Reductive Physicalism Is Silly
The idea that science tells us that everything can be explained just by physical processes is wrong and silly.
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The idea that science tells us that everything can be explained just by physical processes is wrong and silly.
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I will lump together classical liberalism, libertarianism and neo-liberalism under one banner, much like with the many strands of socialism above. For the sake of convenience I’ll talk about “liberalism”, even if this in an American context tends to just mean “left-leaning” which of course isn’t what I mean here. The following is a slightly
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Consciousness has three basic meanings: 1) functional awareness and responsivity; 2) subjective experience of being; and 3) explicit self-conscious awareness.
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The fundamental goal of all authentic strands of socialism is to attain shared (and fairly distributed) ownership of “the means of production”. This can and should lead to democratic control over said means of production. But this state of affairs is not quite the goal-in-and-of-itself; it is merely a means to achieving a higher socialist
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Okay, so now we’re really closing in on the point: You have six new forms of politics (Democratization, Gemeinschaft, Existential, Emancipation, Empirical and Theory), and these function, over the long-term, together or not at all, and they reinforce each other and they are already emerging in society. But who then makes it happen, and how?
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Of the six new forms of politics (the former being Democratization, Gemeinschaft, Existential, Emancipation and Empirical politics) the Politics of Theory is the strangest, the most radical and the most complex. It, more than any of the previously discussed ones, builds upon the successful implementation of the other five. If you don’t have all the
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Looking at the world through the lens of the Periodic Table of Behavior helps make sense of how to see the world as a scientist.
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‘The knowledge which is knowable is not the eternal knowledge,The Tao that is namable is not the eternal Tao.Naming gives rise to the ten thousand things.The ten thousand things can obscure you from the Tao.’ Knowledge here is with a lower case “k”. It can be useful, but has a confidence interval that is Bayesian
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We are imagining a future in which we as a society find ways of monitoring the development of a number of key issues that pertain to the inner growth and existential wellbeing of all members of society—then offering support to all citizens during key transitional periods of their lives in accordance with their needs and
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Our work, as metamodern philosophers and scientists, is to rewrite the very fabric of what is real, as our participatory perspectives express higher truths, as they mirror more profound insights—and land us in a vast landscape of reflections, gazing deeper into the abyss. Science is the process of building upon what we know, which ultimately
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