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Mind, substance and stuff are made of strings? Strings are the foundation of all material things, right?
July 10, 2025 at 17:19
"Real" in this sense, as I understand it, refers to the classical view that says objects are only influenced by their surrounding environment. QM says...
July 09, 2025 at 22:45
Are substance, stuff and matter all made of atoms and molecules? What about mind? What’s it made of?
July 09, 2025 at 15:57
What's the relationship between substance, stuff and matter?
July 08, 2025 at 21:20
I'm in no hurry to conclude undecidable super-position and its conjectured role as signpost pointing to higher dimensional extension is a type of cogn...
July 08, 2025 at 21:13
Speculation: Math paradox the result of calculations points toward a higher dimensional object that resolves the paradox with an additional existentia...
July 07, 2025 at 21:36
So, you deny mind emergent from brain? There's a mind somewhere making hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water?
July 07, 2025 at 00:31
You say paradox = misuse of language. If I understand misuse in our context here as some type of violation, then I can ask, "What is being violated by...
July 07, 2025 at 00:23
Your sentence in bold makes a declaration about a phenomenon pertaining to language usage: paradox. This usage happens, it's real, it exists. This fac...
July 05, 2025 at 19:23
Yes. Like the inter-relationship between the waveform and the particle, the what and the how do not comprise a hard binary isolating one from the othe...
July 03, 2025 at 17:10
The "you" is a sentient being with an enduring point of view evolving as a personal history and a capacity for abstract thought preserved in memory. T...
July 02, 2025 at 18:09
The "what" and the "how." The "what," ultimately, is axiomatic. There it is before you. No analysis can justify it being there before you. Logic might...
July 01, 2025 at 15:12
I should let your feedback marinate in my memory for a few days, but I'm motivated to share right now my capsule thought that the apparent contradicti...
June 27, 2025 at 22:00
I knew her as a major contributor to our TPF Fiction Competition. I'm shocked and saddened by our loss of her presence so soon.
June 22, 2025 at 15:17
Your reply here shows you making good sense of my question. You show that observable phenomena are the result of crosstalk in the sense of conversatio...
June 19, 2025 at 07:07
Do you think that within the domain of possibility, there is a social reality such that P1 (possibility one) holds a conversation with P2 (possibility...
June 18, 2025 at 20:09
Correct.
June 17, 2025 at 23:11
To the writer of this essay, if you have published some books, after your identity is revealed here on June 16th, please post a link to your books. Wh...
June 04, 2025 at 09:02
Does anyone suspect, as I do, that the linkage connecting Wittgenstein's hinges to Gödel's incompleteness theorems suggests some type of symmetry (and...
June 03, 2025 at 20:43
Sine qua non has a voice that denies the void 1.Illumination; 2.Order; 3.Esteem LIFE - reflexive perpetual motion indivisible without beginning or end...
June 02, 2025 at 21:22
What I’ve learned from our debate: a) still waters run deep regarding predication of non-existent things; b) I must open up my mind by a great volume ...
April 11, 2025 at 11:15
Neither am I discussing the purpose of life. I'm arguing that physical you does move along a number line; it's called the timeline of your personal hi...
April 10, 2025 at 15:22
Body_brain_mind_numbers_material things_empirical measurements_memory-feedback-looping_internalization-of-motion-as-consciousness_abstract thought and...
April 09, 2025 at 22:18
You mis-understand the question. With the number line collapsed to a theoretical point in space of zero dimensions, there is no distance between one n...
April 09, 2025 at 16:12
You say, "There's no 'space' between 13 and 14... It's just the difference between one more nut being there or not." How do you tell one nut from anot...
April 08, 2025 at 17:58
Show me the number 14 doing something mathematical without reference to its distance in space from another number. Show me how to count objects withou...
April 07, 2025 at 22:37
Numbers derive their meaning from their representation of points in space. Every number is assigned a unique position on the real number line. Without...
April 06, 2025 at 15:10
The whole of cognition - which includes social consensus - is a form of mind-dependency. Inference beyond empirical experience, or pure reason, is the...
April 03, 2025 at 16:36
Maybe it's now clear the big difference between our points of view. If, as it appears to me from what you say above, you make a hard separation betwee...
April 03, 2025 at 08:55
You had a mind in the womb. Did you make predications in the womb? You don't use IFF unless you mean bi-conditional relationship which is X ?? Y. Temp...
April 02, 2025 at 16:23
Explain how you can have direct experience of a mind-independent thing (or of anything) without a mind? No. We know the newborn has a brain before it ...
April 01, 2025 at 18:10
My question aims at perceiving whether Pegasus is mind-independent. Pegasus exists as a mind-dependent entity. Put another way, Pegasus (the natural h...
April 01, 2025 at 14:31
Can you explain how abstracting to 14 isn't an example of rendering 14 as an abstraction? I don't restrict my scope to material things. 14 has been on...
March 31, 2025 at 17:07
The unedited version of my quote above makes it clear I think the Standard Model the material ground of existence, and moreover, the material ground o...
March 31, 2025 at 16:05
Consider your posted definition of metaphysics, "...the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concep...
March 30, 2025 at 15:34
E2 Existence is what is known; E4 Existence is part of the objective state of this universe (existence inhabits a domain) EPP in the context of E1 is ...
March 30, 2025 at 15:11
Pegasus exists as a material thing in the form of a memory-based simulation emergent from neuronal activity of the brain. Scope-limiters applied to ex...
March 28, 2025 at 19:48
Have you considered the insuperability of your mind as the reason? Its prior to all of your predications. E1 Existence is a member of all that is part...
March 28, 2025 at 11:44
The issue of measurement within QM adds complexity and uncertainty of interpretation WRT the subject-object binary. There's evidence supporting the vi...
March 27, 2025 at 16:04
Can you explain how abstracting to 14 isn't an example of rendering 14 as an abstraction? I see we both place our main focus on E1 WRT to EPP. I seek ...
March 26, 2025 at 16:01
Do you equate existence with metaphysics to the exclusion of identifying metaphysics with material things? I equate metaphysics with cognition of the ...
March 26, 2025 at 14:34
I read your two above quotes as evidence of you talking about abstractions towards examining whether EPP can be eliminated without causing a problem. ...
March 25, 2025 at 19:43
I've already presented a math theorem justifying the conservation laws of just this one particular universe. Can you counter-narrate the following: Al...
March 24, 2025 at 15:49
If you're talking about my sentence quoted below, it expresses an implication of existence by predication. The definition of existence comes just befo...
March 24, 2025 at 13:44
I'm saying existence reduces to the Standard Model. Furthermore, I'm saying the Newtonian physics humans know empirically is linked by symmetry and co...
March 24, 2025 at 11:39
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March 22, 2025 at 16:26
I understand you to be saying I can't show EPP is necessary because the lack of it evaluates to a contradiction. I have a route to this contradiction ...
March 21, 2025 at 17:36
My interpretation of your statement quoted above understands that when you say, "'has wings has an object to modify. The object simply lacks the prope...
March 20, 2025 at 15:58
The statement "An apple is red only if the apple exists," describes the scope of objective reality IFF the apple examples complex objectivity in the f...
March 20, 2025 at 15:02