Computers can only compute, they act syntactically, not semantically. Think about Searle's 'Chinese Room' thought experiment. He asked us to imagine a...
If your experiences were downloaded onto a computer do you think that the computer, regardless of how fast or massive, could get your memory of the ar...
Looking at these, I have a theory about your triptych: a) The crack looks like a crack. b) It looks like you inserted the McDonald's cup after working...
I think the intentionality that all life and some animals demonstrate was not around 5 billion years ago. So how could it have arisen? My guess is tha...
If you don't agree with panpsychism then I think you ought to be able to explain how intentionality and thought floated into the world from nowhere. I...
I thought you meant that I can't have your experience. I hit my thumb with a hammer and I feel pain, but you can't feel my pain. I hit your thumb with...
It's not that I don't agree with it...it is that I am not sure what "mind" means given this interpenetration. If "mind" is some sort of potential late...
I guess if you are a monist then "everything has mind seems appropriate, I am not sure this entails that everything is "in some sense capable of inten...
I think both ethical theories play a role in how we act. I don't think it is a question of which is more reasonable, rather I think it is a question o...
Theaetetus Dialogue Socrates' divine midwifery enables him to distinguish true thoughts from false thoughts. He is the sterile medium for delivery and...
This is what Margret Thatcher said upon being forced to stand down in November 1990, even though she claimed to have never lost an election in her lif...
Racial bigotry is 'real', yet Science tells us that there is only one race, the human one. Racial bigotry is a social construction and Morals are also...
Reminds me of Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow riff "You never did the Kenosha Kid". The hero (Tyrone) just got shot up with Sodium amytal (truth serum) and ...
It is interesting that you ask "Are we the individual, here to carry out some Protestant Work ethos?" No, that ethos is embedded in our culture, in ca...
Max Weber traces the source of Protestant Work Ethic back to the Reformation, which dignified the spirit of work....all work regardless of kind was di...
Religion/Theology must be the biggest sub-contractor out there. All societies have some form of religious practice and religious norms that have found...
Saw the film and I agree with TL, it was a nice portrayal, perhaps even true to events as they unfolded, but it didn't grab me. I think character deve...
So do you think Fascists, Communists, The Left or The Right, Anarchists can tolerate ideologically free speech or don't these groups make the presuppo...
Neo-fascist utilize absolute liberal values such as free speech to 'de-platorm' liberal biases inserting their own spin on these values as viable alte...
Sounds a lot like the Tea Party lot, they won in the end. Now Dems are going back to the town hall, I wonder if they can be confrontational. Neo Fasci...
I agree that normativity does not solve the problem. The correspondence between what we say about reality and what reality is, can't be solved but it ...
Suppose 'universality' is a product of language, that the reduction of what is particular (real) to difference is a function of naming and using of la...
Yes I think there are ways art/aesthetics can be compared to metaphysics, but (coming at it from the opposite direction) unlike the philosopher the ar...
Who do you think will stand against Trump, it can't be too early to speculate since they will start running in earnest in 2 more years (sooner if we g...
Of course maybe our friends in Canada can show us the best way to resist Trump: Justin Trudeau's handshake with Donald Trump the 'biggest display of d...
They need to mimic what the Republicans did, which started with gerrymandering their way to optimal Congressional districts. The Dems need to legally ...
Don't agree with this at all. The Republican rank and file who comprise their political machine got behind Trump after the convention. The Republican ...
The Republicans have put the Democrats where they were back in 2008 and the Dems need to mimic the GOP in so far as they have the intelligence to do s...
You ought to read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X in conjunction with Plato's Philebus. Aristotle understood Plato (better than any other thinke...
Plato is trying to place pleasure/desire in its relationship with knowledge and ultimately what is Good. He wants to show that pleasure is value neutr...
Beautiful morning yesterday by the ocean. Plein air with others at Boynton Beach Inlet marina. Around 78 degree F & mild breeze. Went over to the ocea...
Socrates only spoke, his method of conveyance of his thought was sound, dialogue. Not certain why he dismissed the flutes, but perhaps because they (s...
Causality is found in nature. Do you think Justice, Morality affect us? If so, their affects are not causal, but discursive, and they are as much a pa...
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