Manuel

Apples seem to fall, because that's what they do. So does almost every concrete object. They want to fall down. Except that they don't and the force t...

180 is too good. :cool:

And good that we did mistrust this instinct, it led to the great discoveries made by Galileo and Newton and many others. The way the world is (absent ...

Sure I understand your Chomsky angle. I do like Kant, but I think he is way too obscure at times. As for disagreements with Schopenhauer, let's see: I...

Sure, because I don't see a reason to stipulate that these things need be incompatible. One can be a materialist like Dennett or a materialist like St...

Sure you can stay with Kant. Nothing wrong with that at all. I personally follow Schopenhauer and Chomsky, but I don't always agree with them.

Ahh, I forgot to add Mainländer! He was a TI but believed that there was will, but not one. He thought many wills existed but at one time did not. So ...

Well take Schopenhauer, he added the idea of will to TI. Or Cudworth before both of them argued that we know nothing of the things themselves outside ...

Perhaps. I think some people do, very few obviously. I think some conceptual work can be done in TI, but it's just extremely difficult.

Maybe. That is if we think that QM exhausts everything there is to know about reality. It could be the case. It could also be the case that there are ...

Ah, fantastic political speak "vocational training schools". :roll: The situation in Hong Kong is sad, I would've liked to have visited while it still...

I'm not pro or anti China. Here it's a bit tricky to get good info, that is info that is not extremely laden with very strong ideological lenses. So I...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-stops-its-mapping-raids-but-constant-surveillance-of-palestinians-remains-1.9916213 The abuse does...

I can't resist making a comment here: I don't think Schopenhauer would've minded that he be labeled a TI. He believed he was carrying forward that tra...

Yes, I think this is mostly linguistic too. It's roughly what Wittgenstein said "Death is not an event in life." We can speak of dying, but not of the...

If he dies, he's already dead. A person can't literally die twice. If he was living he wasn't dead by definition. A living person can die, they can be...

Socrates can't die if he's dead.

Wow, there is actually some agreement here. That's insane. In philosophy? No way.

Our powers of abstraction and reasoning are sublime. Carroll wrote brilliant stories. I should actually re-read that some day.

I agree with the latter part, there is something we call "matter" not depending on us. Speaking of "creating" can become complicated. By virtue of how...

Well we are the ones who designate a world. I don't know what else in biology could even have a concept of a "world". If we don't want to say that we ...

As Schopenhauer said in the opening line of The World as Will and Representation: "The world is my representation". No me, no world. Except that if ot...

Very similar to Bertrand Russell: “...we know nothing about the intrinsic quality of physical events except when these are mental events that we direc...

A fantastic source, by the way. :up: This is a big problem. I want to start a thread on this topic one day, but I'm working on how to articulate it. I...

I agree he relies on it. He just rejects that this is what he's doing.

Sure. Unless someone considers themselves eliminitavists, which I think is just crazy.

It needn't be the case that idealism is opposed to realism at all. One can hold that experience is the most immediate access we have to the world. All...

I saw parts of Hoffman's interview with Harris and Harris' wife, Anika. It was quite interesting. I think Kaustrup's system is elegant, though his uni...

Yes. There are serious problems with mind=brain identity theories. As in, clearly our experience of the color yellow is not reflected in what we under...

I think the only way I can understand "non material" here would be to say "supernatural" entities. Whatever else anyone may say about mind being prima...

Sure, I agree we know mind exists. But it rests on matter - the brain. Without a brain we'd have no mind. Unless someone would say something like "we ...

:up: Yeah. That's a pretty irrational view. It's hard to think of a philosophical view which is more irrational than that. I mean even like strict sol...

I think that by today the issue is mostly - though not exclusively - terminological. Cartesian dualism, probably the most known type of dualism, assum...

Ah, you lasted a long time.

That doesn't make sense. This is the nature of philosophical questions, they tend to be foundational.

It's at least that. But in all seriousness, what the heck does low self esteem have to do with philosophy? It makes no sense at all.

I'll let the great George Carlin speak for me: “I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post...

"Philosophy" is a word. Lack of self esteem are also words. Therefore, everything is made of words, deep down.

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He's perfectly fine for ideas. And his documentaries are quite entertaining, aside from his books.

On the contrary, Žižek is quite well known within left academia in the US. Just look at the amount of speeches he's given at US Universities and sever...

The issue is sustaining being grateful for a very, very long time. I'd think we'd need a different type of brain to be able to do that.

I only read a little from Pearce's thread and although he is obviously extremely intelligent, I don't take transhumanism too seriously. It seems to me...

Human beings are so complicated, that I think it is almost impossible to find one main culprit for depression. Surely the prevailing ideology of indiv...

Or maybe we could speak of architecture instead.

Surely we don't want that. :)

It's on the path of being unanimously recognized as shameful. One important factor that may impede the situation is that Israel sells a bunch of techn...

He's even further to the right than Netanyahu! He's nuts. Israel doesn't even really have a center anymore. I don't know how it can come back. Pressur...

Yeah, good point. It can get too wide for the purposes of this thread. It is a good metaphor and I think that it is ripe for much speculation based on...

I know. He did extremely interesting work. It was so sad when he died out of the blue really.