Yes, the two cases are certainly analogous in that regard. Actually, this leads me to think of another dis-analogy, namely that we know that virtual s...
I think there's certainly something to what you say here TGW, but I still cannot see any reason to think that natural space is simulated (although we ...
This is interesting Streetlight, but I still think that the virtual space of video games is categorically different than natural perceptual space, eve...
I would say that knowing something is a simulation would necessarily entail that you interacted with it differently than you would with something you ...
This just seems patently untrue to me. Our sensory dealings with real entities are most often far more inter-sensory and somatic than can be the case ...
I am not advocating that one should not be aware of possible outcomes and should be concerned with being prepared for them to varying degrees proporti...
Yes, I'm not saying that induction is itself irrational, but that any idea that the future will definitely resemble the past is. We cannot, being crea...
Yeah, I guess the plant could be thought to be "monstrous" just in the aesthetic sense that it is incongruously ugly in relation to the Rhine landscap...
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." Gramsci My immediate thought is that intelligence (reason) cannot possibly...
A poem I wrote a few years ago: Drawing the Epistemic Line Drawing a line along the dark hedgerows, mark the narrows where the night opens and colours...
Handsome dude! And talented, too; nice portrait. Take the plunge, finish the hair... Another handsome dude! Nice ceramics and I particularly like your...
It's been a while since I read the LCT, so I returned to it, to try to find any reference to 'horrifying technology" or "good,simple peasants", or the...
Thanks Baden, I have done as you suggested and inserted the other Centennial Park images as well. I really like your photos especially the two 'abstra...
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I thought I had already explained that pure pleasure would be pleasure not accompanied by any pain, and of course, vice versa. For example, even the a...
The point is that the pleasure you might take in hurting others, even if it were 100% pleasure ( which it could never be) cannot in any case be ethica...
First, if pleasure and pain are never pure then they cannot be intrinsically good or bad, unless you want to say that something could be intrinsically...
I don't understand how it can make sense to say that the Platonic Ideas can be represented. Plato certainly didn't think so. He said that life 'imitat...
But, since the ideas of the intrinsic goodness and badness of pleasure and pain, respectively, are dependent on the (arguably) erroneous ideas of the ...
On the basis of this I read into your post a suggestion, if not a contention, that Heidegger was influenced by Dewey, despite your caveat that there w...
OK, I don't mean to say that "knowing what distinguishes talk about the real from other kinds of talk... (tells)... us what kinds of things are real a...
Well you didn't answer the more pertinent questions, but I will go with what you have responded to anyway, If pleasure is intrinsically good and pain ...
When you write of "philosophers of the past hundred years having purported new insights that ( by implication) you claim were already had by Dewey, th...
So, you seem to be saying that only suffering is intrinsically bad and only pleasure is intrinsically good? If so, then why would should we not say th...
How do you justify the claim that something that may lead to an "extrinsic bad" should nonetheless be considered to be intrinsically good? Would you n...
Being satisfied or content with, or accepting of, your life is a state that relates not merely to the moment but to your overall passions and commitme...
Yes, it probably would have been clearer if I had instead written: First, in attempting to answer the question "what does it mean to say that somethin...
What do you take representational art to be representing? For me, the key idea behind Abstract Expressionism, is that all art is, in the final analysi...
Thanks for your response Aaron. I have just two points regarding what you have said there. First, in attempting to answer the question "what does it m...
Hi Aaron, what you write seems to be contending that the notions of reality, existence, materiality and so on, in various contexts, which we have are ...
This looks good. The old PF seems to be declining, and I was beginning to be concerned that many of the highest quality thought contributors were jump...
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