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For the sentient being (presumably alone in creation the category capable of science/humanities) cons being a state insuperable (you can’t know outsid...

Your definition: “ln so far as subjects are self-reflexive… also has subjective constituents.” does a good job of describing what’s on my view screen ...

Humans will forever fight over morals because adaptation is ruthless and desires are dictatorial. The social contract is a necessary prerequisite for ...

You’re right. The wording is redundant. I used the modifier because I was trying to reckon with whether you think causation natural and physical. This...

Right now I’m going with the notion consciousness independence cannot be certified from within consciousness. It seems to me that knowledge can have n...

I’ve been wrong in claiming existence and consciousness are biconditional. They are linked, but they remain distinct. They are not interchangeable.

At the very least, there’s the appearance that conscious beings are conditionally confined to a biconditional link to existence because their presence...

If it’s logically sound to think humans, being conscious, cannot experience and thereby know a world devoid of consciousness, then there’s the questio...

Regarding existence and consciousness being biconditional, I’m thinking about early earth. Is it that we assume early earth was inhospitable to life a...

If a dynamical system evolves to a level of complexity beyond measurement within its parameters, does that mean it can’t be cyclical?

In the case of dynamics with an axiomatic system logically incomplete , is causation thought to be in effect, but its info too complex for measurement...

You do think state changes of a system are tied to complex dynamics? You think complex dynamics include multiple causes for a specified effect? If so,...

I’m trying to say you think causation a part of nature, but not a part of physics. I understand this to be the meaning of: the physics of

I’m wondering if conventional wisdom thinks causation a part of physics, and if it’s thought causation directly the report of empirical experience. It...

Might causation be mind dependent, and perhaps emergent thereof? In a world without consciousness, might there only be sequencing of events? Does cons...

Okay, mind is emergent from non-mind. Is causation an emergent phenomenon? Or Is it just part of the physics of nature? When the wind moves a rock, an...

The object can (usually) exist without a subject. Can something be a self without consciousness? Can something be an object without being an object to...

Where do we come from? The void, which, as I’ve been guessing, might be the infinite possibilities of potential existence. With this conjecture, the o...

Interesting that you assume a world without consciousness is inanimate. I know you don’t mean a world without motion. I think you mean a world without...

If morals correspond to real things and thus they are objective, then the “what” of life, that is, the facts of life (ha ha!) can generate a type of s...

Does causality exist in a world without consciousness? I’m examining whether there’s an essential link between consciousness and causality. Since we c...

“What it’s like to be a bat.” What it’s like to be something is the great question that links consciousness with matter. As we answer the question “Wh...

The two great modes have an important difference WRT focal range: “understanding “ has a well-defined focal range coupled with a well-defined goal, wh...

Thank you for the detailed exam of my post. “Why” is basic to both modes, and this conversation is about their differences, so I haven’t dwelt on it. ...

Everyone sees the difference between one rock and two rocks. Do the solo rock and the rock duet, respectively, physically store number within themselv...

You’re focused on the great conjunctive adverb: why? Where does human fit into the universe? Why are we here? I think a big clue to answering that que...

The present state of my general descriptions of the two great modes: science/humanities goes as follows: science asks: what is existence? Humanities a...

In your post to hypericin, you say math structures are an instance of info strings. By Webster’s, that means math structures are a concrete representa...

I’m not trying to make a point indirectly with rhetorical questions. The questions are sincere, and I want you to answer sincerely. At this time, I’m ...

You indicate numbers are immaterial. What are numbers abstracted from? Is an abstraction a derivative of its antecedent? Does a number have any type o...

I have revised my understanding of a formalism. If I can use the form of an equation as a formalism, then I can say a+b=c is an example of a formalism...

This is how I read your statement. This is your argument supporting your claim I mis-read your claim. You seem to be implying that guidelines for best...

Facts describe real things. As you describe formalisms: Formalisms measure regularities of nature. You say (above) regularities of nature are concrete...

Here's your own language:

Premise - Formalism = (a technical term for) narrative Question - When you write a map, do you simultaneously read it? If so, then reading and writing...

precision | pr??siZH(?)n | noun technical refinement in a measurement, calculation, or specification, especially as represented by the number of digit...

Why are these two statements not a contradiction? Why are "regularities of nature" not concrete matters of fact? How are "matters of fact" concrete bu...

Do you have any interest in the Beckenstein bound, from the Holographic Principle (Gerard t'Hooft)? It describes a limit to the amount of information ...

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What is symbolic logic without the reader? It's marks on paper. No work. Really, it's non-existent without the writer. Logic that has meaning and work...

This is how I talk about science and humanities in broad generality. The link below will take you to the post for additional context. ucarr post That ...

As I understand it, an axiomatic system is a compressor. The algorithm that generates the axiomatic system has a focal point that excludes info incons...

From your sequence of quotes here, I understand that, just as you say "Incompleteness alone is already sufficient." . Can we generalize to the followi...

The issue I want you to focus upon is this: for any system that does work, as it goes forward in the systematic process of doing work, the work builds...

If you're refusing to read Tarskian's posts linking to: it's not obvious to me why you see no reason to refute Schlesinger. The title of his paper mak...

Please use the links below to Tarskian's posts. After re-reading the posts, refute the citations referenced by Tarskian by: providing known facts pert...

This situation - soft uncertainty - doesn't preclude uncertainty from also being applied to: which is hard uncertainty. I attempt to refute your above...

I'm glad to see I've joined some estimable thinkers who have preceded me. My gratitude to Tarskian for the citations. :up:

Please supply: known facts pertinent; corroborating evidence supporting known facts pertinent; logical analysis; valid conclusions drawn from your log...

This is important generally, and here more specifically. If what you say immediately above is true, then the 2^{nd} law of thermo-dynamics, if, as I h...