Mikie

You can be unconscious and still exist. Consciousness is not synonymous with being.

It’s worth clarifying what Descartes meant by “thinking,” which he is clear about: he means consciousness. (Feelings, pains, emotions, abstractions, d...

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I think an important point being overlooked is that we’re always acting in the world with an understanding of being— just not a theoretical understand...

Not once did I say that. Next time, at least do me the courtesy of assuming I’m not a complete idiot. Of course we all contribute to global warming. I...

I think you’re typical of someone who can afford a car in the city, yes. There’s also many people around Boston who feel the same way— but you have to...

No, it isn’t. This is factually wrong. I’m talking about the US. You just have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m afraid. There’s actually scholar...

Oh but we are. We voted for them. If we didn’t, we could have protested more, could have tried convincing more people to do so as well, etc etc. So an...

That’s like blaming people for buying cars when that’s the only choice they’re given. What they really want — and have got decades — is public transpo...

Oh you mean something like: Yeah, I agree it’s rather impolite. Odd that the person who sets this tone becomes bewildered when it’s reversed. A good q...

Excellent— then you see the stupidity of repeating slogans like “we’re all to blame for climate change.” Sure— in the same way as we’re all to blame f...

No. You claimed that placing blame on “capitalists” was HIGHLY HYPOCRITICAL, placing everyone in the company of the guilty— which is exactly what’s be...

You started this conversation, not I. You responded to something I wrote and which wasn’t directed to you. You replied, addressing me specifically, wi...

You said so yourself: you’ve been told to “laugh at” certain ideas — like the fact that there’s such a thing as power differentials, and that with mor...

I know you’ve been told that— probably for decades. Propaganda works wonders. I didn’t say you were stupid— I said you were repeating stupid slogans.

The latest banning, given the rules of this forum, shouldn’t be controversial. Seems to me it’s fairly easy to get back on the site anyway, under a di...

:lol: Promoting false equivalence for his corporate masters is what? Not cowardly, I suppose— just stupid and gullible? False consciousness at its bes...

:lol: They must certainly DO use more fossil fuel, and most certainly DO compel people to use more fossil fuel. They, like tobacco before them, lobby ...

Fortunately the state has "libertarians" ( :wink: ) to aid the transfer of money to Wall Street.

Covid restrictions = tyranny of the state. If only we'd wake up and remember that the state is there to enrich the already wealthy; to uphold patent l...

:rofl: Trolls come out of the woodwork for this stuff, don’t they?

Libertarianism is a cover for plutocracy. Most are just corporatists. All are capitalists through and through. But if you want to go on believing the ...

Not much to say. Can't imagine the outcome would have been the same with a young black male carrying a weapon, either on the streets or in court. That...

You're very welcome -- that was fun. Your bishop to d3 on the 23rd move was excellent, really took me by surprise. Good game.

I think it's useful to bring the conversation to our modern understanding of being. When we talk about the "real world," or "reality," or the world in...

Used for counting time, exactly. I don't see the problem. That's interesting, thanks.

Case in point.

I'm prone to want to merge a lot of what I've learned in meditation with Heidegger's ideas, yes. I, like you, see the meditative practices of the east...

I know what you're saying, and I wouldn't say "no," I would say it doesn't come up very often. When it does, I can't see a way around what you're clai...

And Frank decides to go with the third option: a one line reply of fluff.

I think this is a matter of presentism and eternalism, with you seemingly arguing in favor of the latter. I think Heidegger would say we don't often t...

Then it seems what you're saying is that time is a measurement of change (e.g., the sun rising and setting). In which case we're equating time with wh...

I think you're taking liberties, because Heidegger is never so clear, but I also think that you almost have to be correct. When meditation is taught i...

It's difficult for me to follow you. When you say "Please show me, where? Please try with cycles," I'm at a loss, for example. So even though this was...

Was it the reference to Kant that helped? I'd like to know for future exchanges I might have with others.

When did I say mathematics is timeless? That's what I'm arguing against. Yeah, I don't like the word "product" either really. I think what it tells us...

This assumes "time" in the sense of physics, as sequence of seconds. That's not what I'm referring to. When we see something as "present" before us, a...

Artistotle is interpreting time as something present-at-hand, according to Heidegger. Whatever secondary sense you're referring to, it's not at all cl...

Exactly the alternative I mentioned. "Free markets" and "competition" is the answer. Which has been a complete failure on every level except one -- na...

Philosophy can be summed up completely in the following: What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? No matter. This is from a story told by Bertrand Ru...

So to possibly close out this thread, I think it’s safe to say that not only was COP26 a complete failure, but did more harm. Worth taking another loo...

If you indeed don’t know, then it’s responsible to be honest about it yes.

To understand the libertarian mind, remember the mantra: the government is the problem. Don’t bother asking what the alternative is.

In a way, it does. Without oxygen, there aren’t human beings. Without human beings, there is no mathematics. In a sense there is no “time” either, if ...

No, it supposes human beings. Human beings are certainly "there." As are mathematical objects.

Mathematics is a human activity. Humans do indeed exist “in” time (or, better, “as” time). When we think in symbols, we’re thinking in a certain momen...

Formal logic is an abstract activity of the human being, dependent on a certain mode of a human being. Like mathematics. Formal systems do indeed pres...

I'm not recommending we go back to this. The claim is that this is what permeates the western tradition. Formal logic is still very much included in t...

Exactly, and with the emphasis on "hidden." I think the aim of phenomenology, in Heidegger's hands, is aimed precisely at that: what's hidden, what's ...

There has been interesting research from neurolinguistics about the brain's role in language, and some research about genes involved, but I wouldn't s...