Well, all I can do is say, one last time, A destructive response is the probably the worst metaphor I can imagine for a creative self-caused act, beca...
Yeah, when I try to think about panpsychism, I try to think of it by analogy to the onset of (certain) psychoactive drugs: adjacent moments, though di...
I still don't get it Agustino. You appear to be using 'primacy' in two very different senses. In one sense, apropos of being and creation, you assert ...
Well, 'golden ball' is a good - if boring - metaphor, because the sun is both (roughly) golden and spherical. A black cube, for instance, is not a goo...
No that's almost the opposite of where I'm going with this. Naturally, there couldn't be a moment before creation. That's the point. It's the metaphor...
Yeah, but what I'm saying is, if you're right, and being has primacy over non-being, then the torture of a serial killer doesn't make any sense at all...
Yes yes yes. That's my other stumbling block with Schop's account. When consciousness bloomed into being, it would have to have bloomed already-situat...
He's gestured toward an explanation in that we gain a modicum of mastery over our pathe by instrumentally externalizing them. He's also gestured towar...
No, I wouldn't disagree. And we can have control over him or her by putting them in a maximum security prison. I think torture is a turn-of-the-screw ...
Yeah, this just another chapter in a discussion TGW & I have been having for years which might account for the feeling of an inside language. I agree ...
Oh, I agree, though it took me a while to understand that. I went through a thing of reading everything David Foster Wallace wrote (except for Broom o...
It's worth saying that from childhood to high school, the idea of my being like other people was incomprehensible. I always struggled to interact. I h...
For those of you who are drawn to Spinoza, would you be willing to share what makes him so attractive? I just can't get into him, I don't know what it...
You could put the serial killer in maximum security, or kill him if you like. He can't hurt anyone then. What your proposed remorse-yielding torture d...
What's troubling to me is that you can't conceive of sharing without it becoming engulfment - and this to the point where you can't give a straight an...
Work me through " I think other people see basketballs and hoops when I play basketball with them" -> "I want people to be reducible to me." Sure ther...
I wanted to know how it's possible for a basketball game to take place, where different players see the same ball, the same hoop. You have a hard time...
Philosophy, in the socratic tradition, requires shared experience which renders possible the discussion and critique of various particular beliefs. Yo...
But what do you believe? I edited my post above, earlier, after you may have already read it. It's possible you're the only one who experienced the ga...
I'm going to ask you again, point blank, do you think the other players saw hoops and basketballs? If you don't want to answer that, that's fine. But ...
Yeah, maybe they don't. (Hopefully there's no reporter with a shit assignment who asks each one to describe what the basketball game was like afterwar...
I think you're getting lost through fidelity to your theory. People play basketball together. They all see a hoop. They all see a basketball. Do you s...
Well I agree that being coerced ultimately hinges on our unawareness of how we're being coerced. What I want to say is this. For a basketball game to ...
@"Agustino" I kinda like 'lyin csalisbury,' it makes me feel like a old school gangster. I'm sorry that I misrepresented your willingness to admit err...
Yeah, but I'm not really looking for an account of intimacy rn. I'm still trying to understand how intersubjectivity (or inter-affectivity) works at a...
I've felt this same way for a while. I think good marriages are this (though they're probably rare.) I've had this fantasy for a while of coming into ...
I'm beginning to think arguing with Agustino is a fool's errand. I don't think I've ever seen him change his stance based on input from others on a fo...
I still don't understand the video game example. It seems like a weird choice, given what I know of your view. In a video game, there's a graphical in...
How do people affect each other if the 'blobs' don't intersect? I honestly don't understand how you reconcile nothin-but-pathe with this interaction. ...
Well, you made the claim that basically everyone is a practical solipsist almost all of the time. I don't see the demonization and dehumanization of o...
I'm not sure how interesting it is that you could replace people in the crowd with robots and no one would notice. I'd notice if you replaced my cowor...
Actually, yes. There's a famous study by Rene Spitz, following infants raised in orphanages, who had their basic needs met, but had minimal human cont...
Probably not. Babies (even newborns, even hours-old newborns) seem to need (expressive) faces. I think that suggests the baby needs something they exp...
Off to work, but, quickly, I edited my above post to point out that infant's needs involve affection, not simply food. You may disagree but you've got...
From my understanding, a lot of serial killers and sociopath had really awful painful childhoods. They began with torture. It seems like the actual re...
I like the 'blind fountain' concept. It reminds me a lot of Deleuze's 'rhizome' I do think that you can do away with a 'common arena' but still have '...
I think the difference is a first-person/third-person thing. If you say 'there is a cup,' under normal cup-being-there circumstances, you mean 'there ...
I want to make sure I'm understanding your line of thought here. Torture won't make most people feel genuine remorse, just an urgent need to stop the ...
Just ribbing you about the adultery thing. Obviously, I think such a person should be tortured brutally. Preferably on national television. With Slaye...
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