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I get that. And it's an easy position to take. But it isn't pretentious bullshit. You just gave up. I get getting into the zone via sports, music, dan...

Thanks. That should get me started.

That sounds accurate to me. Not to start a zen pissing contest, but I feel like I'm thinking of a deeper, hypnagogic state, one that skirts the realm ...

Ignoring the mosquitoes in lotus position - that's a good start - but it doesn't follow that you've achieved a meditative state. Unless you have a spe...

That's a good description. I'm chary of the word "stillness" vis-a-vis the human mind. I don't think literal stillness is something the mind can do. A...

Janus's reference is something different from "stilling the mind." More like the mind hovering in the early stages of sleep and infused with hypnagogi...

Do you have a source on this? I didn't see this particular triad in a list of Peirce's triads....

Is this your own idea or the idea of another philosopher? Does it have a connection to Peirce's triad?

Just filing this away.

"The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism. In contradiction to Plato's view that the Ideas, or Prototypes, of phenome...

The emotional satisfaction of certainty at times leads us all astray. "He was starving in some great mystery, like a man who is sure what is true." Le...

If you're interested in clarifying a point. Here I see you've distanced yourself from the word 'image.' You want to talk about the dream or the imagin...

Okay, that's an interesting cadence. Thanks for answering my questions. I'll have to think about all of the above and read the bit from Pattee. I know...

Putting this in my filing cabinet. Looks like a fascinating read.

Okay, I think I get it, thank you! I'm sure you're aware dreams have plenty of sensical content. But that's another issue. So you agree the image in s...

I agree it's a stop sign in potential. But in actuality, it's an imagined stop sign. Not only a potential. I want to try one more time: So in my dream...

I was referring to the imaginary stop sign I'm thinking of right now. Not a real stop sign. What is the relation between matter, information and the i...

Thanks for the info. I'll need to do some reading. So is the imaginary stop sign considered (basically) pure information?

So it's another physicalism that reduces the imaginary to neurons firing etc? Is that how you see it?

I'm familiar with these ideas but having no background in mathematics there's not much I can do to deepen my understanding. Interesting as it is, I ha...

Still wondering about this. If the imaginary needs to be couched in physical terms aren't we left with a physicalist monism? Sure, there's symbols in ...

Thanks, that's helpful.

So there's a need to couch the imaginary in physical terms? What can be said about the substance of the imaginary stop sign?

Is there room for the word "mind" in this schema? Or must the word "mind" be completely rejected for this schema to work?

I'm curious about this dualism. So a stop sign is a symbol and a stop sign is matter. An imaginary stop sign (the one I'm now imagining) is symbol and...

There is more emotionality than love of wisdom in this paragraph. Mind your king. That many, many minds far greater than our own have grappled with th...

What, how, why (etc.) the mind experiences may be "structured by language and culture." That a mind experiences - is not.

So in the case of the images of the Ukrainian refugees, you have instant compassion though you know nothing of the background and deeds and ideology o...

That's quite a knot. I suggest yanking out these two sentences, which are only tricky, rickety embellishments: 1. Everyone knows that. There's no need...

I thought of an interesting question. When you see the linked images of Ukrainian refugees do you have to stop and consider your variables or do you i...

The central thesis of the book is: there is life-meaning in suffering.

What do you take to be the central thesis of the book? It might be interesting to look at how the book is received by two very different personalities...

Maybe you need to define force. But to my view, arresting and incarcerating a criminal is an application of force. So while I feel compassion for the ...

Have you read Man's Search for Meaning? Lots of wisdom in there, if you have a love of wisdom.

Of course not.

Right. All are suffering creatures.

This hasn't been established no matter how large and dark your font gets. Set it out, if you can.

In the case of a person like you, multiple variables are incorporated. (It's too strong to say they exist, because to my view they don't exist as vari...

These variables are your own, and not my variables. Yes, it's true, as you incorporate more variables you move further and further away from feeling c...

So your position is: some suffering creatures are undeserving of compassion. To which I would say:

I agreed that this syllogism was valid and then challenged its soundness by asserting that all human beings are deserving of compassion. That's where ...

I don't remember establishing that. Where was it established?

All that makes sense logically. But I don't agree that murder is a factor when applying compassion. To my view, all human beings, even all creatures, ...

Seems to make sense. Have to see how it plays out.

I'm not a logician but it looks valid to me.

If a person is a mass murderer then it is irrational to have compassion for him/her. You've already conceded that it's rational to have compassion for...

This premise needs support or fleshing out. As is, it doesn't make much sense; the second clause doesn't follow from the first.

Not sure what's ringing silly to you but I'm certain nothing silly has been said. :smile: I'm off work the next two days so I should have some time so...

This is the same as the Hitler example. If the mass murderer has a mental illness, it's rational to feel compassion for him. Seeing the wild, deranged...

Okay. So there's more room for compassion in your view than I originally thought. Mental illness rates among the impoverished are about twice that of ...