Manuel

It's a complex topic. In some important respects, women are commercialized because men rule the world. There's also the fact that, on average, men are...

Really??? I wonder... :chin:

Yeah. I mean, people can build dams, construct cities, destroy mountains. But when a 8 scale earthquake hits or a tsunami or a hurricane or a volcano ...

We can control nature until we can't, then we perish. It's not the size of the ship, it's the size of the wave that matters. But, perhaps barring a nu...

Sounds reasonable. Yeah, I don't see why there could not be an intelligent species that was by default much more altruistic, empathic and so on. I don...

Yep. It's certainly easier to just absorb sunlight or oxygen and just barely move and have no worries than it is to be human being.

There are two views here we should consider. One would be, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said, that what we're doing is equivalent to taking a bucket to the ...

Sure. I only speak of an intuition or vague idea, but nothing beyond that.

We're in full agreement then. :cool:

Essentially yes. As you give more detailed analysis, I get a better picture of the dog you saw. I'd say that in describing it as being over half white...

Sure. The best you can do is have a vague feeling or sensation just prior to going to sleep and as soon as one wakes up. In the non-dreamless sleep or...

No, you're right. We do all those things too. We hope that the art we do can come close to conveying our experience.

I have a general experience X, it's mine alone. There are only several words I can use to convey my personal experience to another person, I choose th...

I'm not an expert on Kant myself, but I know a bit. Nowhere near Mww. I'm more of a Schopenhauer guy. I suspect the Tao and the thing-in-itself is not...

Sorry if I'm butting in, but I'd like to give it a shot, as I understand it. Representations are what we have of the world, the way whatever sense-dat...

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or ...

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The reason we find nothing problematic - I think - is because we are knowledgeable creatures as a matter of our constitution. We can categorize, make ...

I've frequently pointed out that I see no good reason to think the "time after" life ceases will be different than the "time before" life began. I was...

Yes and what else would they do? They wouldn't say we stole most of this wealth. They have to justify to themselves what they do, so they make up ideo...

I mean it's easy to say that corporations are the one's who rule the world, essentially. And to a large extent that's true. But I think that misses th...

That's fine. I'm only accentuating that, strictly speaking, "now" always passes. So if we want to speak sensibly about now, we should probably conside...

I remember the late great Robert Fisk quoting a US soldier, don't know his rank, who was patriotic and wrote really well. Chris Hedges has an interest...

Thanks. Good to see it available for free. :up:

Sure, I think that's the type of guidance this type of thinking aims to, not meant to be taken literally as right-in-this-moment-in-time. But I also g...

Sounds interesting, I'll be sure to check it out.

I've yet to see that one. Yay, more doom and gloom. Just what I need given the state of the world. :wink:

Yeah. I'm no fan of the Chinese government, but it is surrounded by countries that have the capacity to hit them with nukes. It's not surprising they ...

Yep. The Cuban Missile crises was averted by one Russian general who refused to launch a nuclear missile as his submarine was being bombed. Now people...

Putting births aside, incest is extremely hardwired in most cultures (all?) as being unacceptable. If it weren't for the babies part, what makes it fe...

As two time recipient of the medal of honor, Smedley Butler said: "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is n...

:up: Many people here are posting the same thoughts as I have better than me. Oh well. I think that @"Joshs" makes a very good point. I'll put my spin...

It's good to hear someone uttering these words. I say this frequently and I fully believe experience exists. But it's physical. This is not a contradi...

I'm not part of a team nor do I agree with Wayfarer on everything. I just thought it was a well thought out reply. But likewise, I've got to give you ...

What do you mean by encode?

Yes. Philosophers often invent technical terms which differ substantially from ordinary language use that leads to mistakes. "Representation", "conten...

For me OLP is mostly a method used to try and dissolve some traditional philosophical questions. I think that this is useful in some instances. On the...

Yeah, I agree. I don't necessarily follow Rovelli, particularly with his view that there isn't a metaphysical substrate or existence absent relations....

Yeah, that could be attempted trying to figure out what are the instances in which people use words to either refer or shout or anything else people d...

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Rovelli doesn't agree with the MWI, not that that means I agree with him or not. His idea is that we should let the science say what the metaphysics i...

Not mentioned yet is the even more radical alternative: the worlds that branch out are made of words. That is, at bottom, you actually see text in the...

Happens very frequently, unfortunately. Just reading Haaretz once every few weeks, some killing takes place, as if expected to happen.

Either words refer or they don't. You can use many types of examples or counterexamples in the traditional style, but the point can be made more conci...

Just to comment, I bought Rovelli's Helgoland on a whim and I read it in a day, though it's not long to be fair. What a wonderful book. I very much li...

And knowledge, and explicitness and order, etc. ;)

It's a delicate balance imo. Not that reality isn't shaped to a very large extent by us, I agree with you on that point. But to think of ourselves as ...

I know. I believe the view that human beings are specifically relevant for collapse is a minority one, though this by no means implies it is wrong at ...

A bit surprising to see that even here. Which is why it is important to state what you (or anyone) take idealism to entail. But no serious idealist wo...

In remember that quote exactly! Wonderful book. But man that was quite a silly thing for Popper to argue. It takes so much for granted, which is a com...