ernest meyer

oh I better go do some other things anyway, good night, thanks for chat )

That's true. Epistemologically speaking, it is actually unknowable what the state of the coin is because we perceive light as a finite limiting factor...

well the fact is, you've presented the dilemma in words that make it a very old act-utilitarian conflict that Putnam rephrased and generally get credi...

well, not considering the hope for rescue makes a fun discussion, but its also made at least one person write rather trite utilitarian arguments as to...

Most scientists said the same thing when Gamow proposed an alternative to the periodic table. Gamow have a very hard time of it being a Popperian, as ...

Well, first off, a person who calls himself Ciceronius would disagree. As a legal positivist, he would have to argue that upon Socrates' death, profit...

Well that's the problem, Banno, its only constant to our, or in this case, your, limited comnprehension. If the equations are equivalent, they produce...

well thats pretty much what 2nd-amendment nuts say, as do people conscripted to fight in wars. I refuse to fight, and you have no moral right to say I...

The problem is, Javi, the way you phrase the question, there is no other outcome. In real life, you know you could also be rescued, however remote tha...

First of all, your attitude is insulting. If you might die later because you are out of food, and I eat food you could need to eat later to stay alive...

I simply hold they cannot morally kill the fat man without his permission.

it it weren't a matter of killing him, I probably wouldnt be. lol.

I agree, and there are many social connections to color, for example red meaning stop, or santa claus. I was merely saying that color itself is not le...

I would have to defend the fat man and hope he changes his mind. lol.

As it is a choice of life, Javi, and I hold right to life the most ineffable right, it could only be with the fat man's permission. But in less extrem...

it could depend on what the fat man wants, or not, depending on the beliefs of the group, so there is no one answer.

i dunno, one sees alot of them wandering around in Chico, particularly since the city started bussing more homeless in so it could get larger federal ...

well Ill need to make a major change in my brain to think about that more, Id been thinking about the philosophy of science for the last month, which ...

well thats alot to share all at once, lol, I thought I was long winded. My first reaction is that you will get objections from legal positivists for a...

that's very a very beautiful meditation, thank you for sharing

it is not such a simple learned cultural convention. 3D rendering of 'red' objects encounters many issues, including different absorption, reflection,...

That reminds me, this book arrived from Amazon. I better go and get it from my mailbox when its daylight. Good night ) https://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

Id see it a different way. I just got confronted by more Trump tweets and picked up the girl.

That's where Hofstadter might have gotten the story then. If he acknowledged it, it would be in the bibliography, but he didn't cite sources for his a...

Hofstatder, right? :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Well there've been other reasons Twitter and the government have basically acted in complicity to stop cases about Twitter getting into the Supreme Co...

I don't even want to know what happens in Trump vs. Twitter in the Supreme Court. I have stopped watching U.S. news. It's your problem now, lol, you k...

One can find little hard-to-reach pockets of them, where the visitor traffic is constrained, but they've had to make concessions even so. For example,...

thanks, but as I cant fly for health reasons, the earliest I could get passage booked was Dec 3 from NYC to Southampton.

Well I am thinking of Patmos in Greece, but my reasons are not conventional. It's only 5000 people, but it has operated much as an independent city st...

I'd like to chat about Spain, if you'd like to share your reasons why you think there is such scorn for sicence there, when you've had a chance to dec...

Hi. I actually don't know much about Spain, and I am sorry to hear it is a problem there too. By this stage of the post-information era, there really ...

If you cant understand the 'transformation' the way Ive described it already, its not my problem to educate you on the basics of mathematics, especial...

I explained the problem I see, but as people can't imagine a universe with a fixed Euclidean geometry and varying size matter here, it's not something...

There are two ways around to it. There are those who think of love as something for themselves, like a feeling they want to 'have.' And there are thos...

well, not according to the AAAS. Please write them and ask to change their definition of scientific theory, lol.

If they balk at what I say about mass being imagined, and that the absolute nature of matter is actually indeterminate, then no, they will have no rea...

but whatever the case on that, with regard to science being a model, I hope you will write the AAAS and ask it to modify its definition of scientific ...

how is it questionnable? its just shifting equations around to a different representation. This already happened, incidentally, in the postulation of ...

well, in that case, he should have defined what is different about his view that doesn't make it propaganda, but he didn't, he just complained all the...

to Chomsky what he said was true. To others he should be a propagandist by his own definition. lol.

I can understand there being concern about it, because there are obvious cases when skeptics are hypocritical. For example, Chomsky was a prolific use...

Hi ) Physicists certainly enjoy trying to construct unified theories to explain observed phenomena, and there's nothing wrong with doing so in the phi...

Well, it's typically been said legal positivism is a restatement of utilitarianism in legal terms,. However true that is, it's the same in that it doe...