Maybe. I think you can interact with trees and triangles without concepts though. I don't agree with the object - perception - concept - mind model ex...
My examples may have skewed too agenda heavy. I think the tree works too. The concept of tree has evolved a lot as we have. Triangle too. It doesn't m...
It's like when we were talking about wolfpacks the other day. There were a couple open conceptual threads in the air, and you brought them together in...
@"StreetlightX"Passing thought. I don't know if you've read much David Foster Wallace. I was a devotee for while. He was obsessed with (I'd also say s...
Tangential to the central argument (which i haven't read all of, so I may be repeating) but if we think of concepts, like horseshoes, as a kind of sol...
My advice in general (as someone eminently guilty) is try not to use erudition as shield and sword. Reread Being and Nothingness all day but there com...
Kierkegaard back in his day spoke of a feverish desire to go beyond, at any cost, beyond whatever there was out there. He counselled beginning at the ...
So in the case of the powerful man killing the person who might expose him, my gut reaction is 'no he really shouldn't kill them.' What is that should...
Ok, but if you actually feel that way, and aren't simply making the right moves in order to preserve an argument, then you're missing the moral sense ...
I think that does serve a purpose, but is ultimately its harmful for both parties in the long run. Or like it's a stage? I've been thinking a lot abou...
But, say, I'm a powerful person and I did something bad to someone who is going to reveal something horrible about me which will prevent anyone from c...
The difference between hunger and, say, injustice, in my mind, is that the latter is subject to a moral judgement. A moral judgment is once for all - ...
This has been occupying me a lot lately. I fall prey to moralizing constantly. And it usually has a (self) righteous anger associated with it. True ki...
There *should* be and my whole idea is pretty solipsistic. Yes, definitely, to answer your question, only I don't know how to fit it in to my man alon...
Boringly, I agree again. I think you can enrich your tradition from within. There's a part of me that's very sad I'm cut off from that. Sentimentally,...
ah. Maybe, but - what that dick for then? whys it get hard? whats the weird white fluid all about? yeah definitely. That's why in almost every action ...
Explorer's hubris has led me the mistake the lower ascent for the summit. I guess I need a sherpa who can see the full spectrum. What's the next footh...
Another question: if everything was green would they even perceive it the way we perceive green? isn't perception as contrast-centric as language? At ...
I agree - 9/11 wouldn't happen if the perpetrators weren't 'in it' enough to grasp why the twin towers were a symbolic target. Or, another lens, all t...
@"unenlightened" Making sense of the OP, in terms of hero worship - America as the place where people jostle for their 15 minutes of fame. Germane or ...
There is a lot of energy being put there though. The reality of the collective pain of those who have lost loved one to cancer isnt lessened by the at...
Yeah, definitely, terrorism in general, bracket race, it's clear it's frustration. I suppose the question is how to determine what means we leave at t...
I may not have much to add here, but I'll try anyway. I'd echo @"Bitter Crank"that surveys of philosophy are a legit place to start. I started, at 17,...
But there's still a lot of mass shootings in the US and there's a qualitative difference between a mass shooting and other murders. Maybe there's a re...
I've barely read him, but I know Rene Girard said something to the effect that the physiological state of being angry is something that takes hold of ...
I like the story a lot. Two other things I've read recently come to mind (I guess you could say in the sense of a deleuzian series of resonance) A poe...
I have a long-standing grudge against CBT because I think it plum doesn't work. I've had a few hospitalizations and have come to the conclusion that C...
I went to the park today (a particular park high up on a hill in Portland, where you can pick a spot to post up and look out over South Portland.) I l...
The frame of preparation is good. It seems to complement (no pun intended) the Bateson piece. I found myself relating very well to the cycles he descr...
I think of Hal as being programmatic. He has a certain cybernetic quality that, yes, seeks certain problems, certain sins, but only insofar as they ar...
Yea exactly I've probably mentioned this before on here, but I've thought of this for a long time as both Hal in 2001 + the hero trying to shut him do...
But that of course is too tidy so another quote, this time lyrics. 'What’s redacted will repeat, and you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the...
From another poem in the same collection (self-portrait in a convex mirror) "Once I let a guy blow me. I kind of backed away from the experience. Now ...
One notch more expressive: The trees, the wind, the cliffs - they all feel reproachful, as though they had just been joyfully communing with one anoth...
Well to whinge in the abstract just a little longer. What little feeling I've allowed myself has lead me to believe that my depression is really anger...
I don't know. For me I just hold on tight to the glimmers of nondepression I can remember and have faith they'll be restored somehow. So coping in the...
Yeah, especially if you're a parent. People explain away depression all the time. Again, especially when they have responsibilities that demand they n...
@"StreetlightX" I was thinking about this at work today. For some reason, I got into literature in high school as like an important thing I felt like ...
Interesting turn at the end. I'm curious if you had the structure of the post in mind from the beginning or if it came out in the writing? I like the ...
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