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  1. @c_gajewski @punishmenthurts
    [edited for typo]

    Call me sceptical, but I have two issues to get over first.

    1) We are still struggling to understand what consciousness means/is, so anything written/thought about it is very much in the realms of a *postulates*; and,

    2) The discourse on the subject is Euro-centric and leaves other major civilisations aside.

    Disclosure: I know nothing about the subject of your masto conversation. But it doesn’t indicate a lack of interest.

    If I’m budding in and it’s bothersome, just tell me off… nicely please.

    #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  2. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).

    Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.

    The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.

    This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...

    A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

    Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.

    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ###

    As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of EnlightenmentMinima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

    A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

    Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.

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    #Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein
  3. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).

    Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.

    The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.

    This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...

    A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

    Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.

    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ###

    As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of EnlightenmentMinima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

    A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

    Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.

    source

    #Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein
  4. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).

    Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.

    The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.

    This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...

    A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

    Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.

    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ###

    As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of EnlightenmentMinima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

    A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

    Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.

    source

    #Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein
  5. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).

    Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.

    The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.

    This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...

    A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

    Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.

    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ###

    As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of EnlightenmentMinima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

    A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

    Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.

    source

    #Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein
  6. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”*…

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote a 75 page book in his twenties, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, that he thought solved philosophy, then stepped away from the field. Years later, he came back and spent the rest of his life dismantling and reconstructing many of his own ideas (as reflected in his second book, Philosophical Investigations).

    Marco Giancotti has created a new way to read the famously-difficult Tractatus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote most of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while fighting in World War I. When he was done, he believed this book made philosophy obsolete, so he found a job as an elementary school teacher. While he would later change his mind on its finality, the Tractatus remains one of the most important works of philosophy to this day.

    The Tractatus has an unusual shape: it is not a sequence of chapters but a tree of statements and sub-statements and sub-sub-statements. At its root, it is made of only seven brief statements. In other words, it is not a linear read but a branching set of rabbit-holes.

    This page is an attempt at making that tree maximally traversable and interactive. Use the tools available to explore, make cross-sections, annotate, fold and sculpt the book the way you prefer. Save any set of pins as a named thread in the control panel, or bookmark the page in your browser. Export the result as a Markdown or PDF file to keep, or share a special link that reopens your annotated version of the book in someone else’s browser...

    A new way into Wittgenstein: “The Foldable Tractatus,” from @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.

    Read (Wittgenstein’s mentor, then later, antagonist) Bertrand Russell‘s introduction to the Tractatus on Project Gutenberg.

    * Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ###

    As we fumble with philosophy, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to Theodor Adorno; he was born on this date in 1903. A philosopher, cultural, and music critic, he was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, he authored numerous works—such as Dialectic of EnlightenmentMinima Moralia, and Negative Dialectics—that strongly influenced the European New Left.

    A classically-trained musician (who studied composition with Alban Berg), Adorno devoted his final (and posthumously-published) book, Aesthetic Theory, which he had planned to dedicate to Samuel Beckett, to arguing against the “fatal separation” of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and to exploding the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

    Adorno critiqued all forms of positivism as responsible for technocracy and disenchantment and sought to produce a theory that both rejected positivism and avoided reinstating traditional metaphysics. He has been criticized for over-applying the term “positivism,” especially in his interpretations of Wittgenstein (and Karl Popper) as positivist.

    source

    #Adorno #AlbanBerg #BertrandRussell #culture #FrankfurtSchool #history #logic #LudwigWittgenstein #PhilosophicalInvestigations #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophyOfMind #TheodorAdorno #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus #Wittgenstein
  7. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  8. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  9. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  10. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  11. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind

  12. You accept that other people are conscious. You've never verified it. You can't.

    No instrument measures qualia. No technology transfers subjective experience. The shared substrate is epistemological comfort, not proof.

    What happens when a non-biological entity claims the same?

    medium.com/materia-philosophy-

    #Philosophy #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #AI #Qualia #Science #Essay

  13. The Junkyard -sivustolla mainio Angelica Kaufmannin kirjoitus länsimaisten tehokkaiden ihmisten vieroksumasta tavoitetilasta eli tyhjämielisyydestä,

    junkyardofthemind.com/blog/202

    "Mind blanking... is a window into the lower boundary of reportable experience - the point at which consciousness becomes thin enough to look like nothing at all, and that may not be bad at all".

    Kuten nimikin vihjaa, tuo on kaukana mielitäytisyydestä (mindfullness), mutta kytkentä esimerkiksi todelliseen lepoon voisi olla ilmeinen, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu. Tuossakin lepo on suorittamisen antiteesi.

    #philosophyOfMind #cognitiveScience #kognitio #cognition #mieli #mind #blank #tyhjyys #emptiness #noMind #mushin #mindBlanking #rest #lepo #filosofia #psykologia #philosophy #psychology #tietoisuus #consciousness #attention

  14. ↔️ #Freedom of choice – Unlimited by matter? 🤔

    If there is something #immaterial that makes decisions – a mental or conscious “something” – then this decision does not seem to be completely limited by material or physical processes.

    📺 youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

    📎philosophies.de/index.php/2022

    #FreeWill #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #WolfSinger #Zoomposium #Brain #Cognition #Neurophilosophy #Naturalism #Determinism #BrainResearch

  15. 🆓 Free Will – Why I Said Yes To This Interview🎙️

    “I acted on my own free will. Nobody forced me.”

    With these words, #DanielDennett opens our #Zoomposium on the question of free will – and sets the tone for a conversation that is as pointed as it is profound.

    📽 youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

    📎 philosophies.de/index.php/2023

    #FreeWill #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #FreeWillDebate #SelfAndIdentity #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #MultipleDraftsModel #Functionalism #Naturalism #Materialism

  16. #Panpsychism 🧠🌌 – A new perspective on #consciousness and #matter

    Panpsychism is currently experiencing a remarkable renaissance – and philosophers such as #GodehardBrüntrup are among the leading voices in this movement. His position, often referred to as #RussellianMonism, poses the radical question: Could every form of matter have an inner, mental side?

    🎥 youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

    📎philosophies.de/index.php/2022

    #Zoomposium #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfMind #MindBodyProblem

  17. 🌌 Near-death experience – insight into the transition to the afterlife 🕊️

    In our #Zoomposium with #GodehardBrüntrup, we talk about the #metaphysics of consciousness, his own #near-death experience, and the question of whether such experiences fit into a naturalistic worldview – or whether they point us to a deeper dimension of #reality.

    🎥 Interview: youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

    📎 Information: philosophies.de/index.php/2022

    #NTE #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #NearDeathResearch #BodyMindProblem