As a non-native speaker I have never heard of nuance in the context of sociological research. Google mostly redirects to this exact paper or references about it. I figure it has something to do with precision of description. Could someone enlighten me?
it’s not better or worse than others
If you want to learn meditation, there are sooo many resources online and in books. Why not use one of those?
I was just curious, because TM is approved by artists like Scorcese, Lynch and Eastwood. There are also studies that claim its benefits are higher than those of other meditation types. I really just want to get a grasp on what this is about as I am atm greatly expanding my meditation practices and am trying out other meditation techniques.
There are different types of meditation. Both mantra and breath meditation are types of focused meditation. I just wanted to know from people who learned TM, which is a secret technique, if it is actually worth it or if it is just a money making scheme, to ask people to pay to learn a certain meditation technique.
Yes, mine does this too. He fixes the arm with his teeth and then starts licking my arm. Eventually he gags, but continues anyway. I call it "lollypopping".
They lose money if they do it.
Do what?
Executives are interested in preserving their buddies and their investments in large corporate rental space.
How does forcing their own workers back into their office raise or lower the value of their own real estate? If they use it, they won't sell it, value is irrelevant then.
I doubt that executives are that clever. I've seen this conspiracy theory circulating atm, but it relies on so many assumptions that I consider it unlikely. It assumes that executives "help" each other out by willfully spending money for office space and all it costs, that could be saved in expenses by employees working from home. Corporations are obsessed with cost cutting, why would they willfully waste money? It also assumes that corporations help each other out. Considering the fierce competitiveness corporations are exposed to and how this extends to all fields, including office space, employees, office equipment, etc., this is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. Another assumption is that the push for a return to the office comes from ALL or mostly all executives. Is there actually data supporting this claim? Who is really doing this?
What I think is the real reason, is far simpler and requires less mental acrobatics to justify: The people, who are pushing for a return to the office, (a) have a stake in the performance of the company and (b) are not working themselves when they are supposed to be working from home. They then project their own behavior upon others, and therefore push for a return to the office to, in their mind, prevent their enployees from slacking off.
Could you not just leave it as is?
I have no time to provide content here, but I would be able to deal with reports that might come in. Not really looking to expand mod duties atm though tbh.
fuck Lysander
Do you mean Lysanderoth ;)
/s I don't know this book, can you give a short outline what it's about?
Since Marx we have made tremendous strides in technology and have wealth gaps reminiscent of the industrial revolution. It is now easier than ever to imagine a world of corporate states (think Cyberpunk) with totalitarian control over their indentured workforce. With a large indentured workforce at hand, I find it unreasonable to dismiss the idea, that such corporations would not create a command based internal economy, because starving and de-stratifying their own workforce would play into the Marxian prophecy of capitalism's downfall (a workforce too poor to consume their employers products, thus rendering capital worthless).
Do you think, that the Marxian dialectic of class struggle would still hold up in such a scenario, meaning that the upper class controlling these corporations/corporate states would still be overthrown by the lower class due to an inherent trait of their power base?
Or do you think this is more akin to a return to a pre-capitalist mode of production in form of a slave-owning system?
You raise a very good point. I think there are several ways this can be caused, some of which you already mentioned yourself:
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Our definition of knowledge is itself subject to the trilemma. Every statement we make about not-knowing is just as much in need of a dogmatic assumption, an infinite regress or a circular reasoning as statements about knowing. If we take apart the statement “We do not know anything”, we will find that multiple of its parts are based on the assumption, that something exists, which itself is a textbook example for the trilemma. Thus we can not know that we do not know anything, while at the same time knowing, that we can not know anything.
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The subject matter of paradoxes is imaginary. Does the sentence "This sentence is a lie" really exists, if it is entirely located in a latent space of common understanding? What makes it be a thing that can be referred to? Our reference can only be made into this latent space of linguistics and common understanding, but this applies to every piece of knowledge.
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Logic theory doesn't hold up when faced with self-reference, which would be better dealt with using unconventional logic systems like Paraconsistent Logic.
There are probably more...
I would really appreciate it if you could recommend me some resources(book, video, podcast, anything…) on cognitive closure.
Difficult. There are many different concepts of cognitive closure and some may be more to your liking than others. I personally like Kant's approach in Critique of Pure Reason. He introduced "categories", which are mental frameworks that shape our understanding of reality, and argued that certain aspects of reality may be inaccessible to us, because we lack the categorical framework for those.
On linguistic relativity, I highly recommend Guy Deutscher's Through the Language Glass: why the world looks different in other languages. It's an overview of the entire research within this field, which challenges every linguistic theory regarding how language shapes our understanding of the world and thus debunks "common" linguistic myths.
You really put effort in this, I don’t know how to thank. Simply put, you are awesome.
Thanks for mentioning about “The Münchhausen trilemma”, it is exactly what I was thinking about the knowledge. I will certainly do further reading about it.
You are welcome!
Thank you for your input! Others have suggested humidity too, which I had considered, but eventually discarded, because symptoms occurred both during humid and dry weather, which seemed contradictory. Thanks for sharing that you have a similar issue and point to humidity because of this "window" of acceptable humidity.
I tried inhaling Salbutamol, when pain started, but found the relief lacking.
Yes, I do have allergies against several types of pollen.
Thanks for the run times. I'll try those next time.
Fair point! Didn't notice my bias there. Guess there is a scheme to fall for for everyone.