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I said that, but I took a hiatus with the USian labor day weekend, and this morning I got stuck on the first transformation of the demonstration of C9...

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-post-human-body Interesting article from the flotsam of twitter.

Good stuff. I especially like the connection between vulnerability and transparency: forthrightness can be a boast, but if you're really at your limit...

Also true.

:) I'm pleased to see you thinking through the problem. It's something I tend to think about, once and again. The reason I say the guide is the senses...

My response was a joke, of course, but a joke with a point -- the question needs refinement, else the little modus ponens I offered is an answer: touc...

Thanks for the tip -- that would have been a frustrating discovery to make on my own. I'll still check it with C6 first to see, but C9 looked like qui...

I'm touching a keyboard. If I'm touching a keyboard then it is possible to touch something. Therefore, it is possible to touch something. Hell yeah. F...

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If you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C after highlighting it copies to your clipboard and can be pasted here. (At least, that worked for me when I te...

I think I figured out C7 this morning. (and the others prior -- I figured out 5 when it clicked that the unmarked state was taking the place of "b" in...

Heh. I thought my response clever but upon inspection, not so much. I think the act of pointing has a place in the definition of "slab!", for the init...

Well, that answers that question. Cool. Then I'm tracking! And actually I had that thought, but then I thought -- well of course we can Let p = whatev...

OK I've worked my way through to the last step with that help. I think you're right about the presentation being confusing. When I started thinking of...

That helps. Thanks. I'm with you up to this point now.

"It's the slabby one. The one with the essence of slab"

Fun idea. Good question. I presume it's the same for most humans in this respect: the focus of our consciousness -- not in a collective sense, but rat...

Actually hold.... C1 can be derived from axiom 2 as well. So I'm even more lost. :rofl: What is going on with C1? (EDIT: Maybe it's a demonstration of...

Finally caught up to here. I'm struggling to follow the demonstration as well, so I'm going to type it out and see where it takes me. It's the use of ...

Cool. I'm more familiar with the Physics 2 stuff than the practical stuff, and it's been more than a minute since I've studied that. I think I'm track...

Let's suppose some news article. This was the article at the top of google news for me this morning: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/weather/tropical-s...

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\left. {\overline {\, a \,}}\! \right|a Hrm I'm not following the analogy here for T8 very well. How would the analogy work for the worked example of ...

I'd say start with believing your senses. But this is a beginning, and a guess. The trouble you raise is we do not know what to believe in, but we do ...

Fair point. Though that's interesting that the book is close enough to work to actually feel like work.

Heh. You gotta read along with us! I'm guessing I'll be skeptical when I get to those passages, but no matter the text it's a good idea to read it wit...

Yup. I know @"SophistiCat" added the SEP article, but it's worth noting the formalization of supervenience in this thread I think -- Which still is ha...

Heh, yes. Undoubtedly. The obscure and the strange is one of those things that just nabs my attention. Also I had some notions back when learning baby...

Originally I wanted to actually put the fourth cannon example underneath a bracket of its own, but I found it difficult to stack multiple bracketed ma...

Chapter 3 feels like a set up for chapter 4, which is what I said about 1 and 2 so I may just be in that habit. But I felt like it was all a set up fo...

True! And that'd be more appropriate for the source material.

Yeah, that's a big conceptual difference between us there. So I suppose that's also part of my skepticism with respect to the problem of consciousness...

Fair point. Tangentially related, but that'd be going off the deep end.

Heh. Well, therein is the rub to all interpretations of QM -- they all kind of stretch our notions of credulity. It's hard to pick one interpretation ...

I'm skeptical. Especially now that these two disciplines are interwoven and so have reciprocal support for one another. I don't think there's a "most ...

Darwin didn't write his book in those terms, at least. Later on it was confirmed that biology and chemistry get along, but that's not where he started...

I'd be happy to hear from them if they're willing to speak. I'm not a biophysicist, but I sometimes annoy my coworkers in my insistence on attempting ...

Cool. Glad to have you along thinking with. That's basically what I think. I love the German scientists because they were educated in philosophy and s...

Or -- the Copenhagen interpretation encouraged shut up and calculate, because that's where the literal truth was thought to be.

By being both a particle and a wave. "particle" refers to matrix mechanics, and "wave" refers to wave mechanics, and it turns out they were mathematic...

Eh. I definitely disagree with that. Just because uncertainty is a physical truth doesn't mean that the electron doesn't exist. It just means that the...

More on topic, though -- I'm pretty skeptical of the fine tuning problem. I'd probably count as a deflationist on the question because I'm not so sure...

:D The Science of Logic is something I need to revisit eventually if I ever hope to be able to offer a formalization of sublation, but it's so hard to...

Heh sorry. That's the second version I offered, put into plainer language, and I agree that it's in the form of a modus tollens. The first one I offer...

Trying to parse into sentential logic: p = "anything is an appearance" q = "it is known mediately" r = "he(or she) acts not-mediately" K(x) = "A perso...

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I agree. With your bolded bits too. But that should not be a surprise. Mostly using this as an opportunity to say that in spite of my various misgivin...

Please forgive the requote, but I think this a sound bit of advice worth highlighting. "Remaining open" is key!

Yeah that makes sense, given how chapter 1 didn't even begin to make sense without chapter 2. I'll keep along. I'm still figuring out the accounting, ...

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