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Do you forget that and rediscover it over and over? Or are you always aware of it?

Reached any conclusions about that?

:yikes:

I started out with free will and determinism, trying to understand why they're both correct, but opposing. Or I started out with potential and actual....

Can't we just start in the middle of it all? And be deflationary or anti realist about the rest? No?

I think it's just observations about how we think. Is that what you mean?

Usually. There's logical, metaphysical, epistemic, and physical possibility. Necessity usually has to do with a priori knowledge. Kripke's aposteriori...

So we have Kant: Reason provides categories that inform our expectations of the world. So yes, necessity is in there. (Nobody is paying attention to w...

It's not as bad as having a global flood, though.

:up: I think the first will lead directly to the second based on what Count Timothy von Icarus said. The world would react to Russia's use of tactical...

@"Baden" What are the odds of nuclear war and would you bet on it?

Maybe

Philosophy via sentence analysis. Never a good idea.

Nature selects things all the time with no intention; the Omicron variant, for instance.

"Random" usually just means a thing wasn't intentionally selected.

Socks usually.

The idea that a person can't have sex with God and give birth to themselves is just an old social construct that Republicans use to try to keep us in ...

Randomness is just a matter of how a thing is determined, not whether it is.

I doubt that.

Laplace's demon knows the initial states. Obviously the answer to Beanhead's question regarding randomness is: your conclusion will follow from your a...

So philosophy's not your cup of tea. Nothing wrong with that. Have a good evening. :eyes:

Depends which guage shotgun you shoot it in the head with.

Laplace's demon has been upgraded with the latest software by David Chalmers.

Those changes shouldn't be unpredictable to Laplace's demon.

Random numbers are generated by a deterministic system. In a computer it's a quartz oscillator.

Yes. This started with Wayfarer saying that X is logically necessary if it's happening by natural laws. That isn't true because we can imagine the cou...

Did you read the article?

China has 370 million people on lockdown. :grimace:

I think you're talking about epistemic possibility.

It's really not.

It's not though. Don't we all? 'What can be imagined' is all that's being talked about when we say Nixon might not have been elected or that the unive...

Who talks about that with their mom? I wouldn't phrase it that way, but yea, it was annoying. Probably not. I'm also Jim Morrison.

That's one way to look at it. There are others.

I actually am Jesus Christ, tho.

You're being kind of cryptic, but I think you're suggesting that you never think about what might have been and I think you probably do, so...

We have a lot of mentally ill people on this forum.

He's French.

Curried brown rice for breakfast.

You're actually minimizing it with your approach.

He wouldn't have been disgraced in the way he was. The point is, we can imagine Nixon losing without having to say that it wouldn't have been Nixon. I...

It's called getting your hands dirty. They think it's the price of doing business. Your people are only innocent because they can't kill thousands, no...

It's not saying he was disgraced because he won. It's saying that if he had lost, his disgrace couldn't have happened. If it's not meaningless, it's e...

Sure. And by this interpretation of the wording, every true statement is necessarily true. So what is meant by "If Nixon had lost the election, he wou...

Or are we in a black hole? https://youtu.be/jeRgFqbBM5E

:pray: thanks for the discussion

Yea, it just doesn't tell you the mechanics of an event involving cubes. Block universe, holographic universe, many worlds, etc.

I just meant that an analysis of a cube doesn't imply anything about how the universe works. Could be a block universe. Could be a multiverse. Who kno...

We do use logic to arrive at explanations. Is that what you mean?

So P is: Balls that are moving are going somewhere. P is necessarily true. :up: