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The second is a strange statement,considering that science is not a matter of faith at all, but of provisional hypotheses. The idea behind science is ...

:up: Local negentropic processes "steal" order at the expense of increasing global entropy.

The problem is that logic alone cannot determine plausibility only validity, and what you would count as constituting evidence, in anything beyond sim...

You said I pointed out that experienced properties of the object are not imposed by us (that is, are not subjectively imposed), then you cited the gen...

Perhaps Kant's tiny repertoire of jokes was the cause of the stereotypical notion of German humour.

Unless the claim is that the self-in-itself is part of the noumenal. :wink: But.... if the noumenal cannot have parts, then the self-in-itself must be...

Those are also imposed on us though, aren't they?

We do not impose those properties; they are imposed upon us, like it or not.

Apart from representational models another simple way of framing perception is saying that we see objects as they are revealed to us via reflected lig...

Can't read it, sorry...not bad calligraphy, though... :wink: This is more legible https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/0c/f0/1a0cf0be9b8ab17692a35d8598ba...

Consider this from Beyond Good And Evil, (Gutenberg edition, translated by Helen Zimmern) Chapter 1, section 9 sourced from here You desire to LIVE “a...

Mu-tha?

Fair enough, but if you look back I think you'll find that it has been predominantly you initiating these conversations by responding to posts I've ma...

Is it so obvious, though? This is one way of thinking about the situation, to be sure, but is it the best way? To imagine is to represent, to make a p...

"Hap-piness is a warm gun"?. :wink:

Not merely sitting, but sitting in a certain way; nothing to do with chickens. This is not according to me, but according to Soto Zen. On the other ha...

It's an image of the "famous solo cup". not the famous solo cup itself (if such a thing exists apart from images). One image on your computer and one ...

Did you mean "not allowing..."? Regardless of what the self is, would Nietzsche not agree that you must follow your own passion and not live according...

You can live more or less enslaved to what you might think are the expectations of others.

Surely Nietzsche would have said that "being who you really are" is preferable to not being who you really are. It seem to me this is where the existe...

The secular view is default because it is the view that grounds ethics in nothing more than arguments that may be derived from empirical and rational ...

What's wrong with being cruel to animals if we don't think it is because they have a right not to be treated cruelly? What about children who are not ...

How do you interpret Kant's notion of the 'thing in itself'; is it. for him, unknowable or merely not exhaustively knowable?

You don't understand it as an idea of flourishing, but simply of change, whether for the better or worse?

My apologies if I offended you by my straight talking. Do you want to say that philosophical pragmatists acknowledge unknowable things in themselves o...

I think this is on the right track. Nietzsche conceived of the fundamental aim of all life to be, not merely survival, but power; by which I take him ...

This is a weak argument: F=ma cannot be understood simply by virtue of understanding English. Do you read Pali? If not I presume you read the Pali Can...

And...?

I knew you'd say that. :wink:

But then the unpredictable is expected, so to be truly unpredictable the madman should sometimes be predictable, because that would be unexpected.

It's the term used by Buddhists. Whether complete non-attachment is possible to cultivate is a question I can't answer, since I haven't done it. I do ...

Your apparent puzzlement is amusing.You think everything is black and white: either no attachment at all or complete attachment? No diversity of attac...

I simply mean that we don't consciously experience dopamine, just as we don't consciously experience neural networks. Not on the experiential level.

Pragmatism does not accept any notion of unknowable things in themselves. You apparently don't know what you're talking about.

Still deflecting? The question was how do we know that things in themselves are unknowable if we are basing that supposed knowledge on a story that as...

Nice bit of deflection. I'm already familiar enough with the literature thanks.

I'd forgotten about that essay; I encountered it as an undergraduate: looks like radical independence of spirit begins with Kant. Keeping the flame al...

If we are modeling the world then there must be a world that is being modeled, no? Or perhaps you are wanting to say the world is a model? Whose model...

Right, I have no argument with dopamine being a part of the story, and only a part, even in the biological, neurological context. From the experientia...

LOL, yes I remember that one too. It always reminds me of when I used to be interested in kabbala, and I remember reading that Hebrew letters each hav...

Que?

I haven't read the dopamine book; I am prejudicially suspicious of any attempt to explain complex human motivations and behavior in terms of the effec...

I think you can find similar ideas to enlightenment-as-non-attachment in Spinoza, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, the Stoics and the Existentialists. Ni...

I don't know; I'm not sure a non-attached person would experience disappointment.

That seems true, although I would say the cultural stuff is most important, and although it is obviously absorbed via the senses, it is not mere sense...

For me there are different kinds of beauty. There is moral beauty for example. A saint would be morally beautiful. To admire something would be to lov...

I don't know. Imagine if there could be a person who was blind, had no feeling in their body, no senses whatever; could they have a mind? I really don...

Why could you not? You might, although non-attached, find one tree more beautiful than another, no? Surely a saintly person would be more loveable tha...

From what I have read of people being in sensory deprivation chambers, I doubt anyone would last that long. Instead they might become psychotic, but t...

Is it necessary that to feel something, pain, love, grief, happiness or whatever, that I be attached to the feeling? What does it mean to say I am att...