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No, you would be talking erroneously about the lectern in question. It's not the case that it might have been in a room other than the one it is in, u...
January 13, 2023 at 03:15
There is a difference between thinking that findings within science have absolutely no bearing on our phenomenological self-understandings, which, if ...
January 12, 2023 at 22:07
Do you understand the difference between stubborn dogmatic polemical argument and productive discussion? Maybe productive discussion is not to be foun...
January 12, 2023 at 08:53
Well I believe even animals experience is mediated; unmediated experience would be literally nothing or no-thing.
January 12, 2023 at 07:22
I fail to see how experience itself is not private, even thought or the telling or acting out of it obviously is not, and the experience itself is med...
January 12, 2023 at 07:14
So, if it was valid it would be circular, otherwise not?
January 12, 2023 at 05:23
'If there is smoke then there is fire'. 'If there is not smoke then there is not fire' does not seem to follow. Perhaps you meant If P then Q, if ~Q t...
January 12, 2023 at 01:04
The existence of red-green colourblindness and the rarer blue-yellow colourblindness shows that colours do indeed appear differently to some people. A...
January 11, 2023 at 22:29
Firstly, how do you know "we" (was it us?) were "clearly wrong about (at least some of) them? Anyway the story at issue here is the human notion of se...
January 11, 2023 at 22:01
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about, but blather on regardless...
January 11, 2023 at 01:12
All discourse is just stories; so what? You have your story and I mine, correctness doesn't enter into it; it's a matter of presuppositions, preferenc...
January 10, 2023 at 23:02
Already made, but apparently not recognized.
January 10, 2023 at 22:39
Yes, the machine men do seem to find that disagreeable, and that should not be surprising.
January 10, 2023 at 22:34
:up: Although I'm a bit more modest than Descartes; I would say we know that thinking (and feeling and awareness) are going on; the self is a more pro...
January 10, 2023 at 22:30
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Misanthropy is democratic.
January 10, 2023 at 21:38
This is not just "some theory" this is central to human experience and self-understanding, and it's not a question of that understanding being right o...
January 10, 2023 at 21:10
It isn't anything objective, and we should not expect it to be, but it is, by all reports something we all (or most of us at least) experience. Neuros...
January 10, 2023 at 08:05
That's generally true of me as well. In my teens i realized that, although I was very good at drawing and painting, I could not evoke an image of even...
January 10, 2023 at 07:58
The awareness is prior to any understanding of "circuits", the "circuits" which may or may not be objective correlates to subjective awareness. We ass...
January 10, 2023 at 07:51
We don't, but we also have no reason to think it is. We think others are aware because they insist that they are, and become offended when it is sugge...
January 10, 2023 at 07:07
What are the imaginable criteria for "greatness"? Influence within the genre? Widespread public recognition? Aesthetic quality? Profundity of thought ...
January 10, 2023 at 04:28
:lol: :cool:
January 10, 2023 at 03:26
That'd be a neat trick. :wink:
January 09, 2023 at 23:44
In ordinary parlance heating is "the flow of energy from place to place". Something that has been heated becomes hotter (than it was prior to being he...
January 09, 2023 at 22:06
Speak for yourself. In everyday thinking concerned with what do do, what I have to do, where to go, how to get there and so on, I think in images, not...
January 09, 2023 at 21:23
:up: My pleasure, amigo, I hope you find him as insightful as I have.
January 09, 2023 at 01:48
Cheers :smile:
January 08, 2023 at 06:42
I think you must be referring to Heisenberg, not Heidegger. BTW the mention of the Dao De Ching reminded me of a book I'm currently reading, which I'v...
January 08, 2023 at 04:01
I agree that the subjectivr and objective are "indissociable poles of all experience" as experience is modeled. I think experience itself is prior to ...
January 06, 2023 at 06:12
Strictly there is no differentiation between being and non-being, but of course as soon as a distinction is made we have being, since non-being cannot...
January 05, 2023 at 23:07
I think the aim of meditation is to consciously be in the way we primordially are. I wouldn't even call it being-in-the world, which is still a dualis...
January 05, 2023 at 22:29
I don't agree with that article regarding pre-reflective self-awareness. I think pre-reflective awareness is prior to self and other; prior to subject...
January 05, 2023 at 22:13
That's simply not true. With the naked eye, I cannot see inside a human body, but with X-ray, MRI, Ultrasound and other imaging technologies I can see...
January 05, 2023 at 21:39
MU introduced the idea of looking inside objects, and I could not see the relevance of that to the so-called "hard problem". I gather your question is...
January 05, 2023 at 06:15
I think some philosophy has been concerned with that. Heidegger tried to achieve an understanding of being with discursive analysis in his earlier phi...
January 05, 2023 at 04:43
It's not clear how what you say here relates to what was being discussed. We can't see the inside of objects unless we break them open, then we can. W...
January 05, 2023 at 02:59
Not a good analogy.
January 05, 2023 at 02:04
Are you? Do you believe a question should be considered to be coherent if we have no idea what an answer might look like?
January 05, 2023 at 00:49
Right, I've read Chalmers (although years ago when at University) and I understand the basic distinction between functional and experiential conscious...
January 05, 2023 at 00:26
What exactly do you think the so-called "hard problem" is asking for? You mean inside and outside the body, no? My experience of anything internal to ...
January 04, 2023 at 23:55
That's one way to get rid of a "hard" problem.
January 04, 2023 at 23:25
Sure, you can use it any way you like, but if you want to maintain a distinction between knowing and believing, then I don't think loose or ambiguous ...
January 04, 2023 at 22:11
We already knew that, insofar as we can be aware of mental states, but not of brain states.
January 03, 2023 at 21:34
In the first case "know" is used incorrectly; you cannot know that The Red Sox will win the next game. In the second case you are merely repeating a w...
January 03, 2023 at 21:32
Yes, but I didn't say no account of things can be given. Remember you were asking about an account, not just of sense, but of the genesis of sense.
January 02, 2023 at 21:30
An account of the genesis of sense cannot be given, precisely because it assumes what it purports to explain. In other words no account can get outsid...
January 02, 2023 at 21:11
Fuck, thanks, that's magnificent; I haven't heard it before. Like the Perfect Circle 'Imagine' it's melancholy (and anthems should be melancholy) but ...
January 02, 2023 at 20:58
Indeed it could be said... I'll see your Beavis and Butthead and raise you a Rick and Morty. :nerd:
January 02, 2023 at 00:33
I'm a virgoaussiebabyboomer, with some kind of sense of humour, and I don't know what it means either... edit: (dirty, perverse and/or absurdist)
January 02, 2023 at 00:27
You might like this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDw_hWXogE
January 02, 2023 at 00:10