Hi John, I think you are right. Is it possible, however, that a trend towards a personal explanation of reality may negate a whole other. There is nothing new about the separation of mind and matter, we seem to be in a phase of negating that separation. When I see all explained by the theory of evolution, this sends up a red flag because of its reductionist stance. I know others disagree with me on this in this forum, all the merrier. This topic has been discussed before.
I do think, however, that from a biological point of view the intellect is an extenuation of the emotions. Cheers, Willblake2 On May 9, 2009, at 2:11:23 PM, "John Carl" <[email protected]> wrote: "I think the quality personal insight is wholly separate from the group consciousness insight. One cannot feel the other." I read that article about the Death of Philosophy and have been thinking a great deal about it... so pardon if I just go off on you here without much further ado, but I'd say pretty much the opposite - isn't quality personal insight defined by group consciousness insight? If nobody hears your tree falling, how do you know it even exists? If there is no external validation of a thought, then it's insanity - not truth. But beyond all this, there is the meaning of meaning - what we share as a group has a consensual aspect - we must agree upon meaning in order for meaning to live. It's fundamental to all philosophy and I don't see how the discovery of this simple and fundamental postulate is any sort of "death" to philosophy, But then I'm just starting on my Royce's Philosophy of Community. What a rich field of research you virtual community of philosophers make as a companion volume! John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
