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In: Why do we try to be so collaborative?  — view comment
I think it's useful to look into why we value objective truths. Roughly they are objective because they work for everyone. If I ramble on about my pre...
December 30, 2019 at 21:59
In: Why do we try to be so collaborative?  — view comment
This is what Spengler called 'ethical socialism' as a kind of default setting of our age. We unconsciously assume that there is one right way and that...
December 30, 2019 at 21:53
In: Shaken by Nominalism: The Theological Origins of Modernity  — view comment
What you call 'ontological individualism' has been criticized for quite a while in the continental tradition. The idea of a cloaked medium is also cen...
December 30, 2019 at 21:45
In: Attempting to prove that the "I" is eternal  — view comment
The natural response here seems to be that our networked brains create phenomenal selves that share a language. We learn to use the words 'I' and 'we'...
December 30, 2019 at 10:57
In: Attempting to prove that the "I" is eternal  — view comment
I agree. To me this idea is accessible and convincing, yet I don't see it come up much on forums. We can also consider linguistic convention, what is ...
December 30, 2019 at 10:53
In: There is definitely consciousness beyond the individual mind  — view comment
My pleasure. I like all of these issues, so it should be fun.
December 30, 2019 at 10:36
In: There is definitely consciousness beyond the individual mind  — view comment
Do you like Gadamer? This is a key idea in Truth and Method.
December 30, 2019 at 10:36
In: Are we hardwired in our philosophy?  — view comment
In my experience, people do change. But it takes time. People are deaf in the short term to exactly what they 'need' to hear. I mean in retrospect the...
December 30, 2019 at 10:27
In: Why do we try to be so collaborative?  — view comment
This is a good point. And while these forums are great, they also hide us from one another. So much of the truth is physical. Think of how quickly we ...
December 30, 2019 at 10:20
In: Which is the real world?  — view comment
As I see it, being merely informed is to be shallow. Think of your favorite difficult philosopher. Imagine how a person is bound to misread or mishear...
December 30, 2019 at 10:07
In: There is definitely consciousness beyond the individual mind  — view comment
I've wanted to look more into Peirce (having read only a few pragmatist essays), but his home-grown terminology has always made that difficult. I did ...
December 30, 2019 at 10:00
In: Which is the real world?  — view comment
This reminds me of Vico's chaotic age and Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The order breaks down into a fertile chaos, a corpse and/or pile of manure. Or Yeats...
December 30, 2019 at 09:22
In: Which is the real world?  — view comment
MacCluhan wrote of World City. T.S. Eliot wrote of Unreal City. Where do these images that haunt us from the billboards live? I like the word geist. W...
December 30, 2019 at 09:14
In: Which is the real world?  — view comment
Thank you for your kind response. Of course I enjoyed all of your posts in this thread, and these inspired me to contribute. I personally don't see an...
December 28, 2019 at 22:46
In: Which is the real world?  — view comment
I think I know what you mean. We can contemplate a system of 7.8 billion human beings, which means 7.8 billion networked brains. Not only does technol...
December 28, 2019 at 06:16
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