:lol: Girls were never my strong suit. I'm too boorish. Anyway, what's so abstract about the paterrn whiteness I see in clouds, snow, and other white ...
Patterns are what's common to things i.e. those qualities/quantities that repeat in them. In philosophy a pattern goes by another name, essence. One m...
All I mean to say is thinking doesn't imply the existence of a brain. In the case of animals this is false of course - all animals that (look like the...
I don't think a flat-lander will face any difficulty at all. Length, numbers, multiplication, and angle, all are 1 dimensional or 2 dimensional concep...
I'm currently involved in ethics if posting 2 small paragraphs on a thread on ethics can be treated as involvement. To cut to the chase, ethical syste...
I like the Buddhist take on ethics - it's an amalgamation of utilitarianism and deontological ethics. Take @"Tom Storm"'s example of the person who li...
If you're so enamored by the idea of time and predictions, my advice to you would be to go astronomical, the modern incarnation of astrology which I h...
We're not talking about knowledge and ability. What we're concerned with is the reality of math. Is it discovered, in which case Platonism would be tr...
If you think like that then you mean to say that the information accessible to us is insufficient to conclude the presence of consciousness. So, here ...
No it does not but if math is invented, Platonic realm missing, then we have a major issue because of the circularity I mentioned earlier which I will...
You're right if the issue is only about why we cry but there's something much broader that I want to explore. It's old news as far as I can tell but s...
You are not your brain as in the thinker, presently the brain as far we can tell, can be anything else, even a sufficiently advanced microchip for all...
That makes so much sense and you seem to know why. Can you expand and elaborate it so that we have a coherent theory for why we cry when we're down in...
I present for discussion, a supervenience relationship with what follows to the right of "->" (an attempt at an arrow) supervening on what's to it's l...
? Indeed! So, the thought/thinking is like travelling. It can be done by foot (brain), by car, by plane, by ship, teleportation, etc i.e. the brain is...
It appears that what science has established is that the brain is necessary for thinking - no brain, no thinking. However, is the brain sufficient for...
Gillian Russell, I'm sure, has many counter-examples for every logical law there is but all of them seem rather contrived. She reminds me of contortio...
So, what you're saying is the backwards extrapolation of matter and energy in the universe approaches a single point but never really reaches it (asym...
What is meant by change? It's basically the truth value of propositions switching from true to false or vice versa with the passage of time. The unive...
In Rome Total War, a recommended formation for infantry is to keep veteran men on the right flank of your army - the experience making up for the fact...
What bothers me is why did cosmologists stop the extrapolation at, to quote Wikipedia, "...hot dense state..." They could've simply drawn the trajecto...
What Mary Didn't Know. There are experiences we can't put into words: Qualia, allegedly. There are words we can't experience: Engage the warp drive Lt...
Coronavirus-breathing dilemma. 1. Either you inhale or you exhale. 2. If you exhale, you infect. 3. If you inhale, you're infected. 4. You infect or y...
:up: I second that if only because it frees us from being tied down to one normative system of thinking. Never realized that there could be more than ...
A = {B}, B = {C}, and this is where it gets interesting, C = {A} World A simulates world B, world B simulates world C, and world C simulates world A. ...
From the link you provided: Sensible Form and Intelligible Form “EVERYTHING in the cosmic universe is composed of matter and form. Everything is concr...
Not to contradict you but the number 1 is defined as the pattern (abstraction) in the following sets: {ghost}, {&}, {R}, {9}, {John}, you get the idea...
:up: Thanks a ton. I don't know if you'll recall a brief conversation we had a long while ago about whether the mind is a sensory organ or not. You we...
That's nothing. Try this on for size. 1 X is within space & time. No! 2. X is beyond space & time. No! 3. X is within space & time AND X is beyond spa...
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