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It's no big deal. Just look it up. It's fascinating stuff.

You defended your thesis this whole time without ever looking up the definition of weak emergence? :confused:

But the biggest changes in the climate wouldn't be felt for a few more centuries. There's still a gigantic amount of coal to burn. What we do with our...

Or post-limguistically

This was in my YouTube feed, thought you would appreciate it. I guess Mary Tiles was right: some people are starting to rethink actual infinity in fav...

Some parts of communication are hardwired, like the general framework. I think a lot of the things we take to be abstract objects have their reality i...

Argument for what? The Hard Problem?

That's very true. I occasionally find myself thinking about scenes from Charlie Kaufman movies, my mind will just revolve around them endlessly. Today...

I'm picking up what you're laying down, there.

True. If you really believe meaning is use, you wouldn't complain that other people don't understand that. You'd just try to read the use in their utt...

What's confusing about it?

That's how exposure to sun triggers melanin production in your skin. I've already got so much melanin it doesn't do much for me.

The sun is 90 million miles away, so no.

Light hits the skin on the back of your hand as well. Is that also perception? You're free to think whatever you like. March to your own drum.

I guess this utterance is being used to do something. Not sure what.

I agree. It's true that you have to pay attention to intentions and context of utterance to discern what command is being given or what proposition is...

Visual data is processed in the occipital lobe at the back of the brain. There's no light back there.

I was watching a French movie and I realized that while I was reading the captioning, I could understand most of what I was hearing, but I turned off ...

I think it may be that some circularity is unavoidable. On the one hand, language may influence the way we think. So as a child's brain is developing,...

The anatomy and physiology of vision preclude what you're describing. The eyes work much like a camera. The film is vitamin A.

Philosophy is usually a response to an opposing idea, or an attempt at synthesis. Philosophers don't usually write at length to express agreement.

Himself

Read Schopenhauer, then read the Tractatus. It will become obvious that he's talking directly to Schop.

Clarke's Laws: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that somethi...

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It's like with gravity. We knew basically that it's the reason apples fall. Beyond that, we knew nothing. The first hypothesis was that it's some kind...

I think the main problem with saying this is that it presumes more knowledge about consciousness than we actually have. Strong emergence is a bare beg...

I think we might be getting a little religious about Wittgenstein in this thread. His arguments are only as good as their premises, some of which have...

There's a guy who tries to teach Korean through pattern recognition. He thinks that's how everyone learns language. You hear the same verbs used with ...

What's wrong with that? It's what we did with gravity.

I think strong emergence is saying that matter has the potential to become conscious under the right circumstances. With weak emergence, we're saying ...

I don't know who responded to that survey. I don't really care.

You want to apply semantic realism to math. That would be a move I'd make if I just want to be deflationary. In other words, I don't want to answer wh...

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Maybe there's some quantum physics explanation we haven't discovered yet.

Wilson! I'm sorry Wilson!

The same will be true if one quantifies over physical objects. Doing so is a statement about what ontological commitments are required by the theory.

You don't have the foundation to understand the argument. :confused:

Dude. If you were committed to the topic, you would at least know what mathematical realism is. :razz:

Would it be better to start a thread on ontological commitment? If so, I can do that.

There's a documentary about it. One of the factors is that the Silent generation didn't have enough to eat when they were young. They didn't have much...

Both. A good diet is more expensive. Ironically, the American problem with obesity is caused by low quality, ultra-processed crap. Maybe, but I think ...

Outcomes are worse. That doesn't equate to "mediocre.". Why exactly outcomes are worse is an unanswered question. One hypothesis is that the American ...

Basically what Quine said about ontological commitments.

You said your constructivism was compatible with realism, which would imply that the reality of numbers is a byproduct of social practices. Social pra...

I don't think you understand what math realism is.

I'm confused then. They're both realists.

So let's take Wittgenstein's objection to set theory. He says we can talk about what goes on in the first 10,000 decimal places of pi, but it makes no...

So in what specific ways are you different from a platonist?

I don't really have the burden of proof here. I'll give you time to read the article.