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Mersi

['Member']Joined: August 12, 2021 at 07:13Last active: February 02, 2024 at 07:202 discussions20 comments

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That may be true but only a few graduates will agree on this point. Moreover there is undeniable progress in knowledge at least in specific fields. It...
January 03, 2022 at 09:20
Briefly an explanation of terms: Under objective reality I understand the material outside world including the material components of the body. In sho...
December 12, 2021 at 15:21
If there was no reality, or if reality is only constructed, then any gain in knowledge would be nothing but the deepening of a fiction. In everyday li...
December 11, 2021 at 09:19
The question is how accurate predictions of what we observe can ever become. We tend to imagine our cognitive faculties divided into different areas. ...
December 10, 2021 at 11:26
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Do not be amazed at your existence. Because it is the condition for there to be questions at all. Why aren`t I anybody else? That`s the much more inte...
December 02, 2021 at 08:42
If we regard reality "as that part of our conscious experience that no amount of mental manipulation will alter" as TheMadFool stated then a lot of me...
October 02, 2021 at 13:24
It would be easier to understand the Enactivist view if you could give sort of a practical example. Let´s say, for Information taken from a warning th...
September 24, 2021 at 08:11
One Effect of Light energy is Color, but color is not intrinsic to photons. Gnomon That is at least debatable. Light has a wavelength, which subject A...
September 22, 2021 at 08:18
When I said: I have no problem with the equivalence of matter and information I meant that I have no problem to call it information, the structure or ...
September 21, 2021 at 09:15
"A dynamic brain state", as I understand, is work in progress. When you say information exists as brain state is this a conscious state? I would prefe...
September 17, 2021 at 08:07
If you mean by "Dynamic brain states" the ever changing network of synapses and the traffic that travels over this network, I agree with you. Somewher...
September 16, 2021 at 08:33
High Pop I have no problem with the equivalence of matter and information. However I see no advantage in this assumption. What is the practical conseq...
September 15, 2021 at 08:35
I thought the aime was to put together a meaningful definition of the term "information" (if possible?) I assume that the aime should be to define the...
September 14, 2021 at 07:20
If matter was somehow equivalent to information, what is meant by the common saying: wrong information? That shows, that even if it was true that the ...
September 13, 2021 at 08:48
Pop, this may be of interest for you: The German Carl F. von Weizsaeker and his students attempted to establish a theory called the "Quantum Theory of...
September 12, 2021 at 08:38
Reasoning presupposes some kind of rational thought ... The aliens of our thought experiment could well be ahead of us as logic is concerned. That cou...
September 04, 2021 at 11:47
Anyone who denies the aw of contradiction ... 180 Proof I do not deny that the axiom of cintradiction is a very useful tool. But given human logic dep...
September 02, 2021 at 07:09
"different creatures, different ways of experiences, different logic" Do these creatures see the whole world different? Or is a circle still a circle ...
September 01, 2021 at 07:27
Personally I agree with Kolakowski .. If Kolakowski is right, the quetion arises as to how (and if at all) progress in the field of epistemology is po...
August 29, 2021 at 09:01
What`s so completely dirfferent? Perhaps completely differnt is the wrong notion. What I mean: Given all nerve cells have developed from first primiti...
August 29, 2021 at 08:12