Dumb post. Cognitive Neuroscience has A LOT to offer various questions about consciousness and if you ate particularly interested in consciousness (from a philosophical perspective) it is about time you read up about this. Vice versa, for clarities sake, there are clearly some particular uses from more philosophical areas here … ie. Phenomenology (an area I actually got into through reading university level textbooks on the Cognitive Sciences (put together by Gazzaniga - I mention because older editions have free pdf online). — I like sushi
I can't honestly say I'm much impressed by Wittgenstein. I have tried to read his main works and never gotten far. I've read several secondary works, but the ideas seem pedestrian and have never really grabbed me, although some of his aphorisms are good. I know saying that amounts to heresy in the eyes of many, but there it is. — Janus
When people are focused on making claims, it seems that they are mostly much more concerned with convincing others to their way of thinking than they are with being sure that they are consistent in their own thinking. — Janus
You have just referred to it positively and in a way anyone might understand; we all probably know that experience of the orange candle flame, so what's the problem?
I wouldn't say it overflows conceptuality, in the telling at least, since 'orange, 'candle' and 'flame' are all concepts. — Janus
Did I refer to it ? Who can say ? — plaque flag
How certain would you like to be about your theory about the desire for certainty? — plaque flag
BTW your new name evokes some associations which you may or may not have meant to invoke. — Janus
does 'poison' refer to toxins or to danger or both? — Janus
I took you to be referring to it. — Janus
It's actually Wittgenstein, — Antony Nickles
A person's hero myth is roughly the thing they can't easily put in question. — plaque flag
But then this gets back to the argument against the author and the fixing of the meaning of texts according to the intentions of the author. — Janus
We are both paraphrasing influences. But that's beside the point I was trying to make. — plaque flag
The "proof" is if you can see it for yourself; come to the same conclusion. I would say the idea of this kind of Truth is that it is accepted, adopted more than justified, which I would agree gives it the feeling of being not tied to specific grounds of the here and now. — Antony Nickles
it's possible that you are creatively misreading Wittgenstein. — Janus
quoting Bransomwhat one becomes liable to assessment as to one’s success at doing, is integrating one’s judgments into a whole that exhibits a distinctive kind of unity: the synthetic unity of apperception
If we picture communication working that way, then we are a slippery slope from attributing "intention" to each act, or imagining morality as a matter of working out what is best ahead of time. — Antony Nickles
The self is not different than any other thing in the world. If what you say is true then what you've written is also true of the rest of reality, not just of our selves. — T Clark
. In an attempt to impose certainty on our knowledge of ourselves and others--to try to have control over who we think we are and what we say—philosophy created the idea of "consciousness" (along with subjectivity, internal intention—“my” meaning, qualia, etc.) — Antony Nickles
Note that Brandom is trying to merely describe what we are and were always already doing as philosophers. He is making this background situatedness explicit. — plaque flag
we do not make anything explicit before we do an act — Antony Nickles
Certainty of the knowledge of ourselves doesn't have to be imposed. — Benj96
you've left out the specifics about what "function" means in the abstract, what it means to give a functional account in the abstract, whether functional accounts can be made consistent with what you're criticising and so on. — fdrake
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