Re: now a one-place predicate at least » zeugma

Posted by alexandra_k on September 11, 2005, at 16:28:34

In reply to now a one-place predicate at least » Damos, posted by zeugma on September 9, 2005, at 18:36:27

> I am very depersonalized, I don't really feel 'there' unless large quantities of some stimulating substance have been ingested, Provigil or Ritalin or caffeine (or combination thereof), which gets me off the floor where I experience absolute nothingness.
Hmm. Are you depressed or dysthymic?
> It was the verb 'to be' that got me into philosophy. (That and Descartes' Dream Argument- but that argument has a slightly different spin when you're narcoleptic...)
:-)
Descartes' dream argument got me hooked too. That and a mini-lecture on personal identity that I went to when I was still in school...
If Tracey's body is in England...
And we chop off her arms and send them to France...
Then where is Tracey?
If Tracey's body (including her arms) is in England and her brain is in France then where is Tracey?
If Tracey's left hemisphere is in England and her right hemisphere is in France and the rest of her body is in Germany then where is Tracey?
:-)
>Heidegger explains what 'Dasein' means, but I wish he would explain his explanation- he does, endlessly, but not in a form I can understand.
Ah. Welcome to continental philosophy...
;-)
> Quine is a little more prosaic- "to be is to be the value of a variable." Well, I can understand that, sort of. And for someone who hardly feels 'there' it's a pressing question.
Ah. I see...
Existence.
'To be'
I guess I find something similar...
What worries me is why it is like anything at all to be me.
It is surely possible that there be a physical duplicate of this world but where none of the beings on that world are conscious.
There is nothing at all that it is like to be them.
So why on earth is there something that it is like to be me?
And (presumably) you too?
Mind
Consciousness
I guess the same (or at least a similar) question...

> I do feel a little 'here' now. Philosophy is a very personal matter for me.
:-)
Depersonalisation is an eerie feeling...
'The aim of philosophy is thoughts that are at peace'
w.

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