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I also reject pure reason and value the scientific method. I think it's OK, though, to question the representational paradigm. What do you think of in...

There is no practical problem. The philosopher can always try to get clearer about what we as humans even mean by 'knowing' and 'is.' I suggest that t...

Well said, my friend! I like your metaphor. We are the instruments of a young mind. I like to think of us individuals as 'neurons.' Together we form a...

Yeah, I think we are on the same page. 'Intentionality' is more more token after all. We can't even point out what pointing out is. We can just use 'p...

In some ways I'm suggesting something similar. At the same time, the notion of 'material' is just as foggy as the notion of 'mind.' As I see it, we ha...

Thanks! Indeed. I think one of the reasons we philosophize is for the thrill. Neotony, play. Philosophy keeps us young ?

OK, but my employer doesn't see any need for me to philosophize at all. In worldly terms, I should be attending to something else right now. Why am I ...

I think this actually connects to the OP. But it also extends the post above. Tell me if the below doesn't sound one hell of a lot like Heidegger (who...

Yeah, I agree. It's hard to be a mortal with only so much time and decide which soil is more or less fertile. Time and chance lead us all to different...

On this side of the pond, we say that 'X is everything' for 'X is important.' I agree that all distinctions break down when pushed to extremes. What d...

I do see the advantages of this approach, but can we ever live this ideal separation of reason from empirical observation? Consider Hume's problem of ...

I agree that the phrase you mentioned is senseless out of context. As Hegel stressed, you can't offer summarized results in philosophy. The meaning is...

Saying exactly what the 'physical' is supposed to be is the same problem IMV as saying exactly what 'consciousness' is supposed to be. In both cases w...

As I said, we walk in darkness. So I will never be done answering this kind of question. Disclaimer aside, all the familiar 'meaning effects' are stil...

I do agree, but so does Heidegger. That's kind of his deal. Existence is being-in-the-world. The inside/outside talk is Cartesian confusion, Cartesian...

That sounds like personality in general to me. That's us, foolish mortals talking shit. That's what philosophy struggles against being. 'I am the hist...

The problem would be insufficient memory as I understand it. If my network has 10 billion parameters, then I have to store them somewhere. During trai...

Yes indeed. That 'white mythology' is taken for granted. What goes along with this is the assumption of some kind of pure meaning that isn't dependent...

FWIW, I'm questioning that whole paradigm. 'Physical reality' is just the shadow cast by some mysterious mental substance. It's two sides of the same ...

Yes, those are valid concerns. Today's standards may look crude and stupid tomorrow. I also agree about rationalization. That's always a threat or a r...

I totally agree with this. We make dominant pictures optional. But to do so requires that we make them visible in the first place. Perhaps the primary...

Indeed! And we can only talk about that picture from within that picture. We can only bring down the house with the stuff we find inside. We are alway...

I don't want to derail your thread to defend Derrida...but my connection was through Limited Inc and Dreyfus's interpretation of the who of everyday d...

Yup. And rejecting Heidegger is to some degree rejecting all of the scholars who have taken Heidegger seriously. So Heidegger is a fraud ==> Dreyfus i...

I do notice that the Heidegger haters have stopped by. I don't blame them. But I suggest that thinkers like Heidegger, Hegel, Derrida...the ones that ...

Excellent. I agree with all of that. I've been talking about consciousness in other threads, and I think it's close to the issue of being. People use ...

It's the way that words just pour out of us in situations. We react appropriately, like we are riding a bike. I think of someone writing a dictionary ...

His chapter on the 'who of everyday dasein' is perhaps my favorite. 'One' uses words this way or that way, automatically. Any attempt to make this kno...

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer I like this 'just another metaphor' criticism, but it also app...

Cool. Well I'd like to hear more about that. I mostly know Searle through his rhetorical war with Derrida. IMV, Derrida was making the kind of point t...

Indeed! Dissolving the subject into distributed social conventions offends us. The subject plays a huge role in moral/political discourse. We can thin...

That would be great. I think we see less ambitious versions of that kind of narrative here and there.For instance, Rorty traces the use of the subject...

I can agree with you on this. We are just unlikely to ever put subject-talk aside. It's too basic for our form of life. So abolishing the subject is n...

Do you mean something like lived?

I'm tempted to agree with you. The thought of blind skill threatens the philosophical project. The fantasy is that we can take some position on the ou...

I don't have some finished theory and doubt I ever will. I think that we humans have patterns in our marks and noises embedded within broader patterns...

I understand what you mean, I think, but the point I'm making that is that describe slobbering after hearing the bell in terms of expectations and bel...

Very true! I found B&T quite difficult. It's huge, rich, and a bit overwhelming. So naturally I looked for help, found out about earlier lectures and ...

So it seems, and I feel quite connected to animals. What I'm questioning is the vague use of this 'I.' Splitting 'what is' into subject and object loo...

Right. And I don't have a great model either. I guess my big point is that humans use the word 'consciousness' in a hazy way that AI encourages us to ...

Here's a relevant quote from a nice sketch of the beetle-in-the-box argument against private language. I think it zeroes in on the issue. http://paula...

Fair enough, but what if AI acts at a human level ? It may never happen, but let's imagine a Blade Runner scenario. At what point do we finally wonder...

Well in everyday terms I do think that my cat thinks. Some of this is just empathy. Conceptually it seems to be an extension of the usual hypothetical...

I agree, but talk of pain is maybe not as good as talk of behavior that we associate with pain or interpret as pain. 'Pure' pain is the beetle again. ...

Our views may be closer than I thought, but... Look here in this new answer: That's pretty mentalistic, and you say 'apparent' about something that is...

Indeed, the rational animal...which is to say in some sense the spiritual animal. Our distinction of ourselves from the rest of nature is dear to us. ...

I agree. There is no ground, in some sense, for saying that the creature thinks at all. There is, in some strange sense, no ground for saying that hum...

I don't understand the difference. Becoming correlated/related is becoming part of a correlation. To be related is to be in relationship. That's how I...

Indeed, and I don't think we can even help talking mentalistically. It takes serious effort to avoid it just a little. At the same time I think it's i...

I agree. OK, but how does 'expect' and 'think' add to what is already happening? Don't get me wrong. It's plausible and intuitive. But how is it expla...