ucarr

Thanks for the reference. :up:

I’m unsure of the meaning of classical intuition. Please clarify. It doesn’t. My focus, however, isn’t on the simple issue of the truth or falsity of ...

I understand you as concluding Peterson raises the status of the tale of Jonah and the Fish from literal nonsense to instructive folklore. The elevati...

The trick in writing this story is that Jake's claim to writing sentient code must be vulnerable. It must be perched right on the cusp of the refutabl...

You reject the observation Peterson stops Maher's initial lampoon of scripture? After his opening volley, Maher's critical near-silence is literal. Ho...

In the conversation I hear Maher say: a) the bible contains some comically stupid things; b) God is capricious, cruel, petty; c) God is Trumpian. I un...

Hello universeness, Thank-you for your time and attention. I appreciate your careful deliberation, especially considering your opinion my theses are f...

My only guesses: Shaun and Quigley - Baden; Duct Tape - 180 Proof. There's a building consensus about these being the authors of the above works. If w...

ucarr wrote (poem) The Body of Music; (short story) The Crossover

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Does this not contradict Heisenberg Uncertainty and it's approach to measuring the quantum cloud of possible locations of elementary particles? Matter...

You're the one proposing no possibilities. My conjecture spins off your conjecture. The setup is: If your conjecture is correct then: . Outside of you...

If your nihilism is an expansion from the presence of the empty set within every set, then I, being on fair terms with existentialism, am good with th...

sub·space | ?s?bsp?s | noun 1 Mathematics a space that is wholly contained in another space, or whose points or elements are all in another space. In ...

Can you cite a recorded instance of accidental, unsystematic, no-purpose abiogenesis? I doubt it. Were such a phenomenon available as evidence, scienc...

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This is an important truth about my modus operandi. Leaps of faith at one pole and closely-reasoned inference at the other pole span a continuum of me...

Where's your equation describing, through an internally consistent narrative, a set of existential possibilities that paradoxically contains some exis...

Our empirical experience on earth makes: consciousness-selfhood-emergent-from-matter not a speculation but an observation. I'm trying to suggest an as...

Your above overview expresses much that I find agreeable and, moreover, it tracks closely (in my opinion) with my simulation_convergence thesis: human...

Entropy is the enemy of inspiration. Yes. We can beat back the slow dirge of our death-march to the grave; we can blunt the certain falling apart of o...

You have edited your claim so that it now includes reference to asexual reproduction by unicellular organisms. This claim, while it bolsters the suppo...

incoherent - a disjunction between a conclusion and its antecedent premise false - a conclusion that connects to its antecedent premise by means of a ...

How to define "continuity" is what I'm attempting to examine. If something is continuous, such as the lifespan of an individual human, how to we corre...

You are claiming a line through space is and isn't the effect of a cause?

I claim a correct interpretation of a claim isn't limited to covering the meaning intentionally expressed by the writer of the claim; it can also cove...

This is your characterization of my statement considered as a whole. You say nothing about the relationship between the four precepts and the seven ex...

Evidence that life leads to intention & purpose: Precepts: 1) Intelligence is motion organized; 2) Motion organized within sentients is adaptation; 3)...

The logical_factual grounds for my claim are simple: The earth tells us life in our universe is possible. That matter and energy are neither created n...

One thing may precede another thing without the preceding thing being the cause of the succeeding thing. Is my above interpretation of your quote corr...

Can you take your above quote and apply it to your below quote?

I wonder if this closing line intentionally echoes the closing line of Michael Rockefeller, scion of the Rockefeller American fortune, perhaps eternal...

I voted like for the story because the narrative is filled with enchanted lines of prose poetry:

This story, which I enjoyed, took me back to my time reading Alan Sillitoe. His short story collection, featuring The Loneliness of the Long-Distance ...

:up: 180's got a bead on it. Yeah. With the merger of light and shadows, shadows are partially illuminated by the light and they are partially providi...

Your helpful observations are illuminating. The question of the origin of intentionality, like that of life, directs our thoughts to whether the trans...

Would you welcome god(s) to break bread with you before making such offer to fundamentalists?

Is the patrolman telling the driver his wife is on the force, or is he addressing the driver as "Deputy," either knowing or figuring she's undercover ...

Closing Statement: As far as what I learned from this conversation, I'm wondering if, above all else, atheism seeks to deny necessary supplication bef...

I offer my apology for the last sentence. I was pleased with myself, thinking I'd given smart advice. Later, I realized my last sentence was forward, ...

What is the structure of Ulysses? Ulysses is divided into three parts: The Telemachiad, the Odyssey, and The Nostos; it has eighteen episodes. The nov...

Do you like James Joyce? An olympic imagination at play in words.

I'm in no hurry to declare, with sweeping grandeur, the determinism of our universe. On the other hand, logic and predictable continuity, being so ess...

Firstly, let me speculate that your latest post to me, whether intentionally or accidentally, helpfully provides a plain-English explanation of the, a...

You explained random sampling is not true randomness. You followed by saying true randomness exists within the domain of infinity. 1/0 is another infi...

My previous post to you is my response to your top quote above, which I interpret as follows: Through drilling, training towards conditioned responses...

I don't know what this is. Can you give me an everyday example?

In your above quote, you answer your own question above that by claiming truly random (therefore "free") choice can only happen, or approach happening...

Your two above quotes acknowledge empirical limitations on randomness. Your above quote suggests that “randomness,” like “infinity” is more concept th...

Can you elaborate when and how conditioning and intentional training of immediate responses preclude rather than program autonomic reflection_intentio...