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So gambling is compulsive. Maybe Amor fati & the great NOW are sharing a handshake.

I'll venture to say he was unfortunately thrown into conflict with his own genius. The richness of Relativity extended far beyond Einstein's credence ...

I apologize for the convolutions pointed out by Alkis Piskas. In the above quote, I'm trying to applaud Einstein's quest for ultimate laws. However, I...

I try to be original, but oftentimes I find myself dealing in the currency of cliche nonetheless. :roll:

As to my meaning above, whereas the gambler strives to beat the odds by slipping the laws of averages, the philosopher, per my thesis, strives to anta...

Regarding imprecise language, your use of "that" above refers to my entire OP, the last paragraph or some other part? I don't intend herein to set beg...

Statement one above is my general statement creating context for the following three statements. Statements two & three are a response to a debater's ...

I proceed with the assumption you read the premise of my quoted line as being, Reality has an exact, context-independent meaning. Isn't the premise yo...

Do you not feel challenged to imagine a state of being with time wholly absent? I've made your last question appear in bold letters because you're alr...

I remember the first time I saw a number raised to a negative power. "How does that work?" I wondered. "Take the square root of a negative number? But...

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As you wish. I will stop. Excelsior.

Years ago someone put me on the right track when they pointed out that consciousness is not exactly a thing, even though language forces us to talk ab...

In your response to unenlightened, I interpret what you say as, 1) consciousness is emergent whenever it's emergent 2) He is he 3) You are you These t...

In the first line below, I make a claim. In the second line, without realizing it, you affirm the claim I make in the first line. In the third line, I...

If, as you say, "math has nothing to do with the universe," and, as you say, "It is just the method of describing the properties." then, by your own w...

What judgment is there to be made? -- EugeneW Consider, an approximation is such in relation to another thing it resembles, as a kind of isotope, or v...

Is someone rushing to judgment about boundary ontology? Where's the argument, supported by evidence (Hadron Super-Collider), that the boundary ontolog...

Before the 20th century, ocean floors were public, repeatable, measurable i.e., subject to scientific examination & description. From antiquity until ...

Breaking this down, Is Brennan herein referring to the (individual) gods? Are you polytheist? Do you hold with the premise monotheism is false? Do you...

Here's where things get interesting because what you have written above is a full, unconditional affirmation of what I've been claiming from the start...

When I see your raise & raise that , I'll süss the pot with gold coins featuring the faces of Einstein, Bohr & Planck.

Your central point is that numbers do not exist in the material world, apart from human mind inventing them, then using mind to count material things,...

A cognitive-leap whopper is a conclusion that might be correct, but is based upon on a small volume of evidence and needs much more evidence to start ...

Asymptotic freedom ? forever approachable but never arrived at? Quarks are really solitary? Since I'm curious, I'll spout off with a shot in the dark....

You're implying ontological status of a thing is metaphysical?

Regarding, You say, I think your above quote is the gist of your premise our universe in not mathematical. With these three sentences, I think you're ...

Do you know you're entangling mental objects with physical objects? I suspect your premise here is rooted in subjective materialism. Subjective Materi...

Okay. Very clear. Can I think of Kuhn as one who examines the (scientific) zeitgeist?

I think your affirmation here forms the heart of our discussion. We both know that material things are countable. This means material things can be co...

I don't take it that far. With the above I'm implying that establishing the physicality of a thing is a good means of establishing the reality of a th...

I say "not mathematically well-defined" and "non-mathematical" are two different things. Moreover, "not mathematically well-defined" does not do away ...

Your inference about my intentions makes perfect sense, however, my language is faulty, and thus your conclusion is opposite of what I tried & failed ...

I'm thinking subjective values systems, almost by definition, are rooted in relativity, as subjectivity is always local to the individual. Paradigmati...

So, our sense of good & evil, no less than our sense of true & false, gets instantiated by neural processing? Does the literature of neural concept pr...

Since you've made this statement, do you acknowledge that material things are countable? Could something be described fluxmatically if math has not be...

Since I acknowledge that humans spoke of the numbers of things (perhaps without using the word "number") thousands of years before they developed the ...

Does the Kuhn content you've quoted contain a component of relativity? Is Kuhn's statement implying that just as the rate at which time elapses is spe...

You say, I infer that they has moral values for its antecedent. and then you provide us with, Is the above quote the section of your evidence that spe...

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Do you agree that COWSHIT ? bullshit? When you look at 2 material objects, say, 2 stones, do you see 2 stones, or do you see the number 2 as it is wri...

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Pile of 2-stones sits on a red square. Close by, pile of 3-stones sits on a green square. Seeing pile-of-2-stones and pile-of-3-stones, would you give...

What about the materialistic qualities of number? There's a stone sitting on a red square. Close by, there's a stone sitting on a green square. A pers...

Ever read a biology book? You've been debating me about pure math & how it's uncoupled from the material world & I've been arguing that applied math i...

Can you elaborate a bit more? I've been thinking that with more loops per fixed interval of time, A. I. will become self aware. If so, this leads me t...

Now you're talking about feedback looping with vertical stacking.

Let's reverse the order. But it would be impossible to form a concept of something natural without having at least some of the characteristics being k...

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In context, the claim seems to be about a certain type of human behavior i.e., moral behavior. Proceeding from there, the claim is that moral behavior...