Lao Tzu, Alan Watts, and Robert Anton Wilson...Rod Serling, David Chalmers :) / Craig
Damn.... now I'm wondering how much I know about the personalities you mentioned... and what categories their own thoughts fall into, more or less.... I try NOT to be a snob...HAR... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_tzu Lao tzu (what I know of him) was somewhat down to earth... but let's call him the Idealist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling Rod Serling (in his works) definitely a Phenomenologist... ask Archytas (HAR). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Watts Allan Watts (know little to nothing about him)I'll hazard a guess ....I hope... Idealist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (know nothing to little about him either) sounds like a nominalist, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers David Chalmers (again, somebody new to me)I had hoped better, but it looks at first blush that he's another Rod Serling Phenomenologist (HAR)....don't mean to offend.. but anyone who entertains Kantian terms such as the possibility of the "phenomenal" seems to me to posit possible "objective" [as in supernatural] "concepts" beyond the workings of physical matter reality or of the matter "brain"... makes NO SENSE to me....I say, if it's "thinkable" then it is somehow within the capacity of the matter brain to conceive - ipso facto (HAR)... subjective concept... okay.... objective concept....whacko....IMO On Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:45:31 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:05:35 PM UTC-5, stephenk wrote: >> >> On 12/22/2012 11:37 AM, nominal9 wrote: >> >> I read your post Craig.... I'm still trying to "unfold" it in my >> thinking..... >> Happy Holidays, in any event, for now.... >> I will try to get back to answer more fully to your post, but... let me >> think about it... Maybe, to help me better understand you, could you >> self-identify your points as being consistent (more or less) with other >> known writers or philosophers, including some branch thereof like >> Phenomenologists, Idealist, Realist, Nominalist... or other? >> >> >> Antiplatonists? ;-) >> > > I haven't read very much philosophy, to tell you the truth. I like Lao > Tzu, Alan Watts, and Robert Anton Wilson...Rod Serling, David Chalmers :) > > Happy Holidaze! > > >> Happy Holidays to you too, stephen.... >> >> >> Happy Holidays to you as well. >> >> >> On Friday, December 21, 2012 1:28:07 AM UTC-5, stephenk wrote: >>> >>> On 12/20/2012 12:50 PM, nominal9 <nom...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> > *Matter and Memory* >>> > >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia >>> > Jump to: navigation >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory#mw-head><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory#mw-head> >>> , >>> > search >>> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory#p-search><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_and_Memory#p-search> >>> >�� >>> > The spirit is the abode of the past, the body >>> > of the present; the soul or spirit always anchored in the past, not >>> > residing in the present; lodged in the past and contemplating the >>> present. >>> > To have or take conscience of anything, means looking at it from the >>> > viewpoint of the past, in light of the past. >>> >>> Hi nominal9, >>> >>> ��� Doesn't this seem backward somehow? Spirit should be >>> considered to be in the future, looking back through the present to the >>> Past, making sure that the body never behaves now in a way that is >>> inconsistent with its past behavior. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Onward! >> >> Stephen >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/epistemology/-/p85BlSxg8YYJ. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
