All I'm saying is that I perceive that in a single mental act, or object of knowledge, there is more at play than the will. I don't have anything agai...
I'd define will as the ability to do or not to do something, this can range from trivial things like lifting a finger, to participating in protests an...
Interesting replies. My concern and interest here specifically is in the claim that the will is broader than the intellect. I'm questioning if that fo...
That's my issue with it, he says this is what the will consists of. But why should this be the total extent of the will? We have this capacity in dram...
Apologies for my lack of clarity. These comments suggest to me that he seeking to master his fortune, that is, control his own desires - which is what...
That's an interesting inversion. I once thought, though am not longer certain, that it was hard to justify math, that is, not so much the results of e...
Very cool! I'd heard that the quite long film version of Satantango was actually very well made and well received, but I've yet to see it. I didn't kn...
Sure, outside of his thought experiments, to deny basic mathematical outcomes is hard to imagine. Maybe a crazy person would say that 2+2=5, but to be...
Thanks for the extra context. I remain unconvinced though. I could imagine situation in which my capacity for willing could be greater, it could for i...
Oh sorry man, I briefly saw this and forgot to reply, just came to my mind all of a sudden. Yes, he says this quite astonishing quote about the will b...
That's true. I don't know of many substance dualists today, maybe some theological-leaning philosophers might be substance dualists, but there aren't ...
Well, one should keep in mind that he "privileges science" (which is a fair assessment, in my opinion), in respect to trying to understand the nature ...
He doesn't hold intuition to be the standard for a scientific account of a phenomenon of nature at all. In fact, the whole essay I shared is trying to...
Then I believe we agree in this instance, but are calling the phenomena by different terms, "weak" vs. "strong" emergence. So on the topic of liquidit...
I mean, I mostly agree with your summary. And it's been a problem for hundreds of years, if not more, and probably shows a natural limit in our cognit...
Exactly, same thing happened to me. Granted, some are more interesting than others, but one is often left with the feeling that although much was said...
I view it in terms of intelligibility. You are correct that we have a theory as to how liquids emerge from molecules, but we have no intuitions about ...
Actually you can, you can email him any time, and he would answer. I've met him personally and have asked him about the topic, it was part of my thesi...
I suppose that what matters here is not so much which feeling is worse - they are both bad, but instead - how long one of these feelings last. It's fi...
I think it is meant as somewhat ironic, because as he says later on in the same page: "It should be noted that the molecule-liquid example, commonly u...
He doesn't make a difference between strong and weak emergence. He doesn't say it explicitly, but I think it's quite clear: https://web.ics.purdue.edu...
Interesting and cryptic. There is much merit to the idea of what we ought to do and not expecting others to follow. The moral situation is simply over...
He's entertaining and provides some interesting observations on certain curious or strange phenomenon. Contrary to others here, although I have read h...
According to him, consciousness is emergent (he says that "radical emergence" happens all the time, which I think is true), as is liquid from molecule...
I dedicated a reading group on this topic, the attached essay is, I believe, the clearest articulation of "mysterianism", which he thinks should inste...
You coulda fooled me. In any case they have been fantastically helpful. In effect, it seems merely a point of emphasis on something particular (this s...
I mostly agree with this interpretation, though Descartes does mention that sometimes we are not compelled one way or another, he also mentions that (...
This is good advice, especially when the books are quite long. Having said that, I'll likely wait some time before following your advice, otherwise I ...
In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murikami Had to stop Perdido at about page 300 or so, I really liked the writing style and the city descriptions (this latter u...
Some things don't have explanations though we seek them so, desperately wanting answers to every "why" we pose. But for every moment of fortune or mis...
Not particularly much to say. Desmond Clarke, who has written a very thoughtful interpretation of Descartes, says that: "Descartes is, at best confuse...
Sorry, I missed this reply somehow. I think it's a bit more complex than that, I mean there is no doubt that being a religious fanatic can be very pro...
The will argument is somewhat strange, especially when he says that the scope of the will is larger than the scope of the intellect. Since he allows f...
:100: Yeah, just like opium, it makes them feel good, but it could shut down options that they would otherwise pursue, maybe getting into political ac...
The promise is that of a better life in the afterlife, with no suffering, joy, bliss and happiness. It's especially prevalent in people who are very p...
I mean, I've seen many people hang on to life due to a belief that there will be a better life after this one. It's not true of course, nor does it re...
I don't think we disagree on the large picture, but we seem to differ on the scope of the solution. That's right, Japan has the highest, if not one of...
You don't need to tell me about it, I very much agree with that. But just because it may satisfy me or you, doesn't mean it will work equally well wit...
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