Janus

Well, it's been claimed that they may be helpful in some psychotherapeutic and sacramental contexts, for example. are you contending that all such cla...

I don't think that psychedelics are seen as "cure or panacea" so much as, just in some special contexts, therapeutic aids. Some people might fantasize...

You are indulging in gross generalizations!

Are you now offering a 'slippery slope' argument?

I think many of the problems ("bad trips", freaking out) arise because people ignore set and setting. Still people should not expect the experience no...

But you can only be speaking for yourself, surely? Perhaps the real visions of others, precisely because you cannot share them, appear to you as "idea...

Obviously understanding neurochemistry will broaden or simply alter your perspective; albeit in a different way than imbibing hallucinogenic substance...

I think psychedelics, just like any other kinds of experiences, are more or less different for every individual. You seem to be wanting to generalize ...

Yes.

Why can the head and torso not be considered as individual components or processes of the body? Of course they are not radically separate, but why sho...

If all you are arguing about is the use of the words, then I would say, as i already have, that your use is less in accordance with convention. But, t...

If there is real difference then things are already differentiated. And they are therefore also individuated.

You could, for a long time, be moving towards action, and yet not know it. And then suddenly....

You say I replied 'exactly as predicted". That is not surprising since my response is absolutely correct. Attempting to explain psychedelic experience...

It's one thing to read about psychotropics, and another thing altogether to undergo the experience. Just saying...not recommending...

Ever tried it?

More sophistry, MU. So, you think the world is utterly homogeneous, undifferentiated until the human mind comes along and carves it up? No constraint ...

So, the vague, or the virtual, or whatever you want to call it, can be thought only in terms of everything the determinate is not, it would seem. It's...

I don't think it's a matter of me being happy about it; our language is ineluctably dualistic, and of course I'm not happy to be arch-dualistic: are y...

I think this is much more of a dualistic setup than what I was proposing. Sure, you can say my way of speaking about explaining the world is dualistic...

They cannot be at precisely the same place even at different times. In any case it should have been obvious that I was referring to being at the same ...

Yes, that's right, but it's certainly not a process that is entirely dependent on humans.

You said the suffix indicates an act ( presumably an act carried out by a subject); I also presumed that it was the suffix in "individuation" that is ...

But that is just what I would understand by "flat ontology" or actually an even flatter ontology than what I would recommend, because I do not think w...

I didn't think we had that much in common. I rarely receive any response at all when I comment in his threads! You know I have long been interested in...

I would go for a kind of "flat' ontology, where there is no absolute distinction between inner and outer, higher and lower. That's why I often argue w...

The problem is that rationalist arguments against materialism presuppose an impoverished notion of the physical that should have been dispensed with l...

I haven't been arguing against your account at all, but asking questions about it so that I can gain an understanding of exactly what it is proposing.

No. I've covered this before. What is rational is what can be measured (ratio), which means compared, tested for consistency and coherency against emp...

No, I actually think both internalism and externalism are wrongheaded.

The question remains, though, as to just what is that "insight". If it is a rational insight then you should be able to say what it is and argue for i...

That "unbridled everythingness" would seem to be, for you, the genesis state prior to the existence of anything. Can we say that state exists, or subs...

They all possess said suffix. They are counterexamples to your baseless claim. You have it arse about. Individuation is not imposed on a seamless porr...

I don't agree; scepticism is not predominately reactive but simply a timely questioning, and finding wanting, of what has been previously taken for gr...

Not really, I'm trying to find out what you think: I'm talking about a "time" prior to the existence of anything, and asking whether you think that wo...

Who carries out the acts of precipitation, adaptation, conflagration, (non-human) propagation, prolongation...and so on? Objects are individuated by c...

We know only parts of the Cosmos, we never know, or even could know, the whole. The parts we know are arguably known to us in causal terms, that is th...

I think the problem is the same for the "crisp". Is the crisp something other than the idea of the determinate. Or in other words is anything determin...

OK, so obviously the concept of the vague is the concept of the indeterminate. Are you saying that the vague itself is something other than the concep...

That would seem to be a wrong conclusion, insofar as objects such as the Earth reflect light.

Individuation is not an "act", or at least it is not an act performed by the subject. Individuation is an objective reality that allows for the subjec...

In your kind of model the radical vagueness or indeterminacy is not only "there" at the beginning of time but "always", no? It is the eternal out of w...

The possible could precede the actual only on the assumption of rigid determinism. So, for example, for Spinoza, everything that is, must have been, f...

I don't see doing philosophy, at least metaphysics, as being a matter of reaching conclusions, but of gaining an ever more comprehensive grasp of the ...

I agree; if there were an objectively real overarching meaning then it would be something to be discovered. But absent that (which seems to be obvious...

OK, you still haven't really answered the other questions directly, but at least you have answered this one. The point I am trying to make is that, ev...

Really?? So, you don't believe that Jesus is God, is that right? The point is that others do and they consider that the highest truth. A related quest...

I think this is wrong. Objectivity is a view from everywhere, not nowhere. Obviously I can't have a view from everywhere, so others are needed for tha...

Nice! :cool:

Sure, ancient forms of philosophy provided different methodologies for self-transformation; the common aim was to realize eudamonia, flourishing or th...