Metadelusion

I did some background reading on science before my previous post. It seems both our positions fit reasonably well into known categories. My ...

There's stuff, in patterns. Patterns emerge from the stuff. Stuff emerges from the patterns. One or the other description may be more us...

Question 4 appears to be a trap. If I say that science is aesthetic, then it's merely subjective, in which case how is it any more ...

I will look at Hubble before I respond to post below or write more myself.  I haven't yet read your post below before posting these ques...

From my point of view the allegation that science is a delusion is as bizarre as Christians claiming to talk to Jesus every morning. It...

"whether our 'true nature,' fate and destiny is to live in competition and domination (power) or symbiosis and mutuality (whole...

A note about blogging: Because I have never blogged before, as we discussed, I am experiencing culture shock about how radically the blog...

"Are you opposed to power, on the grounds that authority is impossible without it?" This question is unanswerable to me becau...

On question 4, concerning the fate of the human species in terms of millions of years, this is the kind of question that contains so many of...

A first thought.  I am using the term "pure science" to refer to that science which distinguishes itself from applied science, and...

What scientist would willingly be called impure? Where is the journal of impure science?  Should Jasper Johns' paintings be destroye...

Reminder notes: issues arising within this conversation: what is the purpose of the conversation? - is the aim that one convinces the other...

Hi Chris !  Can't believe you got all this in here.  Is there a way to reverse the order or is always latest most recent?

I hope you'll include this discussion of the title in the blog!

sounds good.

FWIW here's a style reference supporting my contention that the hyphen is unnecessary . meta-analysis <= hyphen is required because ...

Hyphens aren't allowed in the blog URL, but I'm OK with using one in the title (which appears on each page) if you think it's im...

Sounds ok, but would a hypen be good?

I like structuraldelusion, but not collapseofcivilization which seems too general. Spiritual Liquidation was actually an anti-spiritual...

How about  metadelusion?? It has a similar meaning but it's shorter and catchier and only has very few hits in Google which is g...

I understand about the Ted issue and agree. I guess I don't want to use the word spiritual because I equate spirituality with delusio...

also available: collapseofcivilization structuraldelusion

I don't like surrogate activities, because that's Ted's thing and I don't want to have Ted's ideas about science come...

surrogateactivities is available! It's from a list I have of slogans you came up with. I tried mistakesweremade but it's already tak...

I'd just like to understand whether it's a blog that only we know about it, or if it's public in the sense of being of being pa...

OK I'll see what I can do. I think a blog would be the easiest, because they're dead easy to set up and don't require any mai...

That sounds fine, except that I wouldn't want to have to worry too much about expressing myself in good form.  I'm not sure if you ...

Would you be amenable to my making our dialogue into a web page? I could redact it to remove names or any other personal or identifying i...

I'm at work.  I'm sorry for not responding to the questions you raised, and I can't spend time right now with your current em...

The distinction you make between science and pure science has no basis in fact. There is no such category as pure science. What scientist ...

There are two easy to address areas where I think you misunderstand me. One is, I am not at all confused about the separation between th...

I am furiously applying my Buddhist awareness to your latest missive. Have you heard the Mark Twain, "He had the cool, calm conf...

PS: One of my all-time favorite quotes is from the movie "Providence" (dir. Alain Resnais). Towards the end, Clive Langham (pla...

I included a link to a famous Hubble telescope image in one of my previous replies. Here it is again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...

Thanks for the detail and I will think about it (I'm at work), it's very interesting. It's funny but one reason I thought of ...

I haven't read Kuhn but I already understand his premise (as described e.g. in Wikipedia) well enough to know I'm not interested. I...

I need to consider your responses, and appreciate the detail. But you misunderstand me if you think I want to fight the universe so tha...

My (chilled down) question would be, have you read Thomas Kuhn?  I don't mean you should have, but the comment you made about Kuhn --...

I wanted to write you an email before reading your reactions to my emotional and impulsive emails written last night.  I really want to e...

"Are you saying that your don't think that your human brain imposes a reductive structure upon your perception of reality?" T...

I feel as though when I question your ideas you get pissed off or hurt. I need to respond because you are putting out very powerful argu...

Thomas Kuhn held that theory choice is irrational. This is a minority position in the philosophy of science. He by no means succeeded in ...

"let's take geoengineering as an example of science in action." You're confusing science with the ethics of its applicati...

Buddhism is the opposite of narcissism.  This entry has no concept of what buddhism is about.  There is NOTHING comforting about buddhism. ...

It's very hard for me to express to you how powerfully you impose your structure upon the conversation. Are you saying that your don...

" I hope that you do don't experience this as hostile, " LOL! Which is it, do or don't? Could this be a Freudian slip...

what does "falsifiable" mean? let's take geoengineering as an example of science in action. Isn't it delusional?

for instance, malignancy just means "bad". It's a value judgment, not a fact.

PS: I agree 100% with the enclosed. "All religions, including Buddhism, stem from our narcissistic wish to believe that the univers...

In human beings, the inputs and the outputs are unpredictable.

It's late, and I can only read this quickly now, But I appreciate your responding. There is an extreme mismatch in the way we thi...

I couldn't disagree more, sorry to say. Our positions seem totally irreconcilable. "humans have thought structures that they mist...

I think that generally, a delusion is that we see content, but don't see structure (the higher level). For instance, people see individu...

I was thinking about an idea about translating the stock market index number into musical tones so that you could hear the stock market.  Al...

Antihumanism is a relatively new philosophy, which emerged along with critique of industrialism in the modern era, particularly after WWI. A...

Less government. Less business. Less wealth. Less power. Less roads. Less buildings. Less food. Less people. Less is coming. Less is already...