Janus

LOL, funny and well said! It looks as if the "adults" have run away to their sandboxes.

My sunglasses are brown-coloured and the world looks pretty warm and good through them. Maybe "shit-stained glasses" through which the world would loo...

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That's a strong generalization. I think if you perform an internet search "Is nirvana a permanent state" you'll find that it is not uncontroversial. S...

This supports what I have been saying and my question about which, the Sun or the Earth, is the better candidate for being considered to be the center...

:roll: You're the toddler Banno, when it comes to reading and responding to what your discussants have actually said. I didn't say it was wrong, simpl...

Sinking into disingenuousness and pretending you don't know in order to avoid admitting that you have no counter-argument is not going to help you. It...

If you understand it yourself you should be able to explain it. I don't believe you even know what it is you find too hard to explain. In any case all...

Right, too hard for you apparently. :roll:

This doesn't address the question of the objectivity of views about whether the Earth moves or not at all. Of course the view from Earth is not going ...

So where is the adept who has reached nirvana when her body dies, and "all the shit" along with it? The only consistent claim seems to be that it is l...

I'm with you; I don't believe in Nirvana as some eternal, in the sense of endless, or of infinitely great duration, existence; I see it as being etern...

You can think of it as a suppression of the default mode network, and what does that mean? It means the suppression, or better, suspension, of our usu...

Not purporting to answer for @"Constance" but I'd say it's an altered state of consciousness, not a matter of seeing something uncanny (like a ghost) ...

It depends on how you define "objective". The closest we can get to objectivity in my view is the view from nowhere in particular, or the most general...

This seems like a poor analogy given that for an observer anywhere other than on the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun. The illusion of Earth being stat...

:up: I agree power-ful music is the voice of God;along with psychedelics (psilocybin),and practice, a powerful prescription for profundity. Profundity...

I do have a lot of sympathy for the Nietzschean sense of "becoming who you are". :up: :lol: @"Wayfarer" used to call himself Quotidian.

Right, I think those metaphors are apt though, in that it seems as if that is just how life is for many people; a great supermarket created for our co...

I think its a problematically human-centric perspective. And it should not be forgotten that all we are talking about here are different perspectives,...

Right, of course our acknowledgement, as expressed, is a language event. And I recognize the "two faces" of the world, but our lives are not our (prop...

As I have no doubt you know, Wittgenstein saw his project, saw philosophy properly conceived per his view, as being "a battle against the bewitchment ...

I'd go further and say that the idea of anything at all as a self, the tree itself, the chair itself and so on is entirely a linguistic phenomenon. No...

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I agree we think in images prior to thinking words. The dualistic thinking I referred to probably starts with words: yes/no, is/ is not, being and not...

You cannot be absolutely certain of anything, you can only be certain of anything within contexts that rely on assumptions that are themselves not cer...

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On Spinoza's account Nature (God) has both attributes; extended nature and thinking nature, if you like. I see less of a problem with thst than declar...

I didn't know that Descartes was a non-dualist at any point. Spinoza would say that we do know God's/ Nature's attributes; well two of them anyway, ex...

Without humans the second law of thermodynamics may be said to be non-existent. Rovelli says as much IIRC. But again this comes down to how "existence...

The vagueness is anthropic reification of the indeterminacy of ignorance, of indecision. Out of that unbearable situation grows knowledge: the general...

Substance is thought as that which 'stands under', as the basis of everything. Spinoza's notion of substance makes more sense:deus sative natura, 'God...

The thing is we don't know anything at all with absolute (i.e. decontextualized) certainty), but if I were to accept that the only reliable or plausib...

It could certainly be interpreted that way. :wink: To be serious, I consider all approaches to be semiotic, either explicitly or implicitly or even de...

No, paying attention to your perceptual life and practicing phenomenology are just alternative approaches to knowledge; nothing to do with solipsism o...

It's a distinction which is self-evident. When I say it only finds its relevance within that context, I am speaking strictly of propositional discours...

But we do "leave the representation" all the time, as I noted, in our perceptual lives. It is necessary to remember that, lest a sense of the importan...

Have a read of this by the same author and see what you think.

I think it's arguable, I would even say obvious, that we do live in a collective representation that we have all been inducted into since birth via so...

OK, I disagree, but I can't be bothered arguing with you, since it seems obvious you lack subtlety, and like to opine on subjects you know little abou...

That's your interpretation and you're sticking to it it seems. I don't read it that way. To me he seems to be saying that the whole of what we call ex...

So you're OK with saying the self is a convenient fiction, and you don't take that to mean you are not real, but you're not OK with saying the other i...

To say that other people is a useful fiction is not to say others or the self (since we are all in that fictive sense other people) are not real, and ...

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Cheers, though I'm not clear what "trading intensions for extensions" means, but then it's probably to be expected since I'm pretty much a modal ignor...

Would you object if they said the self, or identity in general, is a useful fiction?

OK, perhaps I missed something since I haven't closely read every post. So the four alternatives are specifying the characters of different sets of ob...

This way of looking at necessity seems wrong to me. When I think of necessity, I think of something like "all visible objects are spatiotemporal" whic...

Yes, that was just what I had in mind. So, how is it then possible to interpret it metaphysically (semantically)? Thanks, a lot to think about there.....