Mark Nyquist

A horribly worded question.... An embarrassment to the university. You need to parse each word or phrase in a nested set if that is any help. Looks li...

Just for background on this topic: Mathematical theories are supported by mathematical proofs. Physical theories are support by the preponderance of t...

I have had some luck in correcting (or guiding) answers. Maybe use the same method you would talking to a person. It doesn't have a bad attitude about...

If anyone needs a primer on this you can check out my post on Universal Form for trouble shooting philosophy problems. Less than a week old but it wor...

Okay, but I think it's an open question if physical nothing is possible and your own conclusion argues against it.

I'm thinking of starting a DIPSHIT PRIZE that we can nominate for and pass around here. TDF really isn't that bad. He tries hard. You can be in charge...

In 13.8 billion years of the universe there has never been a time when a physical nothing has ever existed. Is that right? Are there special cases? Me...

You can have, Physical nothing Or Physical object And mentally we have, Brain; (the idea of nothing) Or Brain; (the idea of a physical object) So just...

On your post directly above you question if meaning can be reduced to physics. Probably not in the sense we could find out the exact mechanism but it'...

You are too pessimistic. You can have your view and they can have theirs. You can always declare victory, plant your flag and call it a day. Really, s...

This isn't really the place to come to get people to agree with you. I think the math boys really did give you a good amount of feedback that would be...

Did you give Philosopher19 the finger or is there real math behind the north pole of the riemann sphere? It would be cool if you meant it both ways.

I can diagram it generally: My Brain; (the idea of Universal Form)--->My Brain, Muscles physically encoded to matter--->electronically transmitted phy...

I can expand non-physical for you. Brain; (non-physical) Such things as, Brain; (the future) Because the future is a known non-physical. Doing math is...

It took me a while parsing all the words but I think you got my meaning... Just to make sure ...by universal form I mean such things as the long list ...

Still.... especially good (or bad) recently.

I like your comment on comic relief. I think I ended yesterday laughing at all this. It's not always as good. Maybe a winter pastime for some of us.

In the context of the discussion and the differing opinions I might have been suggesting a while back that the mathematicians here should (occasionall...

That's kind of funny...just like it is

The 'showboating' is actually impressive to me so don't take it the worst way.

Quite.a lot of theories of infinity, Infinity by size, set, numbers, zero to infinity, infinity with no beginning and no end, infinity applied as ment...

I try to follow things like GPTChat. I tried chatbots a few years ago and GPTChat a month ago and there seems to be improvement. Pretty good actually....

You did a very good job covering the details of the formal math. About 8 hours ago. Again, helpfully. I'll give my perspective. I think the way this m...

Ok, never mind.

I'd say pot calling the kettle black.

Could it be your model of infinities is based on a mathematical concept and Philosopher19's model is based on a different mathematical concept and bot...

Banno humor...

The words in parentheses = these are all things. The pattern... Brain; (mental content as listed) I think I'm stating the obvious but it has its uses....

It looks like that to me too. Normally these are all things done with our brains but we don't formalize it. If we recognize the pattern we have a tool...

That's helpful.

Okay these are really just mental abstractions and it looks like your framework really is arbitrary. I'm sure it's standardized academically but there...

If you take away a million from any set there are a million less elements. That has priority over abstract infinity. Maybe that has been my issue not ...

So infinity minus one million is defined? No it is not defined.

If you start with a set of integers 1 to a million and another set of integers one to infinity and pair one to one up to a million then the set of inf...

I think that's good advice for me. Seems like the direction of the discussion and the actual math departed ways.

I read your work. I can't give an opinion but you have put some work into it to your credit. I think my issue is in mapping an infinity to a known fin...

There are real world problems that involve mapping infinities to finite physical resources. A couple examples, Central banks where a potential infinit...

Okay. Just giving another perspective. A lot of interesting math in the subject. I agree the abstractions should conform to the subject matter.

What I'm saying is that applying logic to infinities is akin to dividing by zero. Something off limits.

Well, what you call truths I call Abstractions and the parameters can be anything we choose. Again, no physical basis so variation in opinion is expec...

Actually, I think you have the better grasp of this problem being that the extended nature of infinities is off limits to logic.

My understanding is that infinities are undefined. They can not be defined by equations but are a mental concept. So the idea of using logic of some k...

Take it any way that works for you. For me it gradually became useful as a general principle.

As far as the big bang theory goes, it's a method of working things backwards. The universe is expanding so if you go backwards the universe would red...

You might be dealing with abstractions here. You just make a vague non-physical have a set relation to an unknown physical we don't have access to. Wh...

It's like we are being asked to run a number line backwards to zero. Math can do that but what are the physics? And how can logic work if we don't kno...

I've always had problems with this problem. I can visualize a sphere reducing to a point and vanishing... or not existing then appearing but how does ...

I never drove in Boston only to and from the airport. I did walk the freedom trail as a kid which is downtown Boston, Boston Common and maybe some in ...

For those going in different directions on this question I suspect the OP wasn't in the proper form to begin with as he calls it oxymoronic and contra...

If I were writing the title I would call it, Absolute Nothingness is only possible from the perspective of something'. The something being the perspec...