Tom Storm

I heard David Bentley Hart making this argument some years ago. It almost deserves its own thread. 'Moist robots'... great term. Whether it is plausib...

:up: Nice. Indeed. He is member of the British progressive middle class, after all. Is there a tentative solution to this? It seems to me that science...

Thanks Joshs. Is what we call reality then an anticipatory, endlessly recreated phenomenon?

Yes, a 'popular philosopher.' Sounds tantalizing as an idea but I've not read enough to contextualize it. The world of phenomena and human experience?

Interesting. I would have guessed idealists here might be 25%? I'm pretty sure Lawson has argued this too, but I confess to not understanding it very ...

Just wear a yarmulke when you're driving it - that'll throw them off.

Thank you. Yes, that all sounds familiar. We can do awfully precise things with language despite the seemingly arbitrary nature of signs and signifier...

Don't really know, I've never cared. Everything I experience is real enough for me. Philosophy isn't satisfied with this and seeks to find arguments t...

Ok. But is it 'incommensurable' or seemingly so? Do you think we have enough information to make this call? Is anyone here defending mechanistic mater...

Got ya. Thanks.

That's very interesting. What do you think his project is, then? Is he a tendentious advocate of Platonism at the expense of fidelity to Plato? His na...

So you think this process undermines or disproves naturalism? I need a bit more than this to take a view that naturalism isn't a plausible account. As...

What 'I see' is not really relevant. I see words on a computer screen typed by a person (I assume) who has beliefs/thoughts. I see nothing so far that...

Yes, I read that earlier. I have no expertise in this subject. The best I can say is that intelligent, well informed people are 1) persuaded and 2) ar...

While I don't think we can demonstrate that reason can't be arrived at through natural processes, I'd be interested to learn where this is heading. Le...

I relate entirely to this - except the shame part. From the age of 40 on I found myself repeating myself on any number of subjects. At a certain point...

:up: Yes, I was thinking about that one too.

In my experience the writer's world is often very competitive - who gets to be interviewed and on what media, sales figures, invitations to speak, pri...

Interesting. I have no technical expertise in any area, nor do I have much interest in math or science. Does this 'force' me into the simplisticator c...

Part of the punishment is allowing you to stand at the door knowing that you won't be let in - St Peter, as you might recall, is God's door bitch.

I hear there's a similar flickering screen at the gates of heaven telling us the destinations of the newly departed.

I think that's mostly a problem for you and may explain things. Also 'unwillingness' is not a good word, it implies an ought - I 'ought' to be able to...

Yes, I meant Platonism. Thanks and very interesting.

Nicely written. Yep. Presuppositions sink ships. Very interesting. This resonates with me. I spend a lot of time in 'provisional credence' country. I ...

I know the clichés and I dislike most of them. As a male I have no particular insight into my own gender and rarely think about masculinity. One of my...

If boredom is an emotional reaction, then yes. :wink: Sorry - I find any kind of technical writing (or descriptions of methodologies, etc) almost unre...

Important to note this. One of the narratives going is that being trans is just a fashion or a lifestyle choice which is being peddled by the liberal-...

I connect these two quotes because no one here is Kant or seems to have his prodigious capacities. I am not being evasive, simply mildly incredulous a...

No, I was talking about how things seem to us as opposed to how they might really be. When we talk about order, it is based on our models of what orde...

Yep - sad but true. :broken:

No worries. I guess where I was heading is that if animals have rudimentary intentionality, what does this say about a more evolved human version? Is ...

I have a thing for NYC without the benefit of having been there. It's the romance of it - from films, literature and documentaries. I was also obsesse...

Yep small businesses. Lots of multicultural families run them; Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese.

I do. It's mainly a retail market for shoppers. Lots of tourists come. You can also buy clothing and household and souvenir shit. The delis, meat mark...

Yeah, our city is curious. The greater area has 5 million people living in it. The center of town (about a 5 kilometer square (3 mile) area) wasn't zo...

I only just worked out what you were talking about. We don't really have these in Australia. We used to have a long standing tradition of 'milk bars' ...

Sorry, I rarely get what Nietzsche says. I like him best when he sounds like a truculent Oscar Wilde. The question I always have when I read this kind...

I love the idea but I can’t find a way to fit it in.

One of my favorite films. An extraordinary cinematic essay. I understand his argument to be slightly different - a talented forger can fake things and...

Do animals have intentionality? They seem to from my perspective. What does this add to the discussion?

Well it's philosophy, isn't it? Abstraction, argumentation and judgment is what we do here to everything... :razz:

Yes, that's one I found pretty interesting too. Gerson is the go to guy on this subject as I understand it. That's an interesting call to arms but I g...

Good to know. Do you mean Lloyd Gerson? I've read some of his papers. Yes, I am aware of this position. I am simply unable to determine whether any of...

I'm not convinced we know what is random versus that which is not random. We detect patterns, as far as human cognition allows and we ascribe characte...

I don't think I share this view but it interests me. I don't see how reason needs to have transcendent meaning. But I'm open to considering this furth...

Generally I hold to a view that some ideas are useful for certain purposes and some ideas are not. We never get to ultimate truth as such. Just things...

I'm not disagreeing with this. I'm saying that the act of transformation is critical in people being who they need to be. At least that's what trans p...

Ok. I fail to see how this is a helpful idea. For many transgender people their appear is who they are. It is a requirement. It's almost impossible to...

A transgender female will likely dress as a woman because that helps to make the transition psychologically effective for her. Should she 'choose' to ...

I'm not sure what the relevance of this is.