you cant imagine theres something that could actually be beyond your intuitions grasp that might be found in these dense, arcane, highly abstract texts
well i definitely didnt recommend this work to contest the idea of "language is in the brain" so yeah like i said ewiz's thing was kind of a tangent
i have no interest in contesting that idea, even though i feel like there are coherent ways to contest it
why is it even important that language is in the brain?
well, we could also contend that ewiz is plenty capable of communicating with me he just doesnt want to and doesnt have the responsibility to. i cant disprove that.
Holy shit how many times do I have to do that?
its important, at least, because its a consequence of a hbotz worldview that leads to a negative answer to mind body duality. its also important because i suspect that people confuse themselves by assuming language is located outside the brain (for example by assuming definitions are static, which ewiz has informed me modern philosophers dont do)
That's because when I actually explain shit and post the actual fucking citations you dismiss it out of fucking pocket. Like that fucking shit about everything being able to be formulated in formal languages that you never gave up on which is fucking untrue and provably so
you cant point out a mistake or misconception by telling me im using a word wrong. ur supposed to reply to the essence of the argument. ur current reply is "this claim is nontrivial and you have not justified it" but i would prefer any counterargument instead, since to me it is not so nontrivial.
the issue is you have a bunch of ways in your head to sound superior to certain aspects of philosophy that dont actually hold up against the actual educated versions of those philosophies
so like
if your endgame is sounding/feeling smart
you should probably avoid talking about this stuff in spaces with people who actually understand this stuff
if you keep it only to spaces where people don't understand this stuff, you can keep feeling superior with this particular flavor of masturbation
im rejecting large swathes of philosophy. its strange to me you are trying to refute me by clarifying large swathes of philosophy. at best we will find out i am mistaken about philosophy and in fact a lot of it vibes with my own. which is plenty possible. but it seems you think my viewpoint is unfounded or wrong. so i want to understand why you think that.
How about your idea that all of physics can be formulated in ZFC? How about your idea that everything is computable? It took you 2 days to accept that emergent systems can't be studied by looking at what they emerge from, which is the fucking definition
your rejections are bad faith because you havent taken sufficient effort to understand the things you purport to reject
all of your rejections are of strawmen
No you fucking moron I clarify it because your fucking critiques don't apply and your ideas can't answer the fucking problems that philosophy poses
yes, but you misunderstand me. the fact that ewiz claims to understand this stuff only makes me want to talk to him because possibly he can change my mind.
i want to know the arcane secrets. i am looking for a refutation that changes my mind.
How about your assertion that interpretations of QFT are useless and don't matter because they aren't physically testable so we should just pick one?
for example, i propose the rejection of mind body duality in my naive way. to date none of the dualist theories have ever made sense to me. but apparently they make sense to ewiz. so i want to hear a refutation.
You haven't fucking read shit and that's clear because you don't even understand the fucking problem
ok. i assert as much. please refute it.
you brought up that interpretations can be "useful" although you said its the least important out of three reasons. i can accept that.
okay. what am i misunderstanding about the problem?