Yep. So construction gets replaced by constraint. And then my point is you go the next step of seeing construction and constraint as the two halves of...
Or instead, cultural anthropology shows us that tribal order doesn’t expect the giving of individual reasons, just knowledge of collective custom. Civ...
You are missing the obvious. Society requires us to have reasons for our actions. It is the "burden" of being civilised, or even just socialised. Most...
Like many who are philosophically inclined, I am happy to accept actual infinities as a useful mathematical simplification – an epistemic trick – but ...
Freud would be a prime example of the romantic turn in his claim that the human animal is essentially irrational. A stew of feeling with a thin veneer...
Consider this. The humanities were a product of Enlightenment philosophy – the belief that humanity could be understood in a rational and naturalistic...
Thanks. :up: My point is all about bringing logic back into the real world by showing how it is in fact grounded in the brute reality of a pragmatic m...
Sure. For every action, it’s reaction. The Enlightenment, hence Romanticism. AP, hence PoMo. But that just tells you dialectics is the true totalising...
I like CJ Rowe's papers on this point..... Archaic thought in Hesiod https://fdocuments.net/document/archaic-thought-in-hesiod.html Anaximander and th...
:up: So we go down and down, diligently following all the little arrows pointing to our supposed destination, to arrive at the final arrow ... that po...
Smil is right but the problem is that then folk start accepting that there won’t be any orderly transition so the game becomes about survivalist scena...
First, this has nothing to do with the fact humans have always had some impact on the planet. What a population of 300 million humans could do 2000 ye...
What point do you want to make? Sure human agriculture and firing of the landscape could have had an effect. So could the still earlier hominid cullin...
What are you on about. The paper is talking about natural cooling due to orbiting distance to the Sun. I pointed your confusion out and yet you still ...
What are you on about? In which narrative could humans be considered responsible for pushing the Earth father from the Sun these past 2000 years? Jeez...
If only life were so simple. To start with, the human heating will happen in decades and the natural cooling in millennia. So if you don’t mind first ...
That’s only because your logic doesn’t follow itself to its own conclusions. But keep raving. Maybe I missed this but do you have a science-backed vie...
Your incapacity with logic is alarming. Here you agree humans DO have an impact. You just want to question how much. But if there is a natural cause o...
Neuroreductionism. The better answer is that consciousness is simply what it is like to be a self living in its world. So the neocortex, and the rest ...
But that isn’t enough of an answer as life is negentropic structure that self-organises on an entropic gradient. So life on earth lives (mostly) off t...
There is a natural arc of development that shows its logic at all levels of biology from ecology to neurobiology. Life logically follows the three sta...
It isn’t a back up mechanism. Life started off immortal. Bacteria don’t have a programmed death. They just keep dividing until accident overtakes them...
I like to think that Trump is all about showing that society’s losers can be its winners. The rational social order can be inverted so that all those ...
Nice. Even Nietzsche’s rant against rationality suffers from it being encoded as an authored text. A demand for a singular univocal reading. So irrati...
Of course. The greenie calculation was that the carrying capacity of an ecologically pristine Earth was a max of around half a billion - living on per...
The problem is only really that the heat can’t escape if we wrap the planet in a carbon blanket. So official thinking is not anti-growth. It is about ...
Yep. If we treat big oil in particular as an organism, just think how much resilience it has had to develop to sustain itself during a century of geop...
I agree that is hard to decide what to do with one's life given a clear-eyed view of its reality. But personally, I reasoned that I just happen to hav...
But you still haven't done anything but assert you are right. You have failed to show me that you are right. I agree I just by-pass Schopenhauer on th...
Yeah. But what I am saying flips this on its head. The physical world is already organic in that it is based on self-organising structure that develop...
But I reject him as being somewhat right about the premise and quite wrong about the conclusion. He falls into the silliness of treating the mind as s...
It is always possible to say "no" without understanding. It is quite tough to say "no" and also provide your workings-out. Check out some actual cosmo...
If you say so. You are free to elaborate of course. The two seem connected to me. Reality is the inescapability of dissipative structure – the dialect...
Believe what you like. I'll get on with my study of the subject. Not all narratives are equal. But you need to have done the work to properly compare ...
So what’s the question? I’ve already seen the video. It’s an excellent channel. But what’s the point? As a general opener, I would stress that that en...
But that is just more bad psychology. The view from a world being swept up in the industrial revolution. Folk wondering why coal seemed to have the po...
He was right that nature has a universal “striving” - the thermodynamic imperative. Existence is a dissipative structure, a Big Bang tumbling into a h...
Power was always the wrong term for the universal thermodynamic imperative. The Cosmos is about the will to entropify. The dialectic is then that it m...
You could argue that the left shows its instinct for autocracy in a crisis. And so mutates into an autocratic regime engineering permanent crisis (as ...
I think what you are getting at here is that determinism is understood as being told what to do, while constraint is the obverse of being told what no...
How does determinism come into it from your point of view? From my point of view - the holistic systems perspective of natural philosophy - the whole ...
Self-actualisation is usually understood in pro-social terms. Otherwise it makes no sense. We are the products of our environments - both biological a...
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