The analogy between the computer and the universe is weak. The universe is not a machine (a machine obviously has a creator). To suppose that the...
Then you already know the answer...
What would you do living forever? Where would the meaning go?
This was my first introduction to Hemingway. It was for a high school english class, and I kind of just ran through it without really caring. But...
When I said consciousness always has an otherness, I meant it is always aware (implicitly) that it is not its object. It is conscious of the...
"Transcendence" is a term that Husserl used. Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and was very influential on Sartre. Yet, when Husserl posited...
Voodoo Chile (the long one; not the slight return). This is great! Steve Winwood on the organ.
I always wondered about the connection between these two as well. They both seem to stress the form, not the content of activity. Heidegger's...
For a while I thought there was something divine about this band; to some extent I still do. They were able to express such a negative side of...
I don't know of any links online concerning the issue. There is a great article called "Consciousness, the streetcar, and the ego: pro Husserl,...
I've come to the conclusion that Sartre was wrong about the transendental ego. He was reacting against Husserl second conception of the ego (as an...
Can you explain the last sentence to me? God may be a non-denoting name, but we can not know for sure so why is it meaningless to talk about it?...
First off, how is Buddha a myth? And second off, watching a child being born, having a feeling of connection with the whole world, unconditional...
How many esablished organizations are there that proclaim the existence of purple people eaters? How many people have professed being 'touched,'...
I'm wondering if by taking away an emanation point like Husserl's transcendental ego then do we just end up with an unrestrained (or as Sartre...
The mind cannot exist without the brain. That is obviously true. But does mind only mean brain? If the mind is only physical processes from inside...
Who has read this little work? What do you think? I definitley agree that consciousness is never concerned with an "I" until an unreflected...
I was always a fan of Jeff "Tain" Watts.
When Nietzche said "God is Dead" he was trying to convey the fact that the traditional conceptions of absolutes had been shattered in his time....
It's called a rhetorical question jackass. Like a true Christian. I'm not sure which of my comments was ignorant, but I'm sure your powers of...
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