatism, which pronounces negat...
I don't need a correct account to see yours is wrong. It's possible you ought not to do something, even if there's no rule against it. It's also possi...
John 3:8: "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is eve...
Would a picture help? http://s32.postimg.org/6cdu09g45/20160516_143509.jpg The blob is the mess of pathe (though you can never really visually represe...
I doubt it. I think the extent to which the world is shared is exaggerated, and it's done so in part because we're free to project our own way of seei...
But if you admit the squirrel projects no acorn, then this way of putting it is infelicitous. We don't tamper with the squirrel's projection by moving...
Yes, and there are some thinkers in the Western traditions that describe this process. The most complete account is found in Henry's Essence of Manife...
This enters into mythopoetic or religious territory. I take it to be roughly the Kingdom of God in the Gnostic tradition. Not at all. Some philosophic...
I would say that in psychological projection we see others that aren't there. We think we're seeing someone else, but we don't engage with them in any...
Think of it like projection in the psychological sense -- trying to place one's own feelings and frustrations onto something external, or seeing onese...
Yeah, the gods left us behind, and we could leave squirrels behind, in the sense that we could form an entire maze for them that they will never have ...
Sure, but such an explanation is only going to be a worthwhile one if you're a human. The way you've put it makes it seem like the humans' special pri...
That's fine. But then, I'm not sure of the hikkimori's relevance. Sure. I think if I were in 'esoteric mode,' or had a few drinks, I'd be willing to s...
None of these claims, so far as I can see, is incompatible with what I said. That there is the possibility of a squirrel eating an acorn doesn't mean ...
Think of it this way: there could not be an acorn in one part of the yard in the first place without there being the possibility of a squirrel satisfy...
As opposed to the way people often present the waking world as being in philosophical reconstructions: in reflection people often put up a difference ...
I don't think I want to make any sweeping claims about the general nature of everything or how it ties into willing. Everything we project is tied to ...
Yeah, I think it's pretty close, though I don't know if he would have outright agreed with what I'm saying. I don't really preserve the distinction be...
A world taking shape just is the desires and pleasures and pains becoming more convoluted in a certain way. They gain a kind of competence over themse...
Yeah, but it's not like there's some real thing outside of the creature that it then has to use a kind of sensory apparatus to go find. The mystery of...
It doesn't get to choose whether it's hungry or not -- it just has to face the fact that it is, and sometimes that hunger gets satisfied, sometimes no...
No, the world came after (and in a sense 'still' comes after). But the world, once there, presents itself as having come before. The naive position is...
What do you mean by newly conscious? Like, newly able to represent time as linear? Because if so it was already hungry before that (and there are anim...
I'm not sure the determinist position as I've outlined it here makes any commitment to causality. I think it's intelligible to say that right now 'wil...
It seems to me yes. A lot of philosophers dispute this, so maybe people don't have robust intuitions on this issue. But yes, I'd say clearly you were ...
However, treating the future as determinate is only an artifact of the present linearization of time, which itself will eventually be undone. So there...
I'm inclined to believe the determinist. It's plausible that something like 'It will rain' means 'at a future time, it rains ,' and if such a thing is...
That depends -- a determinist will say it was true even then that it would come about in 1966 -- the fact that you didn't (or maybe couldn't) know tha...
Why not? You mean because if you're not a determinist, it might not be true until 1966 itself? But why does that matter? Schop talks about retrojectio...
I think the question is orthogonal, but if you wanted to make things as simple as possible you could assume a deterministic position, with one linear ...
Well, you're switching the tenses. Now that it's past 1966, asking: Is fine, assuming we don't go back before 1966. But once you do, you need to chang...
Good question, but I don't think any particular answer follows from what I've said. If you think the future is always genuinely open, even if you don'...
Before, since there were already calendars by then. The retrospective structure makes it so that once time became quantifiable, in retrospect that eve...
Yeah, so the right formulation would be 'it was only at some point in time that Alice came to have become ten years old in 1987,' or something like th...
Hey, welcome back. I won't commit to defending everything Schopenhauer says, but I think he's basically right. I'd answer yes to both questions, and t...
Aristotle has never given me 'the fire.' What I get out of Plato I mostly get from the extent to which he is trying to portray Socrates, who from this...
Sapientia, just because someone quotes you doesn't mean they're quoting you out of context. Most of your posts only have a couple words that are about...
"In a figurative sense?" No, in no sense. Then what are you actually saying? What does the word "actually" do here? Is anyone missing out? No. Would a...
Then why did you say it? This is irrelevant, isn't it? They neither DO nor WOULD miss out. In a hypothetical scenario in which a child was born, that ...
Yes. For me anyway, waking up is horrible. I really can't stand it, because then it hits me that I'm still alive and have another day to suffer throug...
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