Sunday, September 20, 2020

Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya (Sri Lanka): Asylum at home? re @WorldUnivAndSch with Friends/Quakers, & Psychiatry resources, regarding - https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Friends_Hospital (which 'lecture' word I just edited). WUaS is seeking to facilitate the development of online psychiatry (language-focused & Quaker / All too) #WUaSPsychiatry * * * [NTF-talk] What Experience Teaches (David Lewis - 1981) * * * Happy, hippity Birthday, Sunheart at Harbin Hot Springs! * * * 7 Hypothetical News' items regarding coronavirus cover-19 pandemic, and possible 'clean up' happening in the US and other countries, - without SARS' genes - to protect Americans and other countries' citizens in new ways?


[NTF-talk] What Experience Teaches (David Lewis - 1981)


Scott MacLeod

11:04 AM (1 hour ago)
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Nontheist Friends, 

I found this awesome talk by Princeton philosopher David Kellogg Lewis about experience and consciousness in a way (and which touches on California parapsychology in passing too! :) ... (I'm wondering if he has Quaker roots since he went to Swarthmore. Does anyone know?)

What Experience Teaches (David Lewis - 1981)

He grew up in Ohio (his parents were professors at Oberlin, and he went to Swarthmore College, with its Quaker roots, as an undergraduate, and then to Oxford, and he has a Harvard Ph.D. as well ... I am wondering, too, whether this focus on experience in his talk, and throughout his philosophy, could be informed by Friends / Quakerly thinking in his younger years :))

What do you think about this talk, and his philosophy?

There's lots of friendly nontheism among great philosophers in general (in what I've observed).

NtF Cheers, 
Scott
Visit the beginning virtual Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here, and walk down the road a bit, as a nice day for a stroll, 'walking in the Light' too virtually :) ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



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Scott MacLeod

11:57 AM (1 hour ago)
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Nontheist Friends, atheist Quakers, All,  

Here's an overview of David Lewis's thinking from the amazing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (which does something different regarding philosophy, and is Stanford-inspired, as a culture or ethos even , I think) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/david-lewis/. I'm particularly interested in Lewis's work regarding 'possible worlds' and as another new philosophical basis for my actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project. (I touch on both Quakers, and philosophical bases for virtual worlds in my "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book from 2016). And Lewis's thinking about 'possible worlds' is far-reaching philosophically.   

While I just found a number of Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy entires mentioning Quakers - https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=quakers - the SEP does have one specificie entry on 

And how can one know whether or not a divine exists (hence the logic of agnosticism:)?

But am also appreciating the value of Quaker ethics (and with regards to a variety of ethics in the philosophical ethical thinking enterprise), non theistically Friendly-wise, and otherwise. 

NtF cheers, 
Scott
Visit the beginning virtual Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse here, and walk down the road a bit, as a nice day for a stroll, 'walking in the Light' too virtually :) ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



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I got into David Lewis because I received a Phil Papers' "New items in your topics of interest" on Sat. 9/19/20 email which listed as its first paper this: 


Journal of Philosophy 117 (7):387-406 (2020)
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Authors
Siegfried Jaag
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Loew
Umeå University
Abstract
Humean Supervenience is a metaphysical model of the world according to which all truths hold in virtue of nothing but the total spatiotemporal distribution of perfectly natural, intrinsic properties. David Lewis and others have worked out many aspects of HS in great detail. A larger motivational question, however, remains unanswered: As Lewis admits, there is strong evidence from fundamental physics that HS is false. What then is the purpose of defending HS? In this paper, we argue that the philosophical merit of HS is largely independent of whether it correctly represents the world’s fundamental structure. In particular, we show that insofar as HS is an apt model of the world’s higher-level structure, it thereby provides a powerful argument for reductive physicalism and explains otherwise opaque inferential relations. Recent criticism of HS on the grounds that it misrepresents fundamental physical reality is, therefore, beside the point.
KeywordsAnalytic Philosophy  Contemporary Philosophy
Categories(categorize this paper)
DOI10.5840/jphil2020117723





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[NTF-Non-theist Friends-talk] Asylum at home?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1306653558264098816?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1306656987816501248?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1306657454478880769?s=20


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In all languages potentially ... 


Online MD psychiatry planned @WorldUnivAndSch >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry (psychiatry for #QuakerMeetings from Friends' Hospital

https://friendshospital.com 215-831-4600 https://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Friends_Hospital… #NontheistFriends) #CoronaVirusCOVID19 Psychiatry > https://psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatrists-beware-impact-coronavirus-pandemics-mental-health… #WUaSPsychiatry ~


https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1236333540075163648?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1236332505667534849?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1236332250020458496?s=20

 







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Scott MacLeod

11:33 AM (3 hours ago)
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Dear Nontheist Friends, 

Asylum at home? re @WorldUnivAndSch with Friends/Quakers, & Psychiatry resources, regarding - https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/Friends_Hospital (which 'lecture' word I just edited). WUaS is seeking to facilitate the development of online psychiatry (language-focused & Quaker / All too) #WUaSPsychiatry~


Appreciating this picture of Friends' Hospital in these regards: 


Online MD psychiatry planned @WorldUnivAndSch >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry
(psychiatry for #QuakerMeetings from Friends' Hospital



Appreciating too that John Repique (photographer of Friends' Hospital Tweet) is a nurse, may have grown up in the Religious Society of Friends and is advocating for mental health.  

Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions for online NtF-informed MD psychiatry, and even regarding Asylum - since Friends' Hospital is the oldest continuously operated hospital for mental illness in the US (since 1813 oe 1817)?

Nontheistic Friendliness may well open new ways of conceiving of psychiatry, and regarding language especially (and I write too with Lacanian inclinations, see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques%20Lacan%20MD).

It could be fascinating to develop an online excellent (am thinking Stanford-inspired) lecture series out of Friends' Hospital and by psychiatrists and thinkers in these regards (and am also thinking in terms of a realistic virtual Harbin as part of such asylum potentials - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click). 

NtFriendly cheers, Scott
Telephone number of Friends' Hospital for evaluations 24/7 is at the top here now: 


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Happy, hippity Birthday, Sunheart, Sunheart, Sunheart!

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

10:45 AM (2 hours ago)
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Sunheart, 

Happy, hippity Birthday, Sunheart, Sunheart, Sunheart! ... my calendar says again it's your birthday today! Which is it - last month, this month, or other??? 

Found this awesome talk by Princeton philosopher David Kellogg Lewis about experience and consciousness in a way (and which touches on California parapsychology in passing too! :)

What Experience Teaches (David Lewis - 1981)

He grew up in Ohio (his parents were professors at Oberlin, and he went to Swarthmore College, with its Quaker roots, as an undergraduate ... am wondering whether this focus on experience in his talk, and throughout his philosophy, could be informed by Friends / Quakerly thinking :)) Could some of his ancestors come from the Isle of Lewis in the outer Hebrides of Scotland even? :)

What do you think about this talk, and his philosophy?

(How are you and what are you doing to celebrate your birthday? :))

Jaima,
Scott

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Passing along — Jane

Begin forwarded message:

From: Carol Charles <cacharles@comcast.net>
Subject: Fwd: Abit of humor to lighten the day
Date: September 20, 2020 at 11:05:25 AM EDT
To: "Molly C." <molly1948@gmail.com>, Anne Bagdon <abagdon27@gmail.com>, Jane MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>

 


 

SMILE
 
https://gm1.ggpht.com/f2YXFPKH68tU7Le3feSl98vXWMpgn5DPDXClmOjiBj731PN9zio_wV-i-LEq1RvFA-WSXUeMBmaRd2O4Bwl18nYzxijVVx8sLpEL-gcY_R_swdAg6PxtnoPU86O0q3PsPS_jaBuYl7lD5EEukgKTtnZxiTMLOtSAo8Z-tSr54q82ed3SXGyidwB_r5PidW8j3hM82v_g5_RVYrWtPKHg6bIQSv2mw2VXn0lwNMv0-fhcZu8fSkhsBF3KXfgn3B3i3qsH7uJgf76npfBgSVh5J1u3SS9Ipx-yMV07nLI5xWmpzgVjrHni09Lioy71pMvgdkwMA-494aKCfoGt1q3ZZf4LrzZODYKx0-8g4ujuWbil7LEcGnI1zsaSy8_uuoXym8Zavj0kCzzIfBY0RPBNt7EeTrED4t5yZWrMcSPXw0l24UJXkQECA6v_anC24l7fuKS_lk1l6_An92ZdImMgmHgG_xYr_teZvaoiTl4a2P4B0NceTarr5tOwVZAXjaOfHozxR4rEj5lXE2IVEXdIBj6apY2OAYZaIU2-JiRf4Mo274JYWauRcG1kayEn8bOQYULEYN2lg3vIVQIhLpeV9oQ53BqR0lOVh53nuETuiPAfQbm1cyr3vd5GjVEgTTh3z4qSVrfER0wYvaOd_XdFs-5BhgORkP3Si3v-zsTeUwJN9nRbSc8WxwrkhqsPaNvWQoUbmZd2lUY6ECi4WyG5xwK-4nGtwKigB8QCL687FFyqX9juvK-Jr042tfQLLdkdj10=s0-l75-ft-l75-ft

(which picture in above URL I can access Chrome but not in Safari, for ex.) ... 

Picture of a pumpkin with Trump's face:

"TRUMPKIN

Orange on the outside,

Hollow on the inside, 

and should be 

thrown out

in November. "




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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

10:24 AM (2 hours ago)
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:) Thanks, Ma, and All! - tricky pumpkin art clean up!

Am wondering regarding another kind of 'clean up' ... 

Fauci says US should plan to ‘hunker down’ for fall and winter
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci is cautioning Americans to brace for the difficult months to come.
(view in Tor Browser, if behind paywall for you - https://www.torproject.org/download/)

- whether this will continue to significantly disadvantage the current 'un-regime' of 't-Rump Reps.' (reprehensibles?:) as well as further assist in a kind of "clean up" in the US ... re ... 

5 Hypothetical News' items:

and 6 & 7 Hypothetical News' items - 'constructor of laws' & way for governments to address this problem creating laws

Perhaps the coronavirus - without SARS' genes - is working to protect Americans and other countries' citizens in new ways? 

XO, 
Scott

PS on another note ... 
I read a lot of online foreign newspapers, thanks to the amazing Google Translate, and I found this this morning in a Swedish paper

"Criminal families should be able to be evicted"
 Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) during a visit to Korsör, which is on Denmark's "ghetto list".

(where Frederiksen, a woman, is the prime minister of Denmark, and youngest too!)

... and I wonder if this same thing could be happening where I live at 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon CA 94516 even! ... Stay tuned! 


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