Again, no, I think this is the confusion, there's no relation other than the vague one I mentioned. Awareness isn't knowledge and knowledge isn't awar...
Not if it was instinctive (by that I just mean the idea being "in the air" and people following it like a fashion - I remember it happening some time ...
This is wonky in two ways. In the first place, economic value is subjective, marginal utility. In the second place, in representing ratios of exchange...
I don't see how you can get away from talk about cause/effect and determinism, especially if agency talk can be broken down into deterministic talk. O...
No, no, that's the confusion I think you're making: awareness is awareness, knowledge is a different thing, only very loosely connected with awareness...
Not achieved by "most?" I'm not sure if people have such a concrete idea of their ideal partner as all that, and anyway, isn't it sort of a good thing...
Oh ok, thanks for the sermon. But I haven't seen anyone else reporting on any universal particularism either. I suppose there are some people who clai...
Again, why is equal distribution so important? And so worth cursing reality for the lack of it? I mean, would you be happier if we were all identical ...
Eh, I think that's needlessly complicated. Knowledge is an objective body of symbolic structures (paper, ink, bits, words, etc.) that get their meanin...
I don't know whether it's disingenuous, it was probably an instinctive move by "Atheists" to shift the goalposts to make winning formal arguments agai...
Yes, I understand, that's the allowance I was making for directedness and teleology. There must indeed be some kind of rudimentary, "blind" computatio...
Yes, well that would be the irony of it: all our grand moral structures, which actually exist and actually are objective, ultimately exist because the...
It's the same for a godfull and godless universe. Basically, unless you want to be good in the first place, nothing's going to argue you into it. Some...
"Atheism" used to have the stronger sense of positive belief that God doesn't exist, and that's usually how religious people understsand it, as a posi...
The standard argument for how morality exists in a godless universe, is that it's a function of evolution. Communities define themselves by rules (gen...
See, the problem is, most people don't find that problematic, because most people are built to cope with it just fine - in which case you might consid...
Yeah, I think your position is too Panpsychist for my tastes :) As I said, I'm willing to admit that there's a kind of directedness and teleology bake...
As others have said, you're kind of mixing up several senses of "objective" here. It's helpful to look at all the dictionary definitions of a term, an...
Have you read Clement Rosset? You might like his take on the essential metaphysical "cruelty" of the universe, and how the two responses to that are b...
The only connective tissue we know is causality. If a thing has an effect on something else, then they're together in the same universe, that's your m...
What Pirsig means by Quality is what the classical philosophers meant by "The Good/True/Beautiful." That's probably a good way to triangulate with the...
It's more common in Eastern philosophies to take account of the sort of thing you're talking about, and talk about it openly but it's not completely u...
I dunno, I think the "I" is more of a complex thing than you can get at that level, although I'd agree there is directedness and teleology even at tha...
In all 4 scenarios, the boundary of the "I" is the total physical animal; its own awareness of itself, its internal modeling of itself, is secondary, ...
I think the apparent paradoxes disappear if one stops believing in the "ghost in the machine" and all its variants. The "I" that's choosing is the ent...
Well the gist of it is that the political process has been captured by an unholy alliance of Left-wing ideologues, sundry so-called "experts", NGOs, b...
This is a distortion of reality and it sounds like it's based on prejudice against Leave voters. The vote was for independence of the EU and control o...
Oh yeah, well of course the Tories didn't expect the Brexit result, and a substantial proportion of them are pro-EU for obvious snout-in-trough reason...
This particular point is hilarious. The basic point of democracy is to avoid civil war by ensuring that the biggest opinion coalition affects the acti...
No that's just obfuscatory media propaganda. It was always pretty clear in the Brexit materials, in debates, interviews and written stuff, and it's st...
No, from general reading and reading of history (I'm 58, educated in a different age); but the following article is probably the best thing you can ea...
The US already had its Fascist period at the appropriate time, with the early 20th century Progressives. The New Deal was essentially a mildly Fascist...
The problem is simply that predation, free-riding, exploitation, etc., are always options, and to guard against that you need rules, and ultimately th...
It's already happening, the clash between "globalism" and nationalism is that revolution. The "globalists" (university-indoctrinated lunatics in acade...
I wouldn't quite put it that far, I think usually the relationship starts off fairly symbiotic - for example the French feudal system coalesced in the...
The tail that's wagging the dog of those things is the vampirism of the elites that I've mentioned (being paid more and more bloated incomes to strang...
No, although of course I may be mistaken, I do think I understand your position. I've read Hegel, etc., too. I'm just disagreeing with it and trying t...
To understand what's going on, I think you have to go back a bit further, to the causes of the French Revolution. Essentially we have the (university-...
Sure there's no knowing without a subject knowing - but this doesn't mean that:- Subjective experiences are "tokens of types of experiences such as kn...
Yeah I get that, and as someone who's been rediscovering classical philosophy myself recently, I'm sympathetic to it - more than I used to be (I would...
I would disagree strongly with that. As I see it, knowing and willing are objective relations; their intentional objects are not subjective, but objec...
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