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It's interesting you think it's an essential gender divide. Men by and large don't hit rock bottom either. For every man that fell on the ancient batt...

I definitely agree there's an Essentially-Alone/Defending-the-Place-That's-Rightfully-Mine divide. It just hasn't fallen along gender lines in my expe...

It feels a little like you're conflating fuck-yeah tumblr feminism with women as a whole. I don't like fuck-yeah tumblr feminism either.

I don't know, most of the women I've talked to describe it a lot like this:

Do you think it's possible that you associate this existential displacement with men because you discuss these issues mostly with men?

Huh, yeah, I'm not going to scold you out of political correctness or anything like that, what's true is true, but what you're saying doesn't align wi...

I've noticed this too. What do you make of that? Wouldn't it make since that women who are downtrodden, unemployed, socially unskilled etc. would be e...

This makes sense to me! It's hard to be an antinatalist when your friends are all having kids though :’(

No, I think most pessimistic philosophers begin as sincere sensitive souls, who truly wish that things were different. But this kind of pessimism easi...

Over on the other forum, somebody once characterized the invention of qualia (qua concept) as a dialectical response to eliminative materialism. Seems...

Yeah, I mean I'm not all that interested in taking this convo from the top. The disagreements at that level are vast, insuperable, built of other disa...

Could you cite some quotes from Dennett supporting this idea you're attributing to him?

I'm confused by the use of 'totality' as well as the scare-quoted definite article. Why not just 'obscurity?'

ha, I almost quoted that bit as well. The handbrake metaphor is perfect. I still drive with the handbrake on most days, to be honest. The notion that ...

No, only claiming that those who claim they don't have minds, don't have minds

Yeah, but it's a funny idea

How can you be conscious of qualia enough to 'get the myth' without being conscious?

How would you define qualia?

But this is to say that some people interpret qualitative experience as qualitative experience (which is not an interpretation) and that others interp...

I more or less agree with this (I don't think it all comes down to death though. I think shame and guilt do yeoman's work as well. I'm also a bit wary...

I agree, and can only see 3 avenues out: panpsychism, some revamped noumenal theory (though I don't know exactly what that would look like) or mystici...

But why do people want to feel worthy or significant?

This quote in particular really resonated with me: "When anyone throws him-or herself into denial and lives it for an extended period of time, he or s...

Oh yeah, I think it's definitely true, for Schopenhauer, that (re)presentations depend on (re)presenting organisms. In that bit I quoted from WWR in t...

Yes, but you mention this as analogous to qualia. What's the phenomenon which Dennett interprets one way and qualia-supporters another?

I read about half and, while I mostly agreed and liked the ideas (a bit like a down-to-earth gloss of Being and Time ) it just feels so lonely. It has...

I did read the article, which was lucid, but I wasn't sure how it tied in with the last few posts here.

hmmmmmm

lol I think it'd make a good Time cover story. "Could your children be having 'Experiences'?

Not just a little, but unabashedly psychoanalytical. Institutions (including, natch, academic ones) attract certain tendencies and then reinforce them...

I think the answer is probably more like: people who rail against qualia (1) have rigid self-images of being v serious, no-bullshit ppl (like more ref...

Well it's obviously false that the majority of mainstream analytic philosophers profess to be p-zombies. But I see your point. I guess it's more that ...

that's def one way to look at. I don't know though. 'Essence' isn't sitting right with me. Not just for theoretical reasons.

Which philosophers claim to be p-zombies?

To put it another way: Kant and Schopenhauer's transcendental categories are indeed the necessary conditions for Kant and Schopenhauer's phenomenal fl...

The transcendental, as I understand it, refers to the (non-'existing') necessary logical/structural conditions for the possible existence of a certain...

Well, after thinking about this for a minute: the world-as-idea that Schopenhauer puts forth is (obviously) super Kantian and so, like Kant, sees spac...

Yeah, I don't have an answer for that ( primarily because I don't think they actually do come out of nowhere at x particular time) but I don't think S...

Two of my friends used to have a running joke where they'd compete to come up with the worst Coors advertisements. One of them made this one: http://s...

noooooo :-# Allow me to strategically salvage my point and say it seems as though Schopenhauer is internally conflicted about what, precisely, he mean...

My understanding of the Schoplatonic ideas is that they're bound up intimately with capacity. To understand the 'idea' of something is not merely to c...

got a real life lol out of that :D

Concretely: for a long time my driving-force was being interesting in conversation and making people laugh. It was like a social categorical imperativ...

I've never quite understood what Spinoza meant by perfection or reality. But I do agree that joy and sorrow are intimately related to our capacity to ...

Oh god not another Fallacy Hunter. Wiki pokedex in hand, scouring the plains of the internet for specimens in the wild. It's like playing soccer with ...

Yeah, that's def the sense I got from you (hope it didn't sound like I was suggesting the opposite.) Would you be willing to share what he's articulat...

So this is the thing - I get what makes him historically interesting. And I give him plenty of kudos for his courage and iconoclasm. But all that stuf...

Is this really all the metaphysical interest boils down to? Because this is so boring. What's the stroke of genius that makes Spinozan immanence inter...

No? So you think the cause of being lies outside itself? Interesting, wouldn't have guessed it

Creation | Torturing a serial killer Creative | Destructive Self-Caused | Response Think about this for a second. Non-being, you say, doesn't exist. T...