Well, I paint and draw and that's how I think of the distinction between them. Objects (which may be abstract) are separated by changes in colour or t...
You have talked quite a bit about making decisions under uncertainty - about medical treatments, weather forecasts, coin-tossing, and beer in fridges....
You may be groping your way towards Bayesian statistical decision theory. As I have said before, there are 4 components: model, data, prior, utility. ...
So I did. I called them identical, and immediately contradicted myself by asserting a difference between them! I did not intend to call them identical...
If I place two identical digits side by side (22) is this a difference which doesn't make a difference? In decimal notation the answer would be that i...
I associate the phrase 'a difference that makes a difference' with various social sciences. I didn't know where the phrase came from. Your reference t...
There's a similarity between Deleuze and Wikman, but you've added an 'a', which changes the meaning. In a bit (of information as in computer science),...
I don't know, but I know something I would like it to include, which is prior elicitation. It is usually thought of, as in that article, as capturing ...
It doesn't seem to indicate a problem for biological evolution. Possibly Williamson, or Banno-interpreting-Williamson is thinking of a very specific c...
@"Banno" Having read SEP's account of Bayesian epistemology, I think the entry on Philosophy of Statistics, especially section 4 would be a better sta...
I don't know how to explain, because I don't know how much you already know. In the other thread I mentioned the four components of Bayesian decision ...
No, no, no, no, no, that is not anything like my position.I don't know much about Wittgenstein, but enough to know I prefer the later version. (See my...
The labels 'continental' and 'analytic' are silly but I find it helpful to think of there being arty philosophy and sciency philosophy. They can be mi...
The philosopher Hans Moeller who has a youtube channel called Carefree Wandering has said that continental philosophers are failed writers and analyti...
McCormick's paper reminds me a lot of the distinction between Bayesian prediction and Bayesian decision theory. (Very briefly: In all statistical infe...
I am a scientist not a philosopher, and have only read brief summaries of later Wittgenstein. When I first encountered language-games I immediately th...
I am interested in this area, and I like the sound of a trans-disciplinary approach. I am a scientist, a mathematician and programmer with experience ...
OK. So how do you know that ? I don't think cars experience pleasure or suffering myself, but I don't know for sure. And I sometimes think my real att...
Have you read what psychologists say about the self? I have read Damasio's The Feeling of what Happens. I've also read Anil Seth's Being You, and I pr...
We could. More interestingly, we have. You may have one of the beasts hiding in plain sight on your driveway. A typical modern car (no self-driving or...
Yes, I think there must be quite a lot of miscommunication. I'll use biology as an example because it's most familiar to me. Bayesian statistics uses ...
What do you mean by modern thought? Presumably you're restricting to philosophers? Anglo-American philosophers? And over what time period? From the po...
Thanks for your reply. We are using language very differently, particularly the word emotion. It's hard to tell how much we disagree about feelings th...
I am a mathematician and programmer. I've been interested in AI since the 1980s. I don't particularly remember Moravec's paradox but a lot of people w...
You could try the Wikipedia page on qubits. It explains things better than I could. If Wikipedia does not meet your standards, well, qubits are a hot ...
Dumbed-down quantum theory. I guess this quote is more your level: ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other ...
Perhaps I should have said my lucid dreaming self has limited mental capacity compared to my waking self. Still, my first thought in my first lucid dr...
I have had lucid dreams since I was a teenager in the 1970s, though they have declined a lot in frequency over the past couple of decades. I don't thi...
Now I've described the reputational self I can give a sort of an answer to the OP. Descartes' self stays within the confines of the public relations d...
I think the Reputation element in the diagram is intended to be the person's reputation among others. It is their actual reputation which they cannot ...
I'd pick 1, but I don't like the much misused word paradigm. I agree with Chalmers that we need to add an extra ingredient to science, and I think tha...
I have read Damasio's The Feeling of what Happens. I've also read Anil Seth's Being You, and I preferred the latter. Seth's decomposition of the self ...
Superhuman machines will first be made in the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive. There are many important issues involving AI in ...
Not true for me. I made the mistake of buying licencing some maths/science books for Kindle. A couple of months ago I found I was unable to open the K...
I'm going to respond to the medium article, not the op. I can see you've put a lot of effort into this. Congratulations on writing out your stance in ...
It sounds like you want a reviewer, not a proof reader. There are several youtube channels by youngish ex-academics (eg Jared Henderson, Nathan Hawkin...
Well, I think I can understand what Heidegger means. His stance is that mathematics is a collection of ideas developed over human history, so it is pa...
When I think about questions like 'what is mathematics really?' I tend to consider three different ways. How did mathematical skills arise in evolutio...
?? Of course there are many conceptions of "2". I don't know what you mean by objects, why you're talking about objects, or what point you are attempt...
Earlier you said (for example): and By a 'mathematical antirealist' I meant someone who thinks maths is invented, not discovered. Or someone who think...
I've invented a game. At least I think I invented it. I believe that mathematics is invented rather than discovered, and it is kind of a mathematical ...
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