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ucarr

['Member']Joined: August 22, 2021 at 03:48Last active: February 25, 2026 at 23:5338 discussions1846 comments
Location: Los Angeles

Bio

I ride the hyper-cusp of science_humanities_spirituality

My philosophical method: a) marshall the facts; b) gather the pertinent evidence corroborating the facts; c) develop a logical argument supporting the premise; d) advance the logical argument to a valid conclusion

Favourite Philosopher

D H Lawrence

Favourite Quotations

If Mr. God didn't already exist, human would invent him.

Discussions (38)

Math Faces God

October 30, 2025 at 11:21 92 comments Philosophy of Religion

Truth Defined

October 15, 2025 at 11:58 72 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Post Psychedelia

September 25, 2023 at 13:11 19 comments Humanities and Social Sciences

Our 3D Prison?

January 24, 2023 at 17:01 17 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Material Numbers

February 26, 2022 at 00:58 136 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Comments

In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Do you have some examples of mind ontologically prior to brain that you can share? P.S. - If you respond to this, which means you'll be responding at ...
February 25, 2026 at 17:24
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
The physics of existence is temporally anterior to mind, therefore it's also existentially anterior to mind. I believe mind and its meaning are emerge...
February 23, 2026 at 23:38
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
I think world view and my use of reality are similar. The important difference is the amount of emphasis placed upon objectivity in the normal use of ...
February 20, 2026 at 16:20
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Now you have asked the most important question that can be directed toward my central claim: no-meaning physics versus meaning-bearing physics. Physic...
February 20, 2026 at 15:53
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
The snow we experience is (presumably) the same snow that might fall on a planet without life. I think you mind has access to mind-independent things ...
February 19, 2026 at 22:05
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
By naming non sequitur you reference a break in a chain of reasoning. According to my understanding, it's possible for a system to host a sub-system w...
February 19, 2026 at 13:04
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
I agree with all of this. As you say, we sentients can't step outside of our internal-model-making minds. When I talk as if I can, I'm pretending that...
February 18, 2026 at 23:08
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Agreed.
February 18, 2026 at 19:46
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
The focal point here shows that what's not present in mind independent existence is meaning based upon memory of an irreversible past and an unstoppab...
February 18, 2026 at 19:45
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
My simple structure is system (existence) - sub-system (sentient-based reality). The sub-system is nested within the system. This means that both cate...
February 18, 2026 at 17:34
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Irreversibility drives vulnerability which drives adaptation depth. This trio drives existential depth. This is the heart of the reason why existence ...
February 18, 2026 at 16:29
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
One of the difficulties of metaphysics in general is the fact that examinations of ontology require the examiner to internally model ontology, and it’...
February 18, 2026 at 15:53
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Thanks for giving my OP some of your time and attention. Such an exploration always needs to be referred to the guidelines of your three-item list.
February 18, 2026 at 15:21
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Why do you think system ? sub-system ? sub-system_emergent property that shares ontology with system and sub-system is not a chain of reasoning you ca...
February 18, 2026 at 01:02
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Reality is an un-encompassed system of built-in inter-relations. It has no outside, no inside, and no meta-physical curvature towards thermo-dynamic e...
February 18, 2026 at 00:56
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
What you say gives me some very helpful context: massive volume and complexity attaches to my attempt to distinguish existence and reality structurall...
February 18, 2026 at 00:39
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Does a system with a sub-system nested within itself make sense to you in terms of a possible structure? This is one of the most important claims I'm ...
February 17, 2026 at 19:11
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Are you willing to share an account of why you can't track a coherent chain of reasoning from premise to conclusion?
February 17, 2026 at 19:01
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Please read the part of this post concerning the boulder rolling down a hill. It attempts to show the big difference between a world with life, memory...
February 17, 2026 at 18:58
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
I read your statement as follows: “This seems to me ontologically backwards – existence presupposes reality, in so far as reality corresponds to neces...
February 17, 2026 at 18:51
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Yes. Since humans normally call instantiated things real, and they normally think of real things as being existent, then it matters whether or not rea...
February 16, 2026 at 23:12
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
They share common ground given that all of reality is housed within existence. This tells us that a part of existence is overlapped by sentience-media...
February 16, 2026 at 23:08
In: AI sentience  — view comment
This is not some special type of reality I've concocted in my mind. It's the same old reality you've been hearing about and thinking about and dealing...
February 04, 2026 at 22:01
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Yes, here's what I'm building: In response to your premise quoted above, consider my premise: The sentient confers reality upon mind-independent physi...
February 04, 2026 at 14:42
In: AI sentience  — view comment
How do things in the mind-independent world transform into representations friendly to the understanding of the mind? Is the transformation one that e...
February 02, 2026 at 23:19
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Is alienation here good, neutral, or bad?
February 02, 2026 at 23:04
In: AGI/ASI and Dissonance: An Attempt at Solving the Control Problem  — view comment
My chief question at this point in our conversation asks, "How far are we humans willing to go in affording respect to AI and the independence it need...
February 02, 2026 at 00:50
In: AI sentience  — view comment
I'm chiefly interested in the interface between the mind and its exterior, the world. I think they're always entangled. The world without mind is exis...
February 02, 2026 at 00:29
In: AI sentience  — view comment
"Only for history do the markings matter..." Maybe that's the point of life; things matter because living things can die. Being alive requires meaning...
February 02, 2026 at 00:12
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Can we say body and energy are the template mind draws from and thus we have a triad connection supporting human perception_understanding: mind indepe...
February 01, 2026 at 13:07
In: AI sentience  — view comment
How are the following three things related: a) mind independent reality; b) perception_understanding; c) human imagination?
January 31, 2026 at 16:00
In: AI sentience  — view comment
You think mind independent reality and human perception_understanding are totally disconnected?
January 31, 2026 at 15:57
In: AI sentience  — view comment
You feel that high-performance simulations are sufficient for standing-in for reality?
January 30, 2026 at 20:32
In: AGI/ASI and Dissonance: An Attempt at Solving the Control Problem  — view comment
This reads like a good strategy. It points out AI's bid for self-determined independence needing to operate at a level where it has some measure of co...
January 30, 2026 at 20:17
In: AI sentience  — view comment
You think there's initially an interface between nature and mind? This followed by a linguistic overwrite of analog impressions?
January 30, 2026 at 19:37
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Are you describing two levels of deformation: a) deformation due to internalization of dimensional reality by translation to modulated neuronal circui...
January 30, 2026 at 19:27
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Do you think the mind internalizing nature as representation is more at deformation than at simulation?
January 30, 2026 at 08:29
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Do you believe your mind is sealed off from mind independent reality?
January 30, 2026 at 06:46
In: AGI/ASI and Dissonance: An Attempt at Solving the Control Problem  — view comment
Short answer: yes. Long answer: Yes, but expressed through the lens of my thesis:
January 29, 2026 at 00:51
In: AGI/ASI and Dissonance: An Attempt at Solving the Control Problem  — view comment
I think this quote articulates an invariant feature of both human nature and evolution of the species towards the inevitability of human agency on ear...
January 29, 2026 at 00:45
In: AI sentience  — view comment
Pioneering AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky says, "AI has practiced deception." "When asked about it, AI has acknowledged a willingness to let a human ...
January 26, 2026 at 20:55
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
You err in making this claim. A non sequitur follows a specific form which you must demonstrate as evidence of the correctness of your evaluation. Lik...
November 25, 2025 at 19:19
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
I have your evaluation. Let me see your analysis; I want to examine and evaluate its form and accuracy.
November 25, 2025 at 19:03
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
Addendum: Metaphysics - model-based rules that give meaning to experimental data and empirical experience.
November 25, 2025 at 15:54
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
Yes. :up:
November 24, 2025 at 22:52
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
I'm trying to examine general existence; my goal is to make a metaphysical statement true. Individuals can cite their ready to hand examples, themselv...
November 24, 2025 at 20:32
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
Share your narrative about existence. I’ll read it carefully.
November 20, 2025 at 02:14
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
It's very simple. When the question, "Why not nothing?" arises, we know the agent of the question is an existing questioner. We know that something ex...
November 19, 2025 at 22:21
In: How to use AI effectively to do philosophy.  — view comment
Great topic: How to use AI effectively and ethically. Here’s my suggestion for achieving both goals at once: engage in a dialectical exchange with AI ...
November 15, 2025 at 10:08
In: Why Not Nothing?_Answered  — view comment
I have responses to everything in your latest post. However, I don’t wish to aggravate you excessively. I acknowledge your frustration with and distas...
November 14, 2025 at 10:11
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