That's simply not true; I have known quite a few MDMA enthusiasts who always tested to make sure they were getting the real thing. The world is full o...
They would also be directly aware of their bodies; and that is precisely what I mean by "raw feeling". This is not introspection that looks for "conte...
What are you talking about? Drug testing kits are freely and cheaply available on the net. It's cheap to say I "sound absurd" but I don't even know wh...
Yes we say things like "she was angry" or sad or depressed or whatever, but that is not what I'm talking about. Those are simplified labels for lived ...
It seems you have not been reading the posts carefully enough: I have said a few times now that the quality of feelings can be alluded to but not prec...
Go ahead and believe that all intent is conscious if you want to. I think you are wrong if you believe that, but it's no skin off my nose. It's not im...
You don't know that. To claim that would be to deny that non-social animals don't have raw feelings. I think it is arguable that the ways human societ...
Drug-testing kits are available, so anyone stupid enough not to ensure they are purchasing purity will obviously take somewhat greater risks than thos...
I think the crux of the problem you are having with this is that you are thinking of it as a claim about experience when it is actuslly a description ...
Why? There are things we can speak about discursively and things we can only allude to. Of course it depends on what you think philosophy consists in ...
Quietism acknowledges the reality of wordless experience. We can speak about such experiences by means of allusion; so no need to be completely quite;...
Sure, you can make up that story and tell it yourself, but the experience of me is primary. There has to be a "me" to tell the story to in the first p...
When it comes to experience how it seems is how it is. Of course we can be mistaken.about what is experienced (in the sense of what is producing the e...
There is nothing it is like to see over and above the seeing, but the seeing (for me at least) is inherently qualitative and affective. Having feeling...
Note that Hallucinogens are not included in Timeline's list. MDMA (Ecstasy) is, and I think of it as a quasi-hallucinogen, which isn't addictive and i...
I wouldn't say that; I would say they are distinct insofar as one is linguistically mediated and the other is not. We experience the difference and so...
Do you really believe that all intent is utterly conscious? If so, I would say you are deceiving yourself...I wonder what motivates you to such a beli...
I haven't anywhere suggested that the fact that you are interested in positivist or objectivist approaches would preclude you from having a creative s...
I haven't said we do it deliberately. Generally we would not be aware that we are doing it, but we can come to see it. I know this from experience. Su...
No, I didn't say that. I said that our experience seems direct. We cannot be wrong about its seeming direct. And I said that the question as to whethe...
I don't have time to respond in detail, but to go straight to the point: all that you say is to me just another abstract story. compared to lived expe...
This is where we diverge. Sure, the way I conceive of my self (in other words the mode of "my belief in my qualia" is produced in socially constructed...
You present the maxims, as Christ did, and hope that the other's moral imagination is sufficient to enable them to see the truth in them. I don't beli...
Precisely why I have not much interest in ethical systems. The best guide as to how to act is conscience; which consists in moral imagination and intu...
I am taking more about the raw feeling of subjective experience, of being in a living world, and yet of being something more than merely that, too. Ho...
I disagree with this, because according to my experience the most enriching insights: those afforded by the arts and religion, have really nothing to ...
What I meant by "important sense" is that it is the more important sense for me. I tend to think of philosophy in the older way of its consisting in "...
Who is doing the perceiving? The objective understanding of the process of perception tells us nothing about how it could give rise to the most real t...
Thanks! (I think). OK, I'll check it out when I have a little more time. Then maybe I'll discover why you deliberately fail to make what I understand ...
Sure, according to what we see, the tree is composed of branches, leaves, bark and so on, and according to scientific observations and understanding, ...
No worries, I don't take anything on here personally. I think you are failing to make a distinctiin between thoughts and thinking. The way I understan...
OK, I have no doubt the thing before me is a tree, but the quote from me you are responding to is not concerned with that question; you seem to be con...
The degree to which we agree will necessarily be limited by the fact that our approaches are completely different. You seem to be concerned with what ...
How can it be a misquote if it isn't a quote? It was in my own words, and I understand "concepts without intuitions" to mean the same as "thoughts wit...
Well, sure, but we can honestly acknowledge that we can't see how they are equal, or could be equal, as in the case with noumena and phenomena. I mean...
Yes, I already said that and I quote it below (to allow for what seems to be the extremely unlikely case that you hadn't noticed and it was pure chanc...
I would say the tree as lived experience is (or at least may be) a pure intuition. Now, Kant posited that intuitions without concepts are "blind" and ...
Ah, that is the big metaphysical question! We must imagine that there is something that provides the conditions for collectively established attribute...
The tree appears weighty, and the weight of trees can be accurately measured. A trees weightiness, as I said, but not its precise mass, is directly ex...
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