@sarahdoingthing But if you think of movement toward a local optimum, there's nowhere to go further. "Flourishing" & "progress" linearize.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Still reification. Is there any essence to flourishing *besides* lessness-of-concrete-harms?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing leaving aside essence: creativity & enjoyment, which do not seem to be “absence of harm”?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Hm. Good point, I concede the argument.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@Meaningness oh come on, what value has creativity except by improving mental states of the creative & maybe others? ;)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@St_Rev@Meaningness key problem: part of flourishing *itself* is believing in the importance of something other than mental states :(2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness Yeah that's one of my big problems.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing supposedly i’m going to discuss this in the “nihilistic intellectualization” part of the meaningness book.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing well get on with it, man3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing also to put in place better anti-comment-spam tech. then i do have some content to post. hope i get to write more
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