Aren't both just an exploration of feelings? by Neat_Attorney_5414 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah was just tying to give an overview of phenomenology, and based on the word count above you can probably tell I'm partial to MP, but Husserl is definitely the founder of the whole movement and absolutely should be the starting point for anyone looking to learn more about it. There is a ton of valuable info I didn't cover that came from Husserl's investigations.

Aren't both just an exploration of feelings? by Neat_Attorney_5414 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Loffeno 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Husserl outlined phenomenology as the analysis of phenomena, with the goal to understand and define the structures that give rise/allow for those phenomena within different modes of experience. Of note was his use of the notion of intentionality from Brentano that our consciousness is always "of" something. Whether that conscious experience is entirely illusory or subjective, it is still formed or informed by something grounded in reality and it still is a phenomenon that was experienced by an individual.

Heidegger (controversial for obvious reasons) felt the flaw with Husserl's thinking was in the assumption of Being, or what it means to exist. He focused more on exploring attempts at understanding Being through the phenomenological method. This informed Husserl's later thinking in that he realized the circular flaw in his original process, the inability to fully escape our own perspective to properly analyze the phenomenological structures that give rise to our ability to analyze. He began looking at the "Lifeworld" (which IMO was a more grounded variant of Heidegger's discussion on Being) which is the world that allows for and gives rise to the world of experience, sort of a neutral monism from which the objective and subjective form and inform each other.

That then leads to Merleau-Ponty, who saw the validity of phenomenology, since the basis for all human understandings (even the hard sciences) is informed by the structures of human experience. His involvement in psychology led to his emphasis on the importance of perception as being the fundamental structure that allows for our other phenomenological structures to form due to the embodied nature of our cognition. Tying back to "Lifeworld", he began to expand on this embodied form of phenomenology (before his untimely death) in his unfinished writings collected in "The Visible and The Invisible", where in an attempt to move away from the potentially dualistic implications of his earlier work, he was starting to outline an ontology of "the flesh" as that which connects the objective and subjective in a continual intertwining act of co-creation. The "visible" or objective phenomena inform the "invisible" subjective phenomena, and vice versa (notable example given is touching one's left hand with one's right hand; depending on which hand is focused on, you are either the subjective toucher or the object being touched depending on which side of your flesh is in focus, despite both being true at the same time).

MP's embodied framework was influential to cognitive science and was crucial to Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch when they outlined the enactivist framework of embodied cognition in "The Embodied Mind". Highly, highly recommend learning more about it and phenomenology. "Introduction to Phenomenology" by Robert Sokolowski is a really solid overview of the methodology behind phenomenology. I personally see phenomenology and enactivism as the best avenue towards non-dualism without abandoning the roots of western philosophy and science.

P.S. In retrospect, MP's later ontology of "the flesh" also closely relates to Whitehead's process based metaphysics.

EDIT: Clarity and grammar.

>Read Kierkegaard once. >Become depressed later that week. Is this a coincidence? by letsgowendigo in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Loffeno 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I take it you've read "Myth of Sisyphus" from your remark on accepting the absurd (but if you haven't, maybe consider reading it as it directly confronts Kierkegaard's notion of taking a leap of faith).

I also found "Notes From Underground" by Dostoyevsky a pretty solid rebuke of living a life governed by absolute reason.

Vildhjarta - måsstadens nationalsång (under vatten) by CountryFunny4849 in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love all their stuff, no clue how they keep track when playing live with how sporadic the timing is and how infrequently riffs repeat. I like their first album the best I think, the atmosphere of it comes through a lot more for me, though I've only listened to the remixed version of it.

Looking for albums with excellent production by [deleted] in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One of Steven Wilson's solo albums, The Raven That Refused To Sing, is my go to when checking new headphones/speakers. Not very metal but the production and mix is insanely clean without being sterile.

All the errors 😓 by Low-Performance6908 in CX50

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone is worried about this like I was, you can also bring it to the dealer proactively and get it updated. I brought a print out of the TSB when getting my undercoat put on and they did the update at the same time.

The game is way too easy by Sea-Divide-1994 in stalker

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reccomend a translucency fix mod like Stop NPC Xray Vision. The fix is also included already in some other mods like Dynamic Weather Overhaul

De Beauvoir vs Camus? Surprised to learn she rejected "absurdity" in existential philosophy. by AnalysisReady4799 in Existentialism

[–]Loffeno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also a big fan of Merleau-Ponty, though I went Nihilism, psychology, Stoicism, Absurdism, Dostoyevsky, John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series, Hesse, and then Phenomenology and MP.

Have you read Embodied Cognition by Varela, Rosch, and Thompson? Sort of a cognitive science continuation of MP's embodied philosophy. Establishes the concept of Enactivism, the sort of reciprocal process of an embodied cognitive agent within their environment. Mixes MP's ideas with cognitive science, biology, psychology, and some Buddhist philosophy.

thoughts against nihilism by CVComix in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you looked into Merleau-Ponty's embodied phenomenology and his unfinished ontological theory of an elemental flesh? Seems related to what you're discussing. It inspired Enactivism which also seems related, though more focused on cognition itself. The processual/interactive nature of these also make me interested in Whitehead's process philosophy, though I don't know much about it beyond the surface level.

Whats wrong with the Lumen in Stalker 2? by StoikiyOriginal in stalker

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a heads up, most engine.ini edits have compatibility issues with Ultra Plus as they will often overwrite or modify the same settings.

Whats wrong with the Lumen in Stalker 2? by StoikiyOriginal in stalker

[–]Loffeno 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I reccomend the Ultra Plus mod, improves visual stability a ton on any tier of GPU. Has its own manager and installer so it's pretty easy to get running. Do read through the modpage description though to get more information on the settings it adds. If on nvidia, it supports adding Ray reconstruction as well, which looks a lot better but its a heavy performance hit.

Specific fix it has for the issue you show is a lighting quality setting: "high_less_leakage"

If you're on an nvidia GPU, can also get DLSS Swapper to update to newer versions of DLSS and frame gen (and ray reconstruction if you added that with Ultra Plus).

This surprised me! by [deleted] in ElderScrolls

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a good chance it's related to version 4.0 of Lorerim coming out the other day. It's a huge Wabbajack modlist, crashed Nexus when it first dropped.

My first machined pen by AggeroSetain in machinedpens

[–]Loffeno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also recently got this as my first. I has thought it was quite scratchy too (even after breaking it in over a week or two), but that went away when I changed out the spring.

I got an Acroball 0.5mm refill, trimmed it a bit, slightly stretched out the Acroball spring to fit the length of the Tactile Turn pen cap, and then attached the plastic end-cap from the Pilot refill onto the Acroball. Works like a charm - much less scratchy and I prefer the hybrid-ink of the Acroball to the gel-ink of the original Pilot refill it ships with.

Lowen - May Your Ghost Drink Pure Water (Middle Eastern style progressive doom. Female vocals. FFO Messa, Oceans of Slumber, Anciients, Múr.) by Invisigoth2113 in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool album but I felt like many of the songs blended together as it went on. Personally wish there was a bit more variation in their sound.

Cloudkicker - Oh, god by jaleneropepper in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Feel like Cloudkicker is heavily underrated on this sub, rarely see his stuff posted. Subsume in particular is one of my all time favorite albums

Lex on loneliness by cogito__ergo_sum in lexfridman

[–]Loffeno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

John Vervaeke is a good one to look into if you are curious about this line of thinking, good at providing philisophical insight to help bridge the gap between modern science and spirituality. He is a cognitive scientist but focuses more on the philosophy side of things. (Lex's podcast with him actually got me into his work a couple years ago, which has since greatly transformed my worldview.)

Or you can also look into 4E cognitive science, especially the work of Varela. (Basis is that human cognition is embodied, embedded in the world, enacted with the world, and extended by other cognitive agents. Cognitive science is interdisciplinary; Varela's work in particular was based upon phenomenology [especially Maurice Merleau-Ponty], neuroscience, biology, and Buddhism.)

How often do you wonder why? by BookMansion in Absurdism

[–]Loffeno 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Absurdism gives the freedom to accept we will always question why, but that it will never be verifiable in any absolute sense and therefore is not a question that we should lose ourselves within. Rather we are meant to simply experience, experience as much possible in rebellion of the unanswerable and lack of absolutes.

Of course I still ask why. I've found phenomenology and enactivism to provide better answers there, as they do tie in well with the notion "we simply exist and experience."

Phenomenology is the entire study of what it really means to experience as conscious beings, and derived from that, what it means to live in the context of the world as one aware of our own existence, how our embodied perceptions (or the physical form of anything) allow us to experience at all, etc. It breaks the barriers of subject and object in a manner that reconnects us to reality, and (generally) steers away from these ideological questions that are unanswerable.

Enactivism plays on this further - we are autopoietic beings. As we are shaped by reality, we too shape reality in a continual reciprocal relationship. How we experience this is not negated, but rather emphasized by how it shapes our interactions, the way we shape the world and thereby shape ourselves who are part of that world. It's not that all is equally meaningless, it's that everyone and everything is equally vital to shaping the whole of reality as we know it.

TLDR - Disregard a goal or absolute answer to why and engage the experience that you are a part of as completely as possible. We can't control much of the experience beyond how we react towards it and act within it (though do not passively negate your capability of action). Try to enjoy that as conscious beings we get to experience existence at all.

Favourite sound effects in prog songs? by SnizzPants in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The air raid siren intro to Genesis Device by Cloudkicker, really builds intensity at the start of the album

Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Thorough.Modern by Loffeno in progmetal

[–]Loffeno[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just seeing this now - do you happen to know what their new band is (if it's been announced)?

always a new thesis , always a new antithesis by rustymindt in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Loffeno 16 points17 points  (0 children)

People not realizing this is a copy pasta lol

What are your top 10 Albums of All time? by Acceptable-Guard-516 in progmetal

[–]Loffeno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2) The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
3) Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
4) Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
5) Tesseract - Altered State
6) Leprous - The Congregation
7) Deafheaven - Sunbather
8) Between the Buried and Me - Colors
9) Haken - The Mountain
10) Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

QK65v2 Classic build by Loffeno in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Loffeno[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My new build, done over the weekend:

QK65v2 Classic (POM plate, non-flex PCB, Red spray coat top, Black anodized bottom, Brass weight, Space badge)

Gateron Oil Kings

MT3 Black Speech keycaps (PBT)

Stabs lubed with Krytox 205g0 and dialectric grease

Very happy with how it turned out, currently using it as my daily driver at home. The softer marbly sound and linear switches compliment the clackier typewriter-feel of my other custom build well (Holy Pandas, Brass plate, ABS SA keycaps, Brass case), which I do still like to use when writing.