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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago: (root)
New Escape Characters article, "Pseudoscience", Nov 29, 2010.
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I'm not saying that you misinterpreted the point of What the $&*% Do We Know, but I think you may have missed it.  I mean, the film built its case on a sort of science which is
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
"To appease people like you." I guess I deserve that. My problem is mysticism masquerading as science, and people trying to convince me of their legitimacy without scientific
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Johnny in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Maybe stir the pot like the old days of idkfa? Interesting read.  I think you are getting more aggressive by the entry in these articles.  You should have been in our conversation
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
No pots to be stirred, just organizing my thoughts. The article actually started out with listing the "rifts" as a result of the palm reading when I was young, and just sort of developed
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I don't know why I feel I have to do this, but I'm now going to mount a defense of the science (or lack thereof) in The Secret and its ilk.  Settle in, kids, because I'm about to
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I don't think Kant intended phenomena and noumena to be a two way street. From your description, it sounds like he was trying to separate the things we perceive from things we can't. He
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I really tried to address that issue before you raised it, like when I said "I should be careful to add that our changing perception hasn't changed the universe itself, but it has
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Green Man in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Todays xkcd. How topical.   [img]
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I'm not trying to discard Kant. I'm trying to discard what seems like "The Secret's" interpretation of Kant. And I can treat perception and "willful delusion"
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I saw this today and couldn't believe the coincidence.  Perhaps all this positive thinking about positive thinking caused Randall Munroe to write this comic?
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
To be fair, I don't think The Secret references Kant at all.  This is my own interpretation of both works. But Kant does have a good answer for your apple scenario: Of course the
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
"[B]y way of the causality that exists only in our perception." You've already explained this to me a few times. This concept is still illogical to me, and made no better by
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Causality is a part of this because causality is a product of time.  Without time, causality is meaningless.  So, since time exists not in things in themselves but rather in our own
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Oh sweet data, I was beginning to despair. All this time it was like the great Philosophical Pantheon looming malevolently over me from on Philosophical Mount Olympus. Kant, like Zeus, was
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Aaaand I just realized I'm probably getting 10 copies of The Secret for Christmas. Mistake.
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Scrotor in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Don't worry, I didn't get you that for xmas ;) Also, this is a test.
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
You're so good, Josh!  You ask all the right questions. First, Kant is what is called a transcendental idealist which is kind of like the via media between empiricism and rationalism.
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I got one! I got one! Hmm. I'm OK with calling logic and math outside of space time (if we don't consider what time or space it takes to resolve or compute their results or
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
I'd say you're wrong about Pi.  First of all, there is a distinction to be made between the idea of Pi the number (which isn't important, because it is just a number) and the
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Reading further, pi may have been a bad example. It's considered a mathematical constant, not a physical one (and I was trying to stay away from physical ones because most of them have to do
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kaiden in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Also, thanks for putting my world view in a category of philosophy that was deemed "dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes." The more I read on philosophy the more
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Scrotor in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
You just stated most of the reasons I hate philosophy! Oh, and the fact that it does nothing constructive for society.
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Wilber in Language; Literature; Writing, about +14Y ago:
Psht, philosophy is ALL about answers.  The problem is that so many people have come to so many different valid conclusions that it SEEMS as if there are no answers. And yes, modern and
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