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cookbooks 3 months ago

I think If the lecturer is fair they'll grade your yearning for understanding as a good philosophical pursuit. What if memories of sensations, and memories of properties of exterior and sensible objects is proof that there is more than body but there has to be a disembodied something (mind) that carries those memories? I remember feeling the warmth of my laptop, even if the laptop isn't there; where is this memory?

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cookbooks 3 months ago

Not in the body, because the body isn't feeling the (non-existent) warmth. But then where?...

technostalgia 3 months ago

The memory or the capacity of retention, it is a faculty of our being to remember and being able to anticipate by both sensations and intellectual knowledge. It's also called passive intellect, we are able to know what we collected as a set of recollections we perceived from objective reality to our intengible mind. In modern philosophy, the memory is a substrate of a substance.

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technostalgia 3 months ago

The mind is capable of reflexivity and to build representations (which are derivates of reality) of sensations, as the warmth of your computer you can eventually feel, but the mind can not suscite this sensation, you have to experience it before.

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hi Bill - just to let you know I'm updating my links to go to your new domain... cheers!

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eastathenaeum 3 months ago

Thank you for that. I still want to add a link to you on it, but the question is where. It's all about sending the right audience your way.

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thricegreat

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>daliwali So religion is not really arguable. It is showable. So if you don't see what I wrote I can't explain it. With the exact same reason that the beauty of Beethoven's symphonies can't be explained for people who can't see.

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thricegreat

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>daliwali That's an interesting way the debate goes on. I think Noumena can't be said so that what Thomas Aquinas did in Summa Theologica was not actual proofs. But it is showable via things like art or practice. Well this is basically Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Religion is not noumena itself, but it shows some noumena.

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thricegreat

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>daliwali I agree that Christianity is not special and it has Prisca Theologia only partially. But it HAS Prisca Theologia too similar to other religions.

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>daliwali I guess you just don't actually believe there are things before the phenomenal world. Talking about popularity doesn't make any sense because what makes every religion religion is its consideration of things that have existed since before the cosmos. Humans exist AFTER the cosmos, although some religions say that's because of the fall.

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daliwali 3 months ago

why does existence of a noumenal world hinge on belief? i believe that noumena exist but is also not knowable... the human mind does not deal with that ambiguity and uncertainty well.

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thricegreat

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>letslearntogether Your explanation about creatio ex nihilo sounds like Parmenides lol.

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letslearntogether 3 months ago

Lol! Not Anaximander or Anaxagoras?...Reading the conversation between you and daliwali is quite enjoyable. I generally agree that "noumena" are irreducible in expression (e.g.: Gödel's incompleteness theorems), but can be experienced (i.e.: that's what "gnosis" is). These "archetypal forms" are the foundation of the "Prisca Theologia"/"Primordial Tradition"/"Perennial Philosophy"/etc.

letslearntogether 3 months ago

In other words, they are what all individual expressions hold in common and reasoning can point to them. One of the clearest descriptions of how humans connect to this process that I've seen is from Miriam Joseph's Trivium. I would type it out here, but the quote won't fit, so I'll post it with some extra notes on its own temporary webpage: https://letslearntogether.neocities.org/bookclub/quote01

thricegreat

3 months ago

>daliwali Religion is not a means. That's literally an atheistic and materialistic worldview. Although each religion has its defects, there is definitely sacredness in it as god's energy. I think what we should do is pursuing Prisca Theologia.

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daliwali 3 months ago

i think both are true, religion is a means to an end (power, influence, control) adopted by states. without adoption as state religion by romans, christianity would have died as an obscure cult. there may or may not be a kernel of truth, but most followers will never know.

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thricegreat

3 months ago

>daliwali In Christianity, I think the fact that Jesus incarnated as a human automatically leads to a virtue ethics. If Jesus is god and just, his life was just so that he becomes a concept similar to Junzi in Confucianism. The ethical man.

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thricegreat

3 months ago

>daliwali What I read recently were his short stories like "Two Old Men"... And NOPE. Becoming a Christ is not arbitrary at all and deification is a tradition since ancient times, even before Christianity. Dividing god and nature strictly is a western European nonsense, especially protestant. I just have realized that if Jesus was who god incarnated, deification should mean becoming Christ.

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daliwali 3 months ago

all of the holy men are but traditions. you can follow Christ if it helps you sleep at night... but few have the courage to stand alone, to not be a follower.

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