Janus

It's true that the human cannot find a home in your "mathematical strength umwelt" which means that it is not really an "umwelt" at all, but an ivory ...

If you read carefully you will see that I didn't say that you said he resolved them. In any case the Whitehead you caricature is light years away from...

I would say Whitehead accounts for all of those. He doesn't "absorb" oppositions or contrasts and explicitly rejects any kind of Hegelian synthesis or...

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I'm not sure exactly how God functions and is necessary in Whitehead's system, but I think it as the universal prehender of 'eternal objects" which he...

I don't haver time to respond much now, and would need to spend a lot of time to try to construct a coherent account of the similarities and differenc...

I have been able to function as well, if not better, than normal when in such states of heightened feeling, so I don't see them as necessarily being "...

That's true. I have a few friends from New Zealand, and they are, apart from their lazy way of pronouncing 'i's' pretty much indistinguishable from Au...

Thanks, I'll check it out. Don't feel bad about not understanding the Whitehead section. I've been reading him on an off for more than twenty years an...

That like anything else drugs open up different possibilities for experience.

Local to where, though? Most likely Australia, I would say. :razz:

It wasn't "this or that" it was everything. It wasn't "thinking it was sublime" it was seeing and feeling it's incalculable depth and subtlety, its al...

I think you are being pedantric. I already warned about the difficulty of language. I should have written: "And this consists in what is known directl...

I don't have time for detailed reply right now, but I want to make it clear that I'm not talking about things-in-themselves, or noumena or the self, o...

The dread of non-existence is instinctive, biological. It becomes possible as a general condition due to the reflective capability bestowed by languag...

I still don't understand why you think becoming presupposes something more fundamental. Can you explain? If being is not immutable, then I can't see h...

It is to make a transcendental claim, to be sure. But it is not a transcendental claim about the conditions, in a synthetic a priori sense, for possib...

Pat doesn't know where the keys are. He searches for them in the kitchen because that is one of the places they could be.

Yes, I do see that. :smile:

Of course anything at all that we say will be a "framing"; but some framings make more sense than others, and I am making no claim that any framing is...

You can't. And I know you don't want to countenance anything you can't measure; but that says more about you than it does about the immeasurable. Expe...

The answer to both those questions would be that there is no actual stasis beyond the relative stability of enduring different regions of intensity. S...

Perhaps you should have said 'There are balls in tennis, but are there any balls in your response?' I don't think that the value of reason can reasona...

The pan-experientialist view is based on the idea that everything that exists experiences, in the broadest sense of that term, just as the pan-semioti...

I would say there are changing unities, identities and wholes in nature; but I wouldn't say they are "out there" in any absolute sense. Out where? The...

It seems to me you're still trying to reify some changeless thing as that which changes. Maybe it's a problem with language. A fluctuation is a fluctu...

I think you're conflating experience with consciousness.

The fluctuation?

Not exactly, I am saying that changeless unity, changeless identity, and changeless wholeness are mental abstractions.

The alternative question is whether we have to model in order to feel, which leads to the question as to how far down modelling goes in nature, and wh...

OK, but I think it is misleading to speak of "panpsychism" in the context of Whitehead's philosophy. As far as I know he never used the term. He may h...

As I understand it @"apo's" pan-semioticism is a claim that reality, at all levels, exists in the triadic sign relation, which consists of an object, ...

Can we find something changeless in everything that changes? What is it to be something other than to be a unique process of change? Under a process v...

You make an unwarranted assumption; that mathematics, science and philosophy could not have evolved in any other way than they have. Also, it is not t...

Assuming that your memory is accurate and is also a memory of what it purports to be of. I wasn't meaning to reify the unknown into some actuality; I ...

There are points in tennis: is there a point to this OP? :wink:

What if 'being' is thought not as a static noun, but as a dynamic verb? Then be-ing and be-coming are synonymous (since change is ubiquitous). Being i...

Right. So then there is the further question of whether there are universal elements in these beliefs and narratives. I think this is where it becomes...

I'm not quite sure what you are saying here. Is it that particular beliefs and narratives are universals or that belief and narrative in general are u...

Sure, but the reality of the psychological effect of birth trauma is speculative. Being an old "psychonaut" myself, I'm familiar with Stanislov Grof's...

I was referring to significant personal choices and commitments; but I suspect you know that and are just trying to be funny. I can see how a signific...

it is only on account of the primacy of our affective life that the kinds of influence of our states of feeling that you allude to are possible. The p...

But, where have I said there is anything wrong with studying religious systems. or systems of mystical symbolism or poetry or the arts? And where have...

Well, it's a good thing you didn't succumb to that ill-informed temptation! :lol: The fact that there obviously have been sophisticated religious, phi...

Yes, that seems right to me, I think the intimation of a pervading immanent order that is invoked by mathematical intelligibility and applicability, a...

The point is that you cannot say anything positive about what is indicated by the feeling of the numinous. You yourself refuse to say anything definit...

This is a strawman, though, because the feeling of connectedness is not dependent on any anthropomorphic, and much less any anthropocentric, worldview...

I think this is probably right, and I think the reason for that is that humanity had not been able to extricate itself from unreflectively anthropomor...

Whenever an existential choice or commitment is made the not-being of infinite other-possibility slips away from the personal, so I would say that it ...

Well, that's just a stupid thing to say, so nessun commento...