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Count Timothy von Icarus

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And subjective idealism was never popular. Yup, that was my point.
August 16, 2023 at 22:48
A lord holds their power by birth or through conquest. I don't recall the last time I saw local officials conquering more than a free lunch platter. I...
August 16, 2023 at 21:46
The words of someone who has never dealt with managing a project that actually involves using eminent domain. The DoD has a family farm literally in t...
August 16, 2023 at 19:33
"What is truth? Is truth unchanging law? We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours?" "Pilate crucify him! Crucify him! Remember Caesar, you'll b...
August 16, 2023 at 17:04
Agreed. The best examples of socialism are those where it sublated/subsumed liberal democracy and the best examples of liberal democracy are those whe...
August 16, 2023 at 16:14
Right, but that's the very point of disagreement re the noumena generally. Kant obviously doesn't say "nothing," about the world of bare noumena, he h...
August 16, 2023 at 14:47
And minds in general have always been a problem for materialists. Yes, but this isn't remotely unique to idealism. Physicalism also has an extremely h...
August 16, 2023 at 14:38
It's worth noting that by Schopenhauer, and even more so after, people began to take Kant's noumena in a very weird direction. In the world of theopha...
August 16, 2023 at 14:18
I'm somewhat skeptical of the massive figures thrown around as the "death toll," for Marxism. Russia has massive famines under the Tsars shortly befor...
August 16, 2023 at 11:30
Global inequality has been falling since the 90s and has fallen at a faster rate since 2019. But at the same time, the share of wealth held by the top...
August 15, 2023 at 17:12
lol, yeah. The modern conception of dimensionality is born out of attempts to resolve all sorts of contradictions. In many cases what we see is defini...
August 11, 2023 at 15:34
Terrance Deacon's Incomplete Nature tries to incorporate intentionality as well, although from a different angle. He focuses on how absence can be cau...
August 11, 2023 at 15:08
Right, this is where Hegel starts in the Logic. We are to drop all presuppositions and start with what thought minimally is, sheer immediacy, indeterm...
August 10, 2023 at 18:32
Fair enough; I won't deny it seems to go both ways. But it seems like experience is historically prior. Animals had experiences before hominids were a...
August 10, 2023 at 17:33
:up: I've come to a similar view. But one of the things I still find weird is this: the infinite, Platonic line, curve, circle, etc. seems to be more ...
August 10, 2023 at 16:09
Made me think of Donald Hoffman's reframing of the "construction view." And then this part gets at: But then what about the other animals, whose cogni...
August 10, 2023 at 14:54
Right, and I'm inclined to agree with you that this might not be a good way to think of things at all. But this is certainly a way in which people oft...
August 10, 2023 at 14:33
Maybe. From the dawn of philosophy through Kant's noumena, we see a strong tendency to posit a distinction between the word we live in and something m...
August 10, 2023 at 12:10
I'm confused, how is: Not related to the idea of an inaccessible base reality? My points were: A. This response isn't really "standard." Plenty of peo...
August 10, 2023 at 11:45
Sure, and that's the part of PI I like best, but this is decidedly not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the way this interpretation of langua...
August 10, 2023 at 02:25
I didn't mean to suggest it is majority opinion. I meant to suggest it is a not unpopular opinion in the scientific community and in philosophy, and t...
August 09, 2023 at 23:41
No. But I always took Wittgenstein to be saying that philosophers (and scientists doing philosophy) shouldn't be getting into "what really exists," an...
August 09, 2023 at 19:18
"Philosophy's job is to teach the fly the way out of the fly bottle." Consider though that, if you could teach a fly that it is a fly, that it is in a...
August 09, 2023 at 12:10
Exactly, it opens a big can of worms that some proponents seem unaware of or which they seem to think are irrelevant because such concerns are "philos...
August 08, 2023 at 11:56
BTW, it's sort of ironic to see the attack on retrocausality given what she seems to like about superdeterminism. IME, the position tends to get lumpe...
August 08, 2023 at 03:17
If doing something at time T2 retroactively changes X to Y at a prior time T1 (prior to T2), it's unclear to me how you could ever know the difference...
August 08, 2023 at 02:58
I too have deep problems with hand waving appeals to "information" and "complexity," re the Hard Problem. However, the Chinese Room always seemed like...
August 07, 2023 at 20:37
Interestingly, you draw a distinction between "process/behavioral," vs "mental," but it seems like all your examples could as easily distinguish betwe...
August 07, 2023 at 20:03
The problem with "no gobbledygook" attempts at explaining complex phenomena is that they very often try to get rid of one source of confusion by simpl...
August 07, 2023 at 18:58
Seems plenty fair. I am more interested in the arguments against intentionality becoming intertwined with evolution and the ways in which evolution us...
August 07, 2023 at 17:53
Yeah, that's essentially the point I was making. It is common to represent the non-religious view as falling into a shallow sort of dogmatism "less of...
August 07, 2023 at 17:18
Absolutely. To be honest, I think even the "death of metaphysics," has been greatly exaggerated. Plenty of philosophy tops the best sellers list, e.g....
August 05, 2023 at 18:55
Something that is very often described in information theoretic terms using a theory that was started by an electrical engineer and furthered mostly b...
August 04, 2023 at 20:35
I don't think that analogy fits. We're talking about how to understand how language works philosophically, something like: "how does language convey m...
August 04, 2023 at 19:44
Good point. I was getting a little far afield. I think such a grounding is also important for resolving the is-ought gap in the manner of Honneth, etc...
August 04, 2023 at 19:08
At the most basic level, if computational theory of mind is correct, then the logic of information dictates how language can convey meaning. That does...
August 04, 2023 at 18:43
Logic and nature need not be explicitly central to systems of belief for them to underlie such systems. People might reject that they are a type of an...
August 04, 2023 at 18:26
lol. I picked up the Routledge Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Language recently because my knowledge of the field has a lot of gaps an...
August 04, 2023 at 15:55
If figured that might be the sense of it. But it seemed like a convenient on ramp for what I hope could be an answer for: If there is, at least in pri...
August 04, 2023 at 15:47
Enjoy! It did also occur to me that the possibility of extra terrestrial life is relevant here. If life exists elsewhere, it might not look anything l...
August 04, 2023 at 15:39
There is a trade off between specificity and parsimony when using broad terms. However, I do think there are ways in which all forms of Islam, all for...
August 04, 2023 at 15:28
These are good points, I will try to provide a bit more evidence. I guess this is a point of disagreement: deciding that human-informed selection is s...
August 04, 2023 at 15:13
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The 20-year-old because they are more likely to contribute to the survival of the entire group. Unless my mom has a very useful skills set for this so...
August 04, 2023 at 14:25
Is this assuming nominalism? That there is no "justice," or "good," that people can point to that extends outside the frame of "my desires and prefere...
August 04, 2023 at 14:10
Indeed. But I do think there is a troubling tendency to try to divorce evolution from all intentionality. I had to spend a very long time explaining t...
August 04, 2023 at 12:41
I think the "language as use," insight is simultaneously genius and a negative influence on the philosophy of language. While Wittgenstein is more equ...
August 04, 2023 at 02:46
I don't know about that. Plenty have philosophers seem to have become quite invested in the idea that materialism is what allows them to look the void...
August 04, 2023 at 02:10
I don't think this argument works for the reasons stated above. However, I don't think the assertion of the Copernican Principle as dogma is a particu...
August 04, 2023 at 01:54
Agreed. I think it would work better if the electorate all applied to be electors, registering to vote essentially, and then we randomly pick a subset...
August 03, 2023 at 16:18
I wouldn't agree with this though. A person in a vacuum disintegrates, there is no mind without interaction with the environment. Our dreams are cause...
August 03, 2023 at 16:13