Agent Smith

:up: Yep, that's about the gist of my argument. That Descartes said something similar is amazing (am I in such illustrous company?) and also not amazi...

How? Why?

Very uplifting words! :up: Do you suppose people who recommend aporia (bafflement) as a healthy state of mind were conflating it with "awe and wonder"...

Matter does use atomic counting. For example water is a ratio (2 molecules of H : 1 molecule of O). The second sentence of your post is a truism.

Name an actual infinity, prove it exists! It's a simple procedure.

Indeed, description is only possible once we develop the language to do it with and math is a language, but more too. When and if I invent a language,...

Name one example of an actual infinity.

To tell you the truth, we do experience unboundedness: the surface of our earth, a 3D spheroid, is unbounded, yet its area is finite. I suppose unboun...

I agree and disagree. Language (the written word) began their jounrey as pictograms (the letter resembled, physically so, the object it symbolized). F...

:up: That's one way, yes! However, I was hoping there was a more scientific way to do that. There doesn't seem to be anything mathematically precise a...

Yep, infinity & time are related in the sense that an infinite task will take an infinite amount of time. What comes to mind is the apocryphal tale of...

Death, then, must be genius of the highest order! Life, then, a total schmuck! Jokes aside, death can be a valuable ally against Algos (pain) unchaine...

Update I can hold something classified as physical, say a cigarette, in my hands. I can manipulate (turn, twist, roll, bend, etc.) it quite easily and...

The question that needs to be asked is "how can last Thursdayism be disproved?" Our only evidence that the world wasn't created last Thursday is our m...

:fire: Squares with how goodness and naïvety are confused with each other. Is it wise to be good or is it folly extremum? Satyam (verum) Shivam (godli...

I don't know if this qualifies as successful reductionism but in chemistry class, thousands of years ago, the fact that ice floats on water was explai...

You mean to say the universe wasn't mathematical before humans got here? The earth was not revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit determined ...

You riddler, you! :smile: You beat the Sphinx didn't you?

:ok: What I've been told is that the universe follows some rules (the laws of nature) that are fundamentally mathematical. Physics and chemistry books...

:up: So ignorance is not simply a state of not knowing, but is to be construed as an absence of wisdom (vidya). The distinction between knowledge and ...

:ok: What do you make of theoretical physics, by and large an extension of math, math itself a very abstract (mental) subject/field? I'm sure you're a...

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Pray tell, how is what I wrote/said ridiculous? :smile: I want to run something by you since you seem to know your way around the philosophy of math. ...

:up: Mu/Wu. Analysis paralysis, not exactly, but close enough for government work. :up: Much like all threads in this forum and others too I suppose. ...

Yes, it has only been possible to describe it (the mathematical nature of the universe) very recently, geologically speaking that is, but the universe...

This is what I found on Wikipedia: Aporia is somehow supposed to (magically?) lead us directly to the doorstep of Epicurus (re: hedonism). How that's ...

Yup it fits and fits well, like an iron maiden. The maiden embraces and kills us in the process. Love! :roll:

Capitalism is just evolution, possibly gone wrong for the way it rewards (fierce) competition. It's aut cum scuto aut in scuto (Spartan women :roll: )...

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"Reason exists without spatiotemporal location". Ok, but what's a (5th) dimension?

Maybe today is Friday if a day lasts 13.8 billion years! I believe time for god is not the same as time for humans.

I didn't get the joke!

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Also more appealing to the (exhausted and bored) masses (us). We don't want information/instruction, we want to have a good time. Therein lies the rub...

I get the 4D part of it (we reason in spacetime). What about the 5th dimension?

Interesting idea this principle of plenitude. It is a probabilistic argument from what I can tell, just like abiogenesis as I outlined it.

:lol: That's how cruel the universe is: it tears apart our delicate souls. Let us hope our children fare better than us. We're working in total darkne...

Well, what about cosmology - the Big Bang Theory for example? Scientists project backwards from the knowns of the present - speed of expansion of the ...

:fire: This is what people call either-or thinking. Media oulets/organizations seem to think that it's either entertainment OR information (the exclus...

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How is reason(ing) 5 dimensional?

Is it possible to prove that the amount of information we have just won't fit in a (last) Thursday?

:fire: Package deal or it's more evil to let someone not only do bad things, but also make him/her feel guilty for doing them; knowledge of good being...

Perhaps a mashup, blended Whiskey, in the spirit of eclecticism! What you did was draw a parallel between human history in re morality and the biblica...

:up: How could anyone not have seen that? It's obvious now that you explained it. The Father, The Son, Plain as the nose on your face, The (Mother) Ho...

Well, I can think of chance as a legitimate explanation. Here goes nothing. I'll use the genesis of life to illustrate. The ingredients for life, all ...

I see. I'm right and wrong. Right in that the mathematical laws of nature preexisted humans, but then, this is where I err, humans had to invent the m...

From a (very) human standpoint, it seems that there really is no cosmic observer maintaining the universe through the act of observing it. Why? The un...

More or less. I'm sucker for (good) analogies.