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YES DAMMIT! Just kidding. It probably doesn't need an answer.

I'm standing beside an isolette in the emergency room waiting for a baby to come out. It's hot.

One of the side issues with seeing entities as aggregates is the way we pick out what it is that "contains' the parts. It could be: 1. innate (since w...

Numbers have significance apart from counting, for instance there are four gospels in the Bible because there were four elements. Four is a symbol of ...

I think that coherence comes first from emotions. You don't grieve the death of an assemblage. It's that unique person you miss.

That's cool. For the mind, the organizing principle is meaning: the need to find it.

There's an interesting idea that the relationship between the parts and whole can be an unfolding evolution, like the way each of the words in this se...

What are the effects of its unity?

:blush:

There's a k-drama where an old woman dies and her ghost arrives at a special tea house where ghosts drink a tea that makes them forget everything befo...

Maybe it's just us then.

But this is about how we choose to see the world, right? That's more apparent when we look at the moral dimensions of it. Do we want to identify peopl...

Right. I was trying to explain that behavior reflects the way a thing interacts with it's environment. For that reason, it's not good to fuse thing an...

Say the scientist is talking about convergent evolution where mammals and fish have evolved the same phenotype in response the same conditions (like d...

Yep

Exactly. She must have lived every day feeling like she didn't recognize the world. I feel the same way. I'm just not engaged with it. I just can't ma...

So true!

But the force of that argument would be logic. The point of the evil demon argument is that it's possible to doubt logic.

You'd have to show that it's a contradiction. I don't think it is.

Honesty is fine.

I don't need more certainty than what comes naturally. I'm fine with the possibility that I've been tricked by a demon. Why do you need to conquer tha...

Maybe you were tricked by a demon.

I just meant physicists and philosophers can claim whatever they like. The idea of rights isn't needed.

There are no restrictions on what a person can claim unless it's a religious environment and people are executed for saying the wrong thing.

True.

You started with the concept of a duck though.

Was he gainfully employed?

Oh. When I asked if the problem driving contemporary populism was systemic, I was asking if it's actually a problem with democracy.

Bunge doesn't sound like the brightest bulb in the pack.

Right. Your table is a rigid designator.

Does that mean the only solution to any problem is revolution? Napoleon said organize by function if you want to kick ass. Competing priorities?

I think what he says does apply to what happened in the Southeast in the late 1890s. Collective dissatisfaction in the South finally gave way to Jim C...

Is the problem systemic? Or is it just a particular set of circumstances? I lean toward blaming neoliberalism and its built in neglect of the well bei...

My point was that populism is what happens when there are no solutions and the unrest is just spinning it's wheels.

Mostly reliable employment I think.

The original Populists were late 19th century Southern politicians who responded to the widespread plea from small farmers for price fixing to stabili...

What we could do is just use the concept of abstract objects as a placeholder. One day we might understand it better. Maybe it will turn out that Bung...

So Russian men basically party full blast until they die. Is that a cultural thing? I would be fired on the spot for having sex at work.

I agree. It just occurred to me that physics posits items that are just as far fetched as abstract objects, point particles being one of them.

@"ssu" Russians are encouraged to have sex while on break at work to help increase the population

Electrons have only one dimension. Do they exist? :chin:

These are cases where we pretend the world is like a novel and it has a narrator. It's third person. My theory is that propositions are all like this:...

:grin: The number of experts in phil of math is tiny. You have to be an expert in two fields. Maybe one day such a person will pass our way! That woul...

Yes, it's a puzzle. It's not a conflict between religion and science tho, that's all I meant.

This isn't true. It's unfortunate that this wasn't made clear at the outset.. Mathematical platonism, otherwise known as realism, is just the view tha...

Mathematical platonism originated with Frege. He lived at a point when a scientific outlook was coming to dominate the intellectual scene, but panpsyc...

Sure. I agree. Josh and I were talking about "constructive interaction" with the environment and how that might be the genesis of universals like numb...

I think there are two approaches, which reflect temperament. 1. Start with an ontological bias, like materialism, and try to find a bridge from that t...

I think the answer is: But Josh is the one who's actually read Husserl. Take it up with him probably.

In a way, the number 5 implies all other numbers, because its meaning is rooted in its place in a sequence. And every thing is like that.