tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post5932819327874726560..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: The SwarmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-31808516148998588332012-09-11T08:24:39.461-05:002012-09-11T08:24:39.461-05:00Interesting stuff. Even though everything connect...<br /><br />Interesting stuff. Even though everything connects, we still must participate in reconciling the connections. For that, I think Three Fundamental Ideas are competing rather than cooperating: (1) That consciousness is inferior to (entirely reducible to, or derivative of) substance; (2) that substance is inferior to consciousness; and (3) that consciousness and substance necessarily function in tandem (substance being the unavoidably measurable expession of immeasurable reconciliation among perspectives of a unifying field of consciousness). What seems to confound us is that the various ways we have tried to establish bright, logical lines between the three ideas seem to blur as contexts change. (Set theory itself becomes blurry, especially when it used to try to quantify the qualitative.) For awhile, the prevailing idea seemed to be that all of metahysics is discredited, because nothing is worthwhile unless it can be reduced to explanation entirely within the measurable substantive. It took Chalmers to "make metaphysics respectable again," perhaps to reduce hubris among fanatic empiricists-of-reduction.<br /><br /><br /><br />Meantime, worldviews have polarized, weighing many attempts to use words rigorously with overtones of worldview bias, often confounding attempts to signify or communicate interests in good faith. My hope (and bet) is on a synthesis of Ideas 2 and 3. I suspect they may be assimilated in a consistent way that need not damage scientific pursuits. We need to restore faith in real possibilities for reconciling ideas and ways for empathy and goodness to rise and lead the swarm. (For example, I would not consider it empathetic or good for able-bodied, crony louts to align with corrupt lords to sit on a wagon while buying and selling politicians, in order to force middle class workers to pull while louts and lords liesurely gorge and entitle themselves on power trips, drugs, and sex. At least, not unless we "progress" to a brave new economy based on robotic slaves, programmed to enjoy being slaves.)<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-2327905775725672922012-09-11T06:18:54.803-05:002012-09-11T06:18:54.803-05:00I suspect many of the Tea Party do not consider it...I suspect many of the Tea Party do not consider it empathetic for able-bodied, crony louts to align with corrupt lords to sit on a wagon while buying and selling laws to force middle class workers to pull, while liesurely gorging and entitling themselves on gambling games, drugs, and sex.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com