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- Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Because that's a bit dangerous, those ideas will suck you in.......I will now go back to the corner for that pun. http://sadtrombone.com In terms of criterion, while I won't mind that these things are absolutely air tight, I do think that they can be helpful in terms of usefulness as a concept and ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:18 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Here goes lil' Kim again
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23626
Re: Here goes lil' Kim again
I read that some insider in North Korea said Kim is posturing to the world because he's too young and inexperienced to take command of the military... it's all bluster. Which is an interesting dynamic - if the military isn't fully under his control then there could eventually be a coup. Not sure if ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:55 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 145243
Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
If you're going to take the position that everything is equally mysterious, then "mysterious" clearly doesn't mean much. You might as well say that everything is schklorgle. The mind and a soda straw are both equally mysterious and equally schklorgle. So why are we doing philosophy of mind instead o...
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:46 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 145243
Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Meta has talked about energy in the context of the mental and the spiritual before and I'm not sure if it's an analogy or literal so I'll invite him to step in here. (edit: this mind = energy idea isn't my position, exactly, but it's an interesting way to explore the notions of physicality and inte...
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:43 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 145243
Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
To be a NON reductionist, must I believe that the mind is utterly non physical? Must I believe that the mind is simple, having no parts, subsystems, subdivisions or distinguishable particulars? No OK! Good, great. So we can discuss the mental without having to treat it as a monolithic inscrutable u...
- Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:06 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Good post runamokmonk. No you're not dragging the discussion down. You're thinking things through admirably clearly. But most don't think of electric charges as having subjective experience with intentionality. Yeah and this is my problem with panpsychism, and also in a way with idealism - the inani...
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:50 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 145243
Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
I'm not sure I know what your view of reductionism entails here. i feel like you're wanting to pigeonhole me so you can put your mind in neutral and give me a canned rebuttal. To be a NON reductionist, must I believe that the mind is utterly non physical? Must I believe that the mind is simple, havi...
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:47 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 145243
Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Hm, I really let this one slide, didn't I? Sorry about that. I'm intensely interested in philosophy of mind now and I've scored copies of the overview book by Jaegwon Kim and a couple of Galen Strawson books. It's anyone's guess when I'll actually find time to read them. In the meantime I found this...
- Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:43 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Here goes lil' Kim again
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23626
- Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:24 am
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Here goes lil' Kim again
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23626
Here goes lil' Kim again
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/29/north-korea-south-us-threats.html I have to say, the American bombing run over SK doesn't sound like the brightest move... not that you should kowtow to a lunatic, but you maybe ought to think twice before brandishing weapons in front of him, giving him ...