apokrisis

I am contrasting vague existence with crisp existence. Or in fact talking now about the development of persistence. So yes, I have to use your languag...

Why do you think this is self-evidently the right thing to say? A history of social conditioning?

I would say that moral philosophy clings to that dichotomy as otherwise it pretty much lacks a point. If morality is reduced to simple social pragmati...

The "objective" part here is that which can be boiled down to some necessary principle. So it is quite right that a lot of what is considered morality...

Yes, the invention of the individual, the invention of democracy, began in Ancient Greece - Socrates in particular - and got rediscovered with the rec...

The absurdity lies in the new culturally-evolved and rather pointless habit of being able to question what we in fact take for granted. We are biologi...

So what do you understand by the term "matter" then? What kind of thing do you believe it to be exactly?

I agree this is difficult conceptually. But the key is not to cling to the notion of "stuff". There is neither structure (ie: form) nor matter in this...

Are you just going to run round in circles never listening? We agree nothing can't come from nothing. Which is why I support metaphysical positions wh...

And yet there was - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jan/11/poetry-after-auschwitz ...and also mildly interesting, occasionally eventf...

LOL. Every papercut a potential Holocaust in your hands! Why don't you just throw me off a skyscrapper and ask me how I really feel about that during ...

But how many times have I said that and spelt out the alternative - that constraints emerge to regulate a chaotic everythingness?

Isn't that what they say about quantum mechanics? You can't conjure up reality out of pure possibility? You are wedded to ontic principles that are al...

Your instrumentality appeals to the issue of there being possibly contrasting points of view. So your argument is that we are divided against our own ...

What I don't "understand" is the dualism this kind of comment relies upon. I argue from naturalism. So in the end, your talk of "selves" and "experien...

How can I argue against your monotheistic Pessimism without pointing out that there is the second thing of optimism, and then beyond that, the third t...

Is there no evidence in the world of emergence? On what exactly - their lack of predicates? Neuroscience when it comes to measuring information densit...

On an empirical note, it must carry some weight what people actually regret in terms of the life they have lived. Pessimism is just so one-note in its...

I'm not saying there isn't a problem with "the system". I'm just saying that a rather more sophisticated analysis is needed than "life sucks". That's ...

Yes, I am against nominalism because it is only "micro-transcendence" in this fashion. To name a particular or an individual is just as much an act of...

You are using very emotional language here. My position of course is that the ideal only speaks of the general limits of existence - and by the same t...

Note that metaphysical intelligibility depends on the duo of the (transcendently) general and (immanently) particular. So it is not really any differe...

I get fed up with pessimism and antinatalism when it becomes just a back-justification for a bad mental habit that produces the very thing it complain...

Yeah sure. But that in turn is based on the presumption that contingency is somehow not natural. So there are three positions here. At one extreme is ...

Absurd in comparison to what? Is it absurd as living creatures to have the goals that define life? Should I feel it is unnatural to be natural?

Not my problem if your OP is a rambling bleat about the problem that any kind of action - even deliberate inaction - seems to betray a goal state. And...

There is a rational argument at the base of this. The brain evolves to represent the world in terms of our interests. And so our own interests get bak...

Sadly, it just is juvenile. For you to be able to do literally nothing (feed yourself, wipe your arse, turn you over to avoid bedsores) would require ...

But don't you routinely extrapolate from the personal to the general in this fashion? It is not the suffering within your own experience that is the i...

Well we would all agree there. But that then admits to the possibility of a socially-organised escape from misery. Which ought to put us straight back...

Not to derail your thread, but why - given this equation - is it not justified to go around killing off all miserable people? (Or equivalently, tankin...

Yep. It is hard to assign it a specific purpose or even a general one. The question becomes why would we even want to separate it out as an aspect of ...

Isn't great art meant to make you think? Isn't it meant to unsettle rather than soothe? Isn't it there to stir to action as well as calm the nerves? I...

Logically prior at least. The question then becomes what this means in terms of a physical model of time. I say it becomes a model of vagueness once w...

Well if you were following my argument, you would have to bring in its other side - the emergence of stasis (as encoded in the further notion of space...

I appreciate that you even mentioned it. Treat my post as mostly a trigger for my own self-clarification.

Well that is different in focusing on the epistemic angle rather than the ontic. And pansemiosis is an ontic claim in saying, essentially, that episte...

If you like that, then I would highly recommend Salthe's two books on hierarchy theory - Evolving Hierarchical Systems and Development and Evolution. ...

By the emergence of its other - the lack of change that stands as the backdrop which makes it, with counterfactual definiteness, "a change". But also ...

You mean like....? http://www.nbi.dk/natphil/salthe/NatPhil_of_entropy.pdf

You are trying to fit things into a view of existence that lacks spatiotemporal scale. You are imagining reality as an atomistic state of affairs in w...

The use of psychological terminology here is to risk blurring pansemiosis with panpsychism. So it has to be done carefully. But I would point out that...

Perhaps it would be more fruitful to wonder where the deeper structure is exhibited? (The answer being in both the world and the mind.)

I think pansemiosis has to be more subtle than that. It says instead that the structure of thought and the structure of the world both share the deepe...

In my view, time is change. So time as we know it is part of change as we know it. Thus time as we know it is wedded to space and energy. It doesn't t...

At the cosmological level, time itself is emergent and so talk of before and after doesn't work out for me quite the same as it does for you with your...

You are being very confrontational given that I was obviously being ironic. My point was that in being "a public demonstration", this means that even ...

Did you have an example in mind? Aesthetics for instance? And would it be a problem for you if that were contrastingly qualified as subjective truth? ...

It implies publicly demonstrable. So a collective subjective agreement. ;)

A statement has to be interpreted. It doesn't understand itself. So yes. True or false are semantic judgments. A proposition is merely a sign awaiting...