Scientific Materialism and the Sound of Spirituality

http://www.amazon.com/Sources-Significance-Rejuvenation-Philosophy-Communicat...
A relevant Mash-Up http://jarrodstorms.posterous.com/jarrod-storms-you-hear-colours-cfcf-marshall
This is a response to the question how does spirituality fit into a full acceptance of scientific materialism?
also see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrIGrxDQHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSf31M1OV2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ms9-MWQb8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJYVK_1WDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zglLGTjfz1c

also cf. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-key...


Please see the wikipedia enties for both epistemology and ontology to consider their differences.

oh, and sorry too that I never got to address the issue of touch.

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[aaronhemeon]

My problem with epistemology is my problem with Christianity. I have no problem with either, until the point where they make it necessary that everyone join, and those who don't are wrong. But isn't this built into epistemology? Does it not want an ahistorical subject? That is, can one make epistemology central to philosophy and still be a pluralist? I don't think so. I think that's why Romanticism gets a lot of grip here. Authenticity and epistemology may prove incompatible.

[Professoranton]

This is astute and useful. Thanks so much. I do think that there is a kind of "one-eyed mania" in those who want to reduce the diversity of human's relations to knowledge-relations.

[zarkoff45]

We are the collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[bluetoebeing]

I can hear

[sar1906]

Fantastic. I have one issue: How does one transition from an intellectual understanding of this position to one that has been internalized and then actualized?

I think the problem for some is that they hear these words, and sympathize with them, but they don't feel them.

How can they be made to feel them?

[Yony42]

@PMathematica That makes sense to me.

[DanLackey]

In connection with Gary's epistemological concern with the pain of others: Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain makes I think a very interesting distinction between the essence of certainty and the essence of doubt, the former epitomized the toothache you are experiencing, the latter, by tooth ache you hear about from another experiencing that pain.

[jogayot]

individuals and collective have no voice... i think it fits with my "mumble jumble" of universe as a result of an "original" point's failure to communicate with itself. there is also a way of looking at it as "moving" (the part/message sent "in time") and moved - that original point. because if communication and exchange of information, observation, consciousness is the most important part reality it makes one wonder why it absofuckosurdly often fails to work... press 'any' key.

[cuntsound]

Fantastic video.the only problem I picked up, for me, came up at the very end.

How did language,speech come into the world-history,when and how did they first appear (funny how "appear" is visual in its root)? What came first,our being-a-social-being or our vocal chords & other pre-requisites for speech?To me it seems (again visual) as if speech was invented,or better it emerged,when we had the potential for speaking.This does not work well with the claim that we have always been social-beings.

[Gesmehod]

Ah, now I remember why I subscribed.

[aaronhemeon]

Regarding the question of the place of epistemology within philosophy -- which is what a lot of disagreements on youtube blindly concern -- see Charles Taylor's essay (google it) "overcoming epistemology." Whether you agree or not, everyone should have an adequate understanding of epistemology's standing over the last 100 years for the philosophy profession. A lot of the misunderstanding is from students coming out of self-so-called "analytic" departments without knowing they have.

[aaronhemeon]

/watch?v=VaR4HXDyVfo

[PMathematica]

The purpose of deep science is to transcend experience -- not give an account of experience.  The object is to acquire (partially) objective knowledge about the world.