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We can't do gun control, and you can't have an abortion. :100:

I thought he meant you find meaning by looking at use.

Turning assholes into martyrs is counter productive. But who decides to push forward or pull back? With our annual summer riots, that decision is actu...

People were mainly thinking about justice for the black guy who was brutally murdered by the white cop. Public safety was the concern that prompted fo...

That wasn't due to a lack of interest in law enforcement. They were trying to avoid making the protesters more violent.

I guess if you find that trench warfare has broken out in your living room, it's hard to say who'll have the advantage. You'll probably have to Jackie...

You can defend yourself with an unloaded shotgun. Just cock it and that sound will generally cause invaders to flee. Unless they're on drugs, in which...

The view from the ground here is that in some parts of the US, people are fiercely protective of their ability to own fire arms. Gun sales always spik...

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Why not?

Yes. But we can stop and gape at the fact that the unobserved tree is unknowable. We'll all agree to never speak of it again after that.

Good point. It's just that we wanted to know what it looks like when... you know.. nobody's looking at it. We'll have to let it be that we don't have ...

That's not true. Watch the video.

Americans are from outer space. I don't think you're taking that into consideration. We evolved in a different galaxy, so you have no frame of referen...

It's hard to say. Over time, I've come to realize that he holds his views sincerely. I have to respect that.

Dr O'Dowd explained that the Big Bang was an entropy minimum that may have been an aspect of an entropy fluctuation. It may be that entropy was higher...

This is why I have a nuclear submarine off the coast of Europe: to deal with the rampant sarcasm over there.

Or they might think: "I'll kill you before you can kill me."

Not in the context of the standard narrative. I guess people will divide off according to what they think of the stories we tell: are they metaphors a...

Ok. It explained what entropy has to do with what happened before the Big Bang. That part was cool.

Can you tell me the reasons for the flaws?

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Maybe. Most people are about 98% irrational.

Life is an arc. If you're on the climbing side of it, I think you're supposed to have an aversion to death, because you're headed in the other directi...

It's that what we see causes us to realize that what we're seeing is a construction. There's no escape hatch on that situation, try as we might to fin...

Oh. I see what you're saying.

I don't think we need to saddle the average person with having to phrase everything the way a cognitive scientist or physicist would. I don't need for...

Right. The point I was making earlier was that since indirect realism is the view of science, an advocate of direct realism needs to address in some w...

I thought SDR was saying that one would acknowledge that "I was talking to my parents" is true. With a deflationary account of truth, this acknowledge...

Correct.

I do see that they're both flawed. Do you mean that this leads to idealism?

Did you get a chance to look at the video?

That's a fair assessment, yes.

The sound you hear on a phone is the output of a digital-to-audio converter, so you're definitely hearing a representation. It's indirect. In the case...

Another oddity with indirect realism is that it implies that communication is always between me and someone I've constructed.

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I think the answer is that the question is language on holiday. We can't stand outside ourselves in order to answer it.

I think it's about saying "yes" to all of life, both the good and bad, recognizing that the two are inextricable. Amor fati.

That's not direct realism tho.

Direct realism doesn't makes sense, but it's necessary. How do you deal with that?

So you have a contradiction on your hands. What do you do about that?

What would be the justification for that view?

I'm not going to read the rest of your post. Thanks.

I think the usual answer is nerves. Ha! As if anyone cares what I think. :grin:

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Interesting!

You probably know this already, but I learned some interesting stuff about entropy from this video: https://youtu.be/QkWT-xMTm1M

The ocean contacts the shore, but it's not perceiving the shore. We don't fully understand how perception works, but it's apparent that a multitude of...

Ok. That's fine. Although it has an ontological dimension wrt the nature of what you take to be the world. Ontology and epistemology are usually joine...