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Math as we know it piggy-backed the development of money. Money, first invented in Lydia, was the first abstract object, typifying value, but not spec...

What are you blocking it with? Sentiment?

You don't understand what a person is telling you if they say they're cold? Odd.

So it's not private. We understand what they're saying.

They say they feel cold. I understand what they're saying. What else is needed?

I doubt it.

Right, but when the feverish person says "I'm cold.". I don't tell her she's wrong. I believe she's telling the truth. The content of experience isn't...

A guy wakes up and begins to realize time is going backward.

Definitely. It's not unusual that a person with a temperature of 103 F will ask for a blanket because they feel cold. It might be said that they feel ...

But doesn't indirect realism suggest that there is no unmediated account? And therefore truth is going to be relative to life form? For instance, cats...

@"Punshhh" The local news station is broadcasting information about the 4th Amendment, which denies police the power to enter your home without a judi...

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I'm with you so far.

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Sounds interesting. Let's do.

You probably have quite a bit of confidence in your ability to read routine motivations without any episodes of language use. On reflection, you may b...

I have a feeling that bombing Iran is going set in motion a chain of events that ultimately results in AI taking over the planet, and reconfiguring hu...

Space is an aspect of gravity. Mass tells space how to curve, space tells mass how to move.

True.

The general tone of the political threads is dark sarcasm, as if everyone is just talking to themselves, trying to exorcise fear and loathing. It's li...

Actually I just assumed my views would bore you.

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No, it's faith. Everybody grows the psychological structures they need to deal with the life they have. I can't tell you how you need to think in orde...

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Yes, but we can get along just fine in an illusion. Contradictions are just little sign posts that things aren't exactly as we're imagining them. They...

It never ends. :smile:

Politics is mostly anthropology to me. Trying to understand humans. Obama was a really friendly guy, but his decisions regarding Syria resulted in a h...

Zeno wasn't arguing that we can't plot satellite orbits with acceptable precision. I do admire your devotion to the practical. Detaching yourself from...

I'm afraid if I answer this, our disagreement will disappear. :grin:

Indirect realism isn't disputing this. Remember that it is realism.

I suppose so, yes.

A similar example is that cats can see in conditions that a human would describe as completely dark. Is it dark or not? It depends your sensory appara...

I guess you could put it that way.

The point is that the paradox isn't fundamentally a math problem. It's a series of questions that point to a contradiction.

l If we want calculus to solve Zeno's paradox, we have to assume that the math is telling us something about space and time.

What I need is for you to explain why you think calculus tells us something about space and time. It's in the article.

What does math have to do with the structure of space and time? Read the SEP article on Zeno's paradox.

That's not an argument either. Some people are just emotionally averse to paying attention to things like Zeno's paradox. You can lead a horse to wate...

Zeno saw himself as proving that all motion is an illusion. You're saying that he's wrong, but you aren't providing an argument. That's fine.

If your face had the same proportions as a cat, your eyes would be six inches wide.

Zeno's paradox is a convergent series, dude. It doesn't matter what order you sum it in.

Such situations should not be judged by the public based on videos. An internal affairs type investigation should take place. When the president publi...

One time he left his office and went out sailing, ditching an appointment with a patient in the process. The patient came after him in a sailboat, and...

Any federal police action should be reviewable by an internal affairs entity called an OPR. Word is that due to personnel cuts, there is presently no ...

The world was kind of falling apart at the time.

Yep. The president has no commitment to rule of law.

The duality is necessary for evaluation. Some part of your cognitive system evaluates mental states for things like truth, accuracy, and appropriatene...

I think @"Hanover" is saying that people don't really think about rule of law until their interests are being attacked. We haven't gotten to the point...

I see what you mean. So both sides think things have gone wrong, and see the other side as the cause.

I take this to be a problem for cognitive science. If they end up agreeing with you, they'll at least have to explain the expectation of the duality o...