Janus

I was not suggesting that you were claiming to be smarter than those who allegedly "don't get it". I also don't deny that people who have had certain ...

I don't agree with this at all; there is pre-conceptual experience; there must be, otherwise conceptually shaped experience would never be possible. I...

Yes, I actually very much agree with everything you say here! OK, I think I get your drift now...but, remember, just like witnessed real vomiting can ...

Yes, but is the first person point of view really as it is usually characterized, or is that too a reification of an abstract conceptual understanding...

Sure, but they must use Braille or some means of connecting with the predominately sighted community of scientists. Sure, I don't deny that it was an ...

I agree with you that there is experience which is prior to subject/object analysis of it. In this connection and in relation to my discussion with @"...

All the specifications you can give are predominately given in visual terms. If not it would be spoken. Also, of course chemicals can be seen and can ...

It is only insofar as objects are visual that one can give "completely third person specifications" of them. Sounds, smells, tastes and tactile 'feels...

The answer to those questions is obviously 'No', but I can't see what relevance they have. Not only physical objects are objects of experience; sensat...

I don't follow you here; if we experience something and can talk about it as something we have experienced then it qualifies as an 'object of experien...

If "unity of self" is something more than merely a trivial matter of definition, how could we know there is a such a unity if we did not experience it...

Jokes about seeing someone else vomit making oneself vomit in turn aside, I am still not really seeing how the notion of "transcendental stupidity", i...

:vomit: (It's catching!)

I thought that was what was going on too, but it seems I was mistaken. @"StreetlightX" does not think Plato (although "full of shit") was a transcende...

OK, then maybe I misunderstood you. Are you saying that being "transcendentally stupid" consists in starting with some set of premises and then failin...

The very idea of a perfectly working machinery of thought is inherently fascistic in my view. If someone offers an analysis , then any criticism of it...

Right! And just how do you tell when the machinery is working properly? This looks like a simple-minded "perfect health" type fallacy. You can blithel...

Sub=under Stance= standing (I hate explaining jokez).

Yes, this is to say that substance is not 'something' over and above relation or process. Identity is likewise not other than difference.

Sub stance expresses under standing.

Ha, that's 17 Posty.

As they say, set and setting are extremely important. But it's probably also true that psychedelics are not suitable for some people ( and this is by ...

I don't count experiences engendered by psychotropics as "psychotic" , and as to the cost/ benefit analysis, I have no way to quantify it.

So, there are no images, colours, tones, sounds, sensations or feelings involved? I don't see how it could be counted an experience. I accept that the...

As I said before I think coping is relative, not all or nothing; everyone copes more or less.

There's no ambiguity. Adequate coping can be judged according to an intersubjective or a subjective standard. How could coping be self-refuting? Every...

Sorry, it might not have been that clear. What I was trying to point to is that "adequate" seems at first glance to be a normative (intersubjective) s...

What could it even mean to disidentify with yourself; short of developing some kind of dissociative personality disorder? What you need to do is to di...

How would you ever know whether it is hereditary, "in the genetic makeup"? If you can never know, then the question would seem to be irrelevant. Assum...

I think the point is that depression is not a sign that the customary thought patterns, whether deliberately or automatically adopted, with which one ...

Language does seem to bestow the ability to reify what are merely concepts, leading us to imagine that they are concrete entities.

Even Kant acknowledged that although what is known a priori, say for example that visually detected objects will always have size and shape, does not ...

Yes, that's probably true. Dealing with depression is certainly not easy!

I guess there's a difference between dis-identification in the sense of not identifying with some definition of ourselves; as a depressive, a set of s...

I'm not sure how you are thinking about it, but I would have thought the depression just is the "set of symptoms" and that you are neither that nor th...

I think a Buddhist would say that suffering (including depression) is on account of attachment (identification). As I understand it the aim of insight...

You mean that in your experience, in your particular case, it has proven to be too entrenched to treat with disidentification? But what of the possibi...

The distinction has not been universally recognized since at least the advent of pragmatism. It's by no means as uncontroversial as you are painting i...

I don't actually disagree with anything you say here: I reserve judgement about both an afterlife and about whether there is intellectual intuition. I...

I don't see a genuine divide between the deductive and the empirical. How do we deduce, how do we know that a premise entails other things which may n...

The process of doing math is one of working with symbols in accordance with strict logical rules, in order to discover previously unknown results, so ...

I don't exclude mathematics from the domain of the empirical. It is something we practice in order to discover determinate results.

I think the question of the importance of the understanding of language (over and above the mere ability to use it, obviously) to philosophy hinges on...

This reads like an apologetic for personal addiction. I used to be addicted to various substances, then in my early 60s I finally gave them all up. No...

If you are, just for example, someone who suffers from health anxiety, and act unconsciously on the unexamined, misplaced and indeed untrue metacognit...

Creativity consists in the imaginative combination of concepts. Surely you don't think any creative works are concept-free? Whenever we perceive anyth...

A repeated pattern of thinking that is believed to be helpful, protective or whatever. I've only just begun reading about MCT, on account of hearing a...

A belief about the effects, positive or negative, your strategies of thought will have on you. I don't accept theories of cognition that posit raw sen...

I think the orthodox neuroscience story is that new neuronal complexes form. The brain is certainly understood to be plastic these days; which means i...

I can't see any reason to think that meta-cognitive beliefs are any different than ordinary beliefs, other than that they are about thought and belief...