apokrisis

Sure, I agree in a way about your story of an ever-escalating capacity for "concerns". But that is also baking in the very helplessness that you claim...

I agree that it is about connecting with something "higher", but then the question becomes whether this is your transcendent spirit or my immanent nat...

SX makes the critical points very nicely. I will add a few thoughts. The baseline state of the Universe was set up by the symmetry breaking that was t...

OK, you are asking good questions. My naturalistic answer - from a biological understanding - is that suffering, like pleasure, is a sign of something...

Being silly is a silly thing. So that would be the reason for being opposed. But yes, personally I find the constant harping of the pessimist on these...

Wouldn't Buddhism generally be a form of equilbrium thinking in being a practice of ceasing to care in terms of a personal reaction and instead taking...

Again, this seems right to you because of your ontological commitments. You are thinking in terms of directed outcomes - action that is the result of ...

I meant to add that there is also Stan Salthe's hierarchical approach to a definition here that recognises various grades of telos, ranging from the b...

Again, this simply repeats your metaphysical presumptions - the very thing I question. Your foundational view of reality is that existence must be bas...

Yep. But I would add two things stand in the way of a widespread understanding of four causes holism. First, classical reductionism sells itself not j...

There is of course the third option of whatever lies inbetween. So it is quite wrong to construct a philosophy around a forced binary view when the re...

The point about chance in biology is that it is something life has to mechanically manufacture because it doesn't really exist in nature. Now that is ...

Yeah. There is an issue here as SX is promoting a reductionist paradigm - one that is antithetical to the reality of formal/final cause. So what he sa...

The point remains that our naming has the choice of either striving to talk about reality in a mind independent fashion, or in a fashion that is unaba...

Again, it is the assumption that real things get reduced to lists of material particulars that causes the confusion. If material properties are import...

To be a planet would be to talk about the natural process that "makes planetary objects". So we could narrow that to gravitationally produced lumps of...

But this is a bad way of thinking about identity because it only names particular states of being, not general states of being. It is far too restrict...

What is it that names name? It's not normally the material but the form. So you have created a misdirection in appearing to be talking about the mater...

The simplest definition would be a common place for free exchanges. So traffic is different in that while it is an emergent effect of many individual ...

You can't think like that without the grammatical structuring of human language. So evidence that animals can't master grammar is enough to bolster th...

I'm hardly against the fruits of romanticism. I have the misspent youth to prove that. :) So my argument is the dichotomising one. There are two parts...

But it's not me who is trying to pin a single reading on what Peirce, Hegel or Aristotle "really meant" as if they were my spokesmen or my authorities...

A simple explanation is that the modern economy is based on freely burning fossil fuel and other resources. And the 1950s were the era of the gushing ...

You mean effete mind. Or extinct mind, in Schelling's term. But what Peirce meant by mind is another question. ;) You realise Peirce wanted to fix Kan...

Oh for the ignore option that was one of PF's advantages.

Yep. They both had their mushy edges being people of their times. But if we pay attention to the general logic of nature they were talking about, then...

There is never any point arguing against you WoD as your confused posts always do such a great job of arguing against themselves.

Yep. LGU promotes a confusion here. While anyone can coin their own definitions of naturalism, there is a real history of something called natural phi...

And there you go. You tell me you don't intend to ad hom me and then repeat the ad hom. Again, if you dispute aspects of my interpretation, and can ba...

I of course never said this was about "thinking" because that is an ambiguous term in the context of comparative cognition. Can animals problem solve ...

I simply come at this question as a scientist, so never claim absolute knowledge of anything. I only say that considerable research supports my positi...

Don't be ridiculous. If you believe bats have language, present the evidence. The research into animal language capabilities is voluminous. And it say...

Surely humans are special because that is something we can easily think, say, or indeed transmit over any chosen frequency given a radio. But bats? No...

And you judge my understanding of Anaximander, the result of many years of study, having just done a hasty google search? If you dispute my interpreta...

And not caring either. You are playing the same old tunes I see.

Sorry, did I miss the bit where you explained why it wouldn't be more parsimonious if wishes were indeed horses for idealists?

What are you talking about? The grounding premise was that consistency would be a good thing. If your counter argument relies on a malicious deceiver ...

Why not spell it out?

And yet it follows that if the world is truly generated from a personal viewpoint, then there has to be some reasonable account of why that isn't the ...

And so as I suggest, the kind of world that does unfold before our questing gaze ought to be generated in some kind of accordance with our wishes. Thi...

The answer from science is that language made the distinct difference. So the neural architecture is basically a standard ape brain enlarged. There is...

Now here you sound like you agree with my approach, so this becomes very confusing. To summarise, the argument goes that we patently exist in a world ...

You misrepresent the point I was making. What I said was that metaphysics - as rational inquiry into the nature of existence - got started by understa...

Bullshit. My question was not about some arbitrary programmer's choice but about what would be most self consistent. And when equations produce positi...

So you just won't answer my question about naturalness and the expectations we can rightfully derive from such an assumption. Bad faith.

Just address my actual argument. Would a generated world more naturally generate what is contemporary or what is historic?

Some would say that no longer requiring such absolutism of knowledge has been one of the major achievements since Parmenides.

Well my point - again - is that the existence of a historical aspect to this reality would be one kind of empirical evidence against it being the case...

How is making weathered dinosaur bones not faking an entropic history? Sure I accept that your argument is that the bones are only made at the very in...

Well you seemed to be taking a materialist position and that's hardly Platonic form is it? So you make less and less sense here. If you are arguing Pl...