T_Clark

Sorry. I missed your change of mind.

To start, could you run "Q recursion" by me again. I looked at all the examples in this thread and it's still not clear. Are you talking about "This s...

I was specifically talking about the language being used in this thread about the nature of philosophy, e.g. "Is philosophy the highest discourse." It...

I don't know about Seth, but Damasio's model of the self is based on specific anatomical structures and neurological and mental processes. It's not th...

There's no reason it can't be both. In this particular case I think "bullshit masquerading as insight" is probably a bit strong. How about gilding the...

We're in a circle. We can keep this up all day long with no hope of reaching a conclusion.

I'm not sure. I'll have to think about that. As I noted, for me, high-fallutin language grasps for an exalted level of significance, which I reject.

I wasn't presenting Damasio's work as the correct view on consciousness, I was using it as an example of a type of description. I asked

I tend to read fiction one book at a time, but non-fiction; generally science, sometimes philosophy; I often read in episodes. If I really want to rea...

To start, before I get more specific, I agree with just about everything you've said. And I'll add this - my primary argument is against setting philo...

He's a cognitive scientist, and he is primarily interested in the neurological and structural aspects of mental processes, including consciousness. I ...

Pretty lame argument, and irrelevant to my position. We should probably leave it there since we seem to be descending into disagreeableness.

Oops. Also, are you arguing that there is not a philosophy of mind and a psychology of mind? Given my position, why would that be a contradiction?

It looks so sad on a paper plate with a plastic fork. You must have one metal fork and a china or plastic plate around somewhere.

As I noted, psychology is the study of minds. You need a mind to think and you need to think to generate a philosophical position such as solipsism. A...

Ok, let's try this out. Back in the OP, @"J" wrote: I didn't say anything at the time, but this argument seems faulty to me. It begs the question. It ...

I don't think there's any way Damasio could be described as a behaviorist. He's about as anti-behaviorist as I can imagine. He explicates what is goin...

Are you saying that philosophy is different because everything is on the table - open to questioning? I'm skeptical of that, but I'll have to think ab...

Do you think Damasio's description is consistent, or possibly consistent, with each of the three views you described in the OP?

I haven't been participating in this discussion, but I read this and was curious. What exactly do you mean? The philosophical definitions of "presuppo...

Because I am involved in mankind.

Something I find myself using a lot - If you have paper text you want to quote, you can take a picture of it, upload it to Google Drive, and then open...

I've said this before - I'm glad you are posting more of your own writings here.

Where is this from? I have never heard the phrase "Spanish practices" before.

I said in my previous post that I'd come back reread you post. It took me a while, but here I am. The sentiment expressed in the text from your post I...

I know I'm not the only one who chuckled when they read this.

I don't want to distract from your discussion, but I wanted at least to mention this. I won't take it any further if you're not interested. I think on...

"Up my ally" is what is going to happen to Europe when Trump retakes office.

After I wrote my last post I was thinking. I hadn't thought of that episode for probably 45 years, but it was right there in my memory and popped up w...

Nanu, Nanu. Today's lesson is on Dylan Thomas.

The Coneheads were a skit on Saturday Night Live. It's where the phrase "parental units," meaning parents, came from. There was also a movie. Looking ...

@"BC" For what it's worth, I remember an episode of "Mork and MIndy," a show about a goofy alien who comes to Earth from the 1970s. The alien was play...

I'm saving this. I'm sure I'll find use for it later.

You’ll find that the only bigotry allowed here on the forum is religious bigotry.

Aristotle, Plato, Lao Tzu, and Epicurus were "mainly story-telling & myth-making?"

Also, a suggestion. If you highlight the text you are referring to and then push the "quote" button that pops up, the text and a link will be copied d...

I value clarity and brevity also. It's what I aim for in my own writing. I forgot to say - welcome to the forum.

I also value clarity, but I'm more interested in the quality of the ideas. Just because the lights better, it doesn't mean it's where you lost your ke...

Give us some examples where it's worked. The only possible one I can think of is the Balkans in the 1990s, and I'm not sure about that.

I was just pointing out to Vera Mont that the UN would not be useful in the situations you two are discussing.

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I was pointing out that the UN does not authorize it's peacekeepers to do the kinds of things @"Bob Ross" proposes.

This is not really true. This is from the UN's guidelines for peacekeepers:

I assume you meant to say "not stop the Nazis." Again - both pre-WW2 Germany and today's North Korea have or had formidable militaries - North Korea h...

Sure they can. That's how evolution works. Some little organism 2.5 billion years ago just happened to react in a particular way to a stimulus. That r...

Oh good, an easy one. I don't even have to try to address your nauseating rhetoric. Here's the answer - it won't work. We weren't even able to "forcib...

I thought you might like it.

From Catch-22.

A couple of quotes from Catch-22.