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Physics? :chin:
October 16, 2021 at 03:57
:chin:
October 16, 2021 at 03:55
Why?
October 16, 2021 at 03:54
Fair point but that's not actually a reason is it?
October 16, 2021 at 03:54
Explain why?
October 16, 2021 at 03:51
Before we go any further, what do you think of the idea that perception is a language? It seems to be one; after all, the brain is interpreting the ne...
October 16, 2021 at 03:50
Red is 750 (nm). The perception of red is merely the eye translating 750 (nm) for the brain. You could, hypothetically, change the perception red, say...
October 16, 2021 at 03:44
https://youtu.be/rkRbebvoYqI
October 16, 2021 at 03:36
Why do you ask?
October 16, 2021 at 03:36
Yet, you grasped my point.
October 16, 2021 at 03:30
So? It's the eye's, child's or adult's, way of translating 750 (nm) for the brain.
October 16, 2021 at 03:30
How do we know red is 750 (nm)? Isn't that a bridge we've already crossed?
October 16, 2021 at 03:27
Begging the question. What is red? It's the eye's way of perceiving 750 (nm). It's like a way of looking at something, a perspective if you will. The ...
October 16, 2021 at 03:24
https://youtu.be/fBDifUjNzbQ
October 16, 2021 at 02:58
No problemo. Well, it wouldn't be wrong to say that, necessity is the mother of invention, if a people had no use for math, they wouldn't have ever ad...
October 16, 2021 at 02:15
Languages maybe mutually unintelligible but nothing new is added in translation from one to another. Joe's knowledge that red is 750 nm, even when he'...
October 16, 2021 at 01:59
1. Deism: God as creator (of the universe) but who doesn't intervene. 2. Pantheism: All is God. 3. Pandeism: God became one with the universe . 4. Pan...
October 16, 2021 at 01:39
Indeed, it puzzles me. A certain aspect of reality (quantity) is discovered all over the world almost simultaneously, accepted, fast & furious, by eve...
October 15, 2021 at 23:25
:up:
October 15, 2021 at 23:13
Same here. I wanted to quote an intellectual giant on the issue but I don't even know where to begin. So, I'll try to convey my thoughts in my own wor...
October 15, 2021 at 23:09
:chin: You have a point. Mathematics, I wanted to say, is abstractions but so are the words in natural language. Yet, very thought-provoking, is it no...
October 15, 2021 at 22:57
Interesting! Names are given, requiring a giver and that which is named. Looks like a digression but certainly worth pondering over. We're talking abo...
October 15, 2021 at 22:25
@"Banno" I believe math is, inter alia, a language. Going by what Israeli-born historian Yuval Noah Harari says in his book Sapiens, the written word ...
October 15, 2021 at 22:09
:ok:
October 15, 2021 at 22:01
Maybe.
October 15, 2021 at 21:59
Somehow I don't believe you and in a certain sense I think you're right.
October 15, 2021 at 21:58
Yes, I think so. I'll give you an argument Socrates made. 1. Nothing in our experience is truly, precisely, equal. Everything we encounter around us i...
October 15, 2021 at 21:56
As I tried to explain with Mary's room thought experiment, redness is just 750 nm (wavelength of red) in eye dialect. Just as you can't claim that you...
October 15, 2021 at 21:28
About Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Gödel sentence (G): This (mathematical theorem) is unprovable (within given system) P = G is provable (G has a p...
October 15, 2021 at 21:17
Schrödinger's cat? A = Axiomatic system of math we're currently using (could be unknown) S = Schrödinger's equation (superposition) C = the cat is bot...
October 15, 2021 at 20:58
\rightarrowAnthropocentrism \rightarrow Animal Rights Movement\rightarrow Environmental Movement \rightarrow The Cosmic Perspective \rightarrow Geocen...
October 15, 2021 at 16:39
Eating one's cake and having it too. From The Paradox Of The One.
October 15, 2021 at 13:22
Mary's Room? The question is, does Mary learn anything new? I recall mentioning this before but what is red? Isn't it just our eyes way of perceiving ...
October 15, 2021 at 13:04
He Who Must Not Be Named https://youtu.be/vSyockB8QaM WTF?
October 15, 2021 at 12:30
It looked like an interesting lead, you know, how a physical deformity (Erb's palsy) resembles the physical posture one would assume if one were offer...
October 15, 2021 at 09:56
Well, taking my cue from Socrates, possibly others I'm unaware of, philosophy was/(is still?) an extremely lethal disease. I can't find a reasonable e...
October 15, 2021 at 09:46
Never mind. Gracias.
October 15, 2021 at 09:37
:chin:
October 15, 2021 at 09:36
Yours is a very interesting, not to mention profound, perspective indeed but aren't you just playing with the word "God"? I dunno, it feels like you a...
October 15, 2021 at 09:28
Your comment from Artificial Intelligence & Free Will Paradox :chin:
October 15, 2021 at 09:26
God Became The Universe How? What does that mean?
October 15, 2021 at 07:22
I can't parse how a deity becomes one or merges with the universe? Do you mean like a cyborg, one of the predicted futures of humanity when man and ma...
October 15, 2021 at 05:46
That third party would be subsumed by the duality it forms with the anti-third party. Every other party you invoke, if you so desire, will again neatl...
October 14, 2021 at 15:40
Name a thing that doesn't have an anti-thing. Also, what's awareness got to do with dimensions? Can you provide a link that explains this connection b...
October 14, 2021 at 15:30
Read about it but only very superificially - it basically gives a scientific spin to the Christianity's prophecy of the Second Coming - resurrections ...
October 14, 2021 at 15:05
Indigenous American Philosophy
October 14, 2021 at 14:17
You never know, you never know. Have you heard of OOP Art? We can't just reject theories out of hand. Mind you, I'm not trying to make a case for my h...
October 14, 2021 at 13:53
Much obliged.
October 14, 2021 at 13:48
Now it makes sense. The consonants had a prefix/suffix that was constant. So, for instance k could only be ka and never ke or ku or ki or ko and t cou...
October 14, 2021 at 12:53
You forgot an "h"! :lol:
October 14, 2021 at 10:56