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:I also have a fairly restless mind. I think one phase of meditation consists in not distracting yourself from that restlessness or just giving into t...

That's an interesting possibility. But then even regarding our accepted theories, if they can never be verified, for example if the theory that curvat...

Discussion would be much better if you bothered to read what I wrote, rather than jumping to stupid conclusions about what I'm saying.

And you are presenting unargued assertions coupled with a lack of imagination.

We can talk about the multiverse because it is imaginable. I'm not sure whether you are referring to the cosmological hypothesis that our universe may...

It's not so much argument by definition as it is a recognition that physics is not concerned with the transcendent (whatever that might be thought to ...

Yes. I already practice walking meditation sometimes, and I also often practice working meditation. Ideally I should be in a meditative state during a...

What I meant was that compared to sex with someone you love it is boring. Personally I never found meditation boring, just mentally and physically dif...

All I was saying is that however we might interpret QM the interpretation is a physical, not a metaphysical one, at least in the sense of not positing...

I'm not saying that metaphysical interpretations are not possible, but they are not inevitable and nor are they, as far as I am aware, mainstream in t...

True, but what it means is still (for physicists at least) in the physical context.

I understand; I meditated daily for about 18 years (with a few missed days and short lapses of practice). My biggest problem was not that I found it b...

Interpretations of QM are interpretations of the physical, though. They say nothing about what may or may not underlie, or be beyond, the physical, as...

Jeez, masturbation is boring enough!

Oh, so you thought it was an offer? Sorry for the misunderstanding... (I know you didn't really, I'm just playing along for the sake of derailing this...

:lol: I was thinking of the relationship between Heidegger and Sartre, but now you've gone and introduced a whole other dimension I'm not comfortable ...

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A blow may be low, but true nonetheless; Sartre was greatly inspired by and acknowledged his debt to, Heidegger. Unless you were referring to anal sex...

The difference is that we know that fictional entities we have created for our diversion are fictional entities; we know they don't actually exist. We...

Sure, it's not the property of the object considered in abstracto or considered in objective, analytical terms as a mere present (id)entity. That's He...

Wasn't meant as such. Re authenticity Banno said he was channeling Sartre; I was merely pointing out that Sartre was channeling Heidegger

The natural world is replete with meaning for animals. Culturally we build on that basic, biological, embodied meaning that varies with different kind...

Authenticity; you channeling Sartre channeling Heidegger.

If any static entities, entities which don't change at all, exist, then by definition they are not becoming."Apparently static" entities, however, are...

I probably should have used the term 'transcendental'. We understand the world through our models; thus it is present to us in the "vorhanden" sense. ...

@"T Clark" had said that the question of God's existence is truth apt (unlike absolute presuppositions; a point I'm still not clear about). Someone el...

The question in my mind was not about establishing truth or falsity, but as to whether we should think that there could be truths that can never, even...

As I read it, Heidegger's analysis of beings as ready-to-hand and present-at-hand offers a way t understand the rise of technology and capitalism. Hei...

A nice summary! !. Yes. being becomes associated with the form, soul, eidos or substance, and in turn with God. What Heidegger refers to as "ontotheol...

Sartre was a close reader of Heidegger and acknowledged his debt to him. The distinction between being in itself and being for itself comes from Hegel...

A cause? Everything that happens, as we understand it, has a multitude of causes or conditions, doesn't it?

Ha, thanks. I could introduce another (faux) wrinkle in the fabric by saying that I can't decide whether the question as to whether propositions that ...

I don't hold the opposite view to that; I think that whether or not something whose truth value is undecidable nonetheless may be true or false, is it...

I have read the book, and I believe I have understood it. Must I then agree with it? I agree that all systems of thought have their founding or ground...

Exactly! Death for Heidegger doe not represent (merely) the end of life, but the closing of of possibilities; hence angst and the desirability of livi...

I don't think 'true' is the right word; useful or valid would be better. I am not convinced that you or Collingwood do "know them for what they are". ...

I understand that if Newton supposed some events to be caused and some not, and if Kant supposed that all events must be caused, and if modern physics...

I remember reading that book thirty years ago when I was interested in Gurdjieff's ideas. If memory serves, Schumacher was heavily influenced by Gurdj...

I know of one interpreter of Heidegger, Blattner (Heidegger's Temporal Idealism) who seems to be interpreting all being for Heidegger as "being-for-us...

It's seems to be true that it is only in self-reflective moments or with those who are highly concerned with living an "examined life" that authentic ...

I can see the distinction you want to make, but nonetheless even apparently 'static' entities are be-ings. They are also, despite their apparent stasi...

Heidegger distinguishes between the being of things in the world and the being of dasein. We enjoy an additional dimension of being beyond that of a p...

I don't agree with this. I think those ideas are central to Being and Time. They may lead to confusion in some readers, but they certainly don't inevi...

As far as I am concerned there is no "cult of Heidegger". Perhaps Heidegger was, politically speaking, an idiot. Perhaps he was, on a personal level, ...

Firstly I haven't dismissed Collingwood, I've just said that I don't think what he's doing in that book counts as metaphysics, according to the "ordin...

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I recently read a book, the link to which I provided to @"Wayfarer", which deals with the hindrances. I'm not claiming my terminology is "normal". Aba...

Good move (to the mountains). I seem to remember there being a Sydney Zen Centre which practiced zazen, with a lady roshi and a retreat out near Wisem...

Right, Heidegger has been, and continues to be, a powerful influence. It sound like you've read more of his later work than I. There are a constellati...