I have two questions. Can you give an example of being intimidated? What's the scene here? What do you want philosophy for? What kind of nails do you want to sink with this hammer?https://twitter.com/_StevenFan/status/1243641412920344576 …
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Replying to @Baalren
If i look at the feeling, it's a sense of lack of discernment. I had mentors in psychology and neuroscience who oriented me to the gold & garbage.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @Baalren
I have a lack of imagination about what Philosophy could be used for. But, there is a chance that I'm already doing it too in an untrained way so it is just completely ordinary. I count Dharma as philosophy.
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Replying to @_StevenFan @Baalren
I should say that I'm sensing a personal hang up about what 'counts'.
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Replying to @_StevenFan
Imagine looking at a big, foggy, flat cliff. Tall enough it vanishes above you. Seems to have no approach, yes? Is it something like that? I more or less reduce philosophy to logic and epistemology. It's for answering questions. E.g. I wanted to know: consciousness, wtf?
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Replying to @Baalren
Yes either that or I already have a good enough grounding in Buddhist philosophy and the sheer cliff is a crack in the side walk. It's obviously not uniform either. Not oriented to it plain and simple from lack of exposure to practitioners.
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Replying to @_StevenFan
If you don't have a specific question you want answered, then I'd advise you to listen to the intuition you previously labelled 'intimidation'. I wouldn't say there's much of a point to it, for you. And any good philosopher will tell that's perfectly okay.
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Replying to @Baalren
I absolutely have questions that I think are in philosophical territory but I'm approaching them from Buddhist and neuroscience perspectives. e.g. nature of consciousness. Also I feel ungrounded in this conversation. Whats up with that idk.
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Replying to @_StevenFan
I would suggest it's because the conversation is on an abstract, generalized level. Try introducing a concrete detail to ground stuff. I always prefer dealing with specific examples rather than going for general proofs.
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Yeah that's it. Who knows if we are talking the same thing. Too low bandwidth.
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