- “...phenomenon is a refraction of noumena... Wow. I love that. What follows is certainly some kind of logos that participates”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 30, 2009 3:04 PM - “I don't find the tables and chairs around me any less real than the atoms that make them up, nor”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 30, 2009 2:54 PM - “I should qualify the exact sense in which I'm speaking of causality. I'm distinguishing between the phenomenal world and the”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 30, 2009 2:40 PM - “I should also say that bare consciousness is not the phrase Thich Nhat Hahn uses. He uses bare attention. My”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 29, 2009 11:32 PM - “kgb, you make extremely valid points. But I would quibble with a few. ...the definition of reality depends on who”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 11:23 PM - “My pleasure.”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 7:38 PM - “I've actually mis-quoted Thich Nhat Hahn. He never used bare consciousness; he used bare attention. I'm not sure that it”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 29, 2009 6:25 PM - “I agree. There's always perceived randomness. Whether or not it's actual is another question. I love that you bring in”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 6:07 PM - “That's a great point. I don't want to rule out uncertainty. There's always uncertainty. I just want to say that”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 6:02 PM - “Merill provides a cool link here that is aimed in the same direction as you are.”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 29, 2009 5:55 PM - “Super cool! Miguel once posted something saying that the human body contains the energy of two lightning bolts. Certainly that”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 5:52 PM - “You're so right about time. We tend to think of time as fundamental. Really it's just a convention we use”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 1:05 PM - “We're all janitors. The lowliest of the low is the only real level there is.”
Posted on The Spot-Light and the Flood-Light November 29, 2009 12:57 PM - “No Woo peed on my rug.”
Posted on LET'S REALLY PISS THEM OFF: A Proper Curriculum For the Budding DUDE November 29, 2009 12:14 PM - “And what if the brain itself is a metaphor?”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 8:03 PM - “Great call. The language comes from the ways of on-going interactions.”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 4:51 PM - “I should say: in addition to the bare consciousness from which we all start, we have the language we're using”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 3:59 PM - “I am genuinely honored. Thanks dd.”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 3:44 PM - “There's so much truth in that. Wittgenstein's first principle of the Tractus is that the world is all that is”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 3:24 PM - “Maybe a further clarification: the noumena is, I think, identical with Thich Nhat Hahn's use of bare consciousness. The workings”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 2:28 PM - “From The World as Will and Representation Second Book, Section 18: To the subject of knowing, who appears as an”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 2:16 PM - “I should elaborate on the body in Schopenhauer's system. The inner world -- bare consciousness/awareness and the workings of the”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 1:40 PM - “No, of course not. But the bottle is only responsible for the wine's form of existence. I'm with you against”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 12:55 PM - “Ha! Oops! Thanks!”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 12:24 PM - “Oops. My response is bellow.”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 12:03 PM - “Great points. You're certainly right that Schopenhauer is projecting the will where the will ought not be projected. That's his”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 12:01 PM - “Ha! I would never read too far into something...”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 10:22 AM - “First, thank you. That's exactly the kind of dissent I was hoping for. Everything happens exactly as it happens for”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 10:20 AM - “Totally agreed. Will do.”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 1:04 AM - “Are you suggesting that Eastern philosophies pertain as virtual escapes in double bind situations -- especially maternal double bind situations”
Posted on Schopenhauer's Insight and Contemporary Science November 28, 2009 12:38 AM
