I think the figure of paradigm is a useful one, but it's also homogenizing and totalizing in ways that don't account well for the particularities of situated organisms engaging philosophical talk and thought. So I would go even more concrete than paradigms and use of language. To me "ways of...
Philosophy is also a word and a marker. It makes it possible to contrapose it to other words, like science, as it was done in this thread already. Ultimately these attempts at categorization are extremely weak in the face of what people do every day. Scientists do metaphysics all the time, have...
I am aware of that, but equally observable is the positive correlation between development and ecological footprint per individual. But you're right, sorry for sidetracking. On topic: I think categorical environmentalisms can be counterproductive. What I mean by that is groups and organizations...
The implausible physics are not my field of expertise, as stated. I'm not trying to defend this tradition if I ever gave that impression. I'm merely trying to understand where they fit in with all the other approaches that lay a claim to having something meaningful to say about consciousness...
If I understood your meaning your response demonstrates well just how readily inflamed the question becomes. I don't have good answers, I only know that not raising the issue is irresponsible. But to be sure, you wouldn't necessarily have to go about it in coercive or even violent ways? Growing...
Thanks, I'll make myself familiar with those "it takes time" phenomena.
I agree that solving the problem is postponed with the approach. Concerning evidence, I don't know of any available english text that goes beyond programmatically sketching the approach. There is a 900plus page book...
An issue I almost never see properly raised is that of population reduction. In my opinion the most crucial corrective needed. In concert with competing growth economies continued population growth will only keep exacerbating our problems.
Of course we run into all kinds of reistences here...
I like the defiant tone :biggrin: Do you understand "reality" to be "subjective"? In that case I cannot agree, and only point to all the resistances we meet from extra-subjectivities all our lives.
But the point I believe you're trying to make with the list is quite congruent with my own...
I think you are pretty spot on with most of this characterization. It can't be caused, but it is of course constantly informed by it. A whole life history of sensations is packed into that "field" to use the third person description, or that "awareness" to use the first person description...
I've recently been researching Argentinian Electroneurobiology. It seems to be an old tradition, based on clinical research. Now I posted specific questions related to the physics used to underpin this view in the quantum subforum, but regrettably the thread was locked (probably because this is...
For another resource on time and Heidegger: Brassier here tries to work through Heidegger's time by means of Deleuze. Dense and compelling as usual. There are six parts to this.
Thanks for your concise replies. I see that quite a bit about my position needs to be fleshed out better. I'll have to come back to that in a moment when I have more time. Btw is it possible to pack quote and reply into one quote? So that I could reply to the full pair of my previous post plus...
To put it shorter: I don't only want "nature" as a thought-map of object-modelling relations, but as "doer" of local realities that are transformed by a being equipped with certain object-modelling technologies. Locally the model counts as much as the body as much as the situation in determining...
Thanks for your thoughts. Mistaking the map for the territory surely is one mistake we can no longer afford to make. This is not to say that the map does not relate to territories, after all relevant relations had to be laboriously extracted from the very territory itself so to speak (which in...