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I’ll do what you suggest. Thank-you. :grin:

I understand you to be saying “void” is more fundamental than “spacetime.” Since you say “void” is analogous to Spinoza’s Substance, I understand you ...

If you do sign off from this conversation, before you do, I hope you’ll elaborate some details of your judgment that “brain-in-a-vat Platonism” convey...

Are you suggesting my language characterizing you and Wayfarer is actually a more apt description of me?

I know that an abstract principle may have truth content and some level of application to the phenomenal world. How may it have realizable potential? ...

Picture the moon in earth’s skyline, with the ocean at high tide. This is an interaction of two celestial bodies with gravitational fields: earth hold...

Consciousness is an aggregate of nested sub-routines of reflection. We start with the thing-in-itself noumenal state; next, we have reflection: Aha! T...

Herein, I will attempt to profile Gnomon and Wayfarer philosophically: You’re trying to plot a course midway between reductive materialism at one extr...

Thanks for weighing in, Joshs; I’ve been missing your input. What a knot of complexity here! The absential self, on which Cartesian freedom depends, e...

How is your above definition of void ontically different from spacetime (and its virtual particles)?

I think your use of “potential,” a stored-energy, material phenomenon, connects Absence/Void to other material things. Think of a battery.

Absential materialism is merely my wording for Deacon’s “Ententional.” I’m not proposing anything different from what from he expounds in Incomplete N...

How do Democritus, Epicurus and you define void?

There is no binary of material/immaterial. Instead, there are only material processes moving upwards along a continuum of higher-order, dynamical syst...

Philosophy should meet the same standard of clarity met by math.

Are you saying the natural world stands some degree apart from material things? Are you acknowledging the immaterial realm is a part of the natural wo...

Good. My metaphor of the bridge is meant to express the theme of unification across upwardly evolving dynamical systems essential to upwardly evolving...

Your question is important because absential materialism has a knack for looking like immaterialism without being such. In a parallel manner, the moon...

Yes, the pairing of the adjective with the noun is my own doing. Deacon’s use of absential as an adjective in Incomplete Nature introduced me to the a...

Poor, maligned curiosity, the engine of adventure. Indeed, I do have strong impulses to express my self, especially when gorgeous phrases start paradi...

Good-sized short story or perhaps, if I really get rolling, a novella.

Don’t spread this around but my submission is a fragment of a longer work. The “closing” of the fragment was not intended to be an ending. What follow...

Keep ‘em comin.’ I think you’re in the zone. :up:

I read a wonderful book, The Making of Casablanca, by Aljean Harmetz. Afterwards, I found a way to insert an imaginary version of myself into the insp...

As soon as I learn how, I’ll commence to use Dustbin for my future postings of fiction. I like your counter-pointing of my flaws and assets; these int...

You, like Amity, are an apostle of the sweaty brow. The fiction from both of you holds place as proof of the importance of your work ethics. In the wa...

This goes to the heart of your distinction as a fiction reviewer. You do the hard, sometimes unpleasant work. As a reader, like many of us, you’re a m...

The narrator’s urgency about time is both of the moment and of the life and times of the enduring voice in the head. Time is a mystery the living wres...

Thanks for your time and attention. Your comments are very helpful.

My understanding of Penrose, as influenced by Gödel, says that Incompleteness Theorem tells the mathematician that math proofs exemplify the consisten...

What do you make of this? https://youtu.be/CdjHRA7fV10?si=4Z3yCmi5lYHuCoPr

I make out a condemned woman looking back on her life as the hour of her execution by the state draws near. Mainly, she remembers the short, sweet day...

Boxers, like debaters, engage in a battle. When the bell rings, signaling the start of a new round, the fighters leave their corners and enter into th...

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. In your opinion, do these two attributes of number bind abstract numbers to physical things and physical things to abstract numbers?

—————————————————————————————————————————— Regarding the statue as impression from the external object and number as impression from a concept, are th...

We have different mental impressions in our heads. This variety includes: grocery list items, images of statues observed, numbers learned in grammar s...

During the week following the husband’s discovery about the statue, he goes out walking and steps onto a patch of ice hidden under snow. He takes a ha...

You say this is bad logic because the road is there whether the eyes see it or not. One day at the dinner table a husband tells his wife that afternoo...

Don’t confuse number-signs with physical number as countable-things-in-the-world. I’ve never denied what you claim here about number-signs. But even w...

You don’t. This has been my point all along. You say above it’s poor logic to claim “My eyesight is bad and I cannot see the road; therefore, the road...

If you don’t know the five logical operators, then you need to open a book of logic for beginners. That’s the book I’m studying. At the bank, when the...

Yes. I agree with the points you make here. After reading your Knowledge and induction within your self-context and some of your interactions with Bob...

Numbers are universal? There’s a reason why teaching math to elementary students usually involves the use of material things that can be counted like,...

I understand logic as an exacting type of continuity; it is continuity that adheres to strict rules of inference as they pertain to conjunction; disju...

:up: Thanks for the link. I’ll read them and then respond.

Now, for the hard part. Why do I think mind is never wholly independent from our physical world? Have I ever been counted as zero, or as two? No. I’ve...

Yes, they can, and they do. However, they do not exist there purely. It is the interweave of world and perceiving mind that fuels experience-based mem...