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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-093
Last weeks posts on Moon of Alabama:
Empire:
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Other issues:
China:
Lebanon:
Woke-ism:
Use as open (not related to Ukraine or Palestine) thread …
“As far as your question re climate change… I think it’s happening but I am on the fence about anthropological causes.
My footprint is very small. I do my bit recycling and walk instead of driving where possible but I don’t go out of my way.
Of course my carbon taxes will increase substantially today so there’s that unwilling contribution.”
Posted by: ld | Apr 1 2024 7:40 utc | 115
There is no such thing as ‘Man Made Climate Change’ ; every 100,000 years or so the Earth has an ice age then after an ice age it, obviously, warms up as it currently going on. In 50,000 to 75,000 years the Earth will cools down once more; it is a cycle.
Its that simple.
As for carbon dioxide it is the life blood of humans, plants and animals-any person who falls for the ‘carbon footprint’ BS is a registered Sheeple praying, prostrating themselves to the WEF and Woke ministries:
“Benefits of More Carbon Dioxide:
Pure CO2 gas is chemically inert, transparent, colorless, and odorless. On a cold winter day, chilled air often condenses the water vapor of human breath—of which 4 to 5 percent is CO2 —into visible fog. Such fog, however, is not CO2 . Similarly, water vapor often condenses into clouds of steam over fossil-fuel power plants, creating the impression of smoke. Such steam clouds are not CO2 , either. Of every million air molecules in today’s atmosphere, 400 are CO2 . This average masks wide variation. For example, without strong ventilation, CO2 levels in crowded indoor spaces, such as classrooms, courtrooms, and trains, commonly reach 2,000 ppm—with no clinically documented ill effects to people.
The U.S Navy strives to keep CO2 levels in its submarines below 5,000 ppm.9 On a calm summer day, CO2 concentrations in a cornfield can drop to 200 ppm, as the growing corn consumes the available CO2 . 10 At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.11 The differences between the peak winter CO2 levels and minimum summer CO2 levels, measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano (Fig. 4), have increased over the past 50 years. This is believed to be due a global expansion of forests and other plant life.
That Earth has experienced a CO2 “famine” for millions of years is also not widely known. As illustrated in Figure 5, in the 550 million years since the Cambrian period—when abundant fossils first appeared in the sedimentary record—CO2 levels have averaged many thousands of ppm, that is, much larger than the CO2 level of 400 ppm today.
All animals, including humans, owe their existence to green plants that use energy from sunlight to convert CO2 and water molecules into carbohydrates, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere in the process. Land plants get the carbon they need from CO2 in the air, and they obtain other essential nutrients from the soil. Just as plants grow better in fertilized, well-watered soils, they grow better with CO2 concentrations several times higher than the Earth’s current level.13 For this reason, additional CO2 is often pumped into greenhouses to enhance plant growth.14 Figure 6 illustrates the effect of various levels of CO2 on the growth of sour orange trees. Because the growth rate of plants is proportional, on average, to the square root of CO2 concentration, doubling atmospheric CO2 will increase green plant growth by 40 percent—a boon for crop productivity and, thus, for…” (1)
1. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC7C4946-11A3-4967-BF28-8D0386608D3E
Posted by: canuck | Apr 1 2024 10:20 utc | 117
If the present is a moment in time different from the past before and the future afterwards then can we determine the duration of that moment distinguishing it from past and future?
If we begin with a second, that can be cut in half and again ad infinitum – an ‘asymptote’. So logically: without duration there is no such thing as a moment making the present continuous and thus without beginning or end, or eternal.
This argument by scorpion reminds me of Zeno’s paradoxes. The link provides a good discussion, but refrains from calling the problem solved. I’d like to keep my comment here in this spirit, and so shall only say that I don’t know squat about the buddhist tradition that scorpion refers to, but that in my own understading things end up a little different.
I am, as stated before, quite convinced of Edmund Husserl’s foundational analysis of mind; and I find it amazing that a recent niche approach to Aristotle ends up with a very neat convergence of both thought. Aristotle’s powerful term nous relates not only these two, but has in a (somewhat preliminary) understanding also seen none other than our scorpion agree that it might well be much the same as, or even identical to, the famous buddha-nature concept.
All three positions share their analytical derivate, which Erwin Sonderegger chose to term awareness in translation of greek noesis, though of course it is conceptually quite iridiscent and enigmatic. To mind has an intruiging aspect of an active ability, which doesn’t exist in contemporary german, though it does in other indogermanic languages. Hence Husserl uses Bewusstsein, which again does not readily translate into english. I chose to use sentience when I started to express my thoughts here on MoA, and still feel it has merits too.
In any case, there is a layer of reflective awareness of Self present in all these. Husserl calls it it the “intentional” (i.e., focused) Bewusstsein, Aristotle remarks that “awareness is awareness of awareness”, and from scorpion’s remarks on the buddhist thinking I seem to gather that this view would like you to realize that I (or self) is basically an illusion, from which however we start out in our current, unrefined view and understanding (Husserl: our naive Einstellung/preconception).
Now Husserl points out, and I think correctly so, that this reflective I/Self does experience passing of time – for if didn’t, it would not experience contingency – though past and future are not space-like entities, as “all past is presence” (Novalis), i.e. memorized in an intentional act of Bewusstsein, and all future is guesswork anyway – please mind that this holds true on a most fundamental level! Quantum mechanics is the most sturdy case in point, and the tenet is not being compromised because we can say that this or that natural/technical process regularly has its respective same outcome (because this depends on the process actually running undisturbed in a renewed experiment, the only arbiter of truth in physics as well). How clear those notions of past and future are to any given sentient entity/Being may remain an open question; as does the permissivity of all noetic (“notional”) awareness towards subconscious (hence possibly telepathic) influence from other Beings in the “experential continuum” that makes up our so-called world.
The point being that Self is actually present, de facto and fundamentally, and that this layer is the most fundamental one we can find. —
If we accept this, it follows that:
*All materialist metaphysics is a secondary conception, i.e. mind does not follow from matter (or if we should accept this, it must first be proven conclusively, which it isn’t; actually as well as possibly so)
*Buddhist notion of the Self as an illusion is probably a logical error
*All awareness is “awareness-of” (notional concepts, experienced “things”, basic sentiments, a present Thou)
*The self-reflecting, conscious, ever-present I is the basic arbiter of all experience, and thence, of truth (not to be confused with an all-enabling guarantor of all notionally desired experience that we may imagine!)
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I invite everyone over to the philosopher’s corner for further discussion, so we don’t take up too much space on the precious Moon of Alabama with further detailed musings on this notorious issue.
Posted by: persiflo | Apr 2 2024 0:27 utc | 147
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