Philosophical Speculations

Of course, there are quite different individualities here, but how this is relevant to the question I asked, I fail to see. And I thought it was agreed that, in what you and Cleric attempt to convey, there are indeed clear facts to understand and integrate. Besides, Ashvin, you have often warned pe...

To describe the inertial space this forum has reached I’d say there seems to be a problem with appearances. One tries to save them, only too late too little, another one tries to look as if they didn’t count, safe trying to gather some undercover, another one doesn’t seem to notice how’s influenced,...

To Cleric and Ashvin: As I read Cleric's last reply to Lorenzo, as well as Ashvin's last reply to Anthony, it strucks me that the entire series of countless attempts, a series that tends to infinity to the naked eye, has an unbroken history of falling on deaf ears, and to this day it continues to f...

To Cleric and Ashvin: As I read Cleric's last reply to Lorenzo, as well as Ashvin's last reply to Anthony, it strucks me that the entire series of countless attempts, a series that tends to infinity to the naked eye, has an unbroken history of falling on deaf ears, and to this day it continues to f...

To Cleric and Ashvin: As I read Cleric's last reply to Lorenzo, as well as Ashvin's last reply to Anthony, it strucks me that the entire series of countless attempts, a series that tends to infinity to the naked eye, has an unbroken history of falling on deaf ears, and to this day it continues to fa...

Enough with this mood, Lorenzo. Cleric is dealing way too kindly with such mesmerized thoughts. You, and everyone else allowing these wracked thoughts into their souls, are putting your soul at risk of being torn apart. As a metaphor, think about the torture of being ripped apart by horses (and I s...

Enough with this mood, Lorenzo. Cleric is dealing way too kindly with such mesmerized thoughts. You, and everyone else allowing these wracked thoughts into their souls, are putting your soul at risk of being torn apart. As a metaphor, think about the torture of being ripped apart by horses (and I su...

Sadly, there is a quite terrible new post in the Letters for a post-material future. The world - it is posited - is splitting into two races: those who tend to an ideal of so-called "homo cosmicus" (the good ones) and those who tend towards an ideal of insularity ("homo insularis"...

I am not disparaging the role of introspection by suggesting to clarify terms in a conversation. For example, two persons could have an extended conversation about football, yet one person is thinking European football (soccer), and the other is thinking American football. A 'simple' clarification ...

My impression is that you are accomplishing something unique here, with this fine-grained conceptual introduction to imagination. Once you draw it for yourself, you don’t flee with the loot, so to say, but provide a careful and faithful conceptual proxy for a non-conceptual experience. This seems to...