No. My solution is to focus instead on other models of development within Aristotle's writings - like the symmetry-breaking of potential by the separa...
You really are missing Banno! But anyway, my starting point would be that arriving at truth would have to be the result of a process - an epistemic pr...
Personally, I wouldn't because it would be something I believe on rational~empirical grounds rather than poetic or aesthetic. And a Peircean pragmatis...
As John points out, to make these kinds of measurements is no simple because it presumes taking a snapshot view of a world in motion. And to do this, ...
As I understand it, Aristotle's argument was that change could not have a beginning in an efficient cause. So the alternative had to be that there was...
That is certainly right. It is the way we sort out the self from the world in terms of the actions we can freely take vs the reality which is their co...
This sounds like his discussion of Zeno's paradoxes. But I would say that more generally Aristotle takes the position that nothing comes from nothing....
I guess this is where semiosis becomes close to idealism in that the "material world" feels like that which we can know the least. We only have the pl...
So define suffering for me - in a way that doesn't include everything (like being tickled, vaguely bored or uneasy, laughing until it hurts, satiated ...
The biological and social context challenges that phenomenology in a basic way. Even pain can be pleasure as any masochist knows. So the counter-argum...
That's silly because instead I have pointed out that the phenomenology - particular feelings - are shaped or individuated within a socio-cultural, and...
I wrote that PF post about the nanoscale convergence zone where this has just been discovered to be the case for biology. But take again another examp...
Err....so nothing dualistic in your position because it is claiming the reality of "phenomenology" in terms of the idealistic? OK. Yeah. I never expla...
And that was what I explained. Aristotle was talking about potential in a different sense at that point - crisply formed possibility rather than actua...
My position agrees fundamentally with Kojeve when he says: "Taken separately, the Subject and the Object are abstractions that have neither “objective...
I've answered all this already. So you are simply returning me to your assertions rather than dealing with my arguments against them. Yes, you can cer...
That was Peirce's switch on Hegel too. First the bare potential - the vagueness as that to which the PNC does not apply - and then its symmetry-breaki...
Yes, they are part of the structure of life. We both agree that. But I say necessary for a reason, while you claim it to be an unreasonable fact. I as...
The core issue seems to be that you treat phenomenology as brute fact - we can't help what we feel - whereas I say scientific naturalism supports the ...
Only if you change torture's definition. Could it get any more laughable? Let me know when you are ready to deal with nature in terms of what is natur...
But treating torture as an issue that can be tackled via social institutions is pragmatic - of much more use in real life than telling the same tortur...
Great. But I was trying to turn this discussion away from romantic histrionics towards science-backed naturalism. As I said, show me that the brain is...
Nope. Not getting much sense of science there. Lovecraft? :) I've read him. I don't find him particularly insightful as he conflates the issues of bio...
Good lordy. What did you say about bubbles and psychological science? Do you believe animals have to be protected in some way from their existential d...
Who is this "we"? Are you thinking of some malign god? If you are going to claim your view is science-backed, it is going to have to be naturalistic. ...
Right. It is instead a goal that has to be worked at. But we seem a long way now from your original thesis that the very possibility of a nasty paper ...
And yet pain, stress and suffering can cause the release of endorphins, serotonin and adrenaline - which feel pretty good. So you are not respecting t...
Sure, he might have said it was as pointless as life. But still, he did it. And so there must have been some point to it. And thus also some point to ...
That is why your argument is weak. You have to jump to unrepresentative extremes to make your case. Your whole approach is flawed in trying to reduce ...
I would say rather that we expect the past to be a constraint on future freedoms. The past can lock the free flow of events into restricted possibilit...
Again, my point is that you start from the histrionic and personal position that suffering, in any degree, is an unbearable fact. But most people just...
I accept that. But that also makes pessimism less interesting here in being less a metaphysical issue and more a practical one - unless it is actually...
But it was bad metaphysics that did the deceiving - the idea that individual lives must have cosmic or divine significance. And it is still bad metaph...
That's fine. Just give me the technical definition that would make this an important distinction here in your view. Is it that your claim is the crisp...
Remember also that deduction is simply a calculus of constraints. Take one premise, combine it with another, logic tells you what is necessarily the n...
It is the postulation of necessity. But it allows also for the role played by possibility or contingency. And also distinguishes between epistemic and...
This is perhaps the true existential crisis - when there seems no hope of a worldview at all. The Pessimist is taking comforting refuge in a concrete ...
I would suggest a more organic and less mechanical notion of explanation. Things are explained by pointing to the constraints that bound possibility. ...
It mostly all boils down to bad phrasing most likely - we simply lack good language for describing these things in philosophically rigorous way. But d...
Isn't this just a projection of an overly mechanistic model of causality on to the reality of the situation? Where is the hunger beyond the throbbing ...
My argument is that the generality of qualia is the socially constructed idea here and so due to linguistic self-awareness (the speaking which can tal...
Empirical claims about "what is" - the kinds of things people say as a result of common experience of the world - were the departure point for Ancient...
That's right. There is a self in primary awareness, but it is "off-stage" as the animal's awareness is of the world (as that which is not "self"). So ...
Sorry, I thought it was the axiom you had proposed. But instead your self-evident axiom is that objects are bounded. So still my answer would be the s...
Yep. A dichotomisation that arises to structure the "bloomiing, buzzing, confusion". This is a good way to put it because it shows how early on there ...
Wouldn't it be leaky or .... vague? That just puts us back dealing with dichotomies as I routinely argue. We can have the ideal or axiomatic notion of...
How do you live in the real world with such thin skin? But yes, you are being neuro-reductionist in your OP by going along with the idea that the evol...
Speaking of shit sandwiches, that's a doozy from neuro-reductionism. Sure, "mirror neurons" tell us something about embodied consciousness - the activ...
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